For more than seventy-five years, one rule has governed the Road Runner cartoons: Wile E. Coyote orders some ingenious contraption from ACME, activates it, and watches it turn against him. The rocket skates overshoot. The catapult fires the wrong way. The anvil obeys gravity with suspicious...
Human trafficking is too often studied only at its endpoint, namely at the peak of its most lucrative sexual exploitation, while its business model and damage to the rule of law go underexamined. A recent seemingly Tate-'influenced' Dutch criminal case shows why that needs to change.
Naturvårdsverket v UQ and Naturvårdsverket v IC (Joined Cases C-221/24 and C-222/24)
C-629/23 MTÜ Eesti Suurkiskjad v Keskkonnaamet
OPINION OF ADVOCATE GENERAL (compatibility of a national carbon tax with EU law / EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading System), 9 October 2025, Case C519/24.
ECtHR: Fliegenschnee e.a. t. Oostenrijk 18 November 2025, application no 40054/23
ECtHR, Greenpeace Nordic and others v Norway (Licencing petroleum exploration: breach of art 8 ECHR?) 28 October 2025, application no.34068/21
Forced labour remains difficult to detect in garment supply chains, despite the increasing legal weight of companies’ responsibilities to do so. There is a need for novel ways of identifying risks of exploitation. Banks and their data could provide one such avenue.
On 16 and 17 April 2026, the 61st annual Association of Law Teachers (ALT) Conference took place at the University of Exeter under the theme: ‘Reimagining Legal Education for the Future of Law’. Attending the conference, together with Nicole Kornet, offered a valuable opportunity to engage with a...
