🎙️ In our latest interview, Marek Safjan considers the state of judicial independence in the EU today from a post-judicial career retrospective. 🇪🇺🧑‍⚖️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/fkxwkmc3

Significant week for CEU Democracy Institute Review of Democracy #RuleofLaw section (and the world...). Written interview with 🇵🇱's former EU Court of Justice judge Professor Marek Safjan published today. Led by my colleague Konstantin Kipp and available to read below. 👇👨‍⚖️👩‍⚖️ lnkd.in/e8x7fkCb

🎙️ In our new podcast, tomginsburg reflects on the potentially authoritarian nature of international law in its function of enabling relations between states. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ye2wjdt4

I had the opportunity to ask some questions to Christoph Flügge, former judge at the ICTY, about recent developments in international criminal law. In this discussion, he criticizes Friedrich Merz—most likely Germany’s next chancellor—for his plan to ignore the Int'l Criminal Court

The ECHR CEDH wasn’t designed to be just a "fair-weather" remedy, argues judge Pavli in this new interview. Go check it out:

We also discussed whether transnational repression could become a field of Authoritarian International Law, as set out by tomginsburg. Many thanks to Caroline von Gall for answering my questions!

The recent constitutional amendments strengthening the court’s resilience have left a deficit that could render the entire project ineffective if opponents of an independent judiciary ever secure a simple majority in the German Parliament, warns former BVerfG judge Dieter Grimm.

“This is authoritarianism’s quiet violence: one does not need to jail everyone to try and silence many.” - Ece Özbey in today’s Review of Democracy

“Now authoritarianism has come to America (…) Where America leads, other countries follow.” @Nicholas_RL