The same legal question, answered differently in a few countries. Where the contrast itself is the story.
Every government occasionally wants to do something its own lawyers say it can't. What happens next depends entirely on how independent those lawyers are from the government they're advising.
Read the story →A phone today holds more about a person's life than their house does. Three countries answered the same question about police access to it in the last decade, and each one drew the line in a different place.
Read the story →A Peruvian farmer sued a German energy company over a glacier above his town. The court said no, but confirmed the principle that made the case possible.
Read the story →Three countries tried to weaken judicial checks on government power in the same decade. Only one saw that effort substantially rolled back.
Read the story →Three democracies handle military conscription in genuinely different ways, and the legal reasoning behind each says a lot about how each society defines the trade-off between the individual and the state.
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