I fully support the content of the letter, but one sentence in the text stands out for me: “The current procrastination is akin to dereliction of duty.”. I do hope that, in spite of all appearences, ...

Would-be authoritarians often turn to apex courts at some point throughout the process of democratic erosion. Rather than packing them with loyalists, autocrats can also resort to stealth forms of ...

Following its spectacular plunge from grace in 2008 when its banking system crashed, inflicting huge damage on foreign creditors as well as on local residents, Iceland caught attention for trying to ...

3. Problems left unaddressed by the Court of Justice’s rulings to date Notwithstanding the seminal and welcome rulings issued this year by the Court of Justice, a number of important and urgent issues ...

In the Czech Republic, the COVID-19 crisis has brought not only a general state of chaos but also a considerable shift of powers to the executive branch. The first shift, impairing the legislative ...

Criticism against the Brazilian judiciary, especially the Supreme Court, has been on the rise in the past couple of decades. Under Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency, however, courts are experiencing a more ...

Last week, the Hungarian Parliament adopted the Defence Against the Coronavirus Act (Act Nr. 12 of 2020, henceforth Coronavirus Act) which authorizes the government to rule by decree without ...

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Botswana, a country with a population slightly over two million, has recently joined countries that took stringent measures necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19. On the 31 March 2020 President ...

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1. The third order granting interim measures against Poland on rule of law grounds The European Court of Justice’s order in Case C-791/19 R is the third time the Court has granted the interim measures ...

Wertkritik is a critical theory developed first and foremost by Robert Kurz (1943-2012), which claims to capture the totality of modern societies in the tradition of Marxian thought. Marx made value ...