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The Absent-Present: What Paragraph 456 of the ICJ Advisory Opinion Reveals About International (Climate) Law

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Since its release on 23 July 2025, the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change (the Opinion) has generated...

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The Bonaire Climate Case

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Climate injustices are often interlinked with other historical injustices related to colonization, slavery, and their remnants which manifest in different forms of disadvantage in the lives of present and future...

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Womanhood, International Law, and the Global South

Marianne Crielle G. Vitug

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Women in their 20s and 30s continue to face the age-old questions of whether and when they should have children. While more and more...

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P is for Parents, P is for Politics

Aurélia Gervasoni

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Researchers spend their time trying to deconstruct (themselves) before daring to hope they might add another brick in the wall. They seek to strike...

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Motherhood as an Amplifier of Inequalities in International Legal Academia

Tania Ixchel Atilano

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. As Immi Tallgreen in her introduction to the volume Portraits of Women in International Law shows, the international lawyer is assumed as a neutral...

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Care as Legal Knowledge

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. The world of international legal negotiations is often seen as one of neutrality and technocracy – the art of bracketing, footnoting and carefully negotiating...

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Mothers of Acari

Carolina Lozano Martinez Xilene Margarita Díaz Palacio

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. This post examines the case of the Mothers of Acari and argues that it represents a pioneer maternal activism experience before the Inter-American Human...

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‘I’m… Your… Mother’

Miriam Bak McKenna Maj Grasten

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. While the term ‘mother’ is not strictly defined in international law, normative constructions of ‘motherhood’ (encompassing the socially constructed and prescribed expectations placed upon...

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Motherhood and Laws of Social Reproduction

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‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Everything has a value. Even those forms of labour that society persistently devalues, like motherhood and the caregiving work accompanying it. In contemporary societies,...

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#54 Publish, Parent, Perish? Making Space for Mothers in Legal Academia

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?

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

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

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?

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

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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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

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

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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