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It’s great to be back. Like so many things, the Jessup competition had to move online due to the pandemic but this year the Jessup is back in person. Undoubtedly...

Cooperation Cherry-Picking at the ICC

21.03.2023

Franka Pues

On the 8th of March 2023, the Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a decision on the interim release of Maxime Mokom. While it held that...

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Chatting with Vasuki Nesiah

17.03.2023

Vasuki Nesiah Spyridoula Katsoni

Welcome to another interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Vasuki Nesiah, and through the following questions, we will try to get...

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New Ways to Deal With Old Crimes?

15.03.2023

Mara Ebbers Anna Müller

Do countries take responsibility for grave violations of current international law committed in the past? This question has once again been raised in the negotiations between Germany and Namibia over...

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Editorial #26: Springing into March

14.03.2023

Spyridoula Katsoni

March has already been a rather busy month on the blog, and as the second annual ‘Women in International Law’ symposium took over last week, you are only hearing from...

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Post-COP27 Thoughts on Greening the Cape Town Convention

13.03.2023

Nikolas Klausmann

In June 2022, the governing council of UNIDROIT, a Rome-based intergovernmental organization with the objective to harmonize international private law across countries through uniform rules, discussed proposals for their upcoming...

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Women in International Law Vol. 2

Goodbye Refuge, Hello Bespokism

10.03.2023

Zoe Bantleman

In recent months and years, the United Kingdom (UK) has increasingly shifted away from a robust asylum and protection framework and towards increasing reliance on inadequate bespoke ‘safe and legal’...

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Women in International Law Vol. 2

Forced Marriage of Afghan Girls and the Bifurcated Approach for Defining Persecution

09.03.2023

Cristina María Zamora Gómez

Since the Taliban took control of Kabul in August 2021, women and girls have been erased from public life and have had their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights...

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“Voluntary” Repatriation

08.03.2023

Natasha Yacoub

Voluntary repatriation has been upheld as the ideal durable solution for refugees by the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner’s Programme (‘Ex Com’) and has its roots in efforts...

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How Joining a Majorette Group Can Lead You to Being Denied International Protection

07.03.2023

Lore Roels

“… [Y]ou have been working since you were 17 ...; you are financially independent ...; [a member of a] religious community..., the choir ..., [and] the majorette group ...; [and]...

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