The latest drama at Columbia—involving interim President Katrina Armstrong’s “resignation”—has broad implications for the academy and American democracy. Once unpacked,

this episode throws into sharp relief the issue of whether universities now operate at the pleasure of the White House. [...]

The Committee on New Directions in Scholarship of the International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) invites book proposals to be considered for the “New Scholarship Showcase”

– a series of virtual events, envisaged as interviews with authors, dedicated to new books in public law. [...]

In this special episode of Justice Visions, we shift our typical focus on innovations in transitional justice to a broader debate about international law, its shortcomings,

and how to rethink it in ways that benefit victim-survivors of gross human rights violations. [...]

Veronica Thronson has published "The Derivative Dilemma: The Gendered Role of Dependency in Immigration Law" in 28 U. Pa. J. L. & Soc. Change 147. The introduction is excerpted

below: * * * U.S. immigration law implements “derivative” status in... [...]

Robert Metcalfe (Columbia; Google Scholar) presents A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change (with Robert W. Hahn (Oxford; Google Scholar), Nathaniel Hendren

(MIT; Google Scholar) & Ben Sprung-Keyser (Penn; Google Scholar)) at Columbia today as part of its Davis Polk & Wardwell Tax Policy Colloquium hosted by Michael Love:... [...]

The EU’s financial policy is moving away from regulatory oversight and sustainability-driven finance toward market-driven capital flows and competitiveness, writes Apostolos

Thomadakis. The European Commission’s approach to financial markets is undergoing a significant transformation. [...]

For the Balkinization Symposium on Legal Pathways Beyond Dobbs.Cary Franklin  The history-and-tradition test has an equality problem. Courts cannot simply identify how Americans

regulated in the past and use that history to determine the permissibility of regulation today: too many regulatory traditions violate contemporary understandings [...]

Vom 5. bis 7. September 2025 wird an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum die 11. studentische Fachtagung der Deutschen Nachwuchsgesellschaft für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft in

Kooperation mit dem FSR Sozialwissenschaften unter der Überschrift „Sozialwissenschaft in Zeiten des Zusammenbruchs“ stattfinden. [...]

On March 16th, Italy made an unexpected yet significant step toward recognizing end-of-life rights – not through national legislation, but via a regional law. More than five

years ago, the Italian Constitutional Court (ItCC) ruled that assisted suicide must be permitted under specific conditions. [...]