The Transatlantic Law Forum (TLF) will host its fifth annual conference on October 28–29 at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. The topic of the conference is "Constitutionalism in Crisis?"

On June 5, Josef Joffe led a lively exchange of views on the current divide in U.S.-European relations. Joffe, the copublisher of the Hamburg-based Die Zeit, defined transatlantic tensions as resulting from an imbalance of power. His advice to the United States: America, contain yourself. The following is a...

Leading scholars, practitioners, and judges from Europe and the United States will discuss the political, economic, and legal dimensions of international commercial litigation.

This is an all too familiar story, the FDA impeding useful innovations in the US entrepreneurs here are forced to test promising medical devices in costly animal studies for years before they can advance their products into clinical trials. In response, American device makers are moving their business overseas.

The Bush administration's advocacy of the Convention on the Law of the Sea is baffling.

Niall Ferguson argues against the idea that the European Union is an emerging "counterweight" to American power. He suggests that the European Union is actually a moribund institution--economically stagnant, culturally decadent, politically stalemated, and geopolitically impotent. More than is generally acknowledged in the United States, the historic process of European...

A review of Henner Fürtig's Iran's Rivalry with Saudi Arabia between the Gulf Wars.

The poet who sees things differently these days is Wolf Biermann, lyricist, balladeer, an incontravertible figure of respect in Germany. Hard to classify, this lank-haired man with washed-out blue eyes who writes poems, sings songs, and offers up an occasional, enormously readable political essay.