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In the Public Eye

30.03.2026
Sabeeh Khayyat
In recent years, the selective compliance and the repeated non-compliance of parties with provisional measures at the International Court of Justice have dented the legitimacy of the Court (see further...
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The UN in the Line of Fire

27.03.2026
Kunyang Li
On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion on the Obligations of Israel in Relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations,...
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From Ambition to Dilution?

26.03.2026
Ysaline Reid Gauthier Michiels
On 25 October 2025, the European Commission (‘EC’) put forth a proposal to amend the EU Deforestation-Free Products Regulation 2023/115 (‘EUDR’). After two months of negotiations at the European Union...
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Tackling the Taliban’s Birth Control Ban

25.03.2026
Meraj Ahmad Arjun Singh
More than three years later, obscured by the Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions, Afghan women face a reproductive crisis that the world cannot ignore. The Taliban’s ban on access to contraceptives has had...
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Rebuilding the Ship of Theseus

24.03.2026
Mira Hamad
The remarks of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference illustrate contemporary anxieties about the “rules-based order” (RBO). Rubio declared that “[…] we can no longer place the so-called global order...
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Whither Rightsholders in Africa?

23.03.2026
Akinwumi Ogunranti
Globalization in the 21st century has created a governance gap that continues to have adverse effects on society, especially in Africa. Although the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) endorsed...
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Brexit Part 2?

20.03.2026
Jack Provan Selin Altay
As we approach the ten-year anniversary of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, sentiment is stirring once again for major reform to Europe’s international organisations. This time, the...
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Call for Contributions: Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

19.03.2026
Mais Abdallah Julian A. Hettihewa Isabel Madeleine Kaiser Salman Khan Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Can human rights obligations limit arms exports to states that are believed to be committing war crimes and genocide? As Israel’s offensives in Gaza escalated in late 2023, cases challenging...
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What Venezuela Actually Is About

19.03.2026
Joel S. Bella
On January 3, the US launched an attack on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro. While the legal assessment appears largely undisputed (see here, here, here;...
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Restoring the Equality of Arms in Pushback Litigation

18.03.2026
Iftach Cohen Sissy Katsoni
On 18.12.2025 the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) issued its much-anticipated judgment on the appeal against the General Court’s order in Hamoudi v. Frontex. In a ‘rare’,...
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#54 Publish, Parent, Perish? Making Space for Mothers in Legal Academia

08.03.2026
   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?

13.02.2026
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

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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