On the 24th of January, the Day of the Endangered Lawyer, we conclude our podcast with a conversation with Margaret Satterthwaite. She is a professor of Clinical Law at New York University and was appointed as United Nations Special Rapporteur

#DefendingTheDefenders – Episode 6: The European Union

Jan 20th, 2023 55m 55s

In the sixth episode of our rule of law podcast #DefendingTheDefenders with Deutscher Anwaltverein, we talk about the European Union and the state of the professional freedom of attorneys there. Within the jurisdiction of the European Union, th

#DefendingTheDefenders – Episode 5: Colombia

Jan 6th, 2023 30m 50s

The fifth episode of #DefendingTheDefenders, the rule of law podcast by Deutscher Anwaltverein and Verfassungsblog, focuses on Colombia, where the situation for attorneys and human rights defenders is particularly dangerous. In recent years, hu

#DefendingTheDefenders – Episode 4: Turkey

Dec 30th, 2022 27m 28s

In the fourth episode of #DefendingTheDefenders we talk about the situation of lawyers in Turkey with Veysel Ok. He is an attorney in Istanbul and the Co-Director of the Media and Law Studies Association, a non-profit which monitors and defends

#DefendingTheDefenders – Episode 3: Afghanistan

Dec 9th, 2022 51m 29s

When the Taliban took over power in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, it was a disaster for women. Immediately, they were stripped of their rights, in particular their political rights. In the third episode of #DefendingTheDefenders, a podcast

#DefendingTheDefenders - Episode 2: Belarus

Nov 25th, 2022 59m 13s

In the second episode of Defending the Defenders, we talk to Dmitri Laevski about the rule of law and human rights in Belarus. Dmitri is a criminal attorney turned human rights lawyer in the wake of the 2020 presidential elections.He takes us

#DefendingTheDefenders - Episode 1: Poland

Nov 11th, 2022 32m

We Need to Talk About the Rule of Law is back for a second season that focuses on the impact of rule of law erosions on attorneys. In the first episode, we talk to Mikołaj Pietrzak. He is an attorney and the Dean of the Warsaw Bar Association,

#12 We need to talk about Financial Sanctions

Dec 9th, 2020 1h 3m

As our podcast comes to an end, the year and the German presidency of the European Council do too. One of the foremost projects of the German presidency has been to link EU funding and compliance with rule of law standards. The mechanism is goi

#11 We need to talk about the ECJ

Dec 4th, 2020 54m 31s

The European Court of Justice has been in the middle of the European rule of law crisis for the last couple of years – and it has called out rule of law violations especially in Hungary and Poland multiple times. But the Court can’t defend the

#10 We need to talk about the European Convention on Human Rights

Nov 25th, 2020 48m 12s

Europe is larger than the EU – and a European framework aiming at preserving basic rights and freedoms as well as rule of law safeguards has been in place for 70 years precisely this November: the European Convention on Human Rights. Today, we

#9 We need to talk about Refugees and Migration Law

Nov 18th, 2020 59m 52s

We need to talk about refugees and migration law. In discussions about these topics, refugeesand migration policy are often being treated as the other of politics and policy. But the waystates treat those seeking refuge and asylum on their te

#8 We need to talk about the Penal System

Nov 11th, 2020 53m 17s

We need to talk about the Penal System. In European Criminal Law, there largely is consensus that criminal law should be ultima ratio, that is, the last resort when the law is applied and executed. However, criminal law and the penal system a

#7 We need to talk about Legal Education

Nov 4th, 2020 1h 2m

We need to talk about legal education. As the last couple of episodes of our podcast have demonstrated, preserving the rule of law depends to a large quantity on people working in legal professions. What prosecutors, judges, attorneys, and, to

#6 We need to talk about Attorneys

Oct 28th, 2020 45m 11s

Attorneys are not on everyone’s mind when they think about the rule of law. The European Commission gave a prime example for that when it remained conspicuously silent about the role of lawyers in its recent Rule of Law report. Yet, attorneys p

#5 We need to talk about Prosecutors

Oct 22nd, 2020 36m 21s

Public prosecutors decide whether a criminal suspect is investigated. Or not. They decide whether a person is indicted and whether there will be a trial. Or not.If you control them, you can make your opponents' life miserable and let your frie

#4 We need to talk about Procedural Law

Oct 14th, 2020 52m 50s

Courts don't just exist. They are shaped by organisational and procedural rules which are enacted by the legislative – and can be abused accordingly.Court packing schemes and tampering with the retirement age of judges are just two examples of

#3 We need to talk about Disciplinary Proceedings

Oct 7th, 2020 47m 54s

Judges, as all other people, sometimes misbehave. In that case, a procedure needs to be in place to examine if a sanction is required and, if so, to impose it. Disciplinary procedures, however, can be misused by an authoritarian government as

#2 We need to talk about Judicial Nominations

Sep 30th, 2020 46m 57s

It's easy to agree that judicial independence is important – but who gets to be a part of the judiciary, who gets promoted to which court and who enters the highest ranks is a decision that has to be taken by someone, and a lot depends on who t

#1 We need to talk about Constitutional Courts

Sep 23rd, 2020 36m 13s

Constitutional courts are under attack in many countries in Europe and beyond. Why? And why now? What can be done to protect them, and what are the most important conditions for constitutional courts to function?These are the questions we disc

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Sep 16th, 2020 2m 16s

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