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In a wearyingly familiar recurrence, parts of the U.S. government shut down last week after Congress failed to approve funding for the new fiscal year. Though bewildering to foreign observers (and ...

The EU’s sanctions framework is meant to work in two steps: unanimity for decisions defining the Union’s approach to “a particular matter of a geographical or thematic nature” under Article 29 TEU, ...

Nicolas Sarkozy was prosecuted on several charges: corruption, illegal campaign financing, concealment of misappropriated Libyan public funds, and conspiracy. He was found guilty only of the latter ...

At the heart of recent American upheavals lies a question the resonance of which extends far beyond the United States: What becomes of a constitutional democracy when faith in civic order gives way to ...

Kamto raised several grounds, two of which stand out. First, that the Resolution was not supported in law. Second, that the Resolution undermined his eligibility and infringed on his freedom to ...

In its recent decision MSIG, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has barred Spain from convicting an ETA terrorist for a terrorist attack in Oviedo. This decision is in line with ...

By construing his appointment as a “definitive legal situation,” the Supreme Judicial Council effectively transformed what is, by definition, a temporary assignment into a permanent status. In doing ...

It comes as no surprise that some disciplines are better positioned than others to inform public debate. That legal scholarship is particularly well suited for this task is obvious. In the past four ...

A key step towards improving public debt transparency is to analyze it through the lens of constitutional law. As the first part of this post explains, applying a constitutional law framework to ...

OC-31/25 defines the right to care in section 113 as the right of every person to have the time, space, and resources necessary to provide, receive, or establish conditions that ensure their overall ...