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International law has long recognised the right of Indigenous peoples to be consulted before extraction proceeds on their territories. But what happens when that right comes into conflict with a...

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Amnesty or Accountability?

15.07.2026

Marina Fonsêca Thiago Moreira

More than four decades after the end of Brazil's military dictatorship (1964–1985), one fundamental question remains unanswered: can those responsible for torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings still be shielded...

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When Power Asymmetries Become Evident

14.07.2026

Anny Matamoros-Pineda

International law, as a set of rules, is presumed to constitute an order in which power asymmetries are constrained. Yet, the perceived “crisis” of international law reveals its foundation in...

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Trump’s Sanctions on Cuba Are a Crime Against Humanity

13.07.2026

Aytekin Kaan Kurtul

Can economic sanctions constitute crimes against humanity (CAH)? The proposition may appear audacious to those who deny that economy can be wielded as a weapon of aggression. Yet emerging legal...

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Who Are Legitimate Targets in Modern Armed Conflicts?

13.07.2026

Feyza Gül Keskin Kalyon

On 31 March, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran declared a list of eighteen American technology companies, including Palantir, Intel, Tesla, Microsoft, and Google, as “legitimate targets”. The...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

“The Law Can Open Doors, but Movements Force Them Open”

11.07.2026

Lea Kayali M. A.

We are honored to have Lea Kayali join us for a conversation on grassroots movements against arms trade. Lea, you are a community organizer, writer, and movement lawyer specializing in...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

Courts as Gatekeepers

10.07.2026

Miriam Heipertz

In Germany, attempts to challenge arms exports to Israel have repeatedly failed to reach the merits. Courts have dismissed claims for lack of standing, characterised alleged harm as merely indirect,...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

War De Lege Artis

10.07.2026

Armaghan Naghipour

In February 2026, the German Federal Constitutional Court declined to admit a constitutional complaint brought by a Palestinian applicant from Gaza challenging German arms exports to Israel. While the Court...

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Digital Fiefdoms and Human Rights

10.07.2026

Dila Küçükali

The unprecedented rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven digital technologies has transformed traditional capitalism (p. 66–67), constructing a structural system of exploitation termed “technofeudalism” (p. 170–175). In this novel architecture,...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

After Victory in Domestic Litigations

10.07.2026

Shun Oshita

This article examines how the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) deters illegal arms exports, focusing on the critical juncture where the international...

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