Thou shalt not ‘break international law in a very specific and limited way’
15.09.2020
On 9 January 2020, the House of Commons – one part of the British Parliament – passed the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020, which enabled the United Kingdom (UK)...
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The Aegean Sea dispute on the edge of escalating
09.09.2020
The feud between Greece and Turkey in the Aegean Sea counts several decades but has lately sparked international concerns about the region’s peace and stability. On 27 November 2019, the...
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Invitation to sign: Note on the United States’ Claim to activate the snapback mechanism under Security Council Resolution 2231
03.09.2020
On 20 August 2020, the United States attempted to launch the mechanism often referred to as the ‘snapback’ mechanism provided for by the Iran nuclear agreement, the a (JCPOA) of...
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Creeping diversion from secularism in Turkey
24.08.2020
On 10 July 2020, the Turkish government published its decision to re-transform the Hagia Sophia into a mosque in accordance with the decision of the highest administrative court. Since then,...
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Violating international law through onerous procedural law
18.08.2020
On June 15, 2020, the United States Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review issued proposed regulations that...
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A turn to youth in international law?
17.08.2020
And they did it again. On 14 July 2020, the UN Security Council voted unanimously in favour of Resolution 2523. The resolution, being the third of its kind, focuses on...
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The complacency of constitutional courts: India’s Supreme Court and the Citizenship Amendment Act
12.08.2020
It is a common assumption that Constitutional courts in a democracy perform the role of protecting citizens’ rights against arbitrary use of government power. This is an important limb of...
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How is COVID-19 affecting Amazonia?
10.08.2020
COVID-19 has spread throughout the world as a health crisis with deep socio-economic consequences. While the focus of the effects of COVID-19 often lie in urban centers, Indigenous people have...
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“Stop quarantine, start war”
06.08.2020
National clashes between Armenians and Azerbaijanis have recently taken over media headlines again. In the ECHR’s Chamber judgment on the Makuchyan and Minasyan v. Azerbaijan and Hungary case of 25...
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A bridge too far: Polish-Czech border incident
05.08.2020
Agata Kleczkowska
Martin Faix
On 28 May 2020, when the Polish and Czech borders were closed due to the pandemic, two Polish soldiers, assigned to assist the Polish Border Guard, decided to relocate their...
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Orbit tax – mitigating space debris or aggravating economic disparity?
03.08.2020
Urvisha Kesharwani
Atika Chaturvedi
Since the launch of Russian satellite Sputnik-1 in 1957, the space industry has never looked back. Currently, there are about 20,000 satellites orbiting the earth, and with the private players...
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Ungleichheit ist die wahre Pandemie
29.07.2020
Die aktuelle, durch COVID-19 verursachte globale Krise hat nicht nur die Schwäche des hegemonialen globalen Wirtschaftsmodells, sondern auch die dringende Notwendigkeit aufgezeigt, die Verteidigung der Menschenrechte aus einer transnationalen Perspektive...
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Inequality is the real pandemic
27.07.2020
The current global crisis caused by COVID-19 has highlighted not only the weakness of the hegemonic global economic model, but also the dire need to rethink the defense of human...
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Incidental jurisdiction in the award in “The ‘Enrica Lexie’ Incident (Italy v. India)” – Part II
24.07.2020
After having addressed the existence, requirements and limits of incidental jurisdiction of UNCLOS tribunals under Article 288(1) UNCLOS in the first post, this post turns to the approach taken by the...
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Incidental jurisdiction in the award in “The ‘Enrica Lexie’ Incident (Italy v. India)” – Part I
23.07.2020
On 21 May 2020 the arbitral tribunal constituted under Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in the The ‘Enrica Lexie’ Incident (Italy v....
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An Islamic legal scholar as judge at the ICC: In conformity with Islamic law?
22.07.2020
Fajri Matahati Muhammadin
On 6 July 2020, Juliette Rémond Tiedrez wrote a fantastic article on Völkerrechtsblog titled Time for an Islamic legal scholar at the ICC? She suggested that there should be an...
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Turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque (again)
21.07.2020
The announcement by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to change the status of Hagia Sophia and to turn it into a Mosque last Friday, 10 July 2020, has provoked a worldwide outcry....
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Die türkischen Operationen Claw-Eagle und Claw-Tiger im Irak – Zeit für Widerspruch!
20.07.2020
Militärische Interventionen des türkischen Militärs in die kurdisch bewohnten Gebiete des Iraks haben eine erschreckende Regelmäßigkeit angenommen. Am 14. Juni dieses Jahres begann – unterstützt durch iranische Artillerie am 16....
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Collective punishment in the Indian-administered Kashmir
15.07.2020
On 19th May 2020, Indian security forces destroyed at least fifteen houses during a military operation against two separatist militants in Kashmir. This destruction of houses is merely a part...
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The governance of disease outbreaks in international health law
14.07.2020
Pedro Villarreal
Leonie Vierck
Katarina Weilert
In the first part of this two-part post, we broadly addressed the legal framework provided by the International Health Regulations (IHR), a binding legal instrument within the aegis of the...
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The governance of disease outbreaks in international health law
13.07.2020
Pedro Villarreal
Leonie Vierck
Katarina Weilert
A deadly virus starts spreading in several communities. Reports are issued warning of the potential fallout if no action is taken. Yet both national authorities, as well as the WHO,...
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Swapping livelihood with electricity
09.07.2020
Guinea’s Souapiti dam which is slated to start functioning in September 2020, is seen as a systematic means to provide urgent electricity access to the country. The construction of the...
