{ "count": 32, "items": [ { "id": 18092, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/warum-ein-ki-verbot-verbot-nicht-verfassungswidrig-ist", "title": "Warum ein „KI-Verbot-Verbot“ nicht verfassungswidrig ist", "summary": "Seit dem „ChatGPT-Moment“ im Herbst 2022 ist an Hochschulen eine lebendige Debatte entfacht. Während es inzwischen erste Leitlinien für den KI-Einsatz in wissenschaftlichen Publikationen gibt, fehlen weiterhin Standards für den Umgang mit KI in Hochschulprüfungen. Bayern wagt mit dem „KI-Verbot-Verbot“ nun einen ersten regulatorischen Schritt und formuliert einen Gestaltungsauftrag an die Hochschulen. Während man über die Ausgestaltung des Gesetzes im Detail durchaus diskutieren kann, ergeben si", "authors": "Sarah Rachut", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-08-10T11:40:46.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18092" }, { "id": 16737, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/afd-verbotsverfahren-kritik", "title": "Zurück zur Sache?", "summary": "Wer in der Debatte um ein mögliches AfD-Verbot eine Rückkehr zur Sache anmahnt, muss sich selbst an einem besonders hohen Maß an Genauigkeit und Fairness messen lassen – einem Maßstab, dem der so betitelte Beitrag des Doktoranden Bernhard Stüer nicht durchweg gerecht wird. Mit seinem Plädoyer für eine sorgfältige und kontroverse Auseinandersetzung mit einem möglichen AfD-Parteiverbot können wir uns ohne Weiteres identifizieren. Mehrere Punkte seiner Kritik beruhen jedoch auf einer unrichtigen Wi", "authors": "Elisa Hoven", "category": "org", "topics": "bias-fairness", "published_at": "2026-08-05T13:00:28.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16737" }, { "id": 15945, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/ceuta-eu-migration", "title": "Ceuta at the Fault Lines of European Solidarity", "summary": "On Friday morning, Europeans woke up to unsettling news. Within 24 hours, approximately 60,000 migrants successfully managed to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, and several dozen have been reported dead in the attempt to swim across the border. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has ordered the military to support the Civil Guard on the ground. What caused this sudden influx? Does EU law offer the procedures and mechanisms to respond to the spontaneous arrival of such large", "authors": "Jonas Bornemann", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,military-security", "published_at": "2026-08-03T14:18:50.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15945" }, { "id": 15446, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/sweden-good-conduct", "title": "The Good Migrant", "summary": "On 13 July 2026, the new “good conduct requirement” in the Swedish Aliens Act entered into force. The main purpose of the new legislation is to create more possibilities for removing foreign nationals from the country on account of shortcomings in their conduct and way of life. It is part of the current government’s drive to make migration policy as strict as possible, and raises significant concerns as regards legal certainty, predictability and differential treatment between groups. The post T", "authors": "Rebecca Stern", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-31T14:04:52.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15446" }, { "id": 15066, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/a-right-not-to-move", "title": "A Right Not to Move", "summary": "What does Union citizenship, traditionally dependent on a cross-border element, offer to those who have never exercised their right to free movement? For more than a decade, the position of “static Union citizens” has remained confined to the exceptional protection recognised in Zambrano. In its recent judgment in Safi, delivered on 4 June 2026, the ECJ extended those limits. The judgment established that Union citizenship protects static minor Union citizens from being forced to move within the", "authors": "Marlene Tiede", "category": "org", "topics": "children-education", "published_at": "2026-07-30T09:08:21.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15066" }, { "id": 14661, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/us-saudi-arabia-nuclear-cooperation", "title": "US–Saudi Arabia Nuclear Cooperation", "summary": "On 22 July 2026, the US administration announced a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. Under this deal, the US will provide support to the Golf country to establish a civilian nuclear programme. This is worrisome given statements by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, that once Iran has nuclear weapons, Saudi Arabia would follow suit. Given the nuclear-induced tensions in the Middle East between Saudi Arabia and Iran and the scope of the agreement, this newly formed cooperation may put another nail in the", "authors": "Philipp Sauter", "category": "org", "topics": "military-security", "published_at": "2026-07-29T17:36:47.