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CEDAW at 45

02.11.2026
Vashti Ortego
Forty-five years after its entry into force, and with the adoption of General Recommendation No. 41 on gender stereotypes, can the CEDAW Committee confront gender backlash without reproducing the narratives...
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Not a Witch Hunt: Resist AI!

30.10.2026
Arnulf Becker Lorca
For months, academics and scientists across disciplines, from mathematics to literature, have been assessing the irruption of AI on their fields. As LLMs have become so ubiquitous, so fast, assessment...
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Of Machines and Masters

30.10.2026
Jan-Henrik Hinselmann Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Last week, Valentin Jeutner, one of the co-founders of Völkerrechtsblog, reminded us in his inaugural lecture at Lund University that, in June 1958, addressing the University of Cambridge, Dag Hammarskjöld...
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On Ballots, Barriers and Biases

30.10.2026
Vanessa Bliecke
This summer, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the Committee) published  General Comment No. 11 on Art. 29 (GC) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...
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The Evidentiary Value of the Pillay Report before the International Court of Justice

29.10.2026
Anna Michel Albo Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops
Navanethem Pillay received the prestigious, but politicized Nobel Peace Prize. She is described in the New York Times as a ‘human rights lawyer who led a United Nations commission last...
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“The Law as It Presently Stands…”

28.10.2026
Jean-Baptiste Dudant
“Outside the Law there stands a doorkeeper. A man from the country comes to this doorkeeper and asks to be allowed into the Law, but the doorkeeper says he cannot...
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Governing AI Agents

28.10.2026
Utkarsh Leo
Advancing cyber capabilities and growing AI autonomy increase the risk of unsanctioned agent behaviour. Despite emerging evidence of these risks, global AI regulation remains difficult. Climate change and nuclear risks...
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The World Behind the Map

27.10.2026
Udit Mahalingam
Cartography has long been central to how the United Nations positions itself on the global stage. This is evident in everything from the maps attached to Security Council documents, to the official emblem...
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Kindred Spirits?

27.10.2026
Leon Möller Ansgar Pohl
Between 18 and 24 June 2026, Niger, then Mali and Burkina Faso, deposited their formal instruments of withdrawal from the Rome Statute with the UN Secretary-General. With this act, the intention...
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Before It’s Too Late

26.10.2026
Nicolas Angelet Margot Angé
In his 1954 study Vollendete Tatsache und Völkerrecht (“Fait accompli and International Law”), the late director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Professor Carl Bilfinger, stated...
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#60 Internationales Recht und Anarchismus – Brauchen wir noch Institutionen?

09.10.2026
Julia Emtseva Marie-Christin Manke Juan Manuel Klein Deborah Peters
  Anarchismus und Recht – passt das überhaupt zusammen? Und was hat der Abolitionismus damit zu tun? Auf den ersten Blick scheinen diese Ansätze kaum vereinbar. Gleichzeitig steht die internationale...
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#59 Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt: Friend and Enemy

25.09.2026
Scott J. Shapiro Elisa Costadura Viktoria Moissiadis Juan Manuel Klein Rouven Diekjobst
This is the second episode of the cooperation between the Völkerrechtspodcast and the Mal nach den Rechten schauen podcast, in which we examine the continuities of National Socialism in public...
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#58 Don’t Speak? Speech Crimes im Internationalen Strafrecht

04.07.2026
Wibke Timmermann Juan Manuel Klein Rouven Diekjobst Daniela Rau
 Speech Crimes sollen Situationen erfassen, in denen Menschen zu schweren Menschenrechtsverletzungen aufrufen, diese Verletzungen aber noch nicht erfolgt sind oder versucht wurden. Sie stellen damit ein wichtiges Mittel zur...
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#57 Fair Play? Sport und Menschenrechte im Konflikt

05.06.2026
Björn Schiffbauer Salman Khan Marie-Christin Manke Deborah Peters
  „Sport has the power to change the world.“ Von dem Optimismus dieser Worte des ehemaligen südafrikanischen Präsidenten Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) scheint inzwischen nur noch wenig übrig zu sein. Bereits bei...
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#56 Demokratie als Menschenrecht? Aktuelle Entwicklungen vor dem IAGMR

08.05.2026
Vanessa Vanegas Daniela Rau Juan Manuel Klein Marie-Christin Manke
 Gibt es ein Menschenrecht­ auf Demokratie? So ungefähr lautet eine der Fragen, die Guatemala im Dezember 2024 dem Inter-Amerikanischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte v­orlegte und über die im März 2026...
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#55 Der Verhältnismäßigkeitsgrundsatz im Humanitären Völkerrecht: Kollateralschäden verbieten?

17.04.2026
Valentin Jeutner Rouven Diekjobst Salman Khan Jasmin Wachau
    Zivilpersonen dürfen in bewaffneten Konflikten nicht das Ziel von Angriffen sein. Das bedeutet aber nicht, dass jeder Angriff, bei dem Zivilpersonen zu Schaden kommen, gegen das humanitäre Völkerrecht...
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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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