On the one hand, If the wealthy wield political power, they may seek to distort government programs to benefit themselves. On the other hand, they may lobby for drastic cutbacks in the fiscal size and ...

In the original version of the world-renowned musical film “The Wizard of Oz”, the young protagonist Dorothy sings of her wish to escape her currently troubled world and flee to a better place ...

Less than two years ago, in late 2023, when the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government lost power, a wave of optimism swept through liberal-democratic circles in Poland. The defeat was seen – ...

“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.

Equally striking are the distinct terms “negation of values” and “constitutional dialogue”, which Ćapeta employs in developing criteria for Article 2 TEU violations and distinguishes from one another.

The Trump administration’s revocation of immigration parole is an essential step in channeling noncitizens arrested at immigration court into expedited removal. The INA grants the DHS Secretary the ...

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But – and this is where the crucial question arises – would there be a possibility of enforcing a just satisfaction award against Russia in a third state holding Russian state assets? The report ‘ ...

Notably, the Constitution does not specify a timeframe for this decision Between January 2020 and April 2023, the Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu enacted and forwarded 12 bills to the Governor.

The ICJ will have to decide whether this constitutes a violation of legal obligations under the Protocol. This blog will detail several difficulties with Lithuania’s argument which seeks to collapse ...

Ultimately, very few marriages were recorded, but the number of children born of these relationships increased significantly over time, from several thousand in the 1930s to over 10,000 in the 1950s ...