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Democracy is under pressure. In very different contexts and from very different sides. The rule of law crises come to mind. The rise of populist parties. …

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The little-known Energy Charter Treaty protects oil and gas firms from regulation that harms their interests. The Dutch government has pulled out, and now the rest of Europe may follow.

Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) External action and trade policy is traditionally seen as dominated by the executive. Yet, EU trade policy has undergone a gradual process of democratization, as the powers of the European Parliament have gradually expanded. At the same time, the expansion of the scope of the EU’s exclusive powers has led to a loss of control of Member State parliaments. This shift in distribution of powers and the increased awareness of the environmental and redistributive effects of EU trade policy have made the EU’s trade agreements subject to a tremendous intra-parliam...

Call for papers: Emerging Female EU Law Scholars Workshop One of the consequences of the current Covid-19 crisis is a stark decline of the number of female scholars’ publications. While the causes of this are complex, multiple and pre-date the current crisis, the current situation will have a long lasting and detrimental effect on legal scholarship. Dealing with the decline of female scholars’ publications requires structural changes beyond academia. One way to address it in academia is by providing spaces where early-career female scholars--in particular scholars from ethnic and racial m...