This article argues that the Sahel states’ exit from the ICC carries less the scent of decolonization than that of self-immunization. The question, therefore, is not whether international justice is ...

Adopting a comparative law perspective, it examines the legal and technical measures available to protect minors and evaluates the strengths and limitations of relying on tort law as a tool for ...

Autocratic legalism examines how legal frameworks and institutions become instruments for eroding democratic systems. In this context, law operates not as a constraint on authoritarian rule, but as a ...

The Treaty on European Union establishes three distinct criteria that every Commissioner must meet at the time of appointment and maintain throughout their term in office: general competence, European ...

Willingness to reconsider their ideas could demonstrate the Zeitenwende – the 2022 “ historic turning point ” in German security policy that extends also to hearing new perspectives. Yet, their ...

Nicolas Sarkozy was prosecuted on several charges: corruption, illegal campaign financing, concealment of misappropriated Libyan public funds, and conspiracy. He was found guilty only of the latter ...

Thus, government shutdowns in the United States are at once a sign of partisan division and a testament to constitutional compliance: they reflect the enduring force of a central congressional power.

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In its recent decision MSIG, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has barred Spain from convicting an ETA terrorist for a terrorist attack in Oviedo. This decision is in line with ...

At the heart of recent American upheavals lies a question the resonance of which extends far beyond the United States: What becomes of a constitutional democracy when faith in civic order gives way to ...

The EU’s sanctions framework is meant to work in two steps: unanimity for decisions defining the Union’s approach to “a particular matter of a geographical or thematic nature” under Article 29 TEU, ...