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Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective

25.10.2021
Anna-Julia Saiger Michael Riegner Maxim Bönnemann
We invite you to send us your blogposts for a joint blog symposium to be published on Verfassungsblog and on Völkerrechtsblog. Selected contributions may also be developed into full articles for a...
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A Sisyphean Task?

20.10.2021
Paul Vitter Thiessen
The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) with its 55 member states (including the EU’s except for Italy) is the only energy specific international investment agreement. The treaty is increasingly put under...
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A Straight Line Towards the Sea

18.10.2021
Christoph Saake
Almost to the day six months after the public hearings took place (for a comment see here), the International Court of Justice delivered its judgment in the case of Maritime...
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Watch Your Facebook Comment Section!

15.10.2021
Frederic Kupsch
Recently, in Sanchez v France, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) swung the door towards social media users’ liability wide open, allowing not only politicians, as in the...
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Remedies for Bad Faith Violations

13.10.2021
Başak Çalı
In this blog post, I discuss how the Committee of Ministers (CoM) has developed the Article 18 remedial jurisprudence in the field of individual measures through its monitoring of the...
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

11.10.2021
Marco Vöhringer
Last year, the Netherlands presented their comments on the International Law Commission (ILC)’s Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms of General International Law (jus cogens). The Dutch report, which is set...
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The End of Indicators

06.10.2021
Michael Riegner
On 16 September 2021, the World Bank unceremonially buried one of its most controversial projects, the Doing Business ranking: in a tight-lipped statement, the Bank announced that “management has taken the...
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Editorial #10: On Equal Access to the International Legal Profession

04.10.2021
Justine Batura
The interns' room at Palais Wilson, hosting most of the UN's human rights activities, is a pleasant room with a gorgeous view of Lake Geneva. In contrast, the entry door...
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Re-rethinking the Amicable Settlement of Inter-State ECHR Disputes

30.09.2021
Spyridoula Katsoni
The amicable settlement of inter-State disputes under the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) was thoroughly discussed on Völkerrechtsblog earlier this year, during the ‘Inter-State Cases under the ECHR’ symposium....
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Is History a Good Legal Argument?

24.09.2021
Lucia Leontiev Punsara Amarasinghe
It has become a frequent occurrence for Russia’s top leaders to write about their views on the western approaches to international law and international relations concerning Russia or the Post-Soviet...
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# 10 Kritische Perspektiven auf das Völkerrecht

01.10.2021
Erik Tuchtfeld Isabel Lischewski Philipp Eschenhagen Sophie Schuberth
 Warum ist unser (Völker-)Recht so, wie es ist? Welche Machtverhältnisse begünstigen bestimmte Auslegungen einzelner Normen? Kritische Perspektiven auf das Völkerrecht hinterfragen den Kontext von Normen und ihre Entstehungsgeschichte. Weil...
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Livestream: Ecocide – Legal Revolution or Symbolism?

23.09.2021
Jan-Phillip Graf Romina Pezzot Philippe Sands Paola Gaeta Kai Ambos Jorge E. Viñuales
In June 2021 the first legal definition of the international crime of ‘ecocide’ was proposed by an Independent Expert Panel. Join leading international experts in the discussion about its potential...
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Rule of Law Rules # 9: “Legal Tech is Still Risky Because of Humans”

23.09.2021
“Rule of Law Rules” is the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s podcast on Rule of Law in the age of digitalization. The host of the podcast is Dr Angela Daly, a socio-legal scholar of...
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Livestream: Heidelberger Salon digital – “Welt(un)ordnung und Internationales Recht”

21.09.2021
Unmittelbar vor der Wahl zum 20. Deutschen Bundestag werden Professor Dr. Carlo Masala (Universität der Bundeswehr, München), Dr. Christian Marxsen (MPIL/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Dr. Carolyn Moser (MPIL) und Professorin Dr....
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04.09.2021
Today at 8:45 am CEST, we will livestream Prof. Dr. Sundhya Pahuja and Prof. Dr. Shaun McVeigh's keynote here. They will engage in a conversation on the theme of the...
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Livestream: Race, Borders and Jurisdiction

03.09.2021
Today at 5 pm CEST, we will livestream Professor Achiume’s keynote ‘Race, Borders and Jurisdiction’ here. This keynote is part of this year’s AjV-DGIR conference on ‘Jurisdiction – Who Speaks International...
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#9 Brennendes Öl

03.09.2021
Sophie Schuberth Isabel Lischewski Philipp Eschenhagen Erik Tuchtfeld
 Ist im Krieg wirklich alles erlaubt? Zumindest nicht, wenn es nach dem sogenannten humanitären Völkerrecht geht. Das regelt nämlich - insbesondere in den Genfer Konventionen -, wie unnötiges Leiden...
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Rule of Law Rules #8: “Access to Justice is in my View a Two-Sided Coin”

26.08.2021
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#8 Seevölkerrecht

06.08.2021
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Sommer, Strand und – Überfischung? Zur Urlaubssaison widmen wir uns einer der Geburtsstätten des Völkerrechts, dem Meer. Isabel erklärt die Basics des Seevölkerrechts und warum die Freiheit auf hoher See...
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