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An Unwarranted Free Pass for Extra-EU ISDS?

12.05.2026
Nikos Braoudakis Juliette Robert
On 31 July 2025, the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht or ‘BVerfG’) delivered a decision that revived interest in the German Federal Court of Justice’s (Bundesgerichtshof or ‘BGH’) ruling of 12...
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Offener Brief von Wissenschaftler*innen: Hessischer Gesetzentwurf zur Israel-Leugnung ist verfassungswidrig

11.05.2026
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The Limits of Liability

11.05.2026
Nigel Akilimali
Consider the following hypothetical: State A exercises jurisdiction and control over space object Ares II, which is damaged by space debris. State A seeks to attribute the damage by space...
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The Promise and the Limits of the Yves Rocher Judgement

08.05.2026
Pınar Kara
In March 2026, the Paris Judicial Court issued a landmark decision in the Yves Rocher case, marking one of the first instances in which a parent company was held liable...
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Nothing New on the Moon?

07.05.2026
Camilla S. Haake
On 2 February 2026, Elon Musk confirmed that SpaceX has acquired the billionaire’s artificial intelligence (AI) start-up xAI with the aim to ‘form an “innovation engine” putting AI, rockets, space-based...
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Adding Fuel to the Fire?

05.05.2026
Jannik Neumann
Whenever incidents surrounding naval operations, particularly naval warfare, come up in recent discussions, their lack of impact on legal development tends to be almost lamented. In this regard, the early...
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CDR (Carbon Dioxide Removal) Approaches: Friends or Foes?

04.05.2026
Manrique Naranjo Chavarría
The road towards the Paris Agreement was potholed, full of controversies and antagonizing positions of States. Ultimately, the normative value of some provisions of the Convention was left unclear (Rajamani,...
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قانون عقوبة الإعدام كأداة قانونية للقمع الاستعماري والعنف البنيوي

04.05.2026
Sahar Francis
This article is also available in English. لم يكن من المفاجئ أن يصادق الكنيست، في 30 آذار 2026، على قانون يجيز فرض عقوبة الإعدام على الفلسطينيين. كما لم تكن مصادفة...
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The Death Penalty Law as a Legal Instrument of Colonial Oppression and Structural Violence

04.05.2026
Sahar Francis
هذه المقالة متوفرة أيضاً باللغة العربية.   It came as little surprise that the Knesset, on March 30, 2026, approved a law authorizing the use of capital punishment for Palestinians....
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Call for Contributions: Symposium on the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine

01.05.2026
Patrick Siegle Adrian Kreutz Emīlija Branda Claire Beutter Aurelio Corneo Marie-Christin Manke
The establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine constitutes a significant moment in the development of international criminal law. Designed to address the International Criminal...
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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
Valentin Jeutner Rouven Diekjobst Salman Khan Jasmin Wachau
    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
Erik Tuchtfeld Isabel Lischewski Daniela Rau
„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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#51 Transitional Justice auf dem Prüfstand

07.11.2025
Jasmin Wachau Isabel Lischewski Rouven Diekjobst
Diese Folge nimmt Transitional Justice (TJ) genauer unter die Lupe. Unter TJ versteht man rechtliche und politische Maßnahmen, die darauf abzielen, eine gewaltvolle Vergangenheit aufzuarbeiten und zu  einer  neuen,  gerechteren...
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#50: Eine Disziplin (in) der Krise?

03.10.2025
Rouven Diekjobst Daniela Rau
Krisennarrative sind im völkerrechtlichen Diskurs aktuell allgegenwärtig, aber: Ist das überhaupt besonders? Ist das Völkerrecht nicht schon länger – oder gar immer – eine Disziplin der Krise? In Folge 50...
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#49 Reproduktive Rechte: Von Gewalt zu Gerechtigkeit

08.08.2025
Daniela Rau Isabel Lischewski Erik Tuchtfeld
 Reproduktive Rechte sind zurzeit vor allem im Hinblick auf die Frage nach dem legalen Schwangerschaftsabbruch medial präsent. Dabei umfasst das breite Konzept der reproduktiven Rechte weit mehr als das....
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6th Episode: The Moral Machine

21.07.2025
In the sixth episode we explore the interrelations between humans and machines together with Iyad Rahwan who is director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where...
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