In einer am 7. August veröffentlichten Stellungnahme teilte Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihre Entscheidung mit, für die Wahl als Richterin des Bundesverfassungsgerichts nicht mehr zur Verfügung zu stehen.

Am 23. Juli 2025 verkündete der Internationale Gerichtshof (IGH) sein lange erwartetes Gutachten zu den „Pflichten der Staaten in Bezug auf den Klimawandel“. Darin bestätigte das Gericht, dass Staaten ...

Even Colombia’s propensity for civil conflict throughout those one and half centuries has been attributed to bi-partisan hatred. Uribe was the first President, who ran, and won, as an outsider of that ...

It is far too early to tell how successful this litigation will be, not least because the United States Constitution, at least since the New Deal, has been interpreted in a way decidedly friendly to ...

This competition between parties has materialized in fierce forms, which only speaks to the vigour of political contestation following the end of Taiwan’s decades-long martial-law rule in 1987. Upon a ...

We have focused on jurisdictions with some of the strongest specific prohibitions on genetic testing and the handling of genetic information, however it is important to note that athletes from Asia ...

Angesichts der ökonomischen Misere eines gewinnorientiert ausgerichteten Krankenhaussystems sind immer mehr Krankenhäuser gezwungen, mit anderen zu fusionieren. So ist in Flensburg eine Fusion des eva ...

The European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR), in its recent judgment on 10 July 2025 in the case of Rodina and Borisova v. Latvia, examined the applicants’ complaints regarding the refusals of ...

References to crisis abound. Since the 2008 financial crash and with the popularisation of the term “polycrisis” after the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea that we live in times of crises shapes public ...

Private actors are still expanding fossil fuel exploration and production while states continue to enable and even encourage such activities by granting subsidies, licences, and legal protection. This ...

Citizen Science als Forschungsansatz hat in der Rechtswissenschaft bisher keine Verbreitung gefunden. Der Beitrag stellt das Konzept der Citizen Science aus Anlass des Projekts „Offener Zugang zum ...