What does it mean to examine political modernity from below, specifically from the position of the enslaved person – not as a metaphor or a footnote, but as a lens for analyzing

foundational political and legal concepts? This question guides the reflections that follow. [...]

Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor has no mandate. Borislav Saraffov has remained in office since June 2023, although Bulgarian law provides no basis for an interim chief prosecutor

and his authority has formally expired. In October 2025, the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) said so explicitly. [...]

Unless the European Parliament puts up a fight to eliminate or amend the worst parts of the currently circulating draft regulation on a “common system for the return of third-country

nationals staying illegally in the Union”, which looks unlikely, the EU may soon adopt a new approach. [...]

[Dr Sergey Sayapin is Professor of Law at KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Distinguished Visiting Global Scholar at the NUS Centre for International Law (2025)] International

law was largely designed for a world in which harm could be identified, responsibility attributed, and violations remedied. [...]

[Ambassador Luis Gallegos is President of the Global Initiative on Ageing and Longevity and the former Board President of UNITAR, where he led UN training efforts advancing

aging policy. Jody Heymann is a distinguished professor at UCLA, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Founding Director of the WORLD Policy [...]

In the field of EU external relations law, judicial deference has been discussed mostly within the context of the political question doctrine debate. The latter has a long

pedigree in US law. Its nature, scope and legitimacy as well as its applicability in the EU external relations context are controversial and the topic has been mainly [...]

This news item summarises the report of the High-Level Forum on the Future of EU Criminal Justice. The forum, which brought together officials from the EU Member States, the

EU institutions and JHA bodies as well as respresenatives from academia, legal practice and civil society, discussed how a vision of European criminal law can be [...]

From Peter Schneck, Director, OSI (Osnabrueck Summer Institute) From Peter Schneck, Director, OSI (Osnabrueck Summer Institute) Announcing the 2026 International Osnabrueck Summer

Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law:  [...]