" ... Everything done to overcome these disorders contributes to building up peace and avoiding war.'

You don’t need to be Catholic to grasp the wisdom of the observation." 5/5

"It seems appropriate to close this essay ... with an extract from the Catechism itself (¶ 2317):

'Injustice, excessive economic or social inequalities, envy, distrust, and pride raging among men and nations constantly threaten peace and cause wars. ..." 4/

"Had Trump’s threats been carried out, there is little question that the consequences would have been graver than those they were purportedly designed to eliminate, and immoral on the basis of being indiscriminate." 3/

The Trump administration’s actions "do not reflect a genuine commitment to avoiding war and have not been justified as necessary in self-defense against lasting, grave, and certain harm". The US "had not exhausted non-forcible alternatives, and its actions were unlikely to produce a just peace". 2/

Michael Schmitt on (Catholic) just war doctrine:

"In my estimation, there is little doubt that the United States’s use of force against Iran (and Venezuela) violates both international law governing the resort to force and the moral precepts of just war doctrine."

1/5

A Primer on Just War Theory and the Iran War Leading scholar explains just war theory and the Iran war. An assessment of the Trump administration's response to the Catholic Church.

A Primer on Just War Theory and the Iran War at www.justsecurity.org/136692/just-...

Völkerrecht in der Krise: Das Recht der Gleichen Das Völkerrecht ist nicht tot, aber stark reformbedürftig. Europa sollte sich für mehr Gleichheit einsetzen – und die ehemals Blockfreien umwerben.

Was ist die Krise des Völkerrechts? Im Grunde ist sie eine Krise der Gleichheit - global wie innerstaatlich. Relative Gleichheit hat bedeutende Auswirkungen auf die internationale Ordnung. 1/

Mein Text in der TAZ: taz.de/Voelkerrecht...

Das BauGB-Upgrade – Ein Upgrade, das auf Fine-Tuning wartet › JuWissBlog von ALINA HOLZE Die im vergangenen Jahr angestoßene BauGB-Reform geht in die zweite Runde. Das ist gut so, denn der Outcome im vergangenen ...

Alina Holze wirft einen kritischen Blick auf einen neuen Entwurf zur Reform des BauGB: www.juwiss.de/38-2026/

Zitat aus unserem neuesten Blogpost von André Bartsch und Jakob Hohnerlein: „Die Entscheidung Weimers, die drei Buchhandlungen wegen ihrer linken Ausrichtung vom Preis auszuschließen, beruht auf einer untragbaren Ausweitung der wehrhaften Demokratie.“

Durfte Wolfram Weimer drei Buchhandlungen vom Buchhandlungspreis ausschließen?

ANDRÉ BARTSCH und JAKOB HOHNERLEIN haben starke Zweifel: Nur konkrete Verfassungsfeindlichkeit rechtfertigt solch einen Förderausschluss, politische Ansichten alleine genügen nicht.

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Buchtitel Europa neu schaffen

Migrationspolitik geht nur, indem die Menschenrechte von Flüchtlingen eingeschränkt werden? Dieser These halten wir entgegen. Als Autor*innenteam von acht Flucht- und Migrationsforscher*innen haben wir gemeinsam ein Buch geschrieben, dass den Zusammenhang von Demokratie und Flüchtlingsschutz betont.

Peter Lang Verlag - Fallgeschichte und Femizid. Zu Verfahren genreästhetischer und rechtlicher Transformationen in Christina Clemms „AktenEinsicht“ (2020) und „Gegen Frauenhass“ (2023) Der Beitrag analysiert Christina Clemms literarische Essays AktenEinsicht (2020) und Gegen Frauenhass (2023) als feministische Transformationen der ...

Heute erschienen:
Aufsatz zu den Büchern von @clemm.bsky.social, geschrieben von meinem germanistischen Kollegen Reto Rössler und mir für die Zeitschrift für Germanistik (open access).
#RechtundLiteratur
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Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

