There was nothing gradual about the United States’ return to Venezuela. A January 2026 U.S. military intervention removed Nicolás Maduro, abruptly reopening an oil sector
that had been mostly sealed off from U.S. companies since the 2019 sanctions on Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). [...]
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Senate’s adoption of Senate Resolution 400 of 1976 (S.Res. 400), creating the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
The SSCI has worked better than most committees in terms of passing legislation and retaining bipartisanship much of the time, but a 50th anniversary is an apt time [...]
This article was initially drafted for a Perry World House conference on “The Intersection of Sanctions and Corruption,” which was made possible in part by a generous grant
from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The views expressed are solely the author’s and do not reflect those of Perry World House, the University of Pennsylvania, [...]
As Péter Magyar and his new Tisza government took office on 9 May, ending sixteen long years of autocratic capture in Hungary, the crowds outside the Parliament danced and
cheered. The new parliamentarians sang the European Anthem while the European flag was once again raised on the Parliament building. [...]
Geography stands first, and it is unrelenting. The Strait of Hormuz places a fundamental constraint on U.S. and Israeli efforts to subdue Iran through overwhelming military
force. [...]
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This post is written by Timon Milan Solár, Doctoral researcher, Faculty of Law, Trnava University, Slovakia. In October 2025, the High Court of England and Wales (King’s
Bench Division) handed down its judgment in Hamilton v Barrow [2025] EWHC 2593 (KB). [...]
Interview mit Radhika Singha über die Kategorie ‚ausländisch‘ im kolonialen Indien Das koloniale Indien des 19. Jahrhunderts war ein Flickenteppich von Rechtsordnungen
mit Territorien unter direkter britischer Herrschaft, die mit Gebieten der sogenannten indischen Fürstenstaaten, den Princely States, durchsetzt waren. [...]
(image source: RKD Research) (image source: RKD Research) (image source: RKD Research) The Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Risk and Insurance in History
(ICRIH) has issued a call for proposals to organize and host the next edition of the conference in the summer of 2028 or, at the latest, 2029. [...]
What happens when the law meets a general-purpose cultural machine? In this episode, hosts Matteo Iuorio and Sofia Debernardi sit down with intellectual property expert Professor
Giancarlo Frosio to unpack the massive legal battleground surrounding generative AI. [...]
