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- International Law and the Political
The Private is Political
30.09.2024
León Castellanos-Jankiewicz
Hendrik Simon
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....
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- The Person Behind the Academic
Chatting with Seline Trevisanut
27.09.2024
Seline Trevisanut
Spyridoula Katsoni
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...
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Editorial #38: Entering the New Academic Year Anew
18.09.2024
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Spyridoula Katsoni
Leopold Raab
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...
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Beyond Atrocities
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...
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Between War and Peace – On the Logic and Language of Imperial Violence. An Interview with Lauren Benton
13.09.2024
Lauren Benton
Hendrik Simon
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...
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Chatting with Machiko Kanetake
13.09.2024
Machiko Kanetake
Spyridoula Katsoni
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...
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Let Those Without Sin Cast the First Stone
12.09.2024
Kiran Mohan Vazhapully
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...
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- International Law and the Political
Towards Realistic Universalism?, or: Provincializing Realism! An Interview with Matthew Specter
11.09.2024
Matthew G. Specter
Hendrik Simon
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...
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Bilateral Investment Treaties as a Tool for Global Climate Governance?
11.09.2024
Alistair Lieser
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...
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Is It Time?
10.09.2024
Paulina Rundel
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...
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What #Ö Read during the Mid-Year Break (Part II)
10.09.2024
Hendrik Simon
Alicja Polakiewicz
Khaled El Mahmoud
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...
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What #Ö Read during the Mid-Year Break (Part I)
09.09.2024
Polina Kulish
Cathérine Van de Graaf
Fatima Mehmood
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...
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#39 Targeted Killings: Von Tiergarten bis Teheran
06.09.2024
Erik Tuchtfeld
Isabel Lischewski
Daniela Rau
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...
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- reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law
Contrapuntal Readings of/in/through International Law
02.08.2024
Michelle Staggs Kelsall
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...
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Is “Dis/ordering International Law” the Panacea to the Many Frustrations Found in Critical International Legal Scholarship?
re:sources Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Sabanoh Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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‘To Do Away with All Mediation’
re:sources Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Sabanoh Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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‘Re/de/composing’ International Law
31.07.2024
Marie Petersmann
juris:generative Maya Youssef, Breakthrough Classic FM session Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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Palestine, Israel and the (Dis)ordering of International Law
31.07.2024
Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
juris:generative Maya Youssef, Breakthrough Classic FM session Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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Dreaming of ‘Disorder’ and Imagining Reimagination
30.07.2024
Gamze Erdem Türkelli
response:ability Anna Tijoux, Niñx Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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Governmentalities of Disorder
30.07.2024
Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
response:ability Anna Tijoux, Niñx Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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Organising International Law
response:ability Anna Tijoux, Niñx Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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(Dis)ordering Anthropocentric Hierarchies
state:hood Nitin Sawnhey, Homelands Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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Reflections in Art
29.07.2024
Rose Sydney Parfitt
Michelle Staggs Kelsall
state:hood Nitin Sawnhey, Homelands Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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Embracing ‘Pataphysics of International Law
29.07.2024
Sué González Hauck
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
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...
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