The new issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy is out. You will find articles on birthright citizenship by Ilan Wurman and Keith Whittington, plus a shorter

piece by yours truly.  [...]

Nachdem Der Spiegel unter Berufung auf anonyme Quellen berichtet hatte, ein Bremer Rechtsanwalt, der zugleich als stellvertretendes Mitglied des Staatsgerichtshofs der Freien

Hansestadt Bremen tätig ist, sei bei der Enttarnung des V-Manns Dîlan S. anwesend gewesen, forderten Vertreter nahezu aller Parteien seinen Rücktritt. [...]

Join us for the launch of the RefLex Centre, exploring how globalisation reshapes law, justice, and core legal concepts across disciplines. Join us for the launch of the

RefLex Centre, exploring how globalisation reshapes law, justice, and core legal concepts across disciplines. [...]

Following the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli officials in November 2024, the United States has issued individual sanctions against

many ICC officials and has also threatened to sanction the institution as such. When the same court had issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin nineteen months earlier, [...]

Last year, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or the Court) issued a seminal ruling concerning cross-border recognition of same-sex marriages contracted within

the EU, obliging Poland to acknowledge such unions in the civil register. The ruling polarized the country’s already heavily divided society, leading to both conservative [...]

Am 18. Dezember 2025 entschieden sich die europäischen Staats- und Regierungschefs, der Ukraine ein Darlehen zu gewähren, das ihre erhebliche Finanzierungslücke decken soll.

Anstatt jedoch die eingefrorenen russischen Vermögenswerte als Reparationsdarlehen zu verwenden, hat sich der Europäische Rat entschlossen, das Darlehen durch EU-Anleihen [...]

International law is an ordering language. It is predicated upon an imperial, western-centric, and hierarchical structure. It is a language of domination, of exclusion, of

differentiated inclusion, but also of promise. The universal aspiration of international law is by necessity a project of inclusion via subordination. [...]

The Amazon rainforest and the surrounding biomes are vital for the ecology and agriculture of the South American continent as well as for the world’s climate. The biodiversity

of this region is not even close to being fully discovered, nor can its importance for life on this planet be fully grasped. [...]

The energy transition has become a central normative axis of global climate action. International instruments, national regulatory frameworks, and public policies currently

converge in the acceleration of renewable energy as a response to the climate crisis. [...]

von FRANCESCA MASCHA KLEIN, SALMAN KHAN und PHILIPP TERFURTH Das grundsätzliche Infragestellen des Kapitalismus wird häufig als Indiz für autokratische oder jedenfalls undemokratische

Bestrebungen gelesen und vom Verfassungsschutz als „verfassungsfeindlich“ eingestuft. [...]