معاناة الأسرى الفلسطينيين في إسرائيل: مقابلة مع جنان عبده
18.04.2026
Janan Abdu
Khaled El Mahmoud
M. A.
يشرفنا أن نرحّب بالمحامية جنان عبده، وهي محامية، وباحثة، ومدافعة عن حقوق الإنسان، تقدّم الاستشارة القانونية للأسرى الفلسطينيين. تتخصص جنان في قضايا التعذيب، وتعمل في القسم القانوني في اللجنة العامة...
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#55 Der Verhältnismäßigkeitsgrundsatz im Humanitären Völkerrecht: Kollateralschäden verbieten?
17.04.2026
Valentin Jeutner
Rouven Diekjobst
Salman Khan
Jasmin Wachau
Zivilpersonen dürfen in bewaffneten Konflikten nicht das Ziel von Angriffen sein. Das bedeutet aber nicht, dass jeder Angriff, bei dem Zivilpersonen zu Schaden kommen, gegen das humanitäre Völkerrecht...
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The Plight of Palestinian Prisoners in Israel
17.04.2026
Janan Abdu
Khaled El Mahmoud
M. A.
We are honored to welcome Advocate Janan Abdu, a distinguished attorney, researcher, and human rights defender who provides legal counsel to Palestinian prisoners. Specializing in torture cases, Janan works in...
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- From Incarceration to Erasure: Palestinian Prisoners in the Architecture of Genocide, Apartheid, and Torture
Introducing the Symposium “From Incarceration to Erasure: Palestinian Prisoners in the Architecture of Genocide, Apartheid, and Torture”
17.04.2026
Khaled El Mahmoud
M. A.
April 17 marks Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, an international day of commemoration dedicated to raising awareness of the Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and to advocating for their rights and release. The...
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From Incarceration to Erasure: Palestinian Prisoners in the Architecture of Genocide, Apartheid, and Torture
This symposium, held in commemoration of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, examines the central role of incarceration within broader structures of apartheid,...
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Iran’s Legal Strategy in Hormuz
16.04.2026
Soheil Golchin
Geography remains Iran’s greatest wartime advantage and a key strategic asset in the ongoing 2026 conflict. The country’s rugged terrain, extensive coastline, and strategic depth in the Persian Gulf shape...
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Pathology of Plenty
In the opening months of the Gaza Genocide, and more specifically in November 2023, the Bloomberg New Economy Forum convened. An annual conference linking world economics to contemporary issues, crises,...
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The Erosion of Diplomacy, One Tweet at a Time
It is a foundational premise of international legal theory that law between states operates through consent, reciprocity, and the sustained practice of interaction that generates customary norms. Unlike domestic legal...
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- The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law
From the Pathology of Plenty to Carbon Metastasis
Lys Kulamadayil's The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law (TPP) offers a fundamental reconstruction of how international law is constitutive of – rather than merely responsive to – the...
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- The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law
Unveiling Hidden Challenges of Resource Wealth
14.04.2026
Francesca Romanin Jacur
Roberta Ezechia
This piece engages with Lys Kulamadayil’s analysis of the so-called “pathology of plenty” by focusing on two aspects that emerge as particularly significant in the governance of natural resources. On...
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- The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law
The Historical Timeliness of Lys Kulamadayil’s Pathology of Plenty
Lys Kulamadayil’s The Pathology of Plenty gives a critical account of the role of international law in governing natural resources, primarily those of the Global South. While readers might be...
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- The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law
Introducing the Book Review Symposium on ‘The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law’
13.04.2026
Khaled El Mahmoud
The current moment in West Asia is marked by a profound and escalating destabilization. Entire urban areas are being flattened through sustained bombardment. This material destruction is accompanied by increasingly...
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The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law
This symposium brings together a set of reflections on The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law by Lys...
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Humanitarian Exchange or Legal Normalisation?
Since February 2022, the Russian Federation’s military action against Ukraine has been characterised, with unusual clarity, as a violation of one of the most fundamental norms of the international legal...
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The Law’s Apocalypse or the Law of Apocalypse?
10.04.2026
Soheil Ghasemi
In the early post-Cold-War years, writing about the “funeral march” of the twentieth-century history, Hungarian philosopher Ágnes Heller penned, “Man-inflicted apocalypse is the parody of apocalypse. […] Men are envious...
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Vergessene Menschenrechte
In der Schweiz wird es als nahezu selbstverständlich vorausgesetzt, dass wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Rechte (WSK-Rechte) grundsätzlich nicht justiziabel sind. Während bürgerliche und politische Rechte – etwa die Meinungsfreiheit –...
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Who Pays? The Question the ICJ Didn’t (Adequately) Answer
The recent Advisory Opinion delivered by the International Court of Justice (the Court) on the obligations of statBlog es in relation to climate change (AO) has been hailed by the...
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A Right to Artistic Anonymity?
08.04.2026
Vanesa Menéndez Montero
“If you want to say something and have people listen, then you have to wear a mask”. This quote, attributed to Banksy, encapsulates the street artist’s philosophy. For Banksy, anonymity...
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Lessons Learned from the Minab School Strike
“We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI, [...] we will become an ‘AI-first’ warfighting...
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Sudanese Lion Cub Propaganda
In early 2026, Bellingcat, an open source research collective, published an investigation regarding ‘lion cub’ propaganda in the ongoing Sudanese civil war. It shows that both parties to the conflict...
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Gendering the Law of the Sea
Over the past two years, international courts have entered the climate arena with unusual force. Advisory opinions from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Court...
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From Private Harm to Structural Inequality
02.04.2026
Dilara Karmen Yaman
A Proposal to Strengthen Gender Equality by Understanding Economic Violence and Dependency in International Law “Economic violence against women and girls was one of the forms of gender-based violence that...
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A Hungarian Bank Heist
On March 6, 2026, an incident seemingly ripped from a poorly written crime thriller created the premises for new diplomatic friction between Hungary and Ukraine. Hungarian authorities intercepted two Ukrainian armored...
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America-First Alternatives to International Law (AFAIL)
In international law, the development of legal theories has always been a political weapon. The developments in recent months have further intensified the drama of the debates within the field...
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