The research group MeDiMi welcomes proposals for presentations on legal, political, and everyday struggles concerning the human rights of migrants in today’s societies. Context

The conference is taking place at a time of political and social change. In recent years, the human rights of migrants are increasingly and systematically being called [...]

—Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, doctoral candidate, National Law University, Delhi; Ishis Goyal,

B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University [...]

Many heads of state and government from European and South American countries, as well as representatives of the European Union at the highest level, have hailed the fact that,

after three decades of negotiations, the EU has finally concluded its free trade agreement with Mercosur. [...]

  As part of the second online symposium on recent developments in African private international law, we are pleased to present the fifth contribution, kindly prepared by

Elisa Rinaldi (University of Pretoria, South Africa) on Cross-border employment, competition and delictual liability merge in the South African High Court: Placement [...]

The Center for the Study of Law & Society at the University of California, Berkeley, has posted the Spring 2026 lineup for its speaker series. Historians on the calendar include:

Feb. 9: Hardeep Dhillon (University of Pennsylvania), "The Children of Immigrants Ineligible for Naturalization and Historical Struggle for Birthright Citizenship" [...]

  The European Court of Human Rights has released the 8 volumes of the official Travaux Préparatoires of the European Convention on Human Rights on the internet, with the

kind cooperation of Brill/Martinus Nijhoff. This work originally appeared between 1975 and 1985. [...]

(Image source: Taylor&Francis) (Image source: Taylor&Francis) This collection of essays, as Luisa Brunori’s introduction explains, explores the legal landscape of merchant

institutions from the medieval to the modern periods. The book, which is the third component of the PHEDRA project (‘Pour une Histoire Européenne du DRoit des [...]

Could the centre-right Republicans join forces with the far-right National Rally in France? Philippe Marlière writes that if a governing alliance were to be formed between

the two parties, it … Continued [...]

On 10 December 2025, delegations from EU Member States and partner countries, as well as international organisations approved a Joint Declaration reaffirming their commitment

to strengthen international cooperation against migrant smuggling. The Declaration sets out joint ways to tackle illegal migration and THB alongside three main pillars. [...]

In the framework of EMPACT, the EU strengthened law enforcement activities against sanctions evasion. Europol launched a new team within its European Financial and Economic

Crime Centre to target the circumvention of sanctions following Russia's war against Ukraine. [...]