After ten full years of serving as one of the intrepid Editors of EJIL:Talk!, and twelve years of service to the European Journal of International Law beginning with my membership in the Scientific Advisory Board in 2013 to the Editorial Board in 2021, I am grateful to complete my service and rejoin the world’s already-all-too-visible … Read more
Jessie Weber, managing partner at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, shared important tools needed to prepare for and take depositions with law students as a guest instructor for the Civil Rights Litigation course at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law on April 2. The Civil Rights Litigation Course explores the enforcement of … Read more
Introduction On 13 March 2025, the First Chamber of the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) delivered its judgement in Deldits (C-247/23). The dispute concerned the refusal of Hungarian authorities to update the gender marker (from F-emale to M-ale) of a transgender refugee based on the finding that the applicant had not undergone gender reassignment surgery. … Read more
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), Deaf Equality, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and Massachusetts Senior Action Council, along with individual plaintiffs, filed a federal lawsuit today against the Social Security Administration (SSA), Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek, DOGE Acting Administrator Amy Gleason, … Read more
Dr. Izabella Majcher, Independent Consultant Photo credit: Alamy Stock Photo On 11 March 2025, the European Commission published a proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the 2008 Return Directive. This new proposal also supersedes the Commission 2018 proposal to recast the Directive (discussed here and here). Negotiations on the 2018 recast proposal spanned several … Read more