—Aurélia Gervasoni, Belgian multidisciplinary artist and poet and PhD Student at the University of Zurich At ICONS 2026 in Dublin, we had the privilege of hearing eminent
postcolonial scholar E. Tendayi Achiume speak about legal fictions, including borders and the closely connected figure of the “migrant.” To conclude, while remaining [...]
“The chance of holding global warming to below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels with no or limited overshoot is gone.” That’s the first line from United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Inger Andersen in the foreword to UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2026: The Point of Return, released Oct. [...]
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The 2026 revision of the European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) has removed one of its most contested provisions: Article 29(1) which had required
Member States to introduce a civil liability regime for violations of the Directive’s human rights due diligence obligations. [...]
On 16 September 2026, Trial Panel II of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) convicted the former President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, and three other former high-ranking members
of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). While the judgment triggered fierce political reactions and violent protests across Kosovo, its legal reasoning has largely remained [...]
In September 2026, lawyers for Jane Doe, a former Cornell student, filed a civil complaint seeking to hold Cornell, her sorority, the Chi Phi fraternity, and other individuals
responsible for facilitating what the complaint describes as a brutal 2024 drugging and “gang rape” by seven Chi Phi members. [...]
The announcement by Faber, the publishers of Sally Rooney’s novels, that her books will no longer be available for sale in the UK has been met with surprise in the UK and
elsewhere. While some in the British media have downplayed this announcement, labelling it as “borderline offensive” to suggest that her books have been banned [...]