Info
Call for Contributions
Völkerrechtsblog welcomes contributions to the upcoming symposium "Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective" more information here.
  • Article

Iran’s Legal Strategy in Hormuz

16.04.2026
Soheil Golchin
Geography remains Iran’s greatest wartime advantage and a key strategic asset in the ongoing 2026 conflict. The country’s rugged terrain, extensive coastline, and strategic depth in the Persian Gulf shape...
Read more
  • Book Review
  • Symposium

Pathology of Plenty

15.04.2026
Ameed Faleh
In the opening months of the Gaza Genocide, and more specifically in November 2023, the Bloomberg New Economy Forum convened. An annual conference linking world economics to contemporary issues, crises,...
Read more
  • Article

The Erosion of Diplomacy, One Tweet at a Time

15.04.2026
Ananyo Mitra
It is a foundational premise of international legal theory that law between states operates through consent, reciprocity, and the sustained practice of interaction that generates customary norms. Unlike domestic legal...
Read more
  • Book Review
  • Symposium
  • The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law

From the Pathology of Plenty to Carbon Metastasis

14.04.2026
Juan Auz
Lys Kulamadayil's The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law (TPP) offers a fundamental reconstruction of how international law is constitutive of – rather than merely responsive to – the...
Read more
  • Book Review
  • Symposium
  • The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law

Unveiling Hidden Challenges of Resource Wealth

14.04.2026
Francesca Romanin Jacur Roberta Ezechia
This piece engages with Lys Kulamadayil’s analysis of the so-called “pathology of plenty” by focusing on two aspects that emerge as particularly significant in the governance of natural resources. On...
Read more
  • Book Review
  • Symposium
  • The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law

The Historical Timeliness of Lys Kulamadayil’s Pathology of Plenty

13.04.2026
Priya Gupta
Lys Kulamadayil’s The Pathology of Plenty gives a critical account of the role of international law in governing natural resources, primarily those of the Global South. While readers might be...
Read more
  • Book Review
  • Symposium
  • The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law

Introducing the Book Review Symposium on ‘The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law’

13.04.2026
Khaled El Mahmoud
The current moment in West Asia is marked by a profound and escalating destabilization. Entire urban areas are being flattened through sustained bombardment. This material destruction is accompanied by increasingly...
Read more
  • Article

Humanitarian Exchange or Legal Normalisation?

13.04.2026
Anubhuti Raje
Since February 2022, the Russian Federation’s military action against Ukraine has been characterised, with unusual clarity, as a violation of one of the most fundamental norms of the international legal...
Read more
  • Article

The Law’s Apocalypse or the Law of Apocalypse?

10.04.2026
Soheil Ghasemi
In the early post-Cold-War years, writing about the “funeral march” of the twentieth-century history, Hungarian philosopher Ágnes Heller penned, “Man-inflicted apocalypse is the parody of apocalypse. […] Men are envious...
Read more
  • Article

Vergessene Menschenrechte

10.04.2026
Monika Plozza
In der Schweiz wird es als nahezu selbstverständlich vorausgesetzt, dass wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Rechte (WSK-Rechte) grundsätzlich nicht justiziabel sind. Während bürgerliche und politische Rechte – etwa die Meinungsfreiheit –...
Read more
About Völkerrechtsblog
Völkerrechtsblog is an academic blog on all matters of public international law and international legal thought. We welcome contributions from all around the globe on these topics.
Read more
Editor of the Week
Miriam Nomanni

Miriam Nomanni is a legal trainee at the Kammergericht in Berlin and a doctoral candidate in Marburg, currently working on her doctoral thesis entitled “Der Strafvollzug an Verurteilten nach dem Völkerstrafgesetzbuch”. Her fields of research include international criminal law and its tribunals as well as universal jurisdiction and the enforcement of sentences relating to international crimes.

Services
We publish events, jobs, and calls for papers related to international law and international legal thought and practice free of charge. Please send your submissions to newsletter@voelkerrechtsblog.org.
Calls for Papers
Journal du Droit Transnational (JDT) Volume 4 Issue 2 by Legal Research & Analysis Volume 4 Issue 2 by Trends in Intellectual Property Research 9th Gary B. Born Essay Writing Competition, 2026 Law in the Age of Hybrid Threats The Future of International Peace and Security: Conceptualizing the Securitization of Climate Change
Go to Calls for Papers
Jobs
Zwei Stellen als wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (50%) Eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (100%)
Go to Jobs
Events
Jour Fixe of the AjV Inter-Judicial Dialogue: Climate Change and Human Rights Nuremberg Academy Lecture 2026 Framing Human Rights: Authoritarianism, Migration, and Climate Change in the Council of Europe
Go to Events
Media
  • Media
  • Völkerrechtspodcast
  • Symposium
  • Women in International Law Vol. 5

#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...
Go to video
  • Media
  • Völkerrechtspodcast

#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...
Go to video
  • Media
  • Völkerrechtspodcast

#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...
Go to video
  • Völkerrechtspodcast
  • Media

#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...
Go to video
  • Media
  • Völkerrechtspodcast

#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...
Go to video
  • Media
  • Völkerrechtspodcast

#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....
Go to video
  • Symposium
  • Media
  • Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities – Second Season

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...
Go to video
  • Media
  • Völkerrechtspodcast

#48: Geschichten des Völkerrechts: Von Grotius zu kritischen Ansätzen

04.07.2025
Hendrik Simon Erik Tuchtfeld
  1625, also vor exakt 400 Jahren, veröffentlichte Hugo Grotius sein wichtigstes Werk, De Iure Belli ac Pacis libri tres, zu Deutsch: Drei Bücher über das Recht des Krieges und...
Go to video
  • Völkerrechtspodcast
  • Media

#47 Hungersnot: Belagerungen und Blockaden im Lichte des humanitären Völkerrechts

06.06.2025
Rouven Diekjobst Isabel Lischewski Daniela Rau
Die ohnehin prekäre humanitäre Situation im Gazastreifen hat sich seit Anfang März 2025 noch einmal verschärft. Israel sah sich bereits seit Oktober 2023 mehrfach dem Vorwurf ausgesetzt, durch die Blockade...
Go to video
Latest Symposia
13.04.2026

The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law

Read more
02.03.2026

Women in International Law Vol. 5

Read more
16.02.2026

Joint Book Review Symposium on International Organizations

Read more
Most Read Articles of the Last 4 Weeks

A Hungarian Bank Heist

Read more

Rebuilding the Ship of Theseus

Read more

Tackling the Taliban’s Birth Control Ban

Read more
Go to articles
Categories
Filter our Entries by Category
Most Recent Comments
» Thank you very much for your post. While the questions of framing and interpretation are interesting, it is also important to recall that the duty of non-recognition is not absolute...«
Júlia Miklasová
Go to article
» Brilliant and thought-provoking reflections! I particularly appreciated the nuanced discussion of the Court’s position between tradition and progress. As a small addition, you might find Yuval Shany’s goal-based approach to...«
Hendrik Mathis Drößler
Go to article
» Rabya Mughal, Fellow at University College London«
Rabya Mughal
Go to article
Submit your Contribution
We welcome contributions on all topics relating to international law and international legal thought. Please take our Directions for Authors and/or Guidelines for Reviews into account.You can send us your text, or get in touch with a preliminary inquiry at:
Subscribe to the Blog
Subscribe to stay informed via e-mail about new posts published on Völkerrechtsblog and enter your e-mail address below.