What such a process ideally looks like was demonstrated in June 1981 after an Israeli airstrike had taken out the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq. In its letter to the UN Security Council, Israel ...

The fact that the new rules enable pullbacks rather than pushbacks does not make this case-law inapplicable. Although France, as a Member State, may be presumed safe and compliant with EU law and ...

An existential threat” – this is how the International Court of Justice (ICJ) characterized climate change in its long-awaited advisory opinion on the obligations of States with respect to climate ...

Thus, the people’s representatives in Congress could starve the army of resources should the President employ it in oppression. The Framers were deeply aware that one of the most effective constraints ...

Or imagine David with a sling shot and a stone up against the all-mighty Goliath: the singular district court judge confronting the President of the United States to uphold the rule of law. Today’s ...

These efforts have culminated in two decisive rounds of recall voting against 31 district legislators from the majority party – 24 slated for July 26 and 7 for August 23 – potentially unseating more ...

In response, in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act, whose purpose, he said, was to give these stations a wider voice and “to enrich man’s spirit” by creating “a great ...

Rather than read the case as narrowly about Medicaid, the case is best understood as advancing several political goals held by the majority of justices in the Court as aligned with a current attack on ...

The Commission hails the new targets as “ambitious”. But the proposal clearly bows to concerns about geopolitical competition. “ EU no longer willing to act alone on climate ”, the Guardian thus ...

While the criminalisation of the purchase of in-person sexual services has been judged to be compatible with Article 8, the underlying reasoning rests on factors that do not translate to the online ...

British MPs took an important step in decriminalising abortion against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ abortion. Once the amended Crime and Policing Bill becomes law, people who ...

Für HENNING LAHMANN (EN) haben auch Merz und Steinmeier dem Völkerrecht einen Bärendienst erwiesen, genauer: Deutschlands ...