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Transnational environmental crime (TEC) has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges of our time. As the third most profitable criminal activity worldwide, TEC exacerbates climate change, undermines human...

Informal workers at the bottom of supply chains in agriculture, mining, artificial intelligence, and the automobile industry are often overlooked and excluded from legal protections. Consequently, they are subjected to...

Over the past decades, hostage diplomacy has emerged as a growing threat to international security. In particular, states such as China, Iran, Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela have increasingly employed this...

Prompted by frustration over climate inaction and unchecked extractivism, the campaign to add ecocide to the mandate of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the 5th international crime has gained...

This symposium has called for critical assessments of recent legal instruments dealing with the growing relevance of human rights and environmental considerations in the context of transnational corporate operations. With...

When Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court delivered its judgment in Prosecutor v. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (‘Ali Kushayb’) on 6 October 2025, it finally closed a file...

Introduction In I.C. v. the Republic of Moldova, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) established that the state policy of ‘deinstitutionalisation’ of mentally handicapped people from state care institutions...

As it already attempted towards the end of its first term in 2020, the Trump administration is currently planning to radically restrict the visas granted to foreign journalists. Under a...

Much has been written already about the landmark Advisory Opinion on Climate Change (hereinafter ‘AO’) of the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’) and much more will follow. While the ICJ...

Dr Ridings, thank you very much for accepting this kind invitation, which will constitute part of the Völkerrechtsblog symposium. The Person behind the Practitioner. [PR] Thank you for inviting me...

In a previous piece for EJIL: Talk, I examined the European Court of Human Rights' (ECtHR) judgment in Yevstifeyev and Others v. Russia, where the Court addressed two applications. The...

In December 2024, the Philippines’ new navy chief suggested that the Philippines’ military could adopt its own “gray zone” operations in the South China Sea (SCS) to counter those used...

In recent years, Colombia and Peru have clashed over the sovereignty of Isla Santa Rosa, a landmass formed in the 1960s by Amazon River sedimentation. Over time, accretion joined it...

The growing appeal of the Rights of Nature (RoN) framework reflects a significant evolution in legal and ecological thought. It challenges anthropocentric assumptions and tries to reposition nature not just...

It has been argued that Israel's “Operation Rising Lion” cannot be justified under jus ad bellum, because it fails the necessity and proportionality criteria for self-defense. This post contends that...

Recent Advisory Opinions from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) mark a...

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...

The following text is published in the category of “Open Letters and Statements“.    The ongoing wholesale destruction of Gaza and starvation of its population by the State of Israel...

Dieser Beitrag erscheint in der Kategorie ‚Offene Briefe und Stellungnahmen‘.    Die andauernde umfassende Verwüstung des Gazastreifens und das Aushungern seiner Bevölke­rung durch den Staat Israel erfordern dringend ein Handeln...

Recently, particularly in Europe, the obligations towards refugees and asylum seekers have become a game of cat and mouse, whereby obligations are created, and loopholes or other legally sound ways...

Once again, Völkerrechtsblog is looking for new volunteer members to join the Editorial Team! Völkerrechtsblog is an academic blog on all matters of public international law and international legal thought. It...

Since the start of the second Trump presidency, the geopolitical tensions surrounding the regulation of the digital sphere have reached new heights. European regulation, such as the Digital Services Act...

The impact of harmful stereotypes on the enjoyment of human rights is increasingly acknowledged in the human rights discourse. However, the exact legal scope of States’ obligations to combat harmful...