Info
Welcome to our new site!
We are very happy to introduce you to our new, modernized and more functional webpage. As it is with all good projects: the strive for perfection is never-ending. Therefore, our new page might still be rough around some edges, but we're working on diminishing the existing flaws. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Unfortunately, our new page doesn't support Internet Explorer at the moment. Please use Edge, Firefox or Chrome instead.
  • Symposium
  • Book Review

Symposium introduction: crimes against humanity

22.09.2020
Sebastian Spitra Anna Sophia Tiedeke
This post is the opening of a symposium on Kerstin Lingen’s award-winning book Crimes Against Humanity. Eine Ideengeschichte der Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt 1864–1945. The book looks at the inte...
Read more
Photo by Ubey Ahmed on Unsplash
  • Bofaxe

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 Int...
Read more
Roman Boed on pxhere.com
  • Bofaxe

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...
Read more
  • Interview

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 com...
Read more
Photo by Philipp Baumann on Unsplash
  • Article

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) to ratify the Agreeme...
Read more
  • Völkerrechtsblog

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...
Read more
  • Völkerrechtsblog

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 desig...
Read more
  • Bofaxe

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 ...
Read more
  • Article

The Aegean Sea dispute on the edge of escalating

09.09.2020
Marianthi Pappa
The feud between Greece and Turkey in the Aegean Sea counts several decades but has lately sparked international concerns about the region’s peace and stability. On 27 November 2019, the Turkish go...
Read more
  • Article

Invitation to sign: Note on the United States’ Claim to activate the snapback mechanism under Security Council Resolution 2231

03.09.2020
Pierre-Emmanuel Dupont
On 20 August 2020, the United States attempted to launch the mechanism often referred to as the ‘snapback’ mechanism provided for by the Iran nuclear agreement, the a (JCPOA) of 2015. The United St...
Read more
About the blog
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.
Read more
Editor of the week
Dana Schmalz

Dana Schmalz is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, she holds a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. Her work centers on refugee and migration law, human rights, and legal philosophy. In her current research project, she is exploring how population growth has been an object of international legal activities.

Services
Calls for Papers
Plural ideas of justice: stories, narratives and experiences from India Appel à contribution pour la prochaine livraison de L’annuaire Français de Droit International (AFDI 2020) Autonomie oder Kontrolle?
Go to Calls for Papers
Jobs
Neuer Weiterbildungsstudiengang European Legal Perspectives Eine Stelle als PostDoc in European Global Studies (100%) Call for Editors: IJPIEL Blog
Go to Jobs
Events
Demokratie – Grundlegender Baustein der internationalen Ordnung? Digitale Regulierung 2020: Den Überblick behalten The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law: Shining a light on a critical human rights protection – Prof. Philippa Webb (King’s College London) Crossing Borders, Breaking Borders: New Ideas about Migration, Secession and Political Freedom
Go to Events
Media
  • Media

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: ...
Go to video
  • Media

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 ...
Go to video
  • Symposium
  • Media

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, a...
Go to video
  • Symposium
  • Media

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 jus...
Go to video
  • Symposium
  • Media

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 ...
Go to video
  • Symposium
  • Media

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 ...
Go to video
Latest Symposia
22.09.2020

Crimes Against Humanity

Read more
24.06.2020

Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity

Read more
15.06.2020

The Corporation, Law and Capitalism

Read more
Most read articles
Photo by Philipp Baumann on Unsplash

Thou shalt not ‘break international law in a very specific and limited way’

Read more

Nuremberg Trials a Betrayal to History?

Read more

Introducing Völkerrechtsblog 3.0

Read more
Go to articles
Article categories
Filter the article list by category
Most recent comments
» Thanks for this interesting piece but I don't fully agree with some of the conclusions. I do think you are playing down the consequences of the events of the last week. Furthermore, naming the UK a...«
Mark Dempsey
Go to article
» Sehr richtige Schlussfolgerung.«
Lukas Kleinert
Go to article
» As an aside as the UK is no longer an EU-member: In contrast to the GFCC the ECJ does not hold a dualist but rather a monist view as regards the binding force of international treaty law. Secondar...«
Dr. Hanspeter Daragan
Go to article
Submit your contribution
We welcome contributions on all topics relating to international law and international legal thought. You can send us your text, or get in touch with a preliminary inquiry at:
Subscribe to the blog
If you want to be informed regularly about new posts published on Völkerrechtsblog, subscribe to the blog by entering your e-mail address in the field below.