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

The ICJ will have to decide whether this constitutes a violation of legal obligations under the Protocol. This blog will detail several difficulties with Lithuania’s argument which seeks to collapse ...

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 ...

Notably, the Constitution does not specify a timeframe for this decision Between January 2020 and April 2023, the Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu enacted and forwarded 12 bills to the Governor.

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 ‘ ...

Ultimately, very few marriages were recorded, but the number of children born of these relationships increased significantly over time, from several thousand in the 1930s to over 10,000 in the 1950s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...