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Rationed Intelligence

08.06.2026
Shivam Kumar
Inside every modern computer, smartphone, and data centre sits a component called a semiconductor chip. It is a wafer of silicon, roughly the size of a fingernail, engraved with billions...
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From Iran to Zaporizhzhia

05.06.2026
Janakan Muthukumar
War around nuclear facilities is no longer a remote contingency. It is an emerging test of whether international humanitarian law (IHL) can restrain military operations before nuclear safety systems are...
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The Regulatory-Command Asymmetry

04.06.2026
Samuel W. Ugwumba
The urgency of reconciling the territorial limits of sovereign jurisdiction with the deterritorialised movement of data is a question of data sovereignty. Within Africa, this question is ambitiously addressed by Nigeria’s...
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When Same-Sex Marriage Crosses Borders

03.06.2026
Himani Jha
The CJEU’s judgment in Jakub Cupriak-Trojan and Mateusz Trojan v Wojewoda Mazowiecki (better known as Cupriak-Trojan) is one of those rare decisions that is not only welcomed as a rights...
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Editorial #53: On the 80th Anniversary of the Polish Supreme National Tribunal, Think about Transitional Justice in Syria

03.06.2026
Alicja Polakiewicz
There is no shortage of examples in which concrete instances of Polish history travel across borders to inspire political events elsewhere and elsewhen. Boris Nemtsov, who was until his murder...
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Violating Neutrality, Enabling Harm

29.05.2026
Arjun Singh Meraj Ahmad
Political neutrality occupies a central place in the constitutional architecture of international sports governance. Within the Olympic Movement, neutrality is described as a “universal fundamental ethical principle” embedded in the...
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Beyond Symbolic Recognition

28.05.2026
Sophie Girardini Veronika Stockinger Franziska Michel
Today, for the second year, Namibia commemorates 28 May as “Genocide Remembrance Day”. On this day in 1908, the last concentration camps that were part of Germany’s extermination policy in...
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Editorial #52: Kindness Comes On Top

20.05.2026
Aurelio Corneo
Most readers would agree that the international legal order is not doing very well. I cannot gauge whether international lawyers as a professional community are doing well, but I assume...
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One In, One Out

19.05.2026
Ganesh Prasad Manuj Gupta
Twenty-page communiqués from United Nations Special Rapporteurs loom over the United Kingdom (“UK”) and France, respectively, as the two countries advance negotiations over their reciprocal “one-in, one-out” migrant transfer agreement....
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Renouncing Your Way Out of Treaty Protection

18.05.2026
Davit Khachatryan
Can a claimant voluntarily renounce the treaty nationality that grounds his standing as a protected investor, mid-proceedings, and continue to pursue his claims? That question has been brought into sharp...
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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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#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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