When a private corporation cooperates with States as well as international organizations and conduct stemming from this cooperation results in international human rights violations, who can be held legally responsible? This Article dissects systemic deficiencies in the … [Read more...]

The recent global polycrisis, ranging from the United States – China trade war to the Russia-Ukraine war, has ushered in a new zeitgeist of de-globalization within the Western world.  An acute tension emerges between de-globalists and globalists.  The root of these diverging … [Read more...]

This paper investigates the responses of the United States and its European allies to the rise of strategic, weaponized corruption and the prevention of foreign interference. I claim that the designation of corruption as a national security threat shapes this response and changes … [Read more...]

This working paper is a draft chapter from a forthcoming book co-authored with Full Teaching Professor, Dr. Anne Boerger (Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta) and tentatively entitled: The Dual Nature of the European Community: The Making of the Institutional and Legal … [Read more...]

We take a close look at the most important legal techniques deployed by the European Union to make sure that the whole spectrum of denying non-citizens rights – from dignity to the right to life – is never presented as a violation of EU law even in the cases when dozens of … [Read more...]