In the past decades we have been able to observe judicial reactions to democratic backsliding both in Hungary and Poland. While judges in Hungary have seemed to adopt the typical restrained approaches ...

Europhile opponents present the invalidations, first of the elections and now of the candidacy, as valiant examples of militant democracy and rule of law in action. I argue that the story is both ...

Although some of these individual measures may be legal, a holistic approach shows that it is the sum of these parts that finds itself at odds with EU law, balancing on the edge of loyalty and ...

One year after the DSA’s entry into force, the time seems ripe for an existential question: should ODS under the DSA develop as an independent, informal, decentralised system of justice, or is it ...

The division of the CSM, for instance, seems inspired by the motto divide et impera rather than strictly necessary for the separation of career paths. In this regard, France offers some insights, as ...

Well over a year has passed since these dark times have officially ended. The Polish people rightfully expect the sins of the previous illiberal regime to be accounted for, its victims rehabilitated ...

In this piece, I argue that the draft Rules do little to clarify India’s murky position on cross-border data flows. The ambiguous wording of the text grants unfettered discretion to the executive in ...

Many years ago, I gave a lecture on collective security and international law at the Karazin University in Kharkiv. Among the ...

Against this entirely commonsense understanding, the unitary executive theory insists on a vision of the Constitution that muddles the text, is weakly grounded in history, and ignores how executive ...

The funding of Verfassungsblog is essentially based on six pillars: cooperation with the Center for Global Constitutionalism at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and the Max Planck Institute for ...

In Joined Cases C-146/23 and C-374/23, Lithuanian and Polish judges sued over alleged unpaid wages, giving the Court an opportunity to clarify criteria on economic independence – an important aspect ...

Ángela de Oliveira Cézar de Costa (1860-1940) was a pioneer in the realms of international pacifism and “ female diplomacy ” ...