Constitutional challenges to morals laws - criminal laws intended to discourage self- and other-corrupting acts - have become a staple on the dockets of many constitutional courts. In this paper I examine justifications offered for morals laws that are thought to limit constitutional rights,...

Finally, an analysis of the present situation in EU gambling and sport betting after the recent ECJ decisions will be attempted, via scenarios from primary (national MS practices, policies, and case law) and secondary (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, 2006; European Gaming and Betting...

In R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (a) held that the UK Government had no prerogative power to initiate the formal process whereby the UK will withdraw from the EU and (b) declined to recognise any requirement that the...

The Respect for Marriage Act’s enhanced statutory protections for the right to marry are a legislative response to concerns generated by the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling about the future of LGBTQ constitutional rights. Although Dobbs repeatedly promised that its elimination of constitutional...

My argument will be that it is unjust in the broadest view of our legal system for judges to legislate, even if they confine their legislation to the narrowest limits in the closest of cases. To the extent that my argument is successful in diminishing the judicial legislation position, it would...

This paper argues that judicial review usually emerges in response to a nation's need for an umpire to resolve federalism or separation of powers boundary line disputes. Once such an umpire is established, judicial review tends to expand to protect individual rights as well as umpiring among...

This article concerns the recent case of Georges v United Nations, which constitutes, to date, the most elaborate public law challenge to the principle of UN immunity from suit and private law attempt at procuring compensation from the UN for alleged malfeasance. Despite the fact that it relates...

This article focuses on two ends of the civil justice spectrum. At one end are high-volume, low-value disputes confined to specific facts and legal issues unique to the disputing parties. Many of these disputes do not presently enter the traditional civil justice system. At the other end are...

In submitting disputes over environmental harms to an international court or tribunal, the parties to the conflict seek a workable remedy for the issue(s) that triggered the action. Environmental disputes are a relatively recent class of cases that have been litigated in international courts....