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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 ...

The Trump administration’s revocation of immigration parole is an essential step in channeling noncitizens arrested at immigration court into expedited removal. The INA grants the DHS Secretary the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Accepting any peace agreement resulting in Ukraine losing part of its territory, however, would not only legitimize territorial aggression but also reinforce Russia’s use of constitutionalized memory ...