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Exiting from international organizations (IOs) seems to be the strategy du jour in international relations. This is underscored by recent high-profile events: the implementation of Brexit in 2020, Russia’s IO exits after it invaded Ukraine in 2022, and US President Trump’s announced withdrawals from IOs starting in 2017. By February 2025, Trump issued an executive […]
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What do international institutional lawyers see when they peek out from a window? If, as David Kennedy argues, public international lawyers see a “world of nation-states and war” while trade lawyers see “a world of buyers and sellers,” it is likely that international institutional lawyers see a world of delegated competences. They dream of inter-state […]
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In a world afflicted by an absence of trust in authority and institutions of virtually all kinds, democracy is almost everywhere in retreat and the unfreedom of authoritarianism is on the rise. At the same time, humanity is falling farther behind in its endeavors to achieve ambitious global goals for human development through sustainable economic, […]
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Governing the European economy does not result from decisions taken by national executives acting in isolation. It is the product of a laborious and frequently frustrating coordination effort orchestrated at the continental level. It all began on a cold, yet remarkable, winter day of 7 February 1992, with the signature of the Treaty of Maastricht. […]
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On April 10 2025 SCOTUS decided on the case 24A949 Noem vs. Abrego Garcia. Examining the reasoning of a District Court ordering the Government to “facilitate and effectuate the return of [Abrego Garcia] to the United States”. The Court removed the verb “effectuate” from the decision because it does not express “due regard for the […]
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In the current moment we are experiencing a profound shift in the international order. Russia militarily attacked Ukraine, a sovereign state, and the emerging attempts at peace negotiations most loudly promote the argument that territories should be distributed between the two states based on effective military control at the moment when the fighting stops. The […]
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled widespread automation of government decision-making in Western liberal democracies. Yet vulnerable populations have been seriously harmed because of the difficulties they face in challenging automated decisions. In Australia, the social security automated system pejoratively dubbed as “Robodebt” erroneously identified overpayments deemed to be owed by social security beneficiaries. […]
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Americans hear a lot about corruption these days, with prominent figures claiming (and many citizens agreeing) that our governments suffer major waste, fraud, and abuse. Major changes are taking place, based on that justification, that will affect American society and much of the world. We do have corruption problems, but not necessarily the ones we […]
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