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The Judicial Conference of the United States has done an admirable job of embedding its code of conduct into the culture of the federal courts and creating an e
Americans have worried about foreign influence over domestic political affairs since the United States was founded. Today, those concerns have resulted in calls
Afrofuturism seems to be everywhere these days. In music, film, dance, literature. And in this special symposium issue of the&nbs
For many decades, researchers sought to understand whether courts influence public opinion and what factors moderate or intensify such influence. In this study,
Commentators often lament that the American legal curriculum does not adequately focus on comparative law teaching, and that this reality has important adverse
This short article examines the origins - at least etymologically - of the modern magistrate and the many positions around the world and through history that ha
Recent examples from the case law of the European Court of Human Rights as well as of the Court of Justice of the European Union show that the situation of judi
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a legal institution embedded in international politics. Politics shaped the Rome Statute of the ICC, which is rooted i
This research paper examines the role of advocacy within different legal systems and its impact on access to justice. By comparing common law and civil law syst
There is broad consensus that there are features of adjudication from which no deviation should be allowed—the quintessential one being the requirement that jud
Law by design obligations represent a dynamic and emerging regulatory approach increasingly prominent in European digital technology regulation. Originating in
The European Union’s (EU) accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has been under discussion for more than 40 years. After the Court of Justi
As World Economic Forum has stated about Artificial Intelligence 1 , 2 , characterised often as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, "the speed, breadth and d
Our research presents the etymology of the French word huis and its derivatives. The use of the phraseological expression huis clos as the term closed trial in
This article argues that Magna Carta has a central place in the development of debate and deliberative politics in parliament. Its focus is chapter 12
This article is an update of one of the ten lectures I delivered remotely and asynchronously in my summer 2021 Hague Academy General Course in Private Internati
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is currently evaluating whether Convention No.87 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) safeguards the right of trade unions to engage in collective action, specifically the right to strike. This inquiry follows a request for an advisory opinion by the ILO, after the employer representative walkout in 2012 and subsequent […]
An empirical approach to comparative law is challenging: neither are jurisdictions independent, nor can observational data isolate the causal effect of differen
Article 38 (1) (a) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice lists as one of the sources applied by the Court ‘the general principles of law recogniz
This article makes the case for the use of focus groups as a method with particular relevance to the field of comparative constitutional studies. The article be
This article makes the case for the use of focus groups as a method with particular relevance to the field of comparative constitutional studies. The article be
Recent examples from the case law of the European Court of Human Rights as well as of the Court of Justice of the European Union show that the situation of judi
Over the last two decades, comparative constitutional inquiry has witnessed tremendous intellectual renaissance. The scholarly pursuits of Mark Tushnet reflect
The American Declaration of Independence kindled the first successful decolonial movement in the modern world, culminating in the enactment of the United States
"The Courts": Managerial Judges, Empty Courtrooms, Chaotic Courthouses, and Judicial Legitimacy from the 1980s to the 2020s Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper
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