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14661" }, { "id": 14245, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/for-whom-the-bell-tolls-its-the-court-playing", "title": "Send Not to Know for Whom the Bell Tolls… as Long as It’s the Court Playing", "summary": "Perhaps due to the notable impact of climate change on the ongoing summer, the delivery on C-67/25 by the Court of Justice has gone relatively unnoticed hitherto. The brevity of the judgment conflicts with the thunderous effects it may unleash, which have potential to open a definitive breach in the Union’s constitutional acquis. Noteworthily, this rupture is being perpetrated in alleged defence of Art. 2 TEU values: the lynchpin of the Union as a “militant” democracy is being deployed on the ex", "authors": "Giuliano Vosa", "category": "org", "topics": "military-security,environment", "published_at": "2026-07-28T10:43:03.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14245" }, { "id": 13883, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/no-longer-let-fashion-go-up-in-flames", "title": "The EU Can No Longer Let Fashion Go Up in Flames", "summary": "Can the law tell a company that it is no longer free to destroy its own products? Among the powers traditionally associated with ownership is the freedom to determine the fate of one’s property. Whether doing so is economically sensible or environmentally responsible is another matter. However, as of 19 July 2026, the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), which entered into force in 2024, prohibits large companies from destroying unsold clothing, accessories and footwear, subject", "authors": "Elena Izyumenko", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,environment", "published_at": "2026-07-27T13:36:39.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13883" }, { "id": 13220, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/cuts-behind-the-scenes", "title": "Cuts Behind the Scenes", "summary": "How do I find ideas for what I write? Luckily, beyond law there is also theatre, where I do not have to choose between guilty and not guilty, where I can instead engage with social questions in all their ambivalence – though there too, crucially, you should not waffle, at least not without dramaturgical purpose. Because in theatre especially, you must think of the audience: away with overlong monologues, unnecessary scenes, confusing plots. Cut, cut, cut. I try to follow this rule when writing a", "authors": "Daria Bayer", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-24T15:47:00.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13220" }, { "id": 13221, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/modi-protest-students-india", "title": "Three Phases of the Modi Government", "summary": "Delhi is, once again, host to a large student protest. It emerged in response to a pathetic comment by the sitting Chief Justice of India, and has now centred around entrance exam irregularities and education reforms. As the events are still developing and taking new turns as I write, it is impossible to judge their trajectory. Nevertheless, in this piece, I assess what these protests convey about the arc of a government that has now been in office for over a decade. The post Three Phases of the", "authors": "Anmol Jain", "category": "org", "topics": "children-education", "published_at": "2026-07-23T10:02:47.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13221" }, { "id": 13222, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/grenzen-der-verbotsprognose", "title": "Grenzen der Verbotsprognose", "summary": "Ende Juni hat die Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte ihr Gutachten zur Verfassungswidrigkeit der AfD vorgestellt. Das Gutachten ist methodisch und konzeptionell ergebnisoffen angelegt und legt transparente, wissenschaftliche Standards zugrunde. Den von der GFF ausdrücklich kommunizierten Anspruch, die „eindeutige“ Verfassungswidrigkeit der AfD und die „große Wahrscheinlichkeit“, dass ein Verbotsverfahren erfolgreich wäre, festzustellen, kann es jedoch nicht einlösen. Das liegt an zwei Illusionen ü", "authors": "Sofiane Benamor", "category": "org", "topics": "transparency", "published_at": "2026-07-23T07:42:08.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13222" }, { "id": 12774, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/towards-a-biodiversity-advisory-opinion", "title": "Towards a Biodiversity Advisory Opinion", "summary": "Biodiversity loss is one of the central challenges of the “triple planetary crisis” alongside climate change and pollution. Scientific assessments suggest that humanity has already transgressed the planetary boundary relating to biosphere integrity and researchers discuss whether we are already within a sixth mass extinction event. This post seeks to initiate a broader discussion on the promises and pitfalls of replicating successful climate advisory opinion initiatives for the integrity of the", "authors": "Andreas Buser", "category": "org", "topics": "environment", "published_at": "2026-07-22T13:45:21.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12774" }, { "id": 11457, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/disability-data-ai", "title": "The Limits of Representation", "summary": "Artificial Intelligence can produce biased outputs. In part, this is because unrepresentative data is used to train, validate and test AI. To remedy skewed datasets and train fairer AI, many call for more comprehensive and systematic data production and processing about diverse people’s bodies and lives, including disabled people. Yet this response rests on a number of assumptions. Drawing on disability data, I argue that we should be cautious about these assumptions when regulating AI. The post", "authors": "Philippa Duell-Piening", "category": "org", "topics": "bias-fairness,regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-17T08:48:30.