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‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. ‘The most globally pervasive of the harmful cultural practices […] is the stereotyping of women exclusively as mothers and housewives in a way that...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. On the occasion of International Women’s Day, celebrated on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog hosts the ‘Women in International Law’ symposium. Held each year...

On 2 December 2025, the White House published the National Security Strategy 2025. It contains the explicit invocation of a ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine. The US attack on Venezuela...

In May 2021, the cargo vessel X-Press Pearl caught fire off the coast of Sri Lanka. After burning for days before eventually sinking, the ship released 70- 75 billion plastic...

According to a widespread view among scholars, heads of state and heads of government are, and have long been, entitled to an absolute personal immunity from foreign jurisdiction (here, here and...

Despite two decades of jurisprudence and procedural refinement, the International Criminal Court (ICC or Court) continues to struggle with the length, complexity, and unpredictability of its proceedings. Much has been...

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The widely discussed (see here and here) legal basis for EU’s executive economic measures enshrined in Article 122(1) TFEU is commonly referred to as an “emergency clause”. Once again, this...

Since 15 April 2023, Sudan has experienced renewed hostilities, rooted in patterns of violence originating in the early twenty-first century. The current hostilities have quickly escalated into some of the...

What makes a lawyer a lawyer? The question sounds elementary, yet legal systems rarely confront it directly. Ordinarily, they need not to: the role is constituted through a familiar constellation...

Dear Orfeas, Negar, and Daniel, Let us start our conversation by taking a step back. When I first suggested doing a joint book review symposium on “A Theory of International...

This book review symposium comes at a moment of visible strain in the postwar legal order. As of this writing, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has described a ‘rupture’ in...

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed G.K. Chesterton International Organisations and the...

The task of bringing into conversation the edited volume by Negar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín on ‘Ways of Seeing International Organisations’ and the monograph ‘A Theory of International Organizations...

I was drafting this review in Bogotá in January 2026, at the precise moment when the United States crossed into Venezuelan territory and captured Nicolás Maduro in a military operation...

In Book VIII, Chapter 10 of Physics, Aristotle offered a detailed explanation of projectile motion. He theorised that throwing a stone involved different types of forces, and upon the exhaustion...

Opening black boxes is a recurrent idea in both Ways of Seeing International Organisations and A Theory of International Organizations in Public International Law. Whether addressing knowledge-production, natural and artificial...

‘When I’m really enjoying a book, I stop taking notes’ said one of the 2025 Booker Prize judges in a recent interview. I found myself in the same situation with...

Introduction: Diagnosing the Impasse from Different Angles International organizations law has long been dominated by what B.S. Chimni terms ‘mainstream international institutional law scholarship’ (MIILS)—a primarily doctrinal approach focused on...

Reading a book is usually something you do on your own. It is an opportunity to practise solitude, offering a contemplative moment of voluntary seclusion. It is the time to...

  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...

In proceedings supported by the Society for Civil Rights (‘GFF’) before the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (‘Committee’ or ‘CESCR’), in mid-October 2025, Germany was provisionally requested...