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The Russian Climate Case

15.12.2025
Joanna Evans
‘The Russian climate case’ (application no. 9296/24) was filed on 31 August 2023 at the European Court of Human Rights [‘ECtHR’ or ‘Court’] and brought before the Court by a...
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Trump’s 20-Point Gaza Peace Plan from the Lens of the 20-Year-Old Call by the UN General Assembly to Crystalise “R2P”

11.12.2025
Mohit Khubchandani
Twenty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly (“UNGA”) in the 2005 World Summit Outcome narrowed the scope of the 2001 Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State...
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Ecocide in the Future Through the New EU Environmental Crime Directive

10.12.2025
Dani Spizzichino
During the first half of 2021, a group of jurists sat together to draft a new legal definition of ecocide. The Independent Expert Panel (Expert Panel), convened by the Stop...
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How ITLOS Won the Battle for Advisory Jurisdiction

08.12.2025
Saba Ishkhnelidze
A decade ago, in 2015, ITLOS delivered its first-ever advisory opinion as a full tribunal in the Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC). By...
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A Debt Unpaid

03.12.2025
Siddhant Singh
In 2016, India promised to liberate 18.4 million bonded labourers by 2030. Nine years on, less than 1% have been freed and the system remains intact, particularly for Dalits and...
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Who Holds It Justly?

02.12.2025
Ece Deniz
The concept of good faith (Treu und Glauben) has long served as a cornerstone of both German private law and international legal doctrine. Enshrined in Article 242 of the German...
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Your Space or Mine?

01.12.2025
Tamanna Chandan Chachlani Alina Pandey
Once the domain of Cold War rivalry, space exploration today has become the shared contention of national governments, billionaires and private corporations alike. With corporations like SpaceX and Blue Origin...
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Editorial #48: Transforming the ‘Völkerrechtsblog’ into an Open Science Hub

29.11.2025
Hannah Kiel Sissy Katsoni
We are overly excited to share with you the kick-off of the new DFG-funded ‘Infrastructures for Scientific Publishing’ programme on the Völkerrechtsblog! Through this funding line, which was awarded to...
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Post-Hegemonic International Law?

28.11.2025
Tania Atilano Paulette Baeriswyl Banciella Sabrina Ferrazzi Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo Alicja Polakiewicz Camilo Ramírez Gutiérrez Garima Tiwari Kebene Wodajo Felix Würkert Raffaela Kunz
It has become a cliché to say we live in a globalized world. This conference is itself evidence of the world’s interconnectedness, as we all come from and are based...
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Poisoned Fruits of Reconstruction

28.11.2025
Gurgen Petrossian
This blogpost explores how corporate actors may become complicit in international crimes during post-conflict reconstruction — particularly when economic activity normalises displacement and atrocity. It argues that due diligence obligations,...
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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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#47 Hungersnot: Belagerungen und Blockaden im Lichte des humanitären Völkerrechts

06.06.2025
Rouven Diekjobst Isabel Lischewski Daniela Rau
Die ohnehin prekäre humanitäre Situation im Gazastreifen hat sich seit Anfang März 2025 noch einmal verschärft. Israel sah sich bereits seit Oktober 2023 mehrfach dem Vorwurf ausgesetzt, durch die Blockade...
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#46 Internet für Alle? Debatten über den Internetzugang als Menschenrecht

09.05.2025
Jasmin Wachau Rouven Diekjobst Isabel Lischewski
  In den letzten Jahren ist die Zahl der Internetnutzer:innen weltweit kontinuierlich gewachsen, während vielen Menschen der Zugang zum Netz nach wie vor verwehrt bleibt. Gleichzeitig berichten zahlreiche Regionen von...
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5th Episode: Community, Commons and Crypto

05.05.2025
In the firth episode, we have the pleasure of speaking to Erik Bordeleau, a philosopher, curator, fugitive planner and media theorist based between Berlin and Lisbon, where he is currently...
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