Introduction and Factual Background: Fridman v Luxembourg In February 2022, shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the European Union placed Mikhail Fridman
on its sanctions list. The designation subjected the Russian-Israeli businessman’s funds and economic resources to an asset freeze, affecting interests held through [...]
Ezekiel Kelly, a Lecturer at Censil University, has posted two papers on the legal history of Liberia. The first is Sovereignty on Trial: Liberian Law, Forced Labour and
the League of Nations Commission of Inquiry, 1929–1930: [...]
China und die Neuordnung der Welt Ich habe mit der Sinologin und Politikwissenschafterin Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik über das Thema ihres Buches "China und die Neuordnung
der Welt" gesprochen. In Teil 1 geht es um ihre persönlichen Erfahrungen als Studentin in den 70erjahren, das Tianxia-Konzept, die Annexion von Tibet, die Haltung [...]
SPIEGEL, Cicero und jetzt DIE ZEIT. Wieder einmal setzt ein Gericht die Pressefreiheit mit Durchsuchungsbeschlüssen unter Druck. Anders als bei der SPIEGEL-Affäre in den
1960er Jahren und der Durchsuchung beim Cicero in den 2000er Jahren geht es diesmal nicht um Ermittlungen gegen Journalisten. [...]
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). [...]
On Sept. 23, as world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly’s annual “high-level week,” war erupted again in northern Ethiopia. The Tigray
Defense Forces (TDF), the military force led by the region’s dominant political party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), launched a coordinated operation [...]
Bruno Mathis, chercheur associé au laboratoire Chrome, Université de Nîmes, a récemment soutenu une thèse intitulée : "La laborieuse transformation numérique de la Justice.
L'informatique judiciaire en France, de 1967 à nos jours". [...]
[Ambassador Beth Van Schaack is a Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice and served as the sixth U.S. Ambassador-at-Large
for Global Criminal Justice (2022–2025). Formerly the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School and Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large [...]
Lisbon, 9–11 September 2027 ESIL is pleased to announce that the Call for submissions for the 2027 ESIL Annual Conference 2026 has now been published. The 2027 ESIL Annual
Conference will be hosted by the Universidade Católica Portuguesa from 9–11 September 2027, under the general theme: “International Law and Future(s)” What [...]
The Homeric Psychology of Parmenidean Meditation John, Benjamin John, Benjamin Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2024, Greek and Latin
This dissertation interprets the journey of the youth (kouros) in Parmenides' proem as an idealized mythological representation of a meditative practice by analyzing [...]