Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani told The Guardian: Gaza is becoming the graveyard of international law. The ...

Leaving the issue to continue to “percolate” through the lower courts, as the Attorney General Sauer suggested, would leave millions in limbo about their citizenship status, and with it, their ability ...

The Supreme Court has lately been advancing a “unitary theory of the executive” that undermines these foundational administrative-law frameworks. The theory strengthens the Trump Administration’s hand ...

The first condition (para. 57 of the Opinion) is that the claimant presented prima facie evidence to support their allegations. If the claimant’s account lacks consistency, coherence, or credibility, ...

They allow Member States to subject applicants who are nationals of – or, in the case of stateless persons, were formerly habitually resident in – designated safe countries of origin to an exceptional ...

This ruling offers an excellent illustration of the Court’s flawed understanding of the role of humor and satire in the protection of free speech. The ECtHR’s doctrine on this matter suggests that ...

Article 14 (2) of the Dutch Nationality Act (in Dutch: Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap) allows for the revocation of Dutch nationality of those who are convicted of terrorism-related crimes. However, ...

The ongoing controversies over methods in EU law reflect a broader rethinking of the discipline, influenced by multiple crises in the European Union. Scholars are questioning traditional conceptions ...

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Have you ever wondered why a legal text is the way it is, or whether its implementation actually works as intended? Typically, one would approach such questions by consulting existing textual material ...

Since 2021, Germany’s domestic intelligence service (BfV) had classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a suspected extremist organisation. Now, the BfV has escalated its assessment, ...