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Call for Contributions: GenAI and the Future of (International) Legal Scholarship

16.10.2026
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping how legal scholarship is researched, written, reviewed, and taught. In this context, universities, journals, and research institutions are developing new rules and policies on the...
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Against the Suspicion of Machines

16.10.2026
Jean d’Aspremont
Fifteen years ago, on EJIL:Talk!, I mulled over what was then an emerging but hugely growing practice: academic expert blogging. I called it, only half-ironically, a “hazardous tool”. The hazard,...
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Reparations by Another Name

15.10.2026
Francois Naaman
On June 17, 2026, the United States (U.S.) and Iran signed a fourteen-point Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that formally ends military operations and establishes a sixty-day framework for negotiating a...
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Self-Determination and Judicial Silence

14.10.2026
Yasir Abbas
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has long recognised self-determination, including in its Western Sahara opinion of 1975 (para. 162) and Chagos opinion of 2019 (paras. 144–160). Recent decisions build...
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Editorial #55: The International Criminal Court Between Strength and Strangulation

14.10.2026
Patrick Siegle
I had finished the manuscript for this editorial and was quite looking forward to the weekend. It was to be a rather philosophical piece on whether international criminal law is...
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The Last Knight of International Law

13.10.2026
Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz
Don Quixote's first mistake is not to attack a windmill. It is to believe that the world still speaks the language of the books from which he learned how a...
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Protecting States, Not People

12.10.2026
Andrea Maria Pelliconi
Like all “landmark” pieces of international jurisprudence, the closer one reads the International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change of July 2025,...
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From East West Street to the Anthropocene: Philippe Sands in conversation with Hendrik Simon

10.10.2026
Philippe Sands Hendrik Simon
On the occasion of Philippe Sands receiving the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade on 11 October 2026, Hendrik Simon spoke with him about international law as a modicum...
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Ending War, Deferring Justice?

09.10.2026
Heybatollah Najandimanesh
Can peace be durable when justice is deferred? The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States offers a timely opportunity to revisit this...
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Four Petals, One Owner?

08.10.2026
Doudou Huang
In July 2026, a Chinese court held that Molly Tea’s use of a four-petal floral sign infringed seven registered Louis Vuitton trademarks, ordering the company to cease using the sign...
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Antonio is a Junior Researcher in International Human Rights Law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute in the Hague, he was previously a Research Assistant to Professor Sandesh Sivakumaran at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, he also served as a General Editor to the Cambridge International Law Journal. Antonio holds an LL.B. from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, a Certificate in Transnational Law from the Georgetown CTLS and an LL.M. in International Law from Cambridge.

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#60 Internationales Recht und Anarchismus – Brauchen wir noch Institutionen?

09.10.2026
Julia Emtseva Marie-Christin Manke Juan Manuel Klein Deborah Peters
  Anarchismus und Recht – passt das überhaupt zusammen? Und was hat der Abolitionismus damit zu tun? Auf den ersten Blick scheinen diese Ansätze kaum vereinbar. Gleichzeitig steht die internationale...
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#59 Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt: Friend and Enemy

25.09.2026
Scott J. Shapiro Elisa Costadura Viktoria Moissiadis Juan Manuel Klein Rouven Diekjobst
This is the second episode of the cooperation between the Völkerrechtspodcast and the Mal nach den Rechten schauen podcast, in which we examine the continuities of National Socialism in public...
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#58 Don’t Speak? Speech Crimes im Internationalen Strafrecht

04.07.2026
Wibke Timmermann Juan Manuel Klein Rouven Diekjobst Daniela Rau
 Speech Crimes sollen Situationen erfassen, in denen Menschen zu schweren Menschenrechtsverletzungen aufrufen, diese Verletzungen aber noch nicht erfolgt sind oder versucht wurden. Sie stellen damit ein wichtiges Mittel zur...
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#57 Fair Play? Sport und Menschenrechte im Konflikt

05.06.2026
Björn Schiffbauer Salman Khan Marie-Christin Manke Deborah Peters
  „Sport has the power to change the world.“ Von dem Optimismus dieser Worte des ehemaligen südafrikanischen Präsidenten Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) scheint inzwischen nur noch wenig übrig zu sein. Bereits bei...
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#56 Demokratie als Menschenrecht? Aktuelle Entwicklungen vor dem IAGMR

08.05.2026
Vanessa Vanegas Daniela Rau Juan Manuel Klein Marie-Christin Manke
 Gibt es ein Menschenrecht­ auf Demokratie? So ungefähr lautet eine der Fragen, die Guatemala im Dezember 2024 dem Inter-Amerikanischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte v­orlegte und über die im März 2026...
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#55 Der Verhältnismäßigkeitsgrundsatz im Humanitären Völkerrecht: Kollateralschäden verbieten?

17.04.2026
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    Zivilpersonen dürfen in bewaffneten Konflikten nicht das Ziel von Angriffen sein. Das bedeutet aber nicht, dass jeder Angriff, bei dem Zivilpersonen zu Schaden kommen, gegen das humanitäre Völkerrecht...
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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
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„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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