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Chatting with Itamar Mann

27.01.2023
Itamar Mann Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to another interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Itamar Mann, and through the following questions, we will try to get...
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Questions of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia

27.01.2023
Gaiane Nuridzhanian
On 25 January 2023, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its decision on the admissibility of the interstate complaints lodged by Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia in relation...
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Self-Determination as Faux Remedial Secession in Russia’s Annexation Policies

26.01.2023
Andrea Maria Pelliconi
“Circumstances require us to take decisive and immediate action. The people’s republics of Donbass turned to Russia with a request for help. In this regard … I decided to conduct...
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Litigating Reparations

25.01.2023
Karina Theurer
Throughout the world, indigenous populations are in a renewed push, demanding reparations from former colonial powers. On 19 January 2023, the Namibian lawyer Patrick Kauta filed an application to the...
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Will the FBI Investigate?

20.01.2023
Natali Gbele
The killing of the American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11th, 2022 caused an international uproar, with many calling for investigations and legal actions against the soldier who supposedly...
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Centering Europe and Othering the Rest

16.01.2023
Caroline Lichuma
The theme of the 11th annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights reiterated the need to put “rightsholders at the center” of efforts to strengthen accountability and advance business...
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Chatting with Lys Kulamadayil

13.01.2023
Lys Kulamadayil Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the first interview of 2023 for the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Lys Kulamadayil, and through the following questions, we will...
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A Multilateral Mechanism for Digital Sequence Information

12.01.2023
Lucas Hennicke
The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (hereinafter: CBD) has now reached a substantive conclusion, although not an official one. The latter is due...
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When Silence Is Not Golden but Puzzling

11.01.2023
Tillmann Lindner Giacomo Romis
On 22 July 2022 the ICJ issued its judgment regarding the preliminary objections raised by Myanmar in the case of the Application of the Genocide Convention on the Prevention and...
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Editorial #24: Blogging, Fast and Slow

10.01.2023
Isabel Lischewski Daniela Rau
Time flies when you’re having fun – and also, it would seem, when you’re watching world events unfold on your device screen, struggling to keep up with the break-neck speed...
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International law is, by definition, a global discipline. Yet in practice, scholarly discourse often remains hampered by the borders of national publishing cultures and fora. The voices that are most...
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Conference: Opening Access, Closing the Knowledge Gap?

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The internet with its unprecedented communicative potential offers a unique chance to make international legal scholarship more inclusive, participatory – and simply more international. The COVID-19 pandemic further increased the...
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Rising Before Sinking: The Landmark Decision of the UN Human Rights Committee in Daniel Billy et al. v. Australia

21.11.2022
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“Ms. Mar Menor”: How Rights of Nature Entered Into Europe

21.11.2022
Mario Delgado
Since 2008, when the Ecuadorian Constitution recognised and guaranteed the rights of nature, various countries have included this set of rights within their legal national framework in different ways, e.g....
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