Blurbs for Supremacy, an actual book! "Many solid books have been published in recent years questioning the breadth of the power wielded by the US Supreme Court. None is as meticulously researched, powerfully presented, and theoretically sound as this brilliant work by Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan." -Sherrilyn Ifill "Riveting and revelatory, Supremacy is essential reading for anyone keen to know how the US Supreme Court became so powerful. And Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan accomplish something else, too: a stirring account of how fiercely Americans have fought to determine, for themselves, the meaning of the US Constitution." -Jill Lepore, author of These Truths and We the People "Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan's brilliant analysis of our current constitutional malaise explains the source of the problem and offers persuasive solutions for how we must go about fixing it. This is essential reading for all who care about our country's future." —Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello "While most Americans associate the Court's supremacy with its role in facilitating the civil rights movement in the 1950s, Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan show that the Court's role is more closely associated with the demise of the civil rights revolution that happened nearly a century before, as the Court extinguished Reconstruction and paved the way for the segregation that it would later be given too much credit for ending." -Leah Litman, author of Lawless

Thank you SO much for your kind words @sifill.bsky.social, @agordonreed.bsky.social, @leahlitman.bsky.social, and Jill Lepore!

221. Chief Justice Roberts and the Clean Power Plan Remarkable reporting from the New York Times provides a peek behind the curtain of the February 2016 rulings that ushered in the modern emergency docket. And what it reveals is pretty discouraging.

"In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes."

Me on Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop in today's "One First":

"Orbán promoted a vision of Europe as a conglomerate of ethno-nationalist, “sovereigntist” states, effectively ending the postwar European project. Magyar’s victory gives Europe a second chance." 12/12

"[E]ver since the pardon scandal broke, enabling the emergence of a new opposition, Orbán and his government have made one serious mistake after another." 11/

"The Hungarian state, with the help of Orbán’s cronies, bought up the Budapest airport and turned it into China’s EU cargo hub
... At this point, the EU started to take notice." 10/

"Orbán was just too important to the German economy to be allowed to fail.

When Orbán ... felt secure enough in his control, he started to bring Chinese car and battery companies into Hungary." 9/

"Ordinary Hungarians have paid a steep price for Orbán’s smash-and-grab mafia state."

"... Using Hungarian and European taxpayers’ money, Orbán shamelessly bought Germany’s favor." 8/

"Eight of the ten richest Hungarians are directly connected to Orbán, including family members and childhood schoolmates. According to Transparency International, Hungary has the highest corruption rate in the EU ..." 7/

"Hungary ranks with Bulgaria at the bottom of the European Union in terms of purchasing power and living standards."

There is "not only... extreme income inequality but also... rapidly growing wealth inequality". 6/

"The Hungarian example seems to show, once again, that, over time, large groups of people find authoritarian rule suffocating... And they find it unbearable that autocracy is making them poorer." 5/

"So, the right question to ask is not why autocracies emerge, but the opposite: why do people, time and again, despite all obstacles, setbacks, and failures, try to build, save, and rebuild liberal democracies?" 4/

"The point for Orbán, no less than for the Communists, was to turn defeat into victory in a country that last won a war 541 years ago..." 3/

"In Orbán’s narrative, Hungary—where 52,000 civil servants organized the murder of nearly a half-million of their fellow citizens in a mere 57 days—was WWII’s sole moral victor ..." 2/

Rév: "The election on April 12 was a revolt against the counterrevolution. There was no new ideological rhetoric, no slogans and demands ... other than that Orbán and his regime should go: Go to hell, disappear forever... It was a counter-counterrevolution."

1/12

Wollinger: "Der sozioökonomische Status, Bildung, eigenes Gewalterleben sowie delinquente Freundeskreise und gewaltlegitimierende Männlichkeitsnormen sind Faktoren, die Kriminalität begünstigen oder verhindern. Die Herkunft hat keinen Einfluss, wenn man diese Faktoren berücksichtigt."

Hungary’s Counter-Counterrevolution István Rév explains why Viktor Orbán fell after 16 years of entrenched illiberal rule – and how Péter Magyar toppled him.

'Orbán waged a long-running war against Hungary’s cultural and academic institutions. As one of his advisers and lobbyists in Brussels, Frank Füredi...put it: “The most important theater of the cultural war is the war on the past.”'

Excellent analysis by a great Hungarian historian:

“The Fix” is an important new book by a brilliant former US attorney, now a leading U of Michigan law professor and TV commentator. I recommend pre-ordering it now!

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Seven Arguments for Limiting Russmedia’s Reach in European Courts Daphne Keller explores potential limits to the ruling's impact and arguments that platforms might make in saying new obligations do not apply to them.

"None of these arguments, standing alone, strike me as entirely convincing. But the overall argument to allow the DSA to do its work, and not sweep it aside in favor of governing online content using the GDPR, is compelling."

www.techpolicy.press/seven-argume...