Latvia held a parliamentary election on 3 October, with United List, the party of Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs, winning a record number of seats. Olga Jerjomina assesses

what the result means for Latvia’s future. Security concerns sparked by Russia’s war against Ukraine continue to play an important role in Latvian political life. [...]

Are countries in Europe and elsewhere across the world turning away from the United States? Robert H. Wade writes that while the US remains the world’s most powerful country,

Donald Trump’s second presidency has coincided with a marked decline in its global leadership. [...]

—Ingrid Dantas, PhD in Law, University of Brasília (UnB) The day after an election is often bittersweet. For the winners, there is celebration. For the losers, the disappointment

of defeat and, perhaps later, the lessons that come with it. Brazil woke up to these feelings after the first round of the 2026 general elections on 4 October. [...]

Via the Nation: John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) reviews Niko Bowie and Daphne Renan's Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People.  Professor Witt

concludes, "Our political crisis would be much simpler if Bowie and Renan were right and the court had disabled our democratic politics.  The harder truth is that [...]

The shock over the shift to the right in the first round of the Brazilian presidential, congressional, and state elections on October 4th runs deep. It is felt not only by

supporters of the current incumbent, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and his broad coalition (which is not unlike Germany’s erstwhile ‘traffic light’ [...]

Der Schock über den Rechtsrutsch in der ersten Runde der brasilianischen Präsidentschafts-, Kongress- und Gouverneurswahlen sitzt tief. Nicht nur bei Anhängern des Amtsinhabers

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva und seiner, der einstmaligen deutschen „Ampel“, nicht unähnlichen Koalition, sondern auch bei all jenen, die hofften, Brasilien werde [...]

For the Balkinization symposium on Diego Zambrano, How Americans Enforce the Law (Stanford University Press, 2026). For the Balkinization symposium on Diego Zambrano, How Americans

Enforce the Law (Stanford University Press, 2026). [...]

AI agents have now repeatedly compromised third-party computer systems during evaluations and training. There’s a colorable argument for applying the Computer Fraud and Abuse

Act (CFAA) to these incidents, but it would require courts to resolve difficult questions about intent and corporate responsibility. [...]

The Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has published the Government response to its Third Report of Session 2026–27, Protecting built heritage (HC 144).

On the specific issue of support for places of worship, the response was as follows: [...]

  (image source: Charles University Karolinum Press) On the journal: Právněhistorické studie / Legal History Studies (Charles University journal; below referred to as PHS

or Journal) is a scientific journal listed in the international prestigious database SCOPUS. [...]