On June 12 th 2025, Advocate General (AG) Ćapeta delivered her Opinion in Case WS v Frontex (C-746/23 P), concerning the responsibility of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (EBCGA or Frontex) ...

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The Grand Chamber (GC) ruled that Caster Semenya did not benefit from a fair hearing contrary to Article 6 §1 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). However, it did not extend Switzerland’s ...

Constitutionally, the qualification matters a great deal, as the imposition of a tax comes with a wholly different set of constitutional approvals and its own body of rules and principles. The power ...

Following the 1924 Constitution, which was the first pro-communist constitution proclaiming the independence of Mongolia – postulating that Mongolia is a free country and would remain independent from ...

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

And the Trump administration has learned that it can force universities to cave in by following (and controlling) the money. In a modern state, virtually all corners of society – even institutions ...

On 17 June 2025, 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, ...

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 Chagos Agreement is not only a diplomatic achievement, but also a “contractual transposition” of the decisions of international courts and tribunals. The Agreement acknowledges that the detachment ...

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 ...

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 ...