04 June 2026

Rewriting Marriage After Trojan

In the span of just a few weeks in spring 2026, the post-Trojan Polish Supreme Administrative Court delivered a series of judgments that confirmed the obligation to transcribe foreign same-sex marriage certificates into the Polish civil status register. At the same time, on 22 May 2026, Poland adopted a regulation explicitly allowing entries such as husband/husband and wife/wife. These developments indicate a broader shift towards grounding recognition in constitutional and human rights reasoning rather than in free movement considerations. Continue reading >>
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06 March 2026

Patchwork Law (Love)

The ruling coalition came to power on a clear promise: to liberalize abortion law and introduce legal recognition for same-sex couples. A new bill on cohabitation agreements seeks to grant both same-sex and opposite-sex couples selected rights currently reserved for married spouses, aiming to make everyday family life easier while deliberately preserving a clear legal and symbolic distinction from marriage. The result is a piecemeal framework that risks creating second-class family relationships while leaving some key issues unresolved or overly complicated. Continue reading >>
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01 June 2017

Triple Talaq before the Indian Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of India has to decide a case that has captured India’s political, constitutional and social imagination – a challenge to the constitutional validity of triple talaq, a practice that allows a Muslim man to divorce his wife unilaterally simply by uttering the word “talaq” thrice. Continue reading >>
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