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

On 10 May 2023, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) President appointed the Islamic Republic of Iran to chair the 2023 Social Forum. The upcoming Forum focuses on...

For peaceful protesters, the United Kingdom (‘UK’) has turned into difficult terrain over the last years. In the recent past, this has become increasingly obvious, especially by the way the...

Outer space has received a new high of attention over the last couple of years. Pop-culture, businesses and states have turned their gaze (back) up to the stars. Of course,...

Wir werfen einen Blick auf die sogenannten Menschenrechtsausschüsse oder menschenrechtlichen Vertragsorgane. Dazu zählen insgesamt neun Ausschüsse, u.a. CCPR, CESCR, CEDAW, CERD und viele mehr. Wie unterscheiden sie sich von den...

When the sun sets over Mar Menor, flamingos wade slowly through the silt at the shores.  The lagoon’s waters are shallow, used to be crystal clear and abundant with seahorses....

In March 2023, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) held public hearings in Beatriz v El Salvador. Beatriz deserves close attention. It is the first time that the Court...

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

International law is indeterminate yet, as Koskenniemi argues, it is also structured around a series of ‘embedded preferences’, fostering ‘structural biases’ and limiting the range of possible outcomes. Consequently, international law...

This episode of the “Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen” with the speaker Steven van de Put focuses on the increasing practice of states compensating individuals during armed conflict. The presenter highlights specifically the...

Feminist engagements with international law oscillate between seeking legal change from within the law and the need to look beyond that system to completely reimagine it. This well-known tension of...

Coming to this erudite text from Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAlL), I found much to agree with and learn. TWAIL is an anti-colonial anti-imperial disciplinary movement formative to...

A deepening climate crisis. A failing legal framework. A search for alternative imaginations. In this reflection on Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives by Emily Jones, I will engage...

Emily Jones’ monograph Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives is an invitation to explore how posthuman feminist theory sheds new light on a range of contemporary issues and debates...

Chapter 2 of Emily Jones’s rich and generative new book, Feminist Theory of International Law Posthuman Perspectives, draws attention to all the ways in which humans and machines “are already...

International law is all-too-human, argues Emily Jones in Chapter 1 of her penetrating and deeply insightful Posthuman Feminism. International law might well gravitate around nonhuman entities – the state, international...

Emily Jones is known in the international law research community as a co-host of the Essex Public International Law lecture series. She, herself a critical international law scholar, initiated this...

Medical impartiality, the principle that during armed conflicts or civil unrest, no one should interfere with the access to or delivery of medical services, is of utmost importance for effective...

On the 24 February 2023, the German Federal Ministry of Justice published a white paper  outlining proposals of legislative amendments that in its view seek to develop and strengthen international...

This blogpost does not claim to provide professional advice on mental health. The author merely reflects on personal experiences and relies on studies published in this field. If you are...

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

Contemporary sanctions based on extraterritorial control of national products and infrastructure such as currencies, high-tech products, and cyberspace are stretching established doctrines of states’ jurisdiction under international law. The presenter...

In what has been termed a ‘signature event’ of the Maltese Presidency of the United Nations Security Council (the Council), the latter held an open debate on the implications of...