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Written by Dr Meng Yu and Dr Guodong Du, co-founders of China Justice Observer Key takeaways: Despite the fact that the elaboration of a judicial interpretation appears to have been put on hold, Ch…

When American citizens elect to work in government positions, they relinquish certain free speech rights granted by the First Amendment. In Garcetti v. Ceballos

This Article analyzes the rise and persistence of the U.S.-based nature rights movement and its engagement with social movements in the Global South and with In

On 15 April 2021, AG Pikamäe delivered his opinion in the IS case, originating from a Hungarian criminal proceeding against a Swedish national. The national jud

Constitution-writing, according to the United Nations, should be participatory, non-exclusionary, and transparent. Recent scholarship has identified being non-e

This brief commentary takes a close critical look at Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion for the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Compliance records of Council of Europe member states have for decades been relied on as practical tools to estimate how states act before the European Court of

By Grace E. Arnold; Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of supply-side abortion restrictions on aggregate abortion and birth rates in the

This is Paper try to address the basic difference between Islamic and Western Jurisprudence, when it comes to the juristic approach regarding law, morality, and

This chapter deals with constitutionally conforming interpretation (CCI) in the French context. It traces the main issues surrounding CCI back to the most probl

What effect does judicializing international commitments have on incentives to comply with international law? We study this question using experiments embedded

HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention Repository   In preparation of the Conference on the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention on 9/10 June 2023, taking place on campus of the University of Bonn, Germany,…

Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters

This Chapter studies how the establishment of the first permanent international legal adjudicatory body of the modern age was portrayed in the public sphere. I

The system of reparations for victims at the International Criminal Court has been a heavily contested area of the Court’s mandate since the negotiation of the

Education is free and compulsory for all children from 3 years to 16 years of age in France. The national curriculum is set by the Ministry of Education and is

Why must certain courts in the common law follow precedent? In this chapter I identify two approaches to this question: moral and juridical. According to the fo

This paper features a novel, historical-consitutionalist take on the seminal decisions of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in Miller I and Miller II. I use &quo

It is widely claimed that the level of transnational litigation in U.S. courts is high and increasing, primarily due to forum shopping by foreign plaintiffs. Th

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