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 Speech Crimes sollen Situationen erfassen, in denen Menschen zu schweren Menschenrechtsverletzungen aufrufen, diese Verletzungen aber noch nicht erfolgt sind oder versucht wurden. Sie stellen damit ein wichtiges Mittel zur...

Judge Mondragón, thank you very much for accepting this invitation, which will be a part of the Völkerrechtsblog symposium: The Person behind the Practitioner. [AMMD] Thank you, Antonio, for the...

Being a millennial who enjoyed the Erasmus program of the EU to its fullest in the great city of London might come with romanticising the early 2010s to an unrealistic...

On 17 May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General announced the outbreak of the Ebola disease, caused by the Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)...

Less than a year since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect to Climate Change (Advisory Opinion), its wider implications for a...

On May 21 2026, the International Court of Justice delivered its advisory opinion on the interpretation of ILO Convention No. 87, addressing whether the Convention protects a right to strike....

What happens when the International Criminal Court (ICC) concludes that the legal threshold for opening an investigation has been met, yet declines to take the procedural step required to initiate...

On 5 June 2026, Law No. 149-FZ entered into force. Signed by Vladimir Putin, the law amended two foundational statutes, the Citizenship Law and the Defence Law. The amendment of the former...

Two verdicts in the United States in March 2026 demonstrate that courts are increasingly willing to treat online platforms as designed systems rather than neutral conduits or editorial voices. In...

The richness of the symposium contributions presented on Völkerrechtsblog over the course of the past days has brought to light an evident fact, but one which nonetheless merits attention today...

International criminal justice has long been structured around a familiar temporal sequence: first, the violence; later, accountability. Investigations follow ceasefires, indictments come after peace agreements (notwithstanding recent efforts by the...

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Since Nuremberg, accountability for mass crimes has relied almost exclusively on a model centred on individual criminal responsibility, by transposing criminal doctrines and procedure from ordinary criminal law into contexts...

As we write this post, we reiterate our firm condemnation of the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide – such as in Gaza, the Middle East, South Sudan, and...

Die Europäische Union (EU) verhängt seit Russlands Annexion der Krim im Jahr 2014 erstmals in großem Umfang personenbezogene Sanktionen. Inzwischen sind rund 2.700 Personen und Organisationen gelistet (vgl. insbesondere Verordnung (EU)...

In May 2023, The Ljubljana-The Hague Convention on International Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crime of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes and other International Crimes (LHC) was...

2025 opened with an unprecedented challenge for the International Criminal Court (ICC). For the first time in its history, the ICC faced the prospect of having no future trials. While...

International criminal justice currently finds itself under tremendous stress. The spirit of international cooperation, which enabled the reinvigoration of the discipline in the 1990s and 2000s, has long since dissipated,...

On 21 May 2026, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its long-awaited Advisory Opinion (AO) on the right to strike, by ten votes to four, affirming that the right...

After Russia´s invasion in Ukraine, the European Union (EU) aims to “put to an end […] its dependence on Russian fossil fuels” and will place solar energy at the centre...

Both the ICJ and the ECtHR have recognized 1.5°C with no or limited overshoot as the relevant benchmark for assessing states’ climate obligations. At the same time, climate litigation aimed at mitigation...

Recently, there has been an increase in cybercrimes (see here) and their potential to cause tortious harm. Due to the inherent nature of such actions, they have transboundary effects and...

On 13 April 2026, the Paris Criminal Court convicted the French building materials company Lafarge and four of its former executives for financing armed groups in Syria during the Syrian...