Madalena Simões

Madalena Simões is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on arms trade litigation in Europe and reflects on international law’s emancipatory promise. The observations and arguments made in this entry are part of her PhD project. Madalena is also the Head of Section for International Law at the European Journal of Legal Studies and a Research Assistant at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

Arms Trade Litigation before the German Federal Constitutional Court

09.07.2026

Madalena Simões

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...