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I was particularly honored to be able to interview Stephen Breyer, Honorary Justice of the US Supreme Court, on RCJ's “Fenêtres sur Cours” program on Sunday October 13, 2024. For 28 years, he has brought to the world's most prestigious Court his sense of balance between jurisprudential dynamics and self-restraint.

Almost exactly 50 years ago, France ratified the Council of Europe's Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, known as the "European Convention on Human Rights" or ECHR.

Condemning Switzerland for climate inaction can rightly be claimed as a historic victory by NGOs. Indeed, without any provision to this effect in the European Convention on Human Rights, the Strasbourg Court has brought climate into the legal corpus of the Convention on the grounds that global warming is a "matter of concern to mankind as a whole".

On December 29, 2023, the UN International Court of Justice was asked by South Africa to "provisionally" halt Israel's military operations in Gaza - unconditionally - on the grounds of suspected acts of genocide.

The anniversary symposium of the International Commercial Chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal, 5 years on, which I had the privilege of closing, demonstrated the extent to which this body, both at the Court of Appeal and at the Paris Commercial Court level, has responded to the internationalization of commercial disputes, including arbitration (the Court of Appeal is responsible for hearing appeals against arbitration rulings).

On November 16 and 17, 2023, I had the pleasure of visiting Budapest at the invitation of the Otto de Hasbourg-Lorraine Foundation. One of the most illustrious and influential Europeans of the last century, Otto de Hasbourg-Lorraine was the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary and Bohemia. A great humanist and internationalist, he resisted the Nazis, was a member of the European Parliament and spoke ten languages fluently.