Let’s start with the obvious: with Nuremberg’s Citizen Prosecutor, Professor Gregory Gordon has written the definitive biography of Ben Ferencz, one of the most important
figures in the history of international criminal law. The book is compulsively readable, with the ideal balance of, for lack of a better description, the personal [...]
Some two hours after the Nobel Prize Committee announced the award of the Peace Prize to Navi Pillay for her work on international law and the establishment of international
accountability for atrocity crimes, the US government struck back. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a significant escalation in the US campaign against [...]
(image source: VUB) The international conference “Contested Seas: War, Commerce, and the Making of the Law of the Sea (c. 1400–1800)” will take place on 19–20 November
2026 in Ostend, Belgium. Organised by Stefano Cattelan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Brussels School of Governance) and Frederik Dhondt (Vrije Universiteit [...]
The D.C. Circuit relied on a dictionary for key parts of its ruling against Anthropic. Congress’s own words tell a different story about the threats the law was designed
to address. [...]
von VICTORIA KAUTZNER Auf LTO sprangen Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf und Hubertus Gersdorf jüngst für die „ethnisch-abstammungsmäßige“ Volksgemeinschaft in die Bresche. Zu
deren Rehabilitierung machen sie eine Reihe rechtlicher und semantischer Trugschlüsse nutzbar, die der Leserin und dem Volksbegriff im Wege eines kleinteiligen Begriffswirrwarrs [...]
–Estefânia Maria de Queiroz Barboza, Constitutional Law Professor, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR); Gustavo Buss, PhD Candidate, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR)
Debates about judicial AI tend to fixate on whether algorithms, rather the judges, will end up writing judgments. [...]
Das Heine Center für Resiliente Demokratie (HeiCReD) der Heinrich-Heine-Universität sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt (01.01.2027) zwei promovierte Wissenschaftler*innen
für den Aufbau des operativen Teams und zur langfristigen Mitgestaltung des Instituts. [...]