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This chapter introduces the aims and scope of this handbook. In this handbook, we seek to showcase the diverse perspectives offered by contributors from all ove

La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme s’est prononcée le 20 février 2024 en matière de droit à la liberté d’expression. Contexte En 2019, un magistrat (le requérant) exerçant en Roumanie publi

We have been talking about it since last year: the bill to secure and regulate the digital space ("SREN") has now been passed. The legislative…

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court just shot holes through the United States Supreme Court’s revanchist reading of precedent and history in to support overturning R

Information on the organisation of legal professions at EU and national level

La technologie continue à rapetisser le monde, accélérer le temps, qui semble aller chaque jour un peu plus vite.Luc Julia La révolution numérique apparaît de plus en plus comme un élément de rupture de notre civilisation et constitue un sujet de préoccupation important pour de nombreux métiers. Or, si certaines problématiques liées à ce phénomène historique sont régulièrement abordées, il est un aspect rarement évoqué : l’accélération, pourtant inhérente à l’automatisation de la société

Reflecting on the state of the federal judiciary in the aftermath of the Biden Commission report and subsequent controversies, this Article identifies problems

By Elaine Tornés Blanco Are most of the international law journals in the region available for open access, and are they published online, in print, or a combination of both? Tell us about the influence of U.S. and European scholars on the proliferation of international journals in Latin America and whether there were transnational or…

  Since the beginning of this year, Rabels Zeitschrift is available in open access. For a long time, the journal has published articles in other languages than German in particular English. Th…

In Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, the Supreme Court limited judicial deference to universities. In West Virgini

Irish constitutional scholarship has, over the past 10 years, increasingly adopted comparative, historical, and theoretical perspectives. Constitutionalism outs

Illiberal constitutionalism has spread recently in various parts of the world raising the question of whether it is a viable alternative to its liberal counterp

This chapter surveys the scholarly literature on the teaching of international law in a number of key European languages (English, French, Italian, Spanish, and

In this contribution I address the challenge that the rule of law violations in some EU Member States (in the following: “deviant Member States”) pose for civil

For the first time ever, a court in France has examined the compatibility of the statutory netting safe harbor with the French…

This paper reviews the theoretical definitions on the concepts of the rule of law, democracy and economic freedom, as well as a large number of measurement projects and indexes that try to quantify them. These three dimensions of liberal democracy many times overlap and are not always well differentiated both at a theoretical and quantitative level, which is likely one of the

By Bagrat Tunyan and Klaus H. Goetz; Abstract: Parliaments have a unique role in ensuring that adopted laws, regardless of who initiated them, are evidence-based and

In the complicated world of human communication, hate speech emerges as a dark undercurrent that threatens the very foundations of societal harmony. This resear

When judges, skilled and sophisticated users of the English language, come to opposing conclusions about the “plain” or “ordinary” meaning of a phrase, how can

Among the elected branches and the broader public, positivity toward the press skews deeply ideological. The data make clear that most liberals favor the press

The current political landscape in Israel, with countrywide demonstrations occurring weekly, and citizens calling for democracy in the face of initiatives intro

How should we interpret a Constitution that was not written for us? For most of American history, “We the people” excluded women and racial minorities. The Cons

This Chapter covers four South Asian countries - Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka - that we term 'turbulent democracies'. While each has endured perio