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Selecting Silence? – The 2026 Secretary-General Election and Moral Authority

27.04.2026
Diliana Stoyanova
“The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the UN and what it means clearly. Everything will...
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When AI Rules Diverge

23.04.2026
Aryan Sharma
AI regulation is splitting across major jurisdictions. This post examines divergent AI regulations across jurisdictions, particularly in the EU, US, and China, and how such divergence generates compliance costs, liability uncertainty, and...
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Revisiting the UK’s 2011 Rescue of Nationals from Libya. Part II

22.04.2026
Shastikk Kumaran
The first part of this post articulated non-violent evacuation operations (NVEOs) as a specific legal category of rescue operations that are defined negatively – as those rescues which do not...
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Revisiting the UK’s 2011 Rescue of Nationals from Libya. Part I

22.04.2026
Shastikk Kumaran
In 2011, the UK, Germany and (seemingly) the Netherlands launched targeted rescue operations to rescue their nationals (before the passing of UNSC Resolution 1973, which authorised “all necessary measures [short...
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Beyond Pathology

21.04.2026
Raghavi Viswanath Claire Smith
In The Pathology of Plenty, Lys Kulamadayil unpacks how the resource curse has come to inflict postcolonial countries and examines international law’s complicities in sustaining this socio-economic and political predicament....
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Oil Infrastructure as Military Objectives

21.04.2026
Ayesha Youssuf Abbasi
On 8 March 2026, the sky over Tehran showed almost apocalyptic scenes. Towering flames rising from fuel depots and refineries after the US-Israel-led strikes on Iranian oil infrastructure were seen...
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The Board of Peace Ltd.

20.04.2026
Julia Emtseva Leon Seidl
“We tried to structure this meeting like a proper board meeting, like we do in the private sector, where we have all the preparation, we get the right people together,...
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When Restraint Becomes Complicity

20.04.2026
Tjorben Studt
The US-Israeli attacks against Iran, launched on 28 February 2026, have plunged the Middle East into a dangerous and expanding conflict – triggering a broader factual and normative wildfire. What...
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معاناة الأسرى الفلسطينيين في إسرائيل: مقابلة مع جنان عبده

18.04.2026
Janan Abdu Khaled El Mahmoud M. A.
This interview is also available in English. يشرفنا أن نرحّب بالمحامية جنان عبده، وهي محامية، وباحثة، ومدافعة عن حقوق الإنسان، تقدّم الاستشارة القانونية للأسرى الفلسطينيين. تتخصص جنان في قضايا التعذيب،...
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The Plight of Palestinian Prisoners in Israel

17.04.2026
Janan Abdu Khaled El Mahmoud M. A.
لقراءة المقابلة باللغة العربية، الرجاء الضغط هنا. We are honored to welcome Advocate Janan Abdu, a distinguished attorney, researcher, and human rights defender who provides legal counsel to Palestinian prisoners....
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#55 Der Verhältnismäßigkeitsgrundsatz im Humanitären Völkerrecht: Kollateralschäden verbieten?

17.04.2026
Valentin Jeutner Rouven Diekjobst Salman Khan Jasmin Wachau
    Zivilpersonen dürfen in bewaffneten Konflikten nicht das Ziel von Angriffen sein. Das bedeutet aber nicht, dass jeder Angriff, bei dem Zivilpersonen zu Schaden kommen, gegen das humanitäre Völkerrecht...
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#54 Publish, Parent, Perish? Making Space for Mothers in Legal Academia

08.03.2026
   Motherhood sits uneasily within the institutional imagination of international legal academia. Academic career paths are still commonly structured around expectations of uninterrupted productivity, geographic mobility, and “always-on” availability...
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#53 Interventionen vor dem IGH: Verfahrensinstrument mit Mehrwert?

13.02.2026
Jane A. Hofbauer Jasmin Wachau Rouven Diekjobst Isabel Lischewski
  Diese Podcastfolge behandelt einen Aspekt der Verfahrenspraxis des Internationalen Gerichtshofs, der in jüngerer Zeit verstärkt diskutiert wird: die Interventionen von Drittstaaten. Grundsätzlich stehen Staaten zwei Wege der Intervention offen: entweder...
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#52 Anerkennung von Regierungen: Zwischen Legitimität und Effektivität

12.12.2025
Erik Tuchtfeld Isabel Lischewski Daniela Rau
„Die Bundesregierung erkennt die De-facto-Regierung der Taliban politisch nicht als legitime Regierung Afghanistans an.“ – so steht es etwas kryptisch ⁠auf der Webseite des Auswärtigen Amtes⁠ zu den bilateralen Beziehungen...
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#51 Transitional Justice auf dem Prüfstand

07.11.2025
Jasmin Wachau Isabel Lischewski Rouven Diekjobst
Diese Folge nimmt Transitional Justice (TJ) genauer unter die Lupe. Unter TJ versteht man rechtliche und politische Maßnahmen, die darauf abzielen, eine gewaltvolle Vergangenheit aufzuarbeiten und zu  einer  neuen,  gerechteren...
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#50: Eine Disziplin (in) der Krise?

03.10.2025
Rouven Diekjobst Daniela Rau
Krisennarrative sind im völkerrechtlichen Diskurs aktuell allgegenwärtig, aber: Ist das überhaupt besonders? Ist das Völkerrecht nicht schon länger – oder gar immer – eine Disziplin der Krise? In Folge 50...
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#49 Reproduktive Rechte: Von Gewalt zu Gerechtigkeit

08.08.2025
Daniela Rau Isabel Lischewski Erik Tuchtfeld
 Reproduktive Rechte sind zurzeit vor allem im Hinblick auf die Frage nach dem legalen Schwangerschaftsabbruch medial präsent. Dabei umfasst das breite Konzept der reproduktiven Rechte weit mehr als das....
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6th Episode: The Moral Machine

21.07.2025
In the sixth episode we explore the interrelations between humans and machines together with Iyad Rahwan who is director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where...
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#48: Geschichten des Völkerrechts: Von Grotius zu kritischen Ansätzen

04.07.2025
Hendrik Simon Erik Tuchtfeld
  1625, also vor exakt 400 Jahren, veröffentlichte Hugo Grotius sein wichtigstes Werk, De Iure Belli ac Pacis libri tres, zu Deutsch: Drei Bücher über das Recht des Krieges und...
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