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Echoes of Nakba

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Selin Altay
On the 12th of October, Israel issued a military order for the residents of northern and central Gaza, encompassing a population of 1.1 million Gazans, to make their way to...
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On Struggle and Contextualised History

13.02.2024
Steven L.B. Jensen Hendrik Simon
While we talked about new histories of social rights in Part I of our interview, the second part of the interview with Steven Jensen is about political history and the...
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Against the Historiographical Hierarchization of Human Rights

12.02.2024
Steven L.B. Jensen Hendrik Simon
Social and economic rights have often been considered part of so-called ‘second-generation rights’ – falsely, as Steven L. B. Jensen argues. Instead, he calls for a new historiography of social...
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Chatting with Hilary Charlesworth

09.02.2024
Hilary Charlesworth Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Judge Hilary Charlesworth, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Every Day Counts

06.02.2024
Dilara Karmen Yaman Sabrina Seikh
Globally, approximately every seventh pregnancy worldwide results miscarriage, prompting a notable gap in legal discourse. This deficiency is exemplified by a critical issue: women in Germany who suffer a miscarriage...
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Germany and the Yazidis – Going back on a Promise?

05.02.2024
Jona Höni
When Josefine Paul, the asylum minister of the state of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), announced that NRW would provisionally suspend all deportations of Yazidi women and children to Iraq, this...
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Chatting with Dimitry Kochenov

02.02.2024
Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’, the first one for 2024! With us we have Prof. Dimitry Kochenov, and through the following...
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Another Reason to Maintain Friendly Relations

01.02.2024
Ilja Djatschkow
Julian Assange could soon face extradition to the United States. For years, this case has drawn public attention to the law and practice of extradition. This post briefly illustrates the...
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An Instrument of Extortion?

31.01.2024
Ole-Christian Tech
On August 6th 2020, US senators drafted an open letter threatening German companies involved in constructing the new gas pipeline Nord Stream II with sanctions. Nord Stream II is the...
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The Positive Complementarity Turn

25.01.2024
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I would like to thank the seven contributors for their generous and though-provoking analyses of my book. For a first-time author, it is humbling and rewarding to read how others...
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Analysis of the Obligations in International Law to Environmentally Remediate Munitions Dumped in the Baltic Sea

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#34 Kriegsvölkerrecht: Bergkarabach

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Philipp Eschenhagen Isabel Lischewski Erik Tuchtfeld
Wir schauen nach Bergkarabach, das in Aserbaidschan gelegene Gebiet, das faktisch bis vor kurzem von der Republik Bergkarabach (seit 2017: Arzach) kontrolliert wurde. Zum 1. Januar 2024 sollte die Republik...
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How to Undermine a Fundamental Norm: The Prohibition of the Use of Force in Light of the 2023 G20 Summit Outcome Document

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#33 Advisory Opinions: High Politics vor Internationalen Gerichten

19.01.2024
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Wie gelangen wesentliche politische Fragen überhaupt noch vor internationale Gerichten? Scheinbar zunehmend auf dem Wege von Advisory Opinions (Rechtsgutachten). Isabel Lischewski führt ein in die Voraussetzungen, unter denen der Internationale...
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With this post we start our new, open-ended symposium entitled ‘ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine’. On the 2nd December 1823, U.S. President James Monroe delivered his famous...
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#32 Kriegsvölkerrecht: Gaza

08.12.2023
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The German Federal Court of Justice’s (Mis-) Use of Effet Utile to Override International Law in Mainstream v. Germany: Shaking the Foundations of the ICSID Convention?

23.11.2023
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#31 UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention: Ableismus und Recht(-swissenschaft)

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Die UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention gehört zu den jüngsten Instrumenten im Werkzeugkasten des Internationalen Menschenrechtsschutzes. Besonders ist sie nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil sie allgemein so verstanden wird, dass sie (primär) keine neuen Rechte...
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