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Since the negotiation of the Rome Statute – the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) – U.S. relations with the Court have zig-zagged between quiet support and open hostility.

“Executive disobedience” is a fluid concept that has not been conclusively defined in political theory or legal scholarship.

But – and this is where the crucial question arises – would there be a possibility of enforcing a just satisfaction award against Russia in a third state holding Russian state assets? The report ‘ ...

The ICJ will have to decide whether this constitutes a violation of legal obligations under the Protocol. This blog will detail several difficulties with Lithuania’s argument which seeks to collapse ...

Ultimately, very few marriages were recorded, but the number of children born of these relationships increased significantly over time, from several thousand in the 1930s to over 10,000 in the 1950s ...

Notably, the Constitution does not specify a timeframe for this decision Between January 2020 and April 2023, the Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu enacted and forwarded 12 bills to the Governor.

Any restriction on their rights demands the closest judicial scrutiny. The dissenting judges, however, did not hold back. In their view, the majority had abandoned established case law and signalled a ...

That legal position was later affirmed at the highest level. The Constitutional Court had ruled in February 2024 that similar referendum proposals – such as freezing the lev until 2043 – were legally ...

Slovakia’s electoral system for its National Council elections has remained relatively stable over time. Its foundations were laid in 1990 – just after the fall of the communist regime in then ...

In an apparent attempt to force nonprofits to conform to the current administration’s views relating to discrimination, antisemitism, and other topics, President Trump, his officials, and to a lesser ...

Israel’s military actions fulfil the actus reus of genocide as defined in Article II of the Genocide Convention (or Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and § 6 of the ...