Talks aimed at creating a digital euro are entering their final stage in the EU’s institutions. Paul Schmidt and Miguel Otero-Iglesias write the digital euro could significantly

reduce dependence on … Continued [...]

Hagiography is an old literary form, dating back to early Christianity.  It recounts the lives of the saints in order to elicit the audience’s admiration.  Although its

reverential character notoriously compromises accuracy, hagiographies can be worth reading as  windows into the worldview of believers. [...]

Colombia last month elected Abelardo de la Espriella president, consolidating a right-wing wave across Latin America, now spanning Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador,

Honduras, and, more recently, Peru. The election was extremely close: de La Espriella received 49.66 percent of the votes (12,959,542) against leftist candidate Iván [...]

All are invited to an online talk by me, Gilbert Leung, on 24 July 2026 at 11:00 CEST | 10:00 BST, in which I will attempt to answer the question: ‘What is critical legal

theory?’ The official description of the talk appears below. What it does not mention is that the talk assumes no prior […] [...]

By Graham Smith, Of Counsel, Bird & Bird LLP, London, UK The CJEU’s recent copyright decision in Anne Frank endorses state of the art geo-blocking as an effective way of

shielding a website from the different copyright laws of another EU Member State. [...]

This post follows up on our earlier observations on the public consultation responses to the HCCH Draft Text of a future Convention on Parallel Proceedings and Related Actions.

At the time our overview was prepared, the response of the German Judges Association was not yet available to us among the consultation materials on the HCCH website [...]