Stellenausschreibungen Zwei Stellen als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, 50% E 13 TV-G-U, befristet auf 3 Jahre, Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht mit dem Schwerpunkt Völkerrecht

(Prof. Dr. Thomas Kleinlein), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frist: 27.05.2026 Call for Nominations for the position of Director at the Max Planck Institute [...]

At first glance, the over two-thirds majority that TISZA is set to enjoy in the new National Assembly seems to make the Hungarian transition 2.0 look much easier than might

have been expected. And yet, this does not mean that there are no vital challenges or pitfalls awaiting Péter Magyar’s government in this endeavor. [...]

Last July, the International Court of Justice delivered its unanimous advisory opinion on climate change. The court’s answer was unambiguous. Climate obligations are legal,

substantive, and enforceable: states have stringent duties to protect the climate system, breaching them constitutes an internationally wrongful act, and the 1.5°C [...]

Article One, Section Nine, Clause Seven states in part: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by law . . ." Let's say a President

asks Congress for $1 billion to fund a project that he's keen on. Congress declines the request. [...]

When I researched my book on war powers (Long Wars and the Constitution), I noticed a shift in opinion had occurred with respect to the WPR by the end of the Clinton administration. 

Before then, it was commonly claimed that the WPR was washed up, even legally defunct.  During the 1988 episode in which the U.S. [...]

Letzten Juli hat der Internationale Gerichtshof sein Gutachten zum Klimawandel vorgelegt – und es war eindeutig: Klimaschutzverpflichtungen sind rechtlich verbindlich und

durchsetzbar. Staaten müssen das Klimasystem schützen, wer dagegen verstößt, handelt völkerrechtswidrig. [...]

The future of human rights is here. That is, at least according to member states of the Council of Europe who today, in Chișinǎu, Moldova, have agreed on a new Declaration

to reform the European Convention of Human Rights. In the UK, the Government has already argued that the document will future-proof the Convention and thereby end [...]

Suppose a state mandated that signs be posted in every public school classroom declaring “Jesus is Lord.”   Wouldn’t that violate the First Amendment’s ban on establishments

of religion?  Until this week the answer was clearly yes.  But after a decision last week by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, who knows?  That court has announced, [...]

This is the fifth election in a row in which a party has gained a two-thirds majority in Hungary’s unicameral parliament – and the first time it is not Viktor Orbán’s

Fidesz party, but the newly emerged centre-right Tisza party led by Péter Magyar. [...]

American constitutional law treats “orthodoxy” as verboten. The concept has become a shorthand for the state imposition of belief that the First Amendment most centrally

forbids. This hostility traces back decades, finding its most famous expression in West Virginia State Board of Education v. [...]