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#36 Gender-Based Crimes
03.05.2024
Jan-Henrik Hinselmann
Isabel Lischewski
Content-Warnung: Diese Episode enthält Schilderungen sexualisierter Gewalt. Inwieweit schützt das Völkerstrafrecht heute vor gender-based crimes? Was genau umfasst dieser Begriff überhaupt? Isabel Lischewski skizziert die Entwicklung der völkerstrafrechtlichen Anerkennung...
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- Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog
Happy Birthday, Völkerrechtsblog!
03.05.2024
Pierre Thielbörger
I became involved with the blog first in the scientific advisory board eight years ago. In this time, I have realized how much effort, stress resistance, and creativity goes into...
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- Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog
Revisiting a Rejoinder on past Wrongs
As the Völkerrechtsblog turns ten, I have the pleasure of revisiting an old blog post, asking myself how it has aged, what has changed since and how the post came...
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- Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog
In the Tenth Year of the War
02.05.2024
Timothy William Waters
In 2014, I was invited to write a post on Ukraine. Everyone understood Ukraine’s crisis mattered, and wouldn’t be short, so I wrote three. Instead of discussing doctrinal unniceties, I...
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- Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog
Revisiting “The Right to Land”
01.05.2024
Robin Ramsahye
First and foremost, I would like to thank Völkerrechtsblog for allowing me to rediscover and discuss my 2016 blog post. At the time of writing, I felt it was necessary...
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- Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog
Debating Cosmopolitan Law – 9 Years On
30.04.2024
Christoph Brendel
When this esteemed blog was still in its infancy, I contributed a fictional conversation with two giants of philosophy and international law: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Georg Friedrich von Martens...
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- Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog
“The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same?”
29.04.2024
Sué González Hauck
Meike Krakau
Isabel Lischewski
At Völkerrechtsblog, we have quite frequently wondered about time, speed, timing, and temporalities. For example, when drafting an editorial for a ten-year anniversary, there is considerable temptation initially to divide...
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Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog
Völkerrechtsblog is turning ten years old - and we're here to celebrate, remember, reflect, and look into the future. What...
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Settler Violence Through the Lens of State Responsibility
Since 7 October 2023, public attention partially shifted away from the situation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. However, UNRWA has released alarming numbers: 444 civilians have been killed...
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Whether “Absolute” Means Absolute
23.04.2024
Arnold Vardanyan
On 26 February 2024, the Armenian Cassation Court published a decision following its earlier requested advisory opinion from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the applicability of statutes...
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Targeting the Assets of the Russian Central Bank
22.04.2024
Valentin von Stosch
In response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, western States have frozen around €250bn worth of assets of the Russian Central Bank (RCB). More than two years after the invasion, scholars...
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Resisting the Allure of Future Generations’ Rights
On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered much-anticipated judgments in three emblematic climate change cases: Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and others v. Switzerland, Carême v. France,...
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Who’s Afraid of Human Rights in War? (Part II)
18.04.2024
Mischa Gureghian Hall
In Part I of this response, I addressed the background of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the fact pattern of Narayan and Others v. Azerbaijan before the European Court of Human...
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Who’s Afraid of Human Rights in War? (Part I)
17.04.2024
Mischa Gureghian Hall
From the ravaged streets of Gaza to the decimated cities of Ukraine, the calamitous consequences of disavowing international human rights law (IHRL) in situations of armed conflict have seldom been...
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Technical International Law
16.04.2024
Julian A. Hettihewa
There seems to be a mismatch. The horror in Gaza. The composure in The Hague. Civilians raped and killed or abducted by Hamas, Palestinian women and girls arbitrarily executed or...
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No Global Climate Justice from this Court
15.04.2024
Kilian Schayani
On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) published its rulings in three climate change cases. Certainly, the judgments will be considered as historical. Not only...
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Votes, Vetoes, and Vested Interests
10.04.2024
Shagnik Mukherjea
Sarthak Sahoo
The International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) advisory proceedings regarding the Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem have featured...
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Impact of a Constitutionally Recognized Right to Abortion
02.04.2024
Amélie Beauchemin
Louise Boulet
Earlier this month, France adopted a unique and progressive measure, becoming the only country in the world to recognize the freedom to have an abortion in its Constitution. The Constitutional...
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- The Person Behind the Academic
Chatting with Vladyslav Lanovoy
29.03.2024
Vladyslav Lanovoy
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Vladyslav Lanovoy, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Opening the World of International Law Education
28.03.2024
Raffaela Kunz
Max Milas
Sué González Hauck
Yota Negishi
Miharu Hirano
Earlier this month, the book Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach was published. It is the first-ever openly accessible and collectively written textbook from different perspectives with digital pedagogical materials....
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Call for reflectiÖns on “Ordering and Disordering”
27.03.2024
Sué González Hauck
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
„For me now, what I’m realizing is I’m done trying to treat people as if they’re finished beings. Because we’re all unfinished basically, we’re all unravelling. So it's very unfair...
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- ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine
The Imperial Project of France in Mexico and the “Official” Absence of the Monroe Doctrine
In 1896 American historian Frederic Bancroft wrote that the “(…) Monroe Doctrine was absolutely superfluous during the French Intervention as it was no part of International Law”. Indeed, the case...
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Is the Harmonisation of IHL and IHRL Eroding?
18.03.2024
Tabriz Musayev
Editor's note: a two-part rebuttal to this piece by Mischa Gureghian Hall has been published on Völkerrechtsblog (see Part I and Part II). On 19 December 2023, the European...
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- The Person Behind the Academic
Chatting with André Nollkaemper
15.03.2024
André Nollkaemper
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. André Nollkaemper, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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