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When climate change hits the Arctic: what to make of recent rules and approaches

…protection than the “common heritage or common concern” approach. A response to this post can be found here. Birgit Peters is assistant professor of Public law, International Law and European…

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Current Developments

Responsibility-sharing for refugees (2)

Can global solutions avoid contributing to the legal production of superfluity?

international refugee protection regarding the problem of responsibility-sharing and humanitarian reason. Dana Schmalz is a co-editor of the blog and currently an LL.M-student at the Cardozo School of Law….

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The regulatory dimension of TTIP and the global competition of economic systems

Reflections on the on-going dispute over Europe’s external trade policy

…strikingly headstrong stance in favour of an FTA with the US by introducing some reflections from an international economic law perspective. CPP, the world trade system and the ‘death’ of…

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Movement of PeopleSymposium

Flexible Solidarity – Effective Solidarity?

…of Public International Law, in: P.-M. Dupuy (ed.), Völkerrecht als Weltordnung. Festschrift für Christian Tomuschat, 2006, pp. 1087). 3. And so Does the Precise Normative Framework Art. 2 TEU (to…

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Current Developments

Awakening dormant law

– or the invocation of the European mutual assistance clause after the Paris attacks

…act committed by non-state actors constitutes an armed attack under Article 51 of the UN Charter and whether this act can be attributed to a State is a disputed international

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Photo by UNMEER/Martine Perret. 15 December 2014
International Health GovernanceSymposium

International Health Governance of Disease Outbreaks

…of a workshop on “International Health Governance of Disease Outbreaks” which took place from 3-4 March 2016 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg. We are…

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Global South in Comparative Constitutional LawSymposium

Auctoritas non veritas facit Legem

A Response to Professor Roberto Niembro’s Conceptualisation of Authoritarian Constitutionalism

…of the International Association of Constitutional Law as part of a collaboration between Voelkerrechtsblog and the IACL blog . At the beginning of the new century there are more constitutional…

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Megaregionals and the OthersSymposium

An Indian perspective on megaregionals and concomitant trends

…of developments in international law, and the authors of the working papers on providing thoughtful commentaries to form the basis of these analyses. In their papers, Professors Eyal Benvenisti and…

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Owada and the whale: dissenting on the burden of proof before the ICJ

…of abstract imperative criteria for assessing that concept. In international law, good faith has necessarily to be presumed. For this reason, Judge Owada affirms that the Japanese whaling program’s design…

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Palestine: Do the Recognitions of its Statehood by European National Parliaments matter?

…role of the national Parliaments in the implementation of international law. The short period of time in which so many EU member States have adopted these resolutions is relevant for…

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