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Rewarding in International Law

On Rewarding in International Law

Veronika Fikfak Anne van Aaken Betül Simsek

Engaging with the contributions of the Symposium 'Rewarding in International Law', Veronika Fikfak discusses the new approach proposed in 'Rewarding in International Law' (AJIL) with the two authors, Anne van...

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A Problem Bigger than Qatar

Grischa Jost Jona Höni

With the European soccer Championship beginning this Friday, discussions regarding the human rights situations of host states rose once again, specifically concerning Azerbaijan’s oppression of the press and alleged war...

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Designing Rewards

Cristiane Lucena Carneiro

This essay engages with the literature on regime design and problem structure in order to propose a set of questions to frame our thinking about rewarding in international law. I...

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Evin Dalkilic Maximilian Steinbeis Raffaela Kunz Erik Tuchtfeld Christian Mathieu Kathleen Neumann Sebastian Hofmann

Spätestens mit ihrer Erwähnung in den Fußnotenapparaten von Kommentaren, Handbüchern und höchstgerichtlichen Urteilen haben sich Wissenschaftsblogs als fester Bestandteil des juristischen Publikationssystems etabliert. Das Fach zeigt sich dennoch nach wie...

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Rewarding in EU Law

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), as a principle voice of the EU legal order, has long ago severed the link between EU law and international law...

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Reparation and Judicial Discretion

Luis F. Viveros-Montoya

In Rewarding in International Law, Professor Anne van Aaken and Betül Simsek argue that rewards are an effective means to induce State compliance with treaty law. Rewarding is inscribed in the analytical framework of ‘compliance...

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Beyond Shaming

Silvia Steininger

In human rights law, shame is ubiquitous. ‘Naming and shaming’ has become the core tactic of human rights advocacy and the modus operandi of international NGOs such as Amnesty International....

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Beyond Japan’s Decision

Sonja Susann Schäfer Stephan Schultz

On March 11, 2011, the strongest earthquake recorded in Japan and an ensuing tsunami killed nearly 19.500 people and destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station releasing radioactive materials over...

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Rewarding Compliance

In their recent article, Rewarding in International Law, Anne van Aaken and Betül Simsek provide a novel typology of incentives that exist to promote compliance with international law, arguing that...

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From Sticks to Carrots?

Justine Batura Veronika Fikfak Christian Pogies

A new article on how States could be encouraged to comply with international law promises to revolutionize how we think about incentives in international relations. In ‘Rewarding in International Law’,...

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The Future of “Climate Refugees” in International Law

Spyridoula Katsoni Jan-Phillip Graf

The issue of “climate refugees” has attracted scholarly attention for over a decade. The historic ruling of the Human Rights Committee (‘HRCtee’) in Ioane Teitiota v. New Zealand further increased...

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#6 (Des-)information

Sophie Schuberth Erik Tuchtfeld Isabel Lischewski Philipp Eschenhagen

Fake News und Desinformations-Kampagnen sind derzeit in aller Munde. Aber wann genau können wir überhaupt von Fake News sprechen? Gibt es völkerrechtliche Normen, die die Verbreitung von falschen oder...

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Rule of Law Rules #5: “The Risk That Exists in the Digital Ecosystem is Decentralized”

“Rule of Law Rules” is our new podcast on Rule of Law in the age of digitalization from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. The host of the podcast is Dr Angela Daly, a...

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Raubkunst im Humboldt Forum – Down the Rabbit Hole of Intertemporality

Das Humboldt-Forum befindet sich im wiederaufgebauten Berliner Stadtschloss, und wird in diesem Jahr sukzessive eröffnen. Beherbergen soll das Museum u.a. die Sammlungen des ethnologischen Museums und des Museums für Asiatische...

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#5 Umweltvölkerrecht

Philipp Eschenhagen Sophie Schuberth Isabel Lischewski Erik Tuchtfeld

Umweltvölkerrecht könnte eine Erfindung jüngeren Datums sein, ist aber ungefähr so alt wie das Völkerrecht selbst: Denn Streitigkeiten über die Verteilung globaler Ressourcen und die Auswirkungen von menschengemachter Umweltverschmutzung...

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Rule of Law Rules #4: “The Data Privacy Today Divided the World into Three Big Regions.”

“Rule of Law Rules” is our new podcast on Rule of Law in the age of digitalization from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. The host of the podcast is Dr Angela Daly, a...

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Listen: A very short history of public international law

Lena Faber Niklas Gantenberg

We are happy to present an episode of the podcast series “Public International Law in a Nutshell”. The podcast was produced in a podcast seminar (‘Public International Law in a...

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Livestream: Animals in International Law

Um Tiere im Völkerecht geht es im ersten Online-Seminar der HeiParisMax-Partnerschaft, das per Livestream auf dem Völkerrechtsblog verfolgt werden kann: Am 16. April 2021 (14:30-16:30) wird Professorin Anne Peters den...

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#4 Das Gewaltverbot

Erik Tuchtfeld Philipp Eschenhagen Isabel Lischewski Sophie Schuberth

Der Krieg als Mittel der Politik: Das ist im heutigen Völkerrecht nicht mehr zulässig. Nichtsdestotrotz werden nach wie vor Kriege geführt und gegen das Gewaltverbot verstoßen. Isabel erklärt, welche...

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