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The commemorative symposium of December 6, 2024, at the National Assembly, dedicated to Jacques Barrot, whose brilliant career as a local and departmental representative, minister and European Commissioner on several occasions, and ultimately member of the Constitutional Council, in the presence of his loyal colleagues and former collaborators and son Jean-Noël Barrot, came at just the right time. A time when France is reverting to its worst demons, especially Parliament: systematic conflict, outrageousness and, for the extreme left, the violent refusal to respect democratic rules.

The conference “ Dynamique du droit comparé: Droit Civil et Common Law à l'heure de la mondialisation ‘ ( Dynamics of Comparative Law: Civil Law and Common Law in a Globalized World) was organized by the Chief Justice of the Cour de cassation, Christophe Soulard, and President Guy Canivet, in the magnificent ’Grande Chambre” in tribute to Basil Markesinis, a Greek-British professor and one of today's greatest comparatists, whose creativity and acuity are unparalleled.

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.