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The first is from the standpoint of a philosopher of criminal law, in which I am an academic specialist. The second is from the standpoint of a political sociologist, in which I am a novice. Even ...

In Poland, the narrow defeat of liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski by the ultra-conservative Karol Nawrocki in the June 1st presidential election marked a turning point. The possibility of ...

Venezuela held local and parliamentary elections on May 25 th. Unsurprisingly, Maduro’s allies won with an overwhelming majority. Even though Maduro had severely tilted the playing field in his favor, ...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court overturned its own October 2023 judgment that had declared military trials of civilians unconstitutional. In a 5–2 majority decision, the newly constituted Constitutional ...

Looking from T2 only backwards and never forwards to T3 risks creating an ever-receding horizon of state responsibility. If ...

Beyond concrete political conflicts and institutional constraints, there is a deeper concern about how a constitutional order can be restored after enduring years of authoritarian populism. A recently ...

Instead, the Court should have fully examined the complaint under Article 3, given the severity of the required medical intervention including involuntary sterilisation; an intervention that is far ...

The new technological revolution of Artificial Intelligence is now part of everyday life and will likely reaffirm US exceptionalism in the area of freedom of speech once more. The next key test for ...

To serve justice rather than power, values must be legally defined, procedurally constrained, and subject to democratic scrutiny. In pluralistic societies committed to the rule of law, this calls for ...

“Executive disobedience” is a fluid concept that has not been conclusively defined in political theory or legal scholarship.

Since the negotiation of the Rome Statute – the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) – U.S. relations with the Court have zig-zagged between quiet support and open hostility.