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Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Find our coverage of Russia's violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty and the ongoing invasion here.

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The Violation of Ukrainian Refugees’ Right to Reproductive Self-Determination in Poland

Nicola Dannenbring Chiara Rimkus

Rape and sexualized violence have been employed throughout history as weapons in armed conflicts. The ongoing Russian war against Ukraine is no exception to a long tradition of sexualized violence,...

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In Gratitude

Dimitri Van Den Meerssche

One of the most challenging parts of writing The World Bank’s Lawyers was coming to terms with its closure – the closure of its cover, its core claims, the changes...

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Disentangling Global Governance

Whatever happened to chaos theory anyway? Its heyday seems to be over within social sciences at least. With a longer history in ‘natural’ or ‘hard’ sciences, the theory became big...

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Die Rückkehr des „Bloody November” im Iran

Das International People’s Tribunal on Iran’s Atrocities (dt. Das Internationale Tribunal zu den Gräueltaten des Iran, kurz Aban-Tribunal) verkündete nach zweijährigen Ermittlungen zu den Ereignissen vom November 2019 in Iran...

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The Firm

In his ethnographic book on the World Bank, Goldman describes the bank as “a fickle place to experience and comprehend. Mental maps mislead, directional signs baffle, and paths through it...

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International Institutional Law “Under the Radar”

Michael Riegner

When I arrived at the World Bank in Washington D.C. in 2014, the Bank was in the process of incorporating a new agenda on security, conflict and fragility in its...

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A New Map of (International Law’s) Empire?

Guy Fiti Sinclair

In a (very) short story, “On Exactitude in Science”, Jorge Luis Borges tells how, in a certain Empire, “the Art of Cartography” had “attained such Perfection” that eventually “a Map...

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The Return of Iran’s “Bloody November”?

On 30 September 2022, the International People’s Tribunal on Iran’s Atrocities (short Aban Tribunal) delivered its judgment after two years of investigation into the events of November 2019 in Iran....

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Unsettling the Place of Law in International Organizations

In The World Bank’s Lawyers Dimitri Van Den Meerssche does a great service to legal scholarship on international organizations by insisting that the place of law therein is not guaranteed,...

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The World Bank’s Lawyers: Book Launch

Florenz Volkaert Tommaso Soave Ahmed Memon Gail Lythgoe Negar Mansouri Dimitri Van Den Meerssche

On Wednesday 16 November, the ESIL Interest Groups on History of Intentional Law and International Organisations and Völkerrechtsblog, hosted a book launch for The World Bank’s Lawyers by Dr. Dimitri...

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Erik Tuchtfeld Heidelberg

Erik studied law at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is currently working as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. His research interests are Comparative European Constitutional Law, in particular European Constitutional Courts, and International Human Rights Law with a focus on the protection of human rights in the cyberspace.

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Talking to Dire Tladi, Chair of the International Law Commission

Heike Krieger Helmut Philipp Aust Dire Tladi

Professor Helmut Aust and Professor Heike Krieger (both Free University of Berlin) speak with Prof. Dire Tladi, professor of international law at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and...

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Rising Before Sinking: The Landmark Decision of the UN Human Rights Committee in Daniel Billy et al. v. Australia

In its groundbreaking views on Billy et al. v. Australia the UN Human Rights Committee found that Australia failed to adequately protect members of an indigenous community present in four...

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“Ms. Mar Menor”: How Rights of Nature Entered Into Europe

Since 2008, when the Ecuadorian Constitution recognised and guaranteed the rights of nature, various countries have included this set of rights within their legal national framework in different ways, e.g....

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#22 Staatliche Hilfe zu militärischen Operationen

Sophie Schuberth Isabel Lischewski Philipp Eschenhagen Erik Tuchtfeld

Staaten leisten sich gegenseitig Hilfe zu militärischen Operationen, z.B. gehen sie Verteidigungsbündnisse ein, sie liefern Waffen an andere Staaten und vieles mehr. Aber was sagt das Völkerrecht eigentlich dazu, wenn...

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#21 Terrorismus: Reine Definitionssache?

Erik Tuchtfeld Sophie Schuberth Katharina Koch Isabel Lischewski Philipp Eschenhagen

Der 11. September 2001 hat sich im vergangenen Monat zum 21. Mal gejährt. Damit ist auch der „War on Terror“ nun gut 20 Jahre alt. Katharina Koch beschreibt im Grundlagenteil,...

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#20 Wirtschaft und Menschenrechte

Philipp Eschenhagen Isabel Lischewski Erik Tuchtfeld Sophie Schuberth

Multinationale Unternehmen werden immer mächtiger und steigern ihre Profite, auch in Zeiten von Krieg, Klima- und Coronakrise. Was bedeutet diese Macht für die Geltung der universalen Menschenrechte? Wie lässt sich...

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Law of the Sea and Naval Warfare in the Context of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

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Move, See, Listen, Imagine International Law (or Not)

In this talk Sofia takes you on a sightseeing tour through The Hague, the ‘International City of Peace and Justice’. But it is not a tour from A to B...

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Rassifizierte Grenzregime und die Grenzen des menschenrechtlichen Schutzes vor Rassismus

Sué González Hauck

In den vergangenen Monaten zeigten sich vermehrt Hierarchien der Solidarität bei der Aufnahmebereitschaft gegenüber ukrainischen Geflüchteten im Vergleich zu der Aufnahmebereitschaft gegenüber Menschen, die beispielsweise aus Afghanistan, Syrien oder aus...

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