In der Münsteraner Philosophie ist ab Anfang Oktober oder November 2026 ein 3-jähriges Postdoktorand:innen-Stipendium zu vergeben. Verortet ist es im Rahmen des von der Gerda
Henkel Stiftung bewilligten interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts „Vulnerabilität und Kritik. [...]
Can the 1952 European Defence Community (EDC) be revived to supranationalize European defence in 2026? My earlier post had raised serious doubts about the legal feasibility
of this idea championed by ALCIDE; and these doubts have now been scrutinized by the project’s two senior jurists: Federico Fabbrini and Franz C. [...]
Review of the ecclesiastical court judgments during May 2026 Summaries to the both consistory court judgments reviewed during May are here. This review also includes: CDM
Decisions and Safeguarding; CFCE Determinations; and Links to other posts relating to ecclesiastical law. An index to these and earlier judgments in here. [...]
Judge Lennart Aspegren has past away at his home in Stockholm, 95 years old. Aspegren became one of the three UN judges who, on September 2, 1998, delivered the world’s first
conviction for genocide in the Akayesu case. Lennart Aspegren was the son of brewery director Ivar Aspegren and Suleika Gazala Bey. [...]
The ICC’s arrest warrants against Netanyahu/Gallant reignited debates over the nature of the Court’s jurisdiction with the focal point called the ‘Oslo Argument’, which
contended that the Hague lacked jurisdiction over Israelis because Palestine lacked it under the Oslo Accords. [...]
Bulgaria won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna with Dara’s “Bangaranga”; Israel finished second; and five countries, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia
and Iceland, stayed away in protest at Israel’s participation. That combination, spectacle, boycott and contested belonging, is a useful entry point into a wider [...]
Nathan B. Oman, William & Mary Law School, has posted "All Other Religious Sects Shall Have Free Toleration": Recovering the Early Mormon Conception of Religious Freedom, which
is forthcoming in the Journal of Mormon History: [...]
Just over 40 years ago, Owen Fiss wrote his famous article Against Settlement, arguing that settlement was bad public policy. While the article has long served as a foil
for dispute resolution academics, it is a good read — especially if you disagree with it, as do some of the commenters in the first volume … Continue reading [...]
