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Samay Jain & Dr. Ananya Sharma | December 5, 2025 The European General Court’s September 3, 2025 decision to uphold the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) marks a significant turning point in cross-border data governance. Although the Court rejected the challenges to transatlantic data transfers, it emphasized that jurisdictional concerns…
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Himani Jha | December 2, 2025 On October 3, 2025, a Finnish court ruled that Finland’s authorities lacked jurisdiction over the Eagle S’s crew for damage caused to the undersea cables last December, finding that the damage occurred outside Finland’s territorial jurisdiction even though it was within its exclusive economic…
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Narek Abgaryan & Davit Khachatryan | November 12, 2025 Deal or No Deal? The Hidden Reef in the Armenia–Azerbaijan Peace Text Months after the Ministries of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the text of the Agreement on Establishment of Peace and Inter-State Relations Between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic…
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Nino Turmanidze | November 11, 2025 Members of a Ukrainian armored unit conduct maintenance near the front line amid renewed discussions in Brussels over “reparation loans” drawn from immobilized Russian state assets. By Ministry of Defense of Ukraine; CC BY-SA 2.0 On September 30 this year, during an informal European…
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Aaron Spitler | November 11, 2025 A Friend Indeed? Artificial intelligence (AI) companions—digital personas powered by large language models (LLMs) that can engage in human-like interactions—have taken the world by storm. Popular apps, such as Snapchat’s MyAI and Microsoft’s Xiaoice, see hundreds of millions of users. Their appeal to consumers…
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Eleni Polymenopoulou | November 11, 2025 The Arch of Triumph in Palmyra, Syria, taken in 1996. (Before its destruction by ISIS in 2015). CC BY-SA 4.0 A special category of human rights defenders (HRDs) has emerged over the recent years: cultural rights defenders (CRDs). This has followed the acute interest…
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By: Tamuka Chekero and Alois Muzenje | Date: November 7th, 2025 South Africa’s legal and constitutional frameworks formally enshrine healthcare as a universal human right. Section 27 of the Constitution guarantees everyone the right to access healthcare services, including reproductive care, sufficient food and water, and social security, while obligating the state…
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By: Bruno Kayala Mbuyi, Maxime Kitengie Kiabu | Date: October 28th, 2025 Cette réflexion tente de justifier les postures des États membres de la Confédération du Sahel (Mali, Burkina Faso et Niger), à propos de leur retrait collectif du Statut de Rome instituant la Cour Pénale Internationale. Il faut d’ores et déjà…
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By: Bhavya Johari | October 23, 2025 North Korea’s employment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to forge military identification documents represents a critical inflexion point in state-sponsored cyber warfare. The September 14, 2025 disclosure that the North-Korean state-sponsored Kimsuky Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group employed ChatGPT to create deepfake South Korean…
