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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the conflict – a “no win” – in which progressives experience the Court’s current engagements with these issues.

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 ...

And yet, a common question seems to be asked: in the face of authoritarian determinism, what can be saved of the democratic process? Until when does it make sense to hold on? For some historians, in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today’s Court reprimands the Davids, not Goliath. To be fair, Justice Kavanaugh suggests in his concurrence that the proper fight belongs between two Goliaths – the President and the Supreme Court.

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 ...

In this regard, it seems commonplace to remark that an association agreement concluded by the EU can only be suspended through unanimity in the Council (see e.g. here, here and here ). This assumption ...