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Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future possibility. It is the present reality reshaping every corner of human society. From automated decision-making in criminal justice to generative models composing legal briefs, AI systems are...

Under international law, Germany is not as irrevocably barred from acquiring nuclear weapons as is commonly assumed. In certain circumstances, Germany could be released from Article 3 of the Treaty on...

Macbeth begins from a problem that law also knows well: prophecy does not merely announce the future; it reorganises the present. The Weird Sisters do not place the crown on...

On 15 May 2026, the International Law Commission (ILC or Commission) considered the report of its Drafting Committee on “Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction” and adopted draft articles on second...

On 12 June 2026, SpaceX completed the largest initial public offering in history, raising a reported $75 billion and attaining a valuation measured in the trillions. The offering generated extraordinary...

International law has long recognised the right of Indigenous peoples to be consulted before extraction proceeds on their territories. But what happens when that right comes into conflict with a...

More than four decades after the end of Brazil's military dictatorship (1964–1985), one fundamental question remains unanswered: can those responsible for torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings still be shielded...

International law, as a set of rules, is presumed to constitute an order in which power asymmetries are constrained. Yet, the perceived “crisis” of international law reveals its foundation in...

Can economic sanctions constitute crimes against humanity (CAH)? The proposition may appear audacious to those who deny that economy can be wielded as a weapon of aggression. Yet emerging legal...

On 31 March, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran declared a list of eighteen American technology companies, including Palantir, Intel, Tesla, Microsoft, and Google, as “legitimate targets”. The...

We are honored to have Lea Kayali join us for a conversation on grassroots movements against arms trade. Lea, you are a community organizer, writer, and movement lawyer specializing in...

In Germany, attempts to challenge arms exports to Israel have repeatedly failed to reach the merits. Courts have dismissed claims for lack of standing, characterised alleged harm as merely indirect,...

In February 2026, the German Federal Constitutional Court declined to admit a constitutional complaint brought by a Palestinian applicant from Gaza challenging German arms exports to Israel. While the Court...

The unprecedented rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven digital technologies has transformed traditional capitalism (p. 66–67), constructing a structural system of exploitation termed “technofeudalism” (p. 170–175). In this novel architecture,...

This article examines how the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) deters illegal arms exports, focusing on the critical juncture where the international...

This blog post critically examines the February 2026 judgment delivered by the German Federal Constitutional Court, in which the Court did not admit for a decision a Palestinian’s constitutional complaint...

As the United Nations moves towards negotiating the world's first Convention on Crimes Against Humanity (Cah), countries of the Global South face an important choice: either shape the convention or...

On 12 February 2026, the Tagesschau, the most widely-seen tv news show in Germany, covered the following topics: Trump decides that greenhouse gases don’t endanger public health, the ICE surge...

In February 2026, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (GFCC) did not admit for decision a constitutional complaint of a Palestinian from Gaza challenging German military export licenses to the...

In his Opinion in the pending NV Reibel vs JSC VO Stankoimport, Case No. C-802/24 (‘Reibel’) decision, Advocate General Biondi recalled a metaphor: the relationship between European Union (‘EU’) law and...

Prior to 2024, litigation against arms export licenses constituted an infrequent legal remedy in Germany. This was caused by interconnected determinants, comprising the complex dual structure of the German arms...

Mit dem Nichtannahmebeschluss vom 3.2.2026 (2 BvR 1626/25) zeigt das Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG) der strategischen Prozessführung gegen Rüstungsexporte nach Israel Grenzen auf. Einige NGOs hatten seit 2024 Palästinenser aus dem Gaza-Streifen...

Mit Beschluss vom 3. Februar 2026 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht eine Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen die Genehmigung von Rüstungsexporten nach Israel nicht zur Entscheidung angenommen. Die im Ramstein-Urteil nur ein halbes Jahr zuvor...