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Dear Ambassador Alabrune, thank you very much for accepting the invitation from Völkerrechtsblog. This interview will be part of a Völkerrechtsblog interview series: The Person behind the Practitioner. Thank you...

The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York City, is well-known for its “celebrity” inmates such as Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, R. Kelly and Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of...

Inside every modern computer, smartphone, and data centre sits a component called a semiconductor chip. It is a wafer of silicon, roughly the size of a fingernail, engraved with billions...

  „Sport has the power to change the world.“ Von dem Optimismus dieser Worte des ehemaligen südafrikanischen Präsidenten Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) scheint inzwischen nur noch wenig übrig zu sein. Bereits bei...

War around nuclear facilities is no longer a remote contingency. It is an emerging test of whether international humanitarian law (IHL) can restrain military operations before nuclear safety systems are...

The urgency of reconciling the territorial limits of sovereign jurisdiction with the deterritorialised movement of data is a question of data sovereignty. Within Africa, this question is ambitiously addressed by Nigeria’s...

The CJEU’s judgment in Jakub Cupriak-Trojan and Mateusz Trojan v Wojewoda Mazowiecki (better known as Cupriak-Trojan) is one of those rare decisions that is not only welcomed as a rights...

There is no shortage of examples in which concrete instances of Polish history travel across borders to inspire political events elsewhere and elsewhen. Boris Nemtsov, who was until his murder...

Political neutrality occupies a central place in the constitutional architecture of international sports governance. Within the Olympic Movement, neutrality is described as a “universal fundamental ethical principle” embedded in the...

Today, for the second year, Namibia commemorates 28 May as “Genocide Remembrance Day”. On this day in 1908, the last concentration camps that were part of Germany’s extermination policy in...

Most readers would agree that the international legal order is not doing very well. I cannot gauge whether international lawyers as a professional community are doing well, but I assume...

Twenty-page communiqués from United Nations Special Rapporteurs loom over the United Kingdom (“UK”) and France, respectively, as the two countries advance negotiations over their reciprocal “one-in, one-out” migrant transfer agreement....

Can a claimant voluntarily renounce the treaty nationality that grounds his standing as a protected investor, mid-proceedings, and continue to pursue his claims? That question has been brought into sharp...

The 2025 ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change at ¶299 holds that “notification and consultation are particularly warranted when an activity significantly affects collective efforts to address harm to the climate...

Fourteen years ago, the International Court of Justice, in Jurisdictional Immunities, affirmed State immunity even for cases of jus cogens violations or human rights abuses. Yet, victims of State-caused harm continue...

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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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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...