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Despite its enormous growth in importance over the last 20 years or so, the History of International Law as an academic sub-discipline has so far widely neglected private international law....

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Seline Trevisanut, and through the following questions, we will try to...

As a brat summer is slowly giving its spot to a very demure fall and as our mid-year break has officially ended, we are writing to welcome you back to...

Priorities in international human rights are undergoing a significant transformation as a result of the growing preoccupation with “atrocity crimes”, argued recently New York University law professor and former UN...

The differentiation between war and peace is central to the historiography of international relations and international law. In her new book “They Called it Peace”, Lauren Benton shows how violence...

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Machiko Kanetake, and through the following questions, we will try to...

It has been said that “satellites don’t have mothers”. However, a nuclear-material-laden satellite detonating in space could have consequences that produce ripple effects on global peace and security. This threat...

In his book The Atlantic Realists, Matthew Specter presents a genealogy of modern realism as a discourse between US-American and German intellectuals. An interview about the origins of the central...

International Investment Law (IIL) has long been understood as counterproductive to adopting effective climate change policy. As IIL aims for predictable investment protection, International Climate Change Law (ICCL) requires flexibility...

While the UN and almost every region around the world have explicitly recognized the right to a healthy environment, there is one region that still lacks this right: Europe. But...

Welcome to Part II of What #Ö Read during the Mid-Year Break (read Part I here).   Reading KafKant at the End of “the End of History” (or Summer) Immanuel...

Finding inspiration (under the sun) This year, we decided to document some of our readings during the mid-year break and share it on the blog. Although the places where our...

  In den letzten Monaten häufen sich Berichten von targeted killings hochrangiger militärischer und politischer Führungspersonen außerhalb unmittelbarer Kampfgebiete, wie die Tötung von Fuad Schukr, einem Hisbollah-Kommandeur, in Beirut oder...

Fugue Liberal Legal Order Re:dux, Re:boot, Re:turn. “The liberal international legal order is dead. Long live the liberal international legal order!” This, it seems, remains the paradox of our contemporary...

re:sources Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Sabanoh Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)

re:sources Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Sabanoh Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)

juris:generative Maya Youssef, Breakthrough Classic FM session Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)

juris:generative Maya Youssef, Breakthrough Classic FM session Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)

response:ability Anna Tijoux, Niñx Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)

response:ability Anna Tijoux, Niñx Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)

response:ability Anna Tijoux, Niñx Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)

state:hood Nitin Sawnhey, Homelands Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)

state:hood Nitin Sawnhey, Homelands Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)

When walking down Hobrechtstraße in Berlin-Neukölln, Germany on the last weekend of June 2024, it was hard not to contemplate questions of order and disorder. Two persons dressed in what...