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Five truisms on legal blogs, and what to think of them
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Five truisms on legal blogs, and what to think of them: Part II
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Germany will have to change it’s surrogate motherhood regime
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Burqa Ban: Rights Protection Drawn on Proportionality Bottles
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Living together in an infinite space of socialisation
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recently decided, that we all have the right to live in a “space of socialisation which makes living together easier“. Thus stated by the ECtHR in the case of...
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Verfassungsblog goes French
Le multilinguisme dans la science juridique est devenu ces dernières années un sujet central de discussions. Des premières réflexions (en allemand) ont été présentées sur ce blog il y a deux ans en...
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A Tale of Two States: Rule of Law in the Age of Terrorism
As a reaction to the recent terrorist attacks in France, several EU member states as well as the EU itself have announced significant anti-terrorism measures. Even well before the French facts, the UK...
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Dr. “Law-Discoverer” and Mr. “Law-Maker”: the Strange Case of Case-Law in...
The legal status of case-law is ambiguous in most legal systems. As Lord Scott of Foscote said in his opinion in National Westminster Bank v Spectrum Plus limited and others (n. 124), The question...
View ArticleFrench Millionaires’ Tax Decision: Are Good Judges Bad For Democracy?
Just before the turn of the year, on December 29th, the French Constitutional Council overturned the socialist government’s 75% income-tax rate for the rich, a measure the new occupant of the Elysée...
View ArticleLa République against Race
Last week, the Assemblée Nationale passed the draft law on the ban of the word “race” in French legislation. The elimination of this term has been advocated several times over the past decade by the...
View ArticleThe Universal Declaration of the Rights of Humankind: Big Words, Small Effect
The text of a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Humankind was presented on Monday before the french Economic, Social and Environmental Council. France will introduce the declaration in December at...
View ArticleBoycott calls and double standards: another French limitation on freedom of...
France, once the motherland of human rights, is increasingly clamping down on freedom of expression. According to a recent decision by the French Supreme Court, calling for boycott on Israeli goods is...
View ArticleDieudonné before the Strasbourg Court: Negationism isn’t freedom of expression
Satire is protected by the right to freedom of expression. Holocaust denial is not. This is the bottom line of yesterday’s decision by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of the French...
View ArticleThe Teething of EU’s Mutual Defence Clause
France was the first member state to call for mutual assistance under Article 42(7) of the Lisbon treaty. The move came as a surprise. Most of the discussions in previous days were focused on the...
View ArticleAwakening dormant law – or the invocation of the European mutual assistance...
The terrorist attacks of 13 November have violently confronted France as much as its European neighbours with exceptional security challenges. By killing more than 120 people in less than 30 minutes in...
View ArticleL’état d’urgence in the wake of the Paris attacks and its judicial aftermath
“Reinforcing police abilities without jeopardizing Human Rights is essential. But sometimes, it is an impossible equation” – Didier Maus With the shock of the Paris attacks still fresh, further images...
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