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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During that time, the French state strategically sent white settlers to New Caledonia to alter the island’s demographic composition and suppress Kanak nationalism. According to the most recent census, ...

The United States is in debt and needs revenue. The Republican Party controls Congress and in theory can pass any legislation it wishes. However, the Party is generally more known for favoring ...

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 ...

David Pozen at Columbia University calls Columbia University’s new agreement with the federal government “regulation by deal”. In regulation by deal, the administration foregoes the process of ...