The Chagos Agreement is not only a diplomatic achievement, but also a “contractual transposition” of the decisions of international courts and tribunals. The Agreement acknowledges that the detachment ...

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

What such a process ideally looks like was demonstrated in June 1981 after an Israeli airstrike had taken out the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq. In its letter to the UN Security Council, Israel ...

The fact that the new rules enable pullbacks rather than pushbacks does not make this case-law inapplicable. Although France, as a Member State, may be presumed safe and compliant with EU law and ...

An existential threat” – this is how the International Court of Justice (ICJ) characterized climate change in its long-awaited advisory opinion on the obligations of States with respect to climate ...

Thus, the people’s representatives in Congress could starve the army of resources should the President employ it in oppression. The Framers were deeply aware that one of the most effective constraints ...

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 ...

Or imagine David with a sling shot and a stone up against the all-mighty Goliath: the singular district court judge confronting the President of the United States to uphold the rule of law. Today’s ...

In response, in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act, whose purpose, he said, was to give these stations a wider voice and “to enrich man’s spirit” by creating “a great ...

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

Rather than read the case as narrowly about Medicaid, the case is best understood as advancing several political goals held by the majority of justices in the Court as aligned with a current attack on ...

The Commission hails the new targets as “ambitious”. But the proposal clearly bows to concerns about geopolitical competition. “ EU no longer willing to act alone on climate ”, the Guardian thus ...