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- Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion
A Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment
05.08.2025
The ICJ's advisory opinion has been subject to high expectations. At first glance, these expectations appear to have been met. However, upon closer examination, it becomes clear that various statements...
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Where Law Ends, Harm Begins
23.07.2025
Ruggero Leotta
Hendrik Mathis Drößler
In early May 2025, the recently elected German government implemented a highly controversial border policy aimed at intensifying checks along its borders with Poland and the Czech Republic. Initiated by...
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Pushing Back Responsibility
15.07.2025
In June 2025, the Greek government announced the deployment of naval warships to international waters off the Libyan coast, framing the operation as a necessary intervention to prevent migrants from...
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The End of ‘Contactless Control’ or the Time to Overcome Jurisdictional Constraints?
11.07.2025
On June 12, 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (‘Court’) published its much-anticipated ruling on the application of S.S. and Others v. Italy. And, in fact, the Court opted for an...
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Germany and the Yazidis – Going back on a Promise?
05.02.2024
When Josefine Paul, the asylum minister of the state of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), announced that NRW would provisionally suspend all deportations of Yazidi women and children to Iraq, this...
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