China: National Supervision Commission Granted Power to Make Supervision...
(Jan. 10, 2020) On October 26, 2019, China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) issued a decision to grant the country’s highest supervisory organ, the National Supervision...
View ArticleAustralia: High Court Rules that Aboriginal People Cannot be Deported
(Feb. 26, 2020) On February 11, 2020, the High Court of Australia (Australia’s highest court) handed down a decision in the case of Love v Commonwealth of Australia [2020] HCA 3 (“Decision”). In the...
View ArticleIsrael: Supreme Court Rules Coronavirus Pandemic Does Not Justify Delay in...
(Mar. 26, 2020) On March 23, 2020, the Supreme Court, by an extended panel of five justices, ordered the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) speaker to convene the Knesset plenum to appoint a new Knesset...
View ArticleIsrael: Supreme Court Removes Knesset Speaker and Orders Knesset to Schedule...
(Mar. 27, 2020) In an unprecedented decision on March 25, 2020, at 8:00 p.m. Israel time, the Supreme Court, by an extended panel of five justices, revoked the powers of the outgoing speaker of the...
View ArticleUnited States: Supreme Court Rules Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism May...
(June 2, 2020) On May 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Republic of Sudan could be held liable for $4.3 billion in punitive damages related to state-sponsored acts of terrorism...
View ArticleRussian Federation: Newly Adopted Constitutional Amendments Change...
(July 15, 2020) On July 3, 2020, Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin signed Decree No. 445 “On the Official Publication of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, as Amended.” The president...
View ArticleArgentina: Congress Passes New Law Requiring Congressional Approval for...
(Mar. 11, 2021) On March 3, 2021, Argentina’s Congress passed Law 27612 on Public Debt Sustainability, which provides that financing agreements with any international organization must be approved by...
View ArticleChina: National Database of Laws and Regulations Launched
(Apr. 26, 2021) On February 24, 2021, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) launched an official database of Chinese laws and regulations, the National Database of Laws and Regulations (see NPC...
View ArticleIsrael: Knesset Expresses Confidence in New Rotating Coalition Government
(June 21, 2021) Following four consecutive elections in a two-year period, Israel’s 36th government was sworn in after receiving a vote of confidence by a majority of Knesset (Israel’s parliament)...
View ArticleCanada: Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Carbon Tax Participation...
(June 23, 2021) On March 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada, in a 6–3 decision, issued an opinion holding the 2018 Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act constitutional under Parliament’s residual...
View ArticleTurkey: New Court Decisions and Developments in Law Regarding Scope and...
In June 2021, three decisions of Turkey’s Constitutional Court striking down certain provisions of presidential decrees on constitutional grounds were published in the Official Gazette. In addition, a...
View ArticleTurkey: Council of State Upholds President's Decision to Withdraw Turkey from...
On June 28, 2021, Turkey’s Council of State, Tenth Chamber ruled in a 3–2 decision to uphold President’s Decision No. 3718 (published on March 20, 2021) withdrawing Turkey from the Council of Europe...
View ArticleIsrael: Supreme Court Affirms Constitutionality of Basic Law: Israel – Nation...
On July 8, 2021, Israel’s Supreme Court, sitting as a High Court of Justice in an extended bench of 11 justices, rejected 15 joint petitions challenging the constitutionality of Basic Law: Israel – The...
View ArticleTunisia: President Suspends Parliament and Ousts Cabinet
On July 23, 2021, the president of Tunisia, Kais Saied, announced the suspension of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People (Tunisia’s parliament) and fired Prime Minister Hicham Mechichi and...
View ArticleSweden: Council on Legislation Finds Proposed Environmental Law Amendments...
On September 16, 2021, the Swedish Council on Legislation (Law Council) published an opinion (lagrådsyttrande) in which it determined that a government proposal to amend the Swedish Environmental Code...
View ArticleTunisia: New Presidential Decree Maintains Suspension of Legislative Branch
On September 22, 2021, Tunisian President Kais Saied issued Presidential Decree No. 117 of 2021 to maintain the suspension of powers of the Tunisian parliament. The decree suspends all judicial...
View ArticleEgypt: President Sisi Lifts State of Emergency Four Years After Its Declaration
On October 25, 2021, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi suspended the state of emergency in Egypt for the first time since he declared it four years ago.On April 10, 2017, the Egyptian Council of...
View ArticleBrazil: National Policy on Data and Information Related to Violence Against...
On October 28, 2021, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro promulgated Law No. 14,232 (Lei No. 14.232, de 28 de outubro de 2021), which creates the National Policy of Data and Information Related to...
View ArticleCambodia: Ninth Amendment to Constitution Passed, Banning Dual Citizenships...
On November 3, 2021, the king of Cambodia, Norodom Sihamoni, promulgated the ninth amendment to the country’s Constitution of 1993 by Royal Kram NS/RKM/1121/016. The new amendment modifies the...
View ArticleTunisia: President Calls for Abolishing Current Constitution and Holding...
On December 10, 2021, Tunisian President Kais Saied announced his intention to abolish the country’s 2014 democratic constitution, and, in a televised speech three days later, called for a new...
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