On 25 June 2025, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its Decision on Kovačević v. BiH. This ruling could completely change the legal assessment of strict ethnic ...

In mehreren Bundesländern wird derzeit an einer Reform der Verfassungsschutzgesetze gearbeitet. Ziel ist insbesondere eine stärkere Eingrenzung der Befugnisse der Verfassungsschutzämter zur Informatio ...

The latest ignominy involves the brazen attempt, by the Republican leadership of the State of Texas, to gerrymander (i.e., redesign) the state’s congressional districts to give the GOP control over an ...

Notably, genetic testing is not a new approach to “female eligibility” in sport. Rather, it revives an old model – last widely used in 1990s – which was deemed unscientific, unethical, and ultimately ...

In einer am 7. August veröffentlichten Stellungnahme teilte Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihre Entscheidung mit, für die Wahl als Richterin des Bundesverfassungsgerichts nicht mehr zur Verfügung zu stehen.

Am 23. Juli 2025 verkündete der Internationale Gerichtshof (IGH) sein lange erwartetes Gutachten zu den „Pflichten der Staaten in Bezug auf den Klimawandel“. Darin bestätigte das Gericht, dass Staaten ...

Even Colombia’s propensity for civil conflict throughout those one and half centuries has been attributed to bi-partisan hatred. Uribe was the first President, who ran, and won, as an outsider of that ...

It is far too early to tell how successful this litigation will be, not least because the United States Constitution, at least since the New Deal, has been interpreted in a way decidedly friendly to ...

This competition between parties has materialized in fierce forms, which only speaks to the vigour of political contestation following the end of Taiwan’s decades-long martial-law rule in 1987. Upon a ...

Angesichts der ökonomischen Misere eines gewinnorientiert ausgerichteten Krankenhaussystems sind immer mehr Krankenhäuser gezwungen, mit anderen zu fusionieren. So ist in Flensburg eine Fusion des eva ...

The European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR), in its recent judgment on 10 July 2025 in the case of Rodina and Borisova v. Latvia, examined the applicants’ complaints regarding the refusals of ...