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Shortly after his election, President Joe Biden announced a number of issues he would tackle during his first days in office. Amongst others, this included reversing the effects of what...

Valentin Jeutner’s book [l]ex machina: Unlikely encounters of international law and technology is a collection of international law poetry and international law visual art works that he created with the...

COVID-19 has spread all over the world, unequivocally reaching countries of very different socio-economic development. Yet, COVID-19 has unequally affected different groups and communities around the world and continues to...

The issue of sexual enslavement of Korean women during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945 has been called ‘the most emotional historical dispute’ between South...

Am 25. Januar 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann der zweite Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe "Völkerrechtslunches". Er ist Professor für Öffentliches Recht, insb. Europa- und Völkerrecht...

No “No-Deal Brexit”! On Christmas Eve 2020, a continent breathes a sigh of relief. The EU and the UK adopt the “EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement” (TCA) to resolve years...

Creating a framework for the prosecution of international crimes under universal jurisdiction is clearly worthwhile. But as the intervention by the German Constitutional Court (BVerfG) in the Syrian war crimes...

As lethal injection drugs are more and more difficult to obtain in the United States, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released an amendment to the federal execution protocols on November...

 Warum wird der deutsche Außenminister von der chinesischen Regierung kritisiert, wenn er sich zu zivilgesellschaftlichen Protesten in Hongkong äußert? Und was hat Nicaragua schon wieder damit zu tun? In...

Am 11. Januar 2021 ist Dr. Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger der erste Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe "Völkerrechtslunches". Sie war 2020 Präsidentin des UN-Menschenrechtsrates und ist Ständige Vertreterin Österreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen in Genf.  In insgesamt zwölf Online-Gesprächsterminen...

Following what has become a tradition, we start the new year on the blog with a little overview of the most read articles of the last year. While usually, this...

The Battle for International Law addresses the South-North contest over the content and structure of international law during the period of decolonization in the global South (1955-1975). Edited volumes are...

Considering the debates on current backlashes against international law and the international rule of law, the matter of a peaceful ocean governance has come under pressure. This is due not...

The title of The Battle for International Law evokes Rudolf von Jhering’s (“The Struggle / Battle for Law”). In this work, Jhering describes law as the product of struggle between...

Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann’s ‘The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era’ (Battle for International Law) is an ambitious undertaking. The editors along with their...

This interview is the beginning of a book symposium on Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann´s edited volume on The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era...

On November 30th, news broke that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) had decided to fast-track a lawsuit submitted by six Portuguese children and adolescents (“the application”), supported by...

In Africa, enforced disappearances occur in multiple situations such as during armed conflicts, in the fight against terrorism, in policing migration, or in dictatorial regimes. It has been used for...

It is estimated that about 1.2 million Syrian citizens have been arrested and detained at some point since March 2011. During this period, an estimated number of 99 000 persons...

‘Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh’, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2018. On 27 November 2020, the world remembered. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a man who Israel and the United States have...

König Rama X. - oder doch Privatmann Maha Vajiralongkorn? Wer "residiert" da aus Sicht des Völkerrechts in Garmisch-Partenkirchen und Tutzing? Darf er aus dem bayerischen "Homeoffice" heraus Hoheitsakte erlassen? Und...

Die Vereinten Nationen sind in diesem Jahr 75 geworden. Deshalb spricht Hannah Birkenkötter, LL.M., darüber, wie sich u.a. die institutionelle Struktur und die Arbeit der Vereinten Nationen über die letzten...