Current Developments

Collectively Enforcing the Results of Democratic Elections in Africa

ECOWAS, the AU, and UN Security Council Resolution 2337 (2017) – Part I

…come to be understood in international law, particularly the law of international organizations, as a normative code indicating the authorization of en­forcement action, including the use of force. ECOWAS presumably…

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Current Developments

Letting Go of Territorial Integrity: Getting Realism and Ideals Right on Ukraine

…And self-determination law is a right of ‘peoples,’ which in contemporary international law means the whole population of a state, not just some splintered fraction of it. But territorial integrity…

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“And now for something completely different” – Greece vs. Germany

Don’t mention the war!

…1964, Vol. II, pp. 32-33) to include a reference to objective regimes in the Vienna Convention draft of the International Law Commission (ILC) did not make it in the final…

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Current Developments

CJEU Cases C-157/15 Achbita and C-188/15 Bougnaoui

Does ‘neutrality’ trump religious freedom?

…could get another job, but is a long way from a legal standard which protects religious freedom. Adina Portaru, LLM, PhD, is Legal Counsel, Europe with ADF International in Brussels,…

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Rule of Law Goes GlobalSymposium

No unalloyed good

The AU’s rejection of “unconstitutional changes of government”

…violence as a means of political competition. Theresa Reinold is assistant professor of International Relations at Leiden University and advisory board member of the Völkerrechtsblog. This post is part of…

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DiscussionKick-off

Transnational Science-Based Standards on Radiation: A Japanese Experience

‘Dose limits’ after Fukushima

…Transnational Scientific Institutions”, forthcoming this year in European Journal of International Law. According to Perez, “transnational regulatory scientific institutions” provide a hierarchical process and institutional ordering to scientifically uncertain issues…

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The pandemic dilemma

…A reply to Pedro Villarreal Pedro Villareal wonders whether and how global health security can be enhanced through international law. He raises two interrelated questions: First, should an expert…

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InterviewKlima- und umweltbedingte FluchtSymposium

There is no point in waiting

Walter Kälin and the Nansen Initiative for disaster-induced displacement

…research focus on refugee and international human rights law. Over the years, displacement linked to natural hazards has emerged as one of his central academic interests. At the same time,…

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DiscussionKick-off

Is the Islamic State a State?

…personality are thus warranted. Statehood in International Law Given the flexibility often used in the establishment of states, an advocatus diaboli could certainly argue that the Islamic State fulfils the…

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Labour Standards in a Globalised EconomySymposium

Individual labour complaint procedures in future free trade agreements?

…Henner Gött, LL.M. (Cantab.) is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of International and European Law, Department of International Economic and Environmental Law (Prof. Dr. Peter-Tobias Stoll), Georg-August-University Göttingen. Cite…

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