In the first few months of the second Trump administration, the federal government has rapidly dismantled its longstanding support for scientific research and technology development.
Since World War II, the United States has directed significant public resources toward research and development, particularly for academic institutions. [...]
On July 4, 2025, France’s highest court convened in plenary session to hear arguments on whether an arrest warrant against Bashar al-Assad, issued while he was President
of Syria, violates head of state immunity. Following the oral arguments, the court announced it would deliver its judgment on July 25, 2025. [...]
Nochmal Carl Schmitt? Nochmal Carl Schmitt? „Es vergeht doch kaum ein Monat, in dem nicht irgendwo auf dieser Welt ein Buch über Carl Schmitt erscheint“ bilanzierte
Volker Neumann (2015, S. V) im Vorwort seines Werkes Carl Schmitt als Jurist. Ausgehend von dieser Feststellung Neumanns ist die Frage berechtigt, ob man zu Carl [...]
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On Friday 4 July 2025, the House of Lords gave a second reading to Baroness Benjamín’s Still-Birth (Definition) Bill [HL], a Bill applicable to England and Wales to “Amend
the definition of still-birth to apply from 20 weeks into a pregnancy; and for connected purposes”. [...]
On July 3, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued Advisory Opinion No. 32—the most important and progressive document yet released by an international
court on the climate crisis. In this landmark ruling (still only available in Spanish, with official English and Portuguese translations expected on Friday, July [...]
The progressive legal movement faces a harsh reality: its reliance on federal courts has become a strategic liability in an era of conservative judicial dominance. Rather than
continue on its current path or abandon impact litigation entirely, liberal cause lawyers should embrace “resistance through restraint” – tactically starving [...]
[Sofia Stolk is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Public International Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam] When I had the privilege of collaborating with Marina
on an exhibition and performance around art and international justice in The Hague in 2019, I witnessed how she theorizes, practices, and preaches art as an act of [...]
[Emiliano J. Buis is a Professor of Public International Law (Law School) and Ancient Greek (Department of Classics) at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in Argentina and
Permanent Researcher at the CONICET (National Research Council for Science and Technology)] In her inspiring monograph Art, Aesthetics and International Justice, [...]
Washington Post Op-Ed: To Save Themselves, Universities Must Cultivate Civic Friendship, by Robert P. George (Princeton) & Cornel West (Union Theological Seminary): The war
between Washington and our nation’s elite universities continues to heat up. From stripping federal funding from Harvard to targeting the accreditation status of [...]
