Towards the end of June, as a Republican Congress ramped up efforts to pass the signature legislation of President Donald Trump’s second term and the Supreme Court completed
its docket for the Spring, another major controversy flared in the halls of Washington, DC. [...]
Hungary is a state that has significantly benefited from its membership in the European Union. However, it is increasingly distancing itself from the Union, clearly regressing
from the conditions under which it joined the EU. Moreover, Hungary appears to be assuming the role of a Trojan horse, advancing the interests of foreign powers into [...]
The rhetoric around the complete erosion of international law has recently proliferated mainstream political discourse and scholarship. But, surprisingly the current state
of the international legal order or its lack thereof is not unprecedented. Trump’s dismissal, Israel’s impunity and Russia-Ukraine war are some of the more dominant [...]
In December 2024, the United Nations General Assembly took an extraordinary step: it adopted, by consensus, a resolution deciding to elaborate and conclude a legally binding
instrument on the protection of persons in the event of disasters by 2027, based on the International Law Commission’s 2016 draft articles. [...]
Domenico Imparato (University of Hamburg, UC-Berkeley), Private Equity's Byzantine Tax Stand: An Untold and New Story of Carried Interest, 7 Brit. Tax Rev. __ (2024): With
the expansion of private equity’s footprint in the global economy has come scrutiny of its unique profit-sharing system, known as “carried interest”, which [...]
Cause and Consideration: Exploring the Foundations of Contract Law, an anthology edited by Bruno Rodríguez-Rosado, Rocío Caro Gándara, and Antonio Legerén-Molina, has been
published by Hart/Bloomsbury. The publishers tell us that you may order it online here and use the code GLR BD8 to get 20 percent off. [...]
In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Karen Schucan Bird about systematic reviews. Karen tells us about different types of systematic
reviews, the benefits, challenges and why you should ideally do them in a team. She tells us about how her research team collaborated with different stakeholders [...]
Le décret n° 2025-619 du 8 juillet 2025 portant diverses mesures de simplification de la procédure civile, dit Magicobus 2, a été publié au Journal officiel du 9 juillet
2025. Le texte assouplit tout d’abord le cadre réglementaire de la communication par voie électronique afin de favoriser la dématérialisation des procédures. [...]
