Russia ceased engaging with the Court in March 2022, in the context of its expulsion from the Council of Europe in the wake of its war of aggression. Elsewhere, international proceedings between ...

On 26 June 2025, the Spanish Constitutional Court ruled that the Amnesty Act “for the Institutional, Political and Social Normalization in Catalonia” is constitutional. This controversial Act, passed ...

I had the honour of being awarded an honorary doctorate in law by the Faculty of Law at the University of Münster. I was ...

It appears that whenever expert civil society organizations (CSOs) release a legal analysis of draft laws that restrict fundamental rights and freedoms, authoritarian governments learn from their ...

The application of these rules led Caster Semenya, a dominating 800m female runner, to become ineligible to compete in international athletics competition since 2019 and to initiate a judicial ...

Though judges (and prosecutors) have been on strike a number of times before in Spain, this time is different. The governing body of the Spanish judges, the “ Consejo General del Poder Judicial ”, ...

Letzte Woche wurde mir die Ehre zuteil, von der juristischen Fakultät der Universität Münster zum Doktor der Rechte ...