In the original version of the world-renowned musical film “The Wizard of Oz”, the young protagonist Dorothy sings of her wish to escape her currently troubled world and flee to a better place ...

Less than two years ago, in late 2023, when the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government lost power, a wave of optimism swept through liberal-democratic circles in Poland. The defeat was seen – ...

Equally striking are the distinct terms “negation of values” and “constitutional dialogue”, which Ćapeta employs in developing criteria for Article 2 TEU violations and distinguishes from one another.

Nawrocki’s ascent has been facilitated, in no small part, by overt support from Donald Trump and his entourage – an emerging pattern of American right-wing involvement in European electoral politics.

“Executive disobedience” is a fluid concept that has not been conclusively defined in political theory or legal scholarship.

The Trump administration’s revocation of immigration parole is an essential step in channeling noncitizens arrested at immigration court into expedited removal. The INA grants the DHS Secretary the ...

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Since the negotiation of the Rome Statute – the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) – U.S. relations with the Court have zig-zagged between quiet support and open hostility.

Any restriction on their rights demands the closest judicial scrutiny. The dissenting judges, however, did not hold back. In their view, the majority had abandoned established case law and signalled a ...

What’s clear is this: both Germany’s responsibility under international law for arms exports to Israel and the potential ...

But – and this is where the crucial question arises – would there be a possibility of enforcing a just satisfaction award against Russia in a third state holding Russian state assets? The report ‘ ...

That legal position was later affirmed at the highest level. The Constitutional Court had ruled in February 2024 that similar referendum proposals – such as freezing the lev until 2043 – were legally ...