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One step forward – three steps back: why the hellfire from Ramstein may continue after all

01.12.2020
Karoline Dołgowski
Maybe it is the time of the year that Ramstein Air Base looks even greyer and gloomier than usual in the cold November twilight, maybe it is the bitter thought...
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The new era of disinformation wars

30.11.2020
Lisa M. Cohen
While the manipulation of photographs has traditionally been deemed a State intelligence privilege, today’s technological evolution allows anyone to effortlessly modify digital material – deepfakes being the newest, and arguably...
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Guidance at a critical moment – thoughts on CERD’s General Recommendation on racial profiling by law enforcement officials

28.11.2020
David Keane
The term “racial profiling” is not found in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), but practices of racial profiling have long been of...
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Jurisdiction – who speaks international law?

26.11.2020
Julian A. Hettihewa
As it is the case with many productions, only a small fraction of the work is visible to the public. As organisers of next year’s international conference “Jurisdiction – who...
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Between fiction and reality: rights of nature in German television and before the ICJ

23.11.2020
Jasper Mührel
Last week, the German public free-TV channel ARD broadcast the film "Ökozid" ("ecocide"), commissioned by ARD and produced by the independent production company zero one film, set in 2034, in...
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Expanding the restricted realm of international trade law to animal welfare

19.11.2020
Deeksha Sharma Tushar Behl
Can products be banned for animal welfare? Intensive and unsustainable farming disregards animal welfare and represents a critical risk to both animals and humans. This article shows the relevance of...
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Another brick in the wall?

17.11.2020
Alina Funk
Following several military operations by the Kingdom of Morocco, the Polisario Front is no longer committed to the 1991 ceasefire agreement. This marks the end to an almost thirty-year-absence of...
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COVID-19, people, and other animals

12.11.2020
Katharina Braun
The ongoing pandemic has put a spotlight on the interface between the health of humans, animals, and the environment. COVID-19 is a zoonosis: a disease that is naturally transmissible from...
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Extensive violence instead of intensive protection

11.11.2020
Vanessa Bliecke Nadine Grünhagen
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” (Article 1 Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Even though the concept of universal human rights is more than...
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Sorry, Elon: Mars is not a legal vacuum – and it’s not yours, either

05.11.2020
Cristian van Eijk
On October 28th, Elon Musk’s company SpaceX published its Terms of Service for the beta test of its Starlink broadband megaconstellation. If successful, the project purports to offer internet connection...
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Video: Strafverfolgung ohne Grenzen – Gerechtigkeit für Völkerrechtsverbrechen vor deutschen Gerichten

21.11.2020
Mit dem sogenannten Al-Khatib-Verfahren hat in Koblenz im April 2020 der weltweit erste Strafprozess zu Staatsfolter in Syrien begonnen. Die Verbrechen wurden in Syrien begangen, die Angeklagten und Betroffenen sind...
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Video: ‘To me, fair friend, you can never be old’. The European Convention on Human Rights at 70

23.10.2020
Başak Çalı
On 23 Octobe Başak Çalı held the 3rd Bernhardt Lecture of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law which took place in a hybrid format via Zoom/Livestream. This...
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Solidarität oder gemeinsame Verantwortungslosigkeit?

20.10.2020
Dana Schmalz
Das gemeinsame Europäische Asylsystem war in den vergangenen Jahren immer weniger ein gemeinsames - und immer weniger ein funktionierendes. Die Fehler im System sind allgemein bekannt: Ineffektive Zuständigkeitsregeln, Streit um...
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Die Schrems II-Entscheidung des EuGH

15.10.2020
Erik Tuchtfeld
In der Referentenbesprechung vom 12. Oktober 2020 am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht stellt Erik Tuchtfeld die Schrems II-Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs vor, mit der das Privacy Shield...
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Digitaler Salon: Der Fall der Paywall

07.10.2020
Raffaela Kunz
Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat erneut gezeigt, wie wichtig digitaler Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Publikationen ist und hat der Debatte rund um Open Access neuen Schwung gegeben. Am 30. September organisierte das Alexander...
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Vortrag: Grundrechte schützen – eine grenzenlose Verpflichtung?

19.05.2020
Erik Tuchtfeld
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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Sorry, Elon: Mars is not a legal vacuum – and it’s not yours, either

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