Next week I will publish the third and final installment of my three-part series on the Court of Appeals for England and Wales’ recent decision on disgorgement of profits, Lufthansa
Technik AG v. Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems, [2026] EWCA Civ 964. Today, however, I am happy to publish a guest post by Dr. [...]
Each of us has had the privilege of serving as President of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at different moments in its history. We
have witnessed both the remarkable progress made in advancing international criminal justice and the formidable challenges that the ICC has faced since its establishment. [...]
Most Americans past a certain age remember where they were when they learned of the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. I was in the White House Situation Room at the regular
Tuesday morning meeting of the National Security Council senior staff, chaired as usual by Condoleezza Rice, who was then National Security Advisor in the still-new [...]
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei yesterday accused the United States of a war crime after Iranian officials said a missile strike hit a wedding celebration. [...]
Watch the Episode: Host Ryan Goodman is joined by Tom Dannenbaum, Margaret Donovan, and Todd Huntley to discuss whether the United States has violated the law of armed conflict
in its conduct of the Iran war. They discuss what evidence would be required to make that determination and what to watch for as the war continues. [...]
Palantir verfolgt das Ziel, das Betriebssystem des Staates1) zu werden. Das Unternehmen verkauft mit seiner Software zur Verarbeitung staatlicher Daten eine proprietäre Infrastruktur,
die festlegt, wie staatliche Stellen Daten verknüpfen, Informationen auswerten und Entscheidungen vorbereiten. [...]
Ende April 2026 beschloss die Bundesregierung den Entwurf des „Gesetzes zur Änderung der Strafprozessordnung – digitale Ermittlungsmaßnahmen“ und normierte mit den
§§ 98d und 98e StPO-E zwei neue Ermittlungsbefugnisse. Gleichsam im Vorbeigehen entscheidet der Regierungsentwurf aber auch mit, welche technische Infrastruktur [...]
The climate crisis has reached South Africa’s Constitutional Court. In Sustaining the Wild Coast NPC and Others v Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy and Others; Natural
Justice and Another v Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy and Others, a dispute over offshore oil and gas exploration along South Africa’s Wild Coast developed [...]
On 24 August 2026, Manfred Weber and Valérie Hayer wrote to Ursula von der Leyen asking the Commission to make the disbursement of Romania’s final tranche of €770 million
under the Recovery and Resilience Facility conditional on the fate of a national statute. [...]