In mid-July, Colombia submitted a communication for discussion in the TRIPS Council entitled "A Better Trip: Autonomous Examination of TRIPS Prerogatives, and Existing Examples."
The communication includes some interesting and provocative ideas related to policies for encouraging innovation. [...]
In February 1854, Anthony Burns, a young man born into slavery in Virginia, secretly boarded a ship bound for Boston to escape. Months later, his arrest by federal officials
sparked outrage. After a violent attack failed to rescue him from the courthouse, a judge ordered Burns returned to slavery. [...]
Eigentlich sollte sich Hans-Thomas Tillschneider im Mai 2025 lediglich zu einem Gesetzesentwurf der Grünen verhalten, der ein Sonderprogramm für Wissenschaftler*innen vorsah,
die von der Trump-Administration gefährdet sind. Aber der AfD-Politiker nutzte die kurze Redezeit, um groß auszuholen: „Wir werden alles abschaffen, was unsere [...]
Since its establishment over two decades ago, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been confronted with huge difficulties. On Feb. 6, 2025, the U.S. administration under
President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the Court, characterizing its investigations into the actions of the United States and Israel as “illegitimate and baseless.” [...]
Decades of serious human rights violations in Iran have been accompanied by persistent impunity for those responsible. The consequences of such impunity for large-scale, state-sponsored
violations do not remain neatly confined within national borders. Increasingly, in the context of Iran, they are being felt in Europe. [...]
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The Administration's request for emergency relief with respect to its proposed regulations on mail-in voting raises complex issues that cannot be decided on the papers. The
Court should hear argument and get full briefing, which in practice means that the rules probably cannot be implemented this year. [...]