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Dec 7, 2024 | 
verfassungsblog.de | Anja Bossow |Tejas Rao |Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger |Markus Gehring
This week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearings in the globally anticipated landmark case on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change. The advisory proceedings address fundamental questions regarding state responsibilities in relation to the climate crisis, reparations, the rights of future generations, and other critical issues. What is the focus of these proceedings, and how might an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ impact global climate governance?
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
verfassungsblog.de | Anja Bossow |Luke Dimitrios Spieker |John Morijn |Jakob Gašperin Wischhoff
Under the pretext of allegedly protecting children, the Hungarian parliament adopted legislation in 2021 that prohibits depictions of homosexuality and gender reassignment in any media and material accessible to minors.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
verfassungsblog.de | Anja Bossow |Stav Zeitouni
Two weeks ago, the Israeli Knesset passed a law that grants the Minister of the Interior powers to deport family members of terrorists, including Israeli citizens. Passed amongst a slew of other headline grabbing laws, it constitutes a significant expansion of current deportation powers that contravenes both Israeli constitutional law and international law.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
verfassungsblog.de | Itarian Populism |Moritz Schramm |Marie Müller-Elmau |Anja Bossow
We spent election day in Pennsylvania, the state that – so the theory went – could have served as the decisive battleground in this fiercely contested race. Both campaigns were neck and neck, vying to win over a slim, elusive swath of undecided voters across purple counties and suburban enclaves.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
verfassungsblog.de | Marie Müller-Elmau |Anja Bossow |Moritz Schramm
Today, America makes its choice between two fundamentally different visions of what it stands for. As people line up across the country to cast their vote, the whole world will be watching, as it has been for the last few months. The reporter’s gaze on the U.S. – we are no exception – tends to focus on the country’s many undeniable pathologies that render its self-portrayal as democracy’s global leader partly a self-delusion.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
verfassungsblog.de | Anja Bossow
Letzten Sonntag fanden wir uns irgendwo zwischen der 33rd Street und der 6th Avenue zwischen tausenden Menschen in MAGA-Kappen und roten T-Shirts wieder. Eine ewige Schlange von wartenden Menschen zog sich durch New York – Block für Block, Stunde um Stunde. Angereist sind sie aus dem Norden des Bundesstaates New York oder aus anderen Stadtteilen, voller Begeisterung, Trump im Madison Square Garden endlich persönlich zu sehen.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
verfassungsblog.de | Eva Maria Bredler |Anja Bossow |Marie Müller-Elmau |Moritz Schramm
Last Sunday, somewhere between 33rd Street and 6th Avenue, we found ourselves among thousands of people in MAGA hats and red T-shirts waiting to attend Donald Trump’s rally – block by block, hour after hour. The attendees came from Upstate New York or even other boroughs of the city, feverishly excited to finally see Donald Trump in person at Madison Square Garden. Some of them, as they told us, regularly travel around the country to attend his rallies.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
verfassungsblog.de | Isabella Risini |Moritz Schramm |Marie Müller-Elmau |Anja Bossow
We are eleven days away from millions of Americans casting their votes in an election the stakes of which can hardly be overstated. Much has already been said about the choice between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, so we avoid repeating it here. The simplest way to frame it is this: Trump has promised to dismantle many of the norms and institutions of the American political system, vowed to deport millions of people, and to erect a dictatorship on his first day of office.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
verfassungsblog.de | Anja Bossow |Eva Maria Bredler |Maxim Bönnemann
Every lawyer knows that law and its language are malleable tools that can serve different functions. Over the past year, one of these has gained increasing significance: law’s capacity to act as a medium of communication. At a time where other channels are gradually collapsing, with hostility and silence replacing dialogue and debate, law offers a way to articulate our disagreements within the confines of its vocabulary, rules and methods.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
verfassungsblog.de | Anja Bossow
Recht hat, wie wir wissen, viele Funktionen. Eine davon ist im vergangenen Jahr besonders deutlich hervorgetreten– Recht als gemeinsame Sprache, als Medium, das uns erlaubt, miteinander zu kommunizieren. Während andere Kanäle nach und nach zusammenbrechen und Feindseligkeit und Schweigen an die Stelle von Dialog und Debatte treten, erlaubt uns das Recht, Konflikte innerhalb seiner Sprache, Regeln und Methoden auszutragen.
