Today’s Court reprimands the Davids, not Goliath. To be fair, Justice Kavanaugh suggests in his concurrence that the proper fight belongs between two Goliaths – the President and the Supreme Court.

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat mit Urteil vom 15. Juli 2025 ( 2 BvR 508/21) eine Verfassungsbeschwerde der jemenitischen Familie Bin Ali Jaber zurückgewiesen. Diese hatte geltend gemacht, die Bundes ...

British MPs took an important step in decriminalising abortion against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ abortion. Once the amended Crime and Policing Bill becomes law, people who ...

And yet, a common question seems to be asked: in the face of authoritarian determinism, what can be saved of the democratic process? Until when does it make sense to hold on? For some historians, in ...

In this regard, it seems commonplace to remark that an association agreement concluded by the EU can only be suspended through unanimity in the Council (see e.g. here, here and here ). This assumption ...

This is the conflict – a “no win” – in which progressives experience the Court’s current engagements with these issues.

With Like Company v Google, the first groundbreaking AI copyright case is now headed to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In this case, a Hungarian press publisher challenges Google ...

Im ersten Absatz des ersten Artikels des Grundgesetzes steht das bundesrepublikanische Glaubensbekenntnis: „Die Würde des ...

On 10 July 2025, the European Commission published the final version of its Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) – a voluntary rulebook developed by a group of independent experts and more ...

Als Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der universitären – insbesondere rechtswissenschaftlichen – Forschung und Lehre sowie der Justiz protestieren wir nachdrücklich gegen die Art und Weise, wie im Rahmen ...

Einen Kommentar zur derzeit schwebenden Wahl eines Richters und zweier Richterinnen an das Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG) abzugeben, fällt mir nicht leicht, weil man sich den Betroffenen fachlich w ...

The non-penalization principle, as laid out in Article 31 of the Refugee Convention, reads as follows: ...