In the recent Valančius judgment, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice or ECJ), ruled on Union law requirements for the judicial
appointment procedure to the EU General Court. Having previously clarified the Union law requirements for the selection procedures of national judges, the Valančius [...]
Decisions made by the commission – Form 10s CFCE Applications – Form 8s 2019 Thursday 31 January 2019 Thursday 28 March 2019 Thursday 30 May 2019 Thursday 18 July 2019
Thursday 19 September 2019 Thursday 31 October 2019 Thursday 19 December 2019 2020 Thursday 30 January 2020 Wednesday 25 March 2020 Thursday 21 May 2020 Wednesday [...]
Yesterday, the Brennan Center for Justice published this new 10-page report titled "A Federal Agenda to Promote Safety and Justice." The report, authored by Hernandez Stroud
and Rosemary Nidiry, is crafted with the Trump administration and the current Congress in mind, and here are a couple paragraphs from its introductory section: This [...]
Conventions & Instruments On 1 January 2025, the 2005 Choice of Court Convention entered into force for Switzerland. At present, 36 States and the European Union are bound
by the 2005 Choice of Court Convention. More information is available here. [...]
Registration is now open! WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP IN LAW & POLITICS Winter Symposium The Center for Constitutional Law & The Bliss Institute for Applied Politics at The University
of Akron Friday, February 21, 2025 ~ 9:00am to 4:00pm EST REGISTRATION: Akron... [...]
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, Her "Health and Thus Her Life": Abortion Exceptions in Legal History, Perspectives on History (AHA) As historian Leslie J. Reagan has explained, legal
abortions based on health were an area where women of means had some room for,... [...]
Karen Weingarten, Pregnancy Test In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology
in the privacy of their own homes that gave them... [...]
Scott Skinner-Thompson (Colorado), Transgender Disenfranchisement, 102 Washington U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025) Transgender and gender variant people are excluded from formal
democratic participation at the polls through a variety of legal mechanisms. Such barriers include purportedly neutral voter identification laws,... [...]
Monday, February 3: Jakob A. Brounstein (Institute for Fiscal Studies; Google Scholar) will present The Three Body Problem: Ecuador's Tax on Tax Haven Ownership as part of
the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation Seminars. If you would like to attend, please RSVP. [...]
[Maria Crippa is a postdoctoral fellow in international criminal law at the University of Milan and a visiting researcher at the University of Tilburg. Matteo Colorio is a
PhD candidate in international law at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and a visiting researcher at the University of Tilburg.] Introduction Osama Elmasry [...]