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11457" }, { "id": 11089, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/a-human-right-to-be-fossil-fuel-free", "title": "A Human Right to be Fossil Fuel Free?", "summary": "Australia is a country highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, with the weathered, arid continent frequently buffeted by fires, floods, heatwaves and storms. It is also one of the largest exporters globally of fossil fuels, coal and gas. Situated close to Pacific Islands existentially threatened by climate-fuelled rising seas, Australia is a constitutional democracy with an active civil society, an abiding commitment to the rule of international law and this year holds the role of “P", "authors": "Jacqueline Peel", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,environment", "published_at": "2026-07-16T08:48:40.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11089" }, { "id": 11090, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/brazil-volkswagen-slavery", "title": "The Past is Never Past", "summary": "On June 11, 2026, the German automotive company Volkswagen was convicted in four different lawsuits by the Brazilian Labor Court for reducing people to slavery in the Brazilian Amazon. While this judgment marks the company’s second round of convictions for enslavement within the Amazonian state of Pará, it stands out as a historic first in the form of individual reparations for corporate crimes committed nearly fifty years ago. This opens the way for a new era of reckoning with several other com", "authors": "Saulo de Matos", "category": "org", "topics": "jobs-economy", "published_at": "2026-07-16T08:46:39.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11090" }, { "id": 10706, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/the-new-constitutional-amendment", "title": "The New Constitutional Amendment and the Removal of the President", "summary": "On 13 July 2026, the Hungarian Parliament enacted the 17th Amendment to the Hungarian Fundamental Law. In line with the TISZA Party’s election manifesto, the Amendment ends the current President of the Republic’s, Tamás Sulyok’s, term of office. This is undoubtedly an extraordinary measure. Given the President’s apparent partiality and his failure to respond consistently to earlier illiberal constitutional developments, I consider the exceptional and temporary constitutional change to be justifi", "authors": "Nóra Chronowski", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,misinformation", "published_at": "2026-07-15T09:57:39.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10706" }, { "id": 10707, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/beyond-groundhog-day", "title": "Beyond Constitutional Groundhog Day", "summary": "In May 2026, Scottish voters once again returned the Scottish National Party (SNP) to power for the fifth successive Scottish Parliamentary election. The pro-independence SNP will bring up twenty years in government at Edinburgh next year. With the SNP promising another independence referendum but not having a legal mechanism to provide one, and polling on that issue still sat at about 50-50, the Scottish political Groundhog Day looks set to continue. Beneath the stasis, however, there is moveme", "authors": "Catriona Mullay", "category": "org", "topics": "misinformation", "published_at": "2026-07-15T08:43:55.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10707" }, { "id": 10382, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/the-weimers-report-and-the-politicisation-of-judicial-independence-in-the-eu", "title": "The Weimers Report and the Politicisation of Judicial Independence in the EU", "summary": "On 29 June 2026, the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs rapporteur Charlie Weimers published a draft report, to be presented at a public hearing on July 15, on “The Institutional Framework of the European Union and its Interaction with National Authorities in the Application of Union Law, with Particular Reference to Article 19 TEU”. The CJEU's historic reluctance to open up its own governance, notwithstanding what the post-Lisbon constitutional arrangement requires of it, has left it ", "authors": "Alberto Alemanno", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-14T18:41:21.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10382" }, { "id": 2860, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/meta-addictive-commission-dsa", "title": "Press-Release Governance", "summary": "On 10 July 2026, the European Commission announced that it had preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the “addictive design” of Instagram and Facebook. The Commission considers that Meta should disable autoplay and infinite scroll by default, build in real screen-time breaks, and make the recommender system “less engagement-oriented”. The decision is better understood from its strategic and symbolic dimensions in view of its contestable legal basis. The post Press-Rel", "authors": "Julian Morgan", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-14T12:54:23.