Note, The Tradition of History at Harvard Law School, 138 Harv. L. Rev. 775 (2025): There has been a noticeable trend at the Supreme Court in the last half-century toward using
history to determine constitutional meaning. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. [...]
The 3rd Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre for Private International Law is now open for registration. The theme is “New Dimensions in Private International Law”
and the conference will take place online on 6 June 2025 in the morning. Topics include commercial, family and maritime law, as well as law in the digital age and [...]
Parmi la dernière vague de nominations et promotions dans l’Ordre national du Mérite (Décret du 15 mai 2025) on relève les personnalités suivantes : Au grade de commandeur
M. Beignier (Bernard, Thierry), ancien recteur. Officier du 7 mars 2019. M. Gaudemet (Yves, Henri, Jean-Marie), professeur émérite des universités de droit public [...]
von PHILIPP SCHÜPFERLING Unser Grundgesetz vom 23. Mai 1949 ist nun 76 Jahre alt. Seitdem hat sich die Welt einige Male gedreht – und unsere Verfassung hat sich auch durch
Änderungen einige Male an moderne Herausforderungen angepasst. Doch seit der Ursprungsfassung des Grundgesetzes sind die zentralen Grundrechte vergleichsweise unberührt [...]
The African Union’s continental human rights court, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR), received a setback this past March when Tunisia withdrew its
declaration, under Article 34(6) of the Court’s founding Protocol, allowing individuals and NGOs to directly access the Court. [...]
Written by Tarasha Gupta, BALLB (Hons), Jindal Global Law School, and Saloni Khanderia, Professor, Jindal Global Law School (India) The Singapore International Commercial
Court (“SICC”) has become a preferred hub for hearing litigation and arbitration of international commercial disputes. [...]
Today's Law, Society, and Taxation panels at the 2025 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting in Chicago: Global Taxation and Policy In an increasingly international world,
countries must decide how to approach tax questions that cross international borders. [...]
(image source: Cambridge Core) Abstract: The age of Enlightenment and revolutions produced some of our best-known declarations of rights, but they did not create the idea
of rights. Writers during this age did such a good job at declaring rights that many historians and politicians later believed that they invented them. [...]
Today is the tenth anniversary of the referendum that paved the way for the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Ireland. Brian Tobin writes that while the referendum was both
unnecessary and problematic, it effectively future-proofed same-sex marriage as a fundamental right. [...]
One puzzle created by today's emergency order is that nobody now has a reason to bring the merits of overruling Humphrey's Executor to the Court. Anyone litigating this issue
received a clear signal of the outcome. Why would they bring a case to the Court? Thus, it's possible that Humphrey's Executor will formally remain the law but be [...]
