This is the conflict – a “no win” – in which progressives experience the Court’s current engagements with these issues. Voices within this community now counsel caution, grounded in realism, in how ...

With Like Company v Google, the first groundbreaking AI copyright case is now headed to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In this case, a Hungarian press publisher challenges Google ...

On 10 July 2025, the European Commission published the final version of its Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) – a voluntary rulebook developed by a group of independent experts and more ...

Im ersten Absatz des ersten Artikels des Grundgesetzes steht das bundesrepublikanische Glaubensbekenntnis: „Die Würde des ...

Als Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der universitären – insbesondere rechtswissenschaftlichen – Forschung und Lehre sowie der Justiz protestieren wir nachdrücklich gegen die Art und Weise, wie im Rahmen ...

Das forschungsstarke Institut für Theorie und Zukunft des Rechts der Universität Innsbruck (Prof. Kettemann, Prof. Kirchmair ...

I had the honour of being awarded an honorary doctorate in law by the Faculty of Law at the University of Münster. I was ...

The non-penalization principle, as laid out in Article 31 of the Refugee Convention, reads as follows: ...

On July 3, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued Advisory Opinion No. 32 — the most important and progressive document yet released by an international court on the climate ...

However, the Court drew an important distinction: the confiscation did not serve to “prevent the illicit acquisition of property through criminal” acts but to “preserve integrity in public office by ...

Russia ceased engaging with the Court in March 2022, in the context of its expulsion from the Council of Europe in the wake of its war of aggression. Elsewhere, international proceedings between ...

Jana Trapp is an editor at Verfassungsblog covering security law and criminal law. Jana is qualified for the German bar and holds a Master of Law from Universiteit of Amsterdam and Columbia University ...