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2860" }, { "id": 2863, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/heatwaves-legal-adaptation-rights", "title": "Heatwaves and Legal Remedies", "summary": "Europe suffered an unprecedented heatwave this June, with debilitating effects felt across various walks of life: thousands of deaths, particularly among the elderly, individuals and families suffering in “heat-trap” apartments, hospitals full and caught unprepared, school closures, and productivity losses. Adaptation measures are indispensable for coping with these soaring temperatures, which have cost lives and severely affected people’s well-being. However, rights-based litigation involving a", "authors": "Parul Kumar", "category": "org", "topics": "jobs-economy,children-education", "published_at": "2026-07-13T14:57:00.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2863" }, { "id": 2865, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/sex-work-india-prajwala", "title": "Dignity Without Autonomy", "summary": "In Prajwala v. Union of India, the Supreme Court held that victims of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation have a right to rehabilitation under Article 23 read with the right to dignity under Article 21. While the judgment has been celebrated for its three-dimensional dignity framework, it is a missed opportunity to articulate a constitutional basis for protecting the rights of sex workers. The Court's dignity framework – calibrated against objectification in trafficking – is insuffici", "authors": "Pranav Mittal", "category": "org", "topics": "agents-autonomy", "published_at": "2026-07-13T11:49:14.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2865" }, { "id": 2867, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/erfurt-shines", "title": "Erfurt Shines", "summary": "Last weekend I was in Erfurt, the place where the authoritarian-populist AfD party held its annual federal convention. On Saturday I got up at the crack of dawn to help block the AfD delegates from reaching the assembly hall. Was I supposed to do that? As managing director of a legal-scholarly discourse platform should I not have remained neutral? The demand to forbid oneself from discriminating between non-banned parties loyal to the constitution and non-banned parties hostile to it is question", "authors": "Maximilian Steinbeis", "category": "org", "topics": "bias-fairness", "published_at": "2026-07-10T15:54:29.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2867" }, { "id": 2869, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/vom-jedermannsrecht-zum-privileg-fur-wenige", "title": "Vom „Jedermannsrecht“ zum Privileg für Wenige", "summary": "Die Informationsfreiheit in Deutschland befindet sich in einer Krise. Bereits die Ampelregierung hatte ihr Versprechen nicht eingelöst, die Informationsfreiheitsgesetze zu einem Transparenzgesetz weiterzuentwickeln. Dieser Trend gipfelte im Papier des Koalitionsausschusses vom 2.7.2026. Im Rahmen einer Paketlösung hat die Bundesregierung angekündigt, das IFG umfassend zu ändern. Die politischen Vorschläge des Koalitionsausschusses sind aus unserer Sicht weitreichend, sodass die Informationsfreih", "authors": "Chiara Lang", "category": "org", "topics": "transparency", "published_at": "2026-07-08T18:17:39.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2869" }, { "id": 2871, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/trump-v-barbara-citizenship", "title": "(De)Valuing Citizenship", "summary": "Last Tuesday, the US Supreme Court released its final merits opinion of its October 2025 term. In Trump v Barbara, a razor thin 5-4 majority deemed the President’s attempt to deny American citizenship to children born on U.S soil to immigrant parents who are undocumented or present on certain visas unconstitutional. The decision is a rare and important win for immigrants and American constitutional democracy. But Barbara should not be remembered as an example of principled judicial resistance ag", "authors": "Anja Bossow", "category": "org", "topics": "children-education", "published_at": "2026-07-08T17:19:50.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2871" }, { "id": 2874, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/ai-is-eating-the-book-world", "title": "AI Is Eating the Book World", "summary": "In 2011, Marc Andreessen, a key figure in California’s venture capital scene, coined the phrase: “Software is eating the world.” The phrase describes the spread of software into everyday life and the displacement of physical business models. This process continues in an unexpectedly literal sense: AI companies purchase used books, scan them, and dispose of them to gather input for their models. The reason for this seemingly cumbersome method is the expectation that it will fall under the fair us", "authors": "Jannis Lennartz", "category": "org", "topics": "jobs-economy,finance-investment", "published_at": "2026-07-08T08:16:53.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2874" }, { "id": 2877, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/the-problems-with-general-purpose-ai-detectability", "title": "The Problems with “General Purpose AI Detectability”", "summary": "As AI-generated media flood our information ecosystems, detecting synthetic content has become an urgent regulatory challenge – in fact, not one challenge but many, as synthetic media breeds problems across a range of digital contexts, including deepfakes and disinformation, scamming, and content moderation. The EU's new \"Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content\" – the first concrete articulation of Article 50(2) AI Act, the EU's approach to AI-content detection – gives sensible ", "authors": "Paul Friedl", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,misinformation,transparency", "published_at": "2026-07-08T07:47:29.