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Civilizing wartime violence?

24.09.2020
Daniel Marc Segesser
For many years, legal concepts were a domain of legal analysis in which the historical context was hardly addressed. This has slowly changed since the beginning of the 21st century,...
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A matter of evolution, not invention

23.09.2020
Philippe Sands
On the morning of Sunday July 29th 1945, Robert Jackson, recently named as Chief Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal to be established in Nuremberg, was driven from his hotel...
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Symposium introduction: crimes against humanity

22.09.2020
Sebastian Spitra Anna Sophia Tiedeke
This post is the opening of a symposium on Kerstin von Lingen’s award-winning book Crimes Against Humanity. Eine Ideengeschichte der Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt 1864–1945. The book looks at the intellectual...
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Climate change and human rights: a next big step for the Human Rights Committee?

22.09.2020
Laura Hofmann
In May 2019, eight Torres Strait Islanders filed a communication alleging that the inaction of the Australian government over climate change is resulting in violations of their rights under the...
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Anklägerin auf der Sanktionsliste

17.09.2020
Özgen Özdemir
Die Einleitung von Ermittlungen in Afghanistan durch die Chefanklägerin des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs (IStGH), Fatou Bensouda, hat bereits  mehrfach scharfe Reaktionen der USA hervorgerufen (dazu kritisch hier). Unter anderem drohte der...
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A ‘golden age’ of inter-state complaints?

16.09.2020
Isabella Risini Justine Batura Lukas Kleinert
Recently, the Principality of Liechtenstein brought an inter-state complaint against the Czech Republic to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Already before, the two countries shared a complicated relationship....
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Thou shalt not ‘break international law in a very specific and limited way’

15.09.2020
Stefan Talmon
On 9 January 2020, the House of Commons – one part of the British Parliament – passed the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020, which enabled the United Kingdom (UK)...
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A blog with more than just articles

14.09.2020
Thomas Dollmaier
A blog like ours primarily lives off interesting articles. Ideally, our posts offer new perspectives or critiques, cover current developments or excavate neglected discourses. Behind these articles stand knowledgeable and...
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Introducing Völkerrechtsblog 3.0

14.09.2020
Raffaela Kunz Christian Pogies Erik Tuchtfeld
Welcome to Völkerrechtsblog 3.0! We are very happy to introduce you to our completely redesigned and modernized website. Six years into its existence, Völkerrechtsblog receives a new logo and design...
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire

10.09.2020
Spyridoula Katsoni
Although the higher risk of COVID-19’s contagion among those residing in overly-populated asylum-seeker centres has been underlined by cassandric voices since the early days of its outbreak, Moria Reception and...
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Völkerrechtsblog is a scientific blog on all matters of international public law and international legal thought. We welcome contributions from all around the globe on these topics.
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Vortrag: Grundrechte schützen – eine grenzenlose Verpflichtung?

19.05.2020
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Der Völkerrechtsblog veröffentlicht die Aufzeichnung des digitalen Vortrags von Erik Tuchtfeld, Redaktionsmitglied des Völkerrechtsblogs, auf Einladung des Heidelberger Kreises am 07. Mai 2020: Grundrechte schützen – eine grenzenlose Verpflichtung? Der...
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Awarding inspiration

21.01.2020
In 2018 the Max Planck Society established the Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law (MaxCamPIL), a research prize awarded jointly by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and...
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Reflections on the history and future of Law and Development

10.10.2019
Watch here the recording of  the Keynote Lecture of David Trubek (University of Wisconsin-Madison) who reflects upon the history and future of Law and Development and its main current challenges,...
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Social justice – a vehicle for transformative constitutionalism

10.10.2019
Watch here the recording of the Keynote of Justice Madan Lokur (Supreme Court of India) who explains the challenges and opportunities of transformative constitutionalism as a vehicle for social justice,...
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Towards comparative legal institutionalism

09.10.2019
Watch here the Keynote Lecture of Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School) reflecting on questions of method and theory through her approach of "comparative legal institutionalism", opening the LDRN Conference at...
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How to be cynical: some suggestions

06.09.2019
Watch here the livestream of Prof. Gerry Simpson's Keynote Lecture, opening the Working Group of Young Scholars in Public International Law's (Arbeitskreis junger Völkerrechtswissenschaftler*innen – AjV) and the German Society...
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