A corruption case in Croatia (the Beroš case) recently reached the political level, leading to a positive conflict of competence between the Croatian prosecutorial authorities
and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO). The circumstances surrounding the debate bear a striking resemblance to the conflict that emerged in 2022 regarding [...]
Back in November, former U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai spoke on a panel at Harvard (I just stumbled on the video recently). Towards the end, she responded as follows to a question
about the Appellate Body appointments crisis (1:08:32 of the video): [...]
von FELIX SPEIDEL Einen Staat, den man nicht kontrollieren kann, muss man ertragen. Wer einen Steuer- oder Sozialhilfebescheid bekommt, muss sich nicht dumm stellen, um sich
verloren zu fühlen. Das Grundgesetz verlangt, dass staatliches Handeln kontrollierbar und an das Recht gebunden ist. [...]
—Gabriel Sampaio, Director of Litigation and Advocacy, Conectas Human Rights; Bianca Villas Bôas, Attorney, Conectas Human Rights; Carla Osmo, Coordinator of the Human Rights
Clinic, Federal University of São Paulo; Isabelle Gaiatto, Isadora Carvalho, and Sophia de Camargo, Undergraduate Law Students, Federal University of São Paulo[1] [...]
This is a post in our Joint Symposium on “Negotiating a Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity” run in partnership with Just Security. Understanding the history of a legal
concept can help illuminate its normative content, and explain what it stands for, why it is defined in a particular way, and how it relates to connected legal concepts. [...]
One of the requirements for issue estoppel is identity of issue. However, the process of ‘refining down’ or ‘salami-slicing’[1] is not always clear. The argument that
the issue is different because the two courts would arrive at different conclusions on the governing law is increasingly being utilised as a litigation strategy. [...]
Judith Resnik, Yale Law School, has published Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy (University of Chicago Press): UCL Faculty of Laws will
host an impressive book launch on May 14. Also, horrifically, this. [...]
