Scholars of authoritarianism discuss two “soft guardrails” of democracy: 1) “mutual toleration” — a shared understanding that people and parties with different views and values must respect one ...

Der erste Senat des Bundesverfassungsgerichts hat in seinem Beschluss vom 25. Juni 2025 entschieden, dass die Pflicht zur Abgabe einer Anschlusszusage bei promovierten wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitern ...

The GDPR serves as a “backbone of the EU’s digital rulebook”, but has also been a source of intense debate and criticism from the outset. Broadly, two main sides have emerged: some say the GDPR ...

In doing so, it dramatically expanded parental rights over students and education without concern for the rights of children or consideration of pedagogy and curriculum. While the current era of the ...

But there is another, underappreciated way in which the Court has defanged the judiciary’s systemic ability to confront the executive branch’s illegal immigration behavior: the Court has failed to ...

The motion of censure against the von der Leyen Commission, formally submitted on July 3, 2025, and scheduled for vote on July 10, 2025, presents three principal categories of alleged violations with ...

In it, the IACtHR affirms that the right to a healthy climate falls within the scope of human rights protections under the American Convention on Human Rights. It outlines the responsibilities of ...

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 ...

The measures adopted by the Hungarian government within its domestic legal system openly and progressively defy the fundamental values and principles of Article 2 TEU. As a result, Hungary has not ...

Resistance through restraint” will require a practical shift in litigation tactics and a theoretical shift in constitutional understanding. Practically, it calls for redirecting liberal energy, talent ...

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, ...

Russlands Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine verletzt das Gewaltverbot aus Artikel 2 (4) der UN-Charta in aller Deutlichkeit – doch strafrechtliche Konsequenzen blieben bislang aus. Zwar ist der Internat ...