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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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Protecting UNRWA

18.03.2026
Wang Sijie
On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) published the long-awaited Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United...
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On ‘Taking Back Venezuelan Oil’

17.03.2026
Lys Kulamadayil
Even though previous U.S. administrations have certainly also pursued ‘America First’ policies, defined as the advancement of national, or rather corporate interests through U.S. foreign policy, including through overt and...
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Power by Other Means

12.03.2026
Rebecca Caric
Economic violence, the systematic restriction of access to economic resources, employment, property or decision-making, constitutes one of the most insidious yet concealed forms of gender-based violence (GBV). By undermining economic...
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Designed for Justice, Dependent on Politics

12.03.2026
Roos Fransen
In late 2025, the Council of Europe adopted the Convention establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine (Draft Convention), constituting a most ambitious effort to develop a reparations mechanism for...
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At the Twilight of the “Liberal” International Legal Order

11.03.2026
Aytekin Kaan Kurtul Onur Uraz
The operation launched by the United States in Venezuela on 3 January 2026, culminating in the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, has already been analysed through familiar lenses: the legality...
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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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