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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (March 8-9) – Go Health Pro

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (March 8-9) – Go Health Pro

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with the news that Congressional Republicans, who recently voted to set a $4.5 trillion target cost for their planned tax bill to replace the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), are currently debating whether the “baseline” for that cost … Read more

Three Legal Issues on First Reading of Resolution 2773 (2025) on Eastern DRC – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

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Three Legal Issues on First Reading of Resolution 2773 (2025) on Eastern DRC – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

Introduction

In this post, I explore three legal issues pertaining to Resolution 2773 (2025), adopted by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on 21 February 2025 in relation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This resolution addresses the ongoing offensive of the armed group M23 in the DRC, which started in January 2025 and is characterised by credible reports of atrocities against civilians and attacks against peacekeepers. First, I analyse the legal value of this resolution and its capacity to provide binding rules. Second, I question which conclusions on the involvement of Rwanda as an occupying power in the DRC can be drawn from this resolution. Finally, I offer some critical views on the frequent mention of attacks against peacekeepers in the resolution.

The Legal Value of Resolution 2773 (2025)

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (March 1–2) – Go Health Pro

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (March 1–2) – Go Health Pro

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with the news that CFP Board this week released a checklist of ethics guidelines for the use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. The guide notes the promise of AI-powered tools for a variety of functions, including generating meeting … Read more

Reading Project 2025 as a Manifesto – Go Health Pro

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Reading Project 2025 as a Manifesto – Go Health Pro

Manifestos have very often prefigured constitutional crisis, revolution, the overthrowing of legal orders, and set the terms of what follows. Project 2025, or the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, can be read as a manifesto, and one that is now well on its way to being implemented. Examining it through the lens of constitution (re)making sets out … Read more

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