One might almost suspect – what a shocking thought – that conservatives are once again invoking a state of emergency as a ...

The introduction of a legal component into the already complex and emotionally charged mosaic of memory in Poland, instead of ...

For more than a decade, lawyers and political scientists have extensively studied the “authoritarian playbook” – the ...

In the recent Valančius judgment, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice or ECJ), ...

In A.R.E. v. Greece and G.R.J. v. Greece, jointly published at the beginning of 2025, the European Court of Human Rights ...

While France embraced the formal regulation of historical memory regarding its colonial past nearly two decades ago with the ...

Memory laws pose a set of distinct challenges for modern democracies, including in the realm of human rights law. In the four ...

On January 19, we still have President Biden, and on January 19, as I understand it, we shut down.” With these ...

Viewing Elon Musk’s recent forays into (electoral) politics in Europe primarily as a geopolitical wake-up call to European ...

Despite a growing body of literature on memory politics and laws, the various national debates have not only remained ...

On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump signed dozens of Executive Orders on various issues. Among those receiving little public attention was the announcement of the US withdrawal from ...

Trump signed a slew of executive orders after his inauguration, many of them intended and designed to fundamentally reshape the US’s immigration and naturalization system as we know it. These include, ...