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(WASHINGTON D.C., 1/20/2022) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned a French law that could ban Muslim athletes from wearing hijabs, or Islamic headscarves at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The doctrine of vertical precedent requires that courts, except for a jurisdiction’s highest court, must follow an on-point precedent or distinguish it. Lawyers
We ought to rethink how we understand the conflict of laws in Australia with respect to forum statutes. This is an important issue: the proper treatment of ambi
In the Supreme Court's renewal of the standards of judicial review in Vavilov, it held that the legislature can stipulate the standard of review within the limi
Article particulièrement bien documenté sur les sources du droit, mises en perspectives historiques et comparatistes entre la Common Law et le droit continental. Carpentier, Mathieu and Spaak, Torben, Sources of Law in Continental Analytical Jurisprudence (March 16, 2022). Forthcoming in L. Burazin, M.S. Green & G. Pino (eds.), Jurisprudence in the Mirror (Oxford University Press), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4059278
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), which reviews government applications to conduct surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes, is an anoma
Just how “supreme” is the Supreme Court? By most accounts, the Supreme Court sits atop of the nation’s judicial hierarchy and—at least among judges—has the last
This Article argues that the injunction in s 75(v) of the Constitution available to restrain government action that is unlawful but does not amount to jurisdict
The relationship between privacy and competition law is complex and contentious. May or should compe- tition agencies consider business conduct’s negative impac
Since World War II, the median number of rights enshrined in national constitutions has more than doubled. Because scholars have largely cheered on this develop
Roe v. Wade and Miranda v. Arizona are among the most notable decisions handed down by the Supreme Court. Issued less than a decade apart, these two opinions ar
With the erosion and potential demise of Roe v. Wade, the survival of abortion access in America will depend on new legal paths. In the moment that the law has
In this essay, we examine the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor’s preliminary examination of war crimes and crimes against humanity related to Russi
Courtrooms operate as unique microcosms—inhabited by courtroom personnel, legal actors, defendants, witnesses, family members, and community residents who neces
The paper analyses how the rule of law backsliding in Poland led to the decision of the Polish CT of 7 October 2021 (K 3/21). First of all, in post-2015 Poland
Constitution-making has changed dramatically in recent decades. Compared with constitutional processes in earlier eras, we observe the increasing role of the in
Marie GREN Since 1962, constitutional artwork by General De Gaulle and his acolytes opened yet another era of hyper-concentration of powers in the hands of the executive in France. Bypassing the formal constitutional path for revision (set out in article 89 of the Constitution of 1958), an…
By Jonathan Pratter The question in the title is not new. It is almost as old as comparative law itself. The answer to it matters to FCIL librarians. It has an effect on the general approach to FCIL research and it influences the way we teach FCIL research.
Since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the CJEU – like any other EU institution – is set, under the principle of openness, “to conduct [its] work as openly...
Conventions & Instruments On 8 April 2022, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia deposited its instrument of accession to the HCCH Apostille Convention.The Convention will enter into force for Saudi Ara…...
Dures, dures, les négociations de la gauche pour une alliance aux législatives ! Il aura fallu cinq jours depuis que la présidentielle a rendu son verdict pour résoudre les nombreuses divergences de f
Earlier this week I wrote an article about finding and previewing foreign-language RSS feeds using a Google Sheet I made, the RSSinator. That's useful but it doesn't answer an obvious question: how do you translate foreign-language RSS feeds on an ongoing basis? When I researched methods to do this, I quickly hit a money wall. Zapier,…
Constitution-making has changed dramatically in recent decades. Compared with constitutional processes in earlier eras, we observe the increasing role of the in
This article underlines the role of courts in ensuring the protection of fundamental rights in the digital environment. In particular, the focus will be on the
This report deals with Japanese data law within the framework of a comparative study from legal studies, cultural studies and business informatics, which aims t
Constitution-making has changed dramatically in recent decades. Compared with constitutional processes in earlier eras, we observe the increasing role of the in
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