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AND PACIFIC OPERATIONS Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said yesterday that 100 people died in the U.S. [...]

Anyone who's read Ron Chernow's terrific biography of Ulysses S. Grant will remember Grant's bizarre obsession with annexing Santa Domingo (now the Dominican Republic). The

President spent years on this project to no avail. He was convinced that Santa Domingo would be a great military and economic asset and couldn't understand why others [...]

Das von der DFG geförderte Graduiertenkolleg “Normativität – Kritik – Wandel“ veranstaltet am 12. und 13. Februar 2026 eine Tagung zum Thema “The Power and Norms

of Critique”. Ziel der internationalen und interdisziplinären Konferenz ist es, die Reichweite und die (normativen) Grundlagen von Kritik zu untersuchen, wobei [...]

Kriminalitätsbelastete Orte (kbOs) sind seit jeher Zonen verdichteter Kontrolle. Mit der jüngsten Berliner ASOG-Novelle werden sie nun auch zu Zonen verdichteter Datenerhebung.

Automatisierte Videoüberwachung und algorithmische Verhaltenserkennung (§ 24e ASOG) bringen erhebliche Eingriffe in das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung [...]

Despite the ongoing crisis with the WTO Appellate Body, which has been only partially solved by the creation of the MPIA, 2025 saw a bit of an increase in the filing of requests

for consultations under the DSU. Here's a snippet from our WorldTradeLaw.net page where we track this: [...]

1. After the genocide in Gaza, we did not expect 2026 to be a year of peace. The biggest desire of Trump, “the great peacemaker,” was to win the Nobel Peace Prize. But

his first statements after the attack on Venezuela and Maduro’s abduction show that the peacemaker was just a mask behind which hid […] [...]

1. Introduction: background of the seizure of UNRWA facilities in East-Jerusalem On 8 December 2025, Israeli police, accompanied by municipal Israeli officials, forcibly entered

the facility of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), located in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, [...]

[Yifat Susskind is the Executive Director of MADRE, an international human rights organization dedicated to meeting urgent needs in communities facing crisis and using the

human rights framework to create durable social change] For women, girls, and LGBTQI+ persons in Afghanistan, the struggle for justice has never been more urgent. [...]

Wie es die antiqua consuetudo fordert, ist unser erster Blogpost eines Neuen Jahres dem Rückblick auf das vergangene gewidmet. 2025 brachte dem Capitularia-Projekt viel Neues.

Seit Ende des Jahres ist Tobias Mercer unser neuer Kollege im Team. Neu erschienen ist die Dissertation unseres Projektdoktoranden Dominik Leyendecker sowie ein von [...]

 Law Beyond the Legal Renaissance: Rethinking Jurisdiction in the European central Middle Ages (Danica Summerlin & Alice Taylor) (OPEN ACCESS)DOI 10.1080/01440365.2025.2456287Abstract:The

introduction to this special issue lays out its approach to the phenomenon of jurisdiction during the European central Middle Ages. [...]