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Mr. Cohen, thank you very much for accepting this invitation from the Völkerrechtsblog, which will constitute part of a Völkerrechtsblog series: The Person behind the Practitioner. [IC] Thank you very...

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Judge Ioannis Ktistakis, and through the following questions, we will try to...

On 21 May 2026, the International Court of Justice (the Court) issued its opinion on the Right to Strike, for which the Court was concerned with the question of whether...

I love writing grant proposals. I know that is not what most people expect to hear — but it genuinely is the best part of my job. A grant proposal...

Since 2020, 23 applications concerning climate change have been made to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The ECtHR delivered its first climate decisions on April 9, 2024, when the...

Una vez más, América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) se perfilan como un importante escenario de controversia en torno al significado, la aplicación y el futuro de algunos de los...

Once again, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are emerging as an important site for contestation over the meaning, application, and future of some of public international law's most fundamental...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future possibility. It is the present reality reshaping every corner of human society. From automated decision-making in criminal justice to generative models composing legal briefs, AI systems are...

Under international law, Germany is not as irrevocably barred from acquiring nuclear weapons as is commonly assumed. In certain circumstances, Germany could be released from Article 3 of the Treaty on...

Macbeth begins from a problem that law also knows well: prophecy does not merely announce the future; it reorganises the present. The Weird Sisters do not place the crown on...

On 15 May 2026, the International Law Commission (ILC or Commission) considered the report of its Drafting Committee on “Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction” and adopted draft articles on second...

On 12 June 2026, SpaceX completed the largest initial public offering in history, raising a reported $75 billion and attaining a valuation measured in the trillions. The offering generated extraordinary...

International law has long recognised the right of Indigenous peoples to be consulted before extraction proceeds on their territories. But what happens when that right comes into conflict with a...

More than four decades after the end of Brazil's military dictatorship (1964–1985), one fundamental question remains unanswered: can those responsible for torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings still be shielded...

International law, as a set of rules, is presumed to constitute an order in which power asymmetries are constrained. Yet, the perceived “crisis” of international law reveals its foundation in...

Can economic sanctions constitute crimes against humanity (CAH)? The proposition may appear audacious to those who deny that economy can be wielded as a weapon of aggression. Yet emerging legal...

On 31 March, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran declared a list of eighteen American technology companies, including Palantir, Intel, Tesla, Microsoft, and Google, as “legitimate targets”. The...

We are honored to have Lea Kayali join us for a conversation on grassroots movements against arms trade. Lea, you are a community organizer, writer, and movement lawyer specializing in...

In Germany, attempts to challenge arms exports to Israel have repeatedly failed to reach the merits. Courts have dismissed claims for lack of standing, characterised alleged harm as merely indirect,...

In February 2026, the German Federal Constitutional Court declined to admit a constitutional complaint brought by a Palestinian applicant from Gaza challenging German arms exports to Israel. While the Court...

The unprecedented rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven digital technologies has transformed traditional capitalism (p. 66–67), constructing a structural system of exploitation termed “technofeudalism” (p. 170–175). In this novel architecture,...

This article examines how the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) deters illegal arms exports, focusing on the critical juncture where the international...