Mass expulsion of this kind is often termed ethnic cleansing. In legal terms, it constitutes a crime against humanity. When conducted with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group, ...

A new July 2025 investigative report highlights the devastating weaponized sexual and reproductive violence unleashed during the 2020-2022 Tigray conflict in Ethiopia in which the Tigray People’s ...

On 25 June 2025, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its Decision on Kovačević v. BiH. This ruling could completely change the legal assessment of strict ethnic ...

It is far too early to tell how successful this litigation will be, not least because the United States Constitution, at least since the New Deal, has been interpreted in a way decidedly friendly to ...

The latest ignominy involves the brazen attempt, by the Republican leadership of the State of Texas, to gerrymander (i.e., redesign) the state’s congressional districts to give the GOP control over an ...

Even Colombia’s propensity for civil conflict throughout those one and half centuries has been attributed to bi-partisan hatred. Uribe was the first President, who ran, and won, as an outsider of that ...

Notably, genetic testing is not a new approach to “female eligibility” in sport. Rather, it revives an old model – last widely used in 1990s – which was deemed unscientific, unethical, and ultimately ...

This competition between parties has materialized in fierce forms, which only speaks to the vigour of political contestation following the end of Taiwan’s decades-long martial-law rule in 1987. Upon a ...

Strafrecht und Politik begegnen sich seit jeher in einem heiklen Spannungsfeld. Während autoritär-populistische Kräfte es als Werkzeug eines starken Staates inszenieren, ist es zugleich unverzichtbar ...

In mehreren Bundesländern wird derzeit an einer Reform der Verfassungsschutzgesetze gearbeitet. Ziel ist insbesondere eine stärkere Eingrenzung der Befugnisse der Verfassungsschutzämter zur Informatio ...

Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf hat ihre Kandidatur für die Wahl zur Bundesverfassungsrichterin zurückgezogen. Die CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion habe ihr deutlich zu verstehen gegeben, sie nicht zur Richterin am ...

In einer am 7. August veröffentlichten Stellungnahme teilte Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihre Entscheidung mit, für die Wahl als Richterin des Bundesverfassungsgerichts nicht mehr zur Verfügung zu stehen.