Finding the Truth After Fifty Years
06.10.2026
Brian Dooley
Suchita Uppal
Time has made killings from the Northern Ireland conflict difficult to adjudicate, but recent inquests show that coroners can still establish what happened more than 50 years ago. On April 30...
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Can International Law Form Its Own General Principles?
05.10.2026
Merlin Alexander Weinem
General principles of law are the third primary source of international law, alongside treaties and customary international law. However, there is disagreement among states and scholars regarding the method by...
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Legal Vacuum or Legal Uncertainty in Strasbourg
On 2 July 2026, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered one decision and one judgment in two cases which, whilst resting on different facts, raised the same legal...
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“Shoot-‘Em-All” Must Respect the Law
The Italian Senate recently approved an overhaul of the country’s 1992 hunting legislation n. 157, a draft bill referred to by the political opposition as “sparatutto”, meaning “shoot-them-all”, which would...
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When Death Becomes a Spectacle
30.09.2026
Andrea Farrés Jiménez
Technological battlefield innovations have been a central feature of Ukraine’s full-scale invasion by Russia in February 2022. This has been reflected in the unprecedented reliance on drones, as well as...
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A Vote Against Making Things Worse
On 28 January 2026, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) unanimously rejected a draft Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo Convention). The...
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The Right Result, the Wrong Reasoning?
28.09.2026
Sumedha Pradhan
Sourabh Bohra
Does the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (Convention No. 87), which never mentions strikes, still protect the right to strike? On May 21,...
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#59 Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt: Friend and Enemy
25.09.2026
Scott J. Shapiro
Elisa Costadura
Viktoria Moissiadis
Juan Manuel Klein
Rouven Diekjobst
This is the second episode of the cooperation between the Völkerrechtspodcast and the Mal nach den Rechten schauen podcast, in which we examine the continuities of National Socialism in public...
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An Elective, or a Foundation?
25.09.2026
Matilde Masetti Placci
Bhavinee Singh
Siddharth Peter de Souza
This blog post concludes the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at the University...
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Decolonial “And”
24.09.2026
Matilde Masetti Placci
Bhavinee Singh
Hilda Tizeba
Sukru Kagan Surucu
This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...
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From Inside Ethics Review Boards
23.09.2026
Matilde Masetti Placci
Bhavinee Singh
Morshed Mannan
Rebecca Tapscott
This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...
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A Form to Be Signed
23.09.2026
Matilde Masetti Placci
Bhavinee Singh
Chloe Young
This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...
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Beyond the Traditional Framework
22.09.2026
Matilde Masetti Placci
Bhavinee Singh
Rohini Sen
This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...
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Writing from the Margins
22.09.2026
Matilde Masetti Placci
Bhavinee Singh
Ahmed Raza Memon
This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...
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Unravelling the Neutral Scholar
21.09.2026
Matilde Masetti Placci
Bhavinee Singh
Alexandrine Lamarre
Linn Pfitzner
This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...
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The Rooms We Wanted
The symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School” reflects on the...
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The Rooms We Wanted
21.09.2026
Matilde Masetti Placci
Bhavinee Singh
Btissam Boulakhrif
In July 2025, the University of Edinburgh published Decolonised Transformations, the findings of a four-year long inquiry into its own history of enslavement, eugenics and colonialism, for which the University...
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The Power of ‘Constructive Misreading’
Earlier this year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/80/L.65, which seeks to ‘translate’ last year’s Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Obligations of States in...
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Water Under the Bridge
In December 2024, China approved the construction of the Medog Hydropower Station on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, which flows on to become the Brahmaputra in India and the...
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Can the ILO Interpret Differently?
During the drafting of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969 (‘VCLT’ or ‘the Convention’), Sir Humphrey Waldock famously remarked that treaty interpretation is “to some extent an...
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Participation Without Authority?
18.09.2026
Swarna Latha R
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the CRPD) transformed the disability rights movement’s demand of ‘Nothing about us, without us’ into a legal obligation. Article...
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Western Sahara, a Never-Ending Odyssey…
18.09.2026
Franco Di Pede
In July, Christopher Nolan’s latest movie, The Odyssey, was released in cinemas. Alongside the enthusiasm for what appears to be a new masterpiece – one which has conquered the box office – it has...
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Walled in Not Walled Off?
Sweden has reformed its approach to child detention, introducing youth wings within regular adult prison complexes to house 15- to 17-year-olds convicted and sentenced to detention. This reform forms part...
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Claryfiying the Norm, Exposing the Structure: Thoughts in Response to Jha
In her contribution to the 17th of September, Himani Jha reviews my 2023 Hart monograph, Self-Determination in the International Legal System: Whose Claim, to What Right?. Jha engages with the...
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