Im Koalitionsvertrag haben sich CDU/CSU und SPD vorgenommen, den Familiennachzug zu subsidiär Schutzberechtigten auszusetzen und weitere sogenannte „sichere Herkunftsstaaten“ zu bestimmen, und zwar kü ...

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 ...

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 ...

Israel’s military actions fulfil the actus reus of genocide as defined in Article II of the Genocide Convention (or Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and § 6 of the ...

Das Verwaltungsgericht Berlin hat mit Beschluss vom 2.6.2025 (VG 6 L 191/25 u.a.) im Eilverfahren entschieden (hier im Volltext ), dass drei somalischen Asylsuchenden der Grenzübertritt nach Deutschla ...

German courts later deemed this provisory shield a protective weapon, arguing that it could protect Russ from coercive police measures such as pepper spray. Since the mere carrying of such a ...

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

Der Verdacht selektiver Strafverfolgung von Völkerrechtsverbrechen ist so alt wie das Völkerstrafrecht selbst. Schon die Nürnberger Prozesse gegen die Eliten des Dritten Reiches wurden teils als ...

In an apparent attempt to force nonprofits to conform to the current administration’s views relating to discrimination, antisemitism, and other topics, President Trump, his officials, and to a lesser ...

Slovakia’s electoral system for its National Council elections has remained relatively stable over time. Its foundations were laid in 1990 – just after the fall of the communist regime in then ...

Assoziierungsabkommen nach Art. 217 AEUV stellen die engste Form einer Partnerschaft zwischen einem Drittstaat und der Europäischen Union dar. Moderne Abkommen enthalten neben Marktöffnungsklauseln ...

This decision marks the end of what was likely Germany’s most prominent climate liability case. Since the OLG Hamm did not permit an appeal to the Federal Court of Justice – and taking the case to the ...