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2877" }, { "id": 2879, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/miladze-echr", "title": "The Politics of Provocation", "summary": "A recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights concerning a TikTok video published by a Georgian self-defined civil activist adds another layer to the Court’s increasingly messy Article 10 case law. The applicant repeatedly insulted public officials in crude and sexually explicit terms while broadcasting to a large online audience. Domestic courts imposed only a modest administrative fine, later reduced on appeal. The ECtHR did not find a violation of the applicant’s right to freedom of", "authors": "Gionata Bouché", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-07T15:27:38.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2879" }, { "id": 2882, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/whose-european-society", "title": "Whose European Society?", "summary": "Commission v Hungary must be understood in the context of the European rule of law saga and the ongoing struggle for true European solidarity. The CJEU confirmed the autonomous justiciability of Article 2 TEU even when the link to specific EU Charter provisions or secondary legislation would already suffice. A close look at ASJP case and its antecedents discloses a European society selectively built – protecting some configurations while leaving others outside – with solidarity, as an operative ", "authors": "Teresa Violante", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-07T10:19:34.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2882" }, { "id": 2884, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/debating-european-society", "title": "Debating European Society", "summary": "Antoine Vauchez famously stated that the “constitutionalization of Europe” flourished in the hills of Fiesole. The Academy of European Law (AEL) at the European University Institute organizes an annual Summer Course on the Law of the European Union for two weeks of intensive lectures and exchange. I reflect on this year’s Summer Course as a site where ideas of European society are debated, contested, and further developed. Ultimately, I will critically reflect on what the Summer Course might tel", "authors": "Chiara Rimkus", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-07T10:19:01.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2884" }, { "id": 2886, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/european-society-without-european-private-law", "title": "European Society without European Private Law?", "summary": "Integration Through Law was and remains, in various forms, the major driver of European integration. Constitutional Pluralism arose out of constitutionalisation, counterbalancing the move to neoliberalism in the new millennium. In Commission v Hungary, the Court recognised European society “in which pluralism prevails” as a legal concept. The Court radiates judicial authority at a time when Europe is again in crisis, politically through populism, economically through competitiveness and sustaina", "authors": "Hans-W. Micklitz", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-06T14:13:38.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2886" }, { "id": 2888, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/private-international-law-and-european-society", "title": "Private International Law and European Society", "summary": "Can one speak of a European society without speaking about private relations? Recent scholarship on European society has largely approached the concept through the lens of public law. Yet societies are constituted at least as much by the horizontal relations between individuals and groups as by public institutions. This blogpost turns to EU private international law (PIL) and will argue that EU PIL brings into view the importance of coordination frameworks for organising a mode of integration ba", "authors": "Marlene Tiede", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-06T11:54:53.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2888" }, { "id": 2889, "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/instrumentalised-migration-and-the-court", "title": "Instrumentalised Migration or an Instrumentalised Court?", "summary": "Amid pending proceedings before the ECtHR concerning summary expulsions and arbitrary detentions, in a context marked by over 120,000 documented push-backs on the Belarusian border, the Chișinău Declaration seeks to influence the legal framework within which the Court assesses such practices. The Declaration emphasises the fundamental duty of states to protect their borders and maintain national security in the context of instrumentalisation of migration, drawing on “democracy capable of defendi", "authors": "Camelia-Claudia Muresan", "category": "org", "topics": "military-security", "published_at": "2026-07-06T11:23:02.000Z", "source": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2889" } ], "attribution": "via ethics.ai" }