On 14 October 2025, the Venice Commission issued an Opinion No. 1247/2025 concerning the anticipated changes to Ukrainian judiciary legislation. The Opinion criticizes the
proposed judiciary reform for being disproportionate or even erratic experimentation. [...]
For the first time in U.S. history, lethal military force has been authorized solely to target drug traffickers—a move that marks an extraordinary assertion of expanded presidential
power. [...]
Résumé : À l’ère des IA génératives, l’enseignement en général, et l’enseignement universitaire du droit en particulier, sont confrontés à une crise d’identité.
Les changements engendrés par ces nouveaux outils sont tels qu’il semble devenir nécessaire, à plus ou moins court terme, de réfléchir à l’évolution générale [...]
The October 7th massacre and the unprecedented war in Gaza compel Israel to rethink its conception of security. It cannot afford to do so without including a gender-based analysis.
After two years of missiles, hostages, and the catastrophic toll of hunger and mass casualties of civilians in Gaza, Israel’s society is exhausted. [...]
Since Russia adopted its law requiring nonprofits that receive foreign funding to register as “foreign agents” in 2012, a growing number of countries — including Kyrgyzstan,
Georgia, Hungary, Slovakia, Nicaragua, and El Salvador, among others — have introduced or enacted similar legislation. [...]
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WAR – CEASEFIRE [...]
Die FU Berlin in Kooperation mit dem Margherita von Brentano Zentrum organisiert in diesem Wintersemester die „Gender Lunch Talks“ als hybride Veranstaltung vor Ort und
online. In jeder Sitzung werden aktuelle Forschungsarbeiten und neue Publikationen aus dem Bereich der Geschlechterforschung vorgestellt – präsentiert von Wissenschaftler:innen [...]
Vor genau 40 Jahren erschien Hegemonie und radikale Demokratie. Zur Dekonstruktion des Marxismus (1985) von Ernesto Laclau und Chantal Mouffe, vor 20 Jahren folgte Laclaus
Die populistische Vernunft (2005). Anlässlich dieser Jubiläen findet am 27. November 2025 ein Workshop an der Universität Wien statt, der die politische Theorie [...]
[Joyce Choo worked as a fellow with UNRWA during the 2025 Gaza war. She holds an LLM in international legal studies from NYU School of Law, where she was a Transitional Justice
Scholar] In recent years, the doctrine of self-defense has become a powerful tool for states to entrench territorial dominance. [...]
The Texas Law Review (Volume 103, issue 9) recently published an essay of interest: Kali Murray (Marquette University Law School), "Seeing the Dead: Marks, Meaning and the
Haunting of American Trademark Law." The essay draws on history to discuss "trademark’s fraught relationship with social identities of race and caste in the United [...]
