Ignacio Portela Giráldez is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New South Wales, focusing on climate litigation pathways ...

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 ...

Margaret Satterthwaite, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, is a key voice in the defense of justice and the rule of law worldwide. Focusing on judicial ...

“Is there a common denominator between shareholders, multinationals, and their suppliers at the other side of the world? Our answer is yes. You may respond that businesses can’t see that far. I ...

On the 5 th of May 2020, the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) delivered its anticipated judgement on the PSPP case. This decision once again reveals the problem of autonomy between ...

There is little point in rehearsing in length, yet again, the all too justified laments about the unfortunate decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court (‘BVerfG’) of 5 May 2020 in the case ...

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The German Constitutional Court’s PSPP judgment held that the Court of Justice of the European Union’s Weiss judgment on the legality of Decisions of the European Central Bank (ECB) did not have legal ...

Commentaries to the German Federal Constitutional Court’s unprecedented judgment in Weiss (2 BvR 859/15 and others of 5 May 2020) are likely to focus on the German court’s argument on proportionality ...

“It’s political economy, stupid!” There is probably no better way to express our increasing frustration caused by the avalanche of commentaries on the Weiss judgment by the German Constitutional Court ...

Upon reading the BVerfG’s bombshell PSPP decision, one cannot but be struck at how little it thinks of the quality of the legal reasoning of the CJEU with regards to the proportionality test. This is ...