However, the Court drew an important distinction: the confiscation did not serve to “prevent the illicit acquisition of property through criminal” acts but to “preserve integrity in public office by ...

First, İmamoğlu’s university diploma, a constitutional requirement for presidential eligibility, was revoked by an administrative decision of the university president’s office. The very next day, ...

But while satellite dependency may be enough to turn the tide of a battle, it is nothing compared to the truly frightening reliance on cloud computing providers. A handful of American tech giants ...

Scholars of authoritarianism discuss two “soft guardrails” of democracy: 1) “mutual toleration” — a shared understanding that people and parties with different views and values must respect one ...

I had the honour of being awarded an honorary doctorate in law by the Faculty of Law at the University of Münster. I was ...

It appears that whenever expert civil society organizations (CSOs) release a legal analysis of draft laws that restrict fundamental rights and freedoms, authoritarian governments learn from their ...

On 26 June 2025, the Spanish Constitutional Court ruled that the Amnesty Act “for the Institutional, Political and Social Normalization in Catalonia” is constitutional. This controversial Act, passed ...

The application of these rules led Caster Semenya, a dominating 800m female runner, to become ineligible to compete in international athletics competition since 2019 and to initiate a judicial ...

But there is another, underappreciated way in which the Court has defanged the judiciary’s systemic ability to confront the executive branch’s illegal immigration behavior: the Court has failed to ...

This decision, aka the F-35 carve out, was based on advice from the Defence Secretary and the Foreign Secretary. According to the Defence Secretary, due to the nature of the partnership laid down in ...

The motion of censure against the von der Leyen Commission, formally submitted on July 3, 2025, and scheduled for vote on July 10, 2025, presents three principal categories of alleged violations with ...

The GDPR serves as a “backbone of the EU’s digital rulebook”, but has also been a source of intense debate and criticism from the outset. Broadly, two main sides have emerged: some say the GDPR ...