Bangladesh’s political journey since gaining independence in 1971 has shifted back and forth between democratic aspirations and periods of authoritarian rule. The country now stands at a crossroads ...

Im März 2025 haben der Deutsche Bundestag und der Bundesrat einer Änderung des Grundgesetzes zugestimmt. Das am 24. März 2025 im Bundesgesetzblatt verkündete Gesetz sieht unter anderem vor, dass für B ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is remaking Turkey’s opposition – not by defeating it outright, but by replacing it. His latest strategy appears to sideline the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) ...

Die Wehrpflicht ist eine verfassungsrechtlich in Art. 12a GG geregelte Grundpflicht deutscher Bürger (nicht Bürgerinnen). Sie wurde im Jahre 2011 einfachgesetzlich ausgesetzt (§ 2 WPflG), lebt im Span ...

Moreover, the general principle governing administrative law in Israel is that the government is entitled to promote its policies and those can best be promoted by public officials who share the ...

Constitutional democracy in the United States is under attack. The second Trump administration is systematically targeting universities, courts, the press, and the legal profession—key pillars of ...

In principle, EU trademark law could achieve these goals by making robust defences available – defences which fashion upcyclers can invoke to neutralize infringement claims. As upcycling concerns the ...

As a result of all these settlements, no court opinion has been issued to date in the U.S. to guide businesses and designers involved with upcycling, even though opponents of the practice have tried ...

In this exclusive interview, conducted by our partner, the Agenda Estado de Derecho editorial team, in collaboration with the Rule of Law Program for Latin America of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, ...

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