“With all the bad news on climate science and climate governance lately, how do you find hope to persevere?” In the past decade, I have been asked this question with increasing

frequency in my climate governance lectures. It usually comes from a disillusioned student struggling to process new developments about climate science projections [...]

A society’s true measure of success is its capacity to deal with failure. In the mid–seventeenth century, this is just what we can observe in the city of Amsterdam, at

the time one of the world’s prime commercial hubs. In the early modern Dutch Republic, a set of legal, cultural, and institutional innovations resulted in a new [...]

Among the many different ways that humans interact with the ocean, submarine operations are instrumental in furthering those activities. Submarines are deployed in scientific

exploration, seabed exploitation, the development of critical infrastructure and criminal activities. [...]

How do we prevent genocide? The modern world has been plagued with this ‘crimes of crimes’, that has claimed many millions of lives over the past century or more. In 1948,

in the aftermath of the Holocaust, the international community committed to preventing genocide through the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment [...]

While infrastructure development has long been associated with social progress, economic development and advanced living standards, it has likewise given rise to challenges

including disruption, environmental harm and inequity. On the one hand, infrastructure development has been described as presenting both ‘immaterial ideals and [...]

Calls to establish international administrations have been made in numerous contemporary contexts, including Afghanistan, the Congo, Haiti, Kosovo, Iraq, Liberia, Libya, Palestine,

South Sudan, Syria, Timor-Leste or Yemen. More recently, they have been made in the context of the war in the Middle East (to “administer” Palestine) or in the [...]

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. Few documents in world history have been as extensively studied and analyzed, and it is fair

to ask if there is anything new to be said about the Declaration. [...]

In March 1979, the government of dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla, submitted a law proposal to overhaul Argentina’s revenue-sharing regime. Following the rules of this

regime, the bill was duly presented to the Legislative Advisory Commission, a legislative body created by the dictatorship and staffed by military officers. [...]

During the spring 2026 quarter, the Youth and Education Law Project (YELP) released a report titled “Strengthening Civil Rights Enforcement in California Schools: A Call

for Sacramento to Fill the Gap Created by Washington D.C.” [...]

American politics is characterized by extreme partisanship and government stalemate.  The two dominant political parties marshal reliably partisan interest groups with the

objective of controlling both houses of Congress and the Presidency. Embracing the simplistic idea that the majority rules, the prevailing party then governs with [...]