The U.S. Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in United States v. Skrmetti and, as many expected, voted 6-3 along ideological lines to uphold a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming ...

In fact, if the preference is to have a text that embraces the unconditional primacy of EU law as a self-standing legal order, the Constitution does not satisfy the preference even without the ...

With these timeless lines, the famous diplomat, politician and Indian freedom fighter Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (née Swarupa ...

And now even the most fundamental norms are being broken once more.” “Wavering between hope and despair. For someone whose ...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court overturned its own October 2023 judgment that had declared military trials of civilians unconstitutional. In a 5–2 majority decision, the newly constituted Constitutional ...

All three interventions ultimately point to a shortfall in the rules of citizenship attribution that are at stake. Combined they yield a message in the negative: neither soil, nor blood nor money, per ...

The first is from the standpoint of a philosopher of criminal law, in which I am an academic specialist. The second is from the standpoint of a political sociologist, in which I am a novice. Even ...

Venezuela held local and parliamentary elections on May 25 th. Unsurprisingly, Maduro’s allies won with an overwhelming majority. Even though Maduro had severely tilted the playing field in his favor, ...

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Beyond concrete political conflicts and institutional constraints, there is a deeper concern about how a constitutional order can be restored after enduring years of authoritarian populism. A recently ...

While Ćapeta’s position on Article 2 TEU is unprecedented, I believe it reflects a broader shift in the Court’s jurisprudence. Building upon previous contributions on Verfassungsblog ( here and here ) ...

Sea Foam and the Hollowing of Democracy During the same period in which  Nasasra’s petition was progressing through the HCJ, five petitions against the Netanyahu government’s decision to dismiss Ronen ...