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Time for an Islamic legal scholar at the ICC?
06.07.2020
2020 will be a busy year for the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Assembly of State Parties (ASP) as three elections are coming up in December: The elections of six judges,...
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A crisis (not) averted
22.06.2020
The COVID-19 led humanitarian crisis in India has resulted in, what journalist P. Sainath calls, ‘the discovery of its migrant workforce’. The number of internal migrants in India is estimated...
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Robert Koch, research and experiment in the colonial space
10.06.2020
German colonialism is an inherent part of both German and global history, yet largely neglected and transcended into the vast depths of oblivion. As Jutta Blume wrote recently in an...
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“Play it once, Sam. For old times’ sake”
09.06.2020
The parallelism of different international proceedings examining atrocity crimes committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar has been welcomed by many commentators. Indeed, international law (IL) appears to be showing its...
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The right to benefit from Big Data progress
08.06.2020
Recent developments in the United States and Europe have focused attention on the possible obligation of Big Data-powered technology companies like Google and Facebook to share some of their corporate...
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Bouncers beyond Borders
20.05.2020
Michael Riegner
Philipp Dann
Lena Zagst
Over the past two years, the EU has spent almost 100 million Euro to improve the Libyan coast guard’s ability to implement a “Search and Rescue Zone” in the Mediterranean....
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The role of soft law in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
18.05.2020
In an increasingly globalised world, health issues transcend the domain of national legislation. This holds true not only for infectious diseases, as seen with the current outbreak of the Corona-Virus,...
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24.000 EUR – für eine Auskunft?!
14.05.2020
Sebastian Bechtel
Philip Hofmann
Offenlegung: Einer der Autoren dieses Beitrags arbeitet als Syndikusanwalt für FragDenStaat und ist unmittelbar in den Rechtsstreit mit Frontex involviert. 23.700,81 EUR hat Frontex, die Europäische Agentur für die...
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The treaty to end all investment treaties
12.05.2020
23 member states of the European Union (EU) decided that it was time to fish or cut bait. On 5 May they signed a plurilateral treaty to scrap all intra-EU...
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Between the body and the politic
25.04.2020
Herlihy writes of the Black Death, “the plague caused divisions between the healthy and the sick, those in the cultural mainstream and those in the margins… and between the mass...
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Between the body and the politic
24.04.2020
The mute substratum of political life. This is how Clifford Owens describes the body. When things are going well, it silently slips into the background of public life. When the...
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Mine, mine, mine!
23.04.2020
In an impressive display of questionable timing and priorities, the US President may just have rung in the first round of a new space age. While “non-viral” news currently fly...
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A puzzle coming together
23.04.2020
Today marks a historical event in international criminal justice. Two former members of the Syrian General Intelligence Service will stand trial before the Oberlandesgericht Koblenz (Higher Regional Court). It is...
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Dealing with marine debris the ASEAN way
22.04.2020
Harsh Mahaseth
Shubhi Goyal
According to current estimates, about eight million tonnes of plastic waste are dumped into the ocean every year. As per a 2019 Report by the Ocean Conservancy and McKinsey Centre...
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Legitimation through executive order?
21.04.2020
Michael Friedl
Maximilian Gartner
Resource extraction from and mining of celestial bodies such as the Moon or asteroids has matured from a fantastical idea of science fiction to a contentious issue of international law....
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A missed opportunity at the ICC
20.04.2020
On 5th March 2020, the Appeals Chamber (AC) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) unanimously authorized the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) to commence an investigation into the situation in Afghanistan....
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India’s battle against Covid-19: The lockdown of human rights
20.04.2020
Nisha Gupta
Udaiveer Ahlawat
India is currently facing the largest lockdown in the world, with over 1.3 billion people locked inside their homes. While Prime Minister Modi adopted this measures to “win the battle”...
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Human rights, criminal law: pas de deux ou faux amis?
13.04.2020
International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and International Criminal Law (ICL) may be historically entwined yet are unduly conflated. Teleologically, the division is clear: IHRL primarily deals with state responsibility, while...
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Afghanistan finally open for investigations
07.04.2020
About 14 years after the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) started first examinations into the situation of Afghanistan, the ICC Appeals Chamber finally authorized investigations in March 2020....
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Land ahoy? Solutions for Statehood in a post climate change world
16.03.2020
Unmekh Padmabhushan
Devesh Kumar
Climate change is expected to cause receding coastlines due to rising sea levels. Geological formations like islands, rocks, reefs and other low-tide elevations would be permanently submerged, and this would...
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The citizenship test in India
13.03.2020
Ankitashri Tripathi
Anjasi Shah
The National Register of Citizens (NRC), published on August 31, 2019, which documents legal citizens in India, has declared 19 lakh (or 1,9 million) residents of Assam as illegal immigrants,...
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Der Alptraum in Idlib
12.03.2020
Am 27. Februar 2020 veränderte sich die Dynamik im syrischen Bürgerkrieg grundlegend. Durch einen gemeinsamen Angriff der syrischen und russischen Luftwaffen im Gouvernement Idlib auf die türkische Armee wurden mindestens...
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Voting rights for future?
11.03.2020
When John Stuart Mill referred to liberty as the greatest value that guarantees people’s freedom and right to have a choice, he pointed out that children were ‘incapable of being acted...
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Schnell heißt nicht rechtmäßig
10.03.2020
In einem Legal-Tribune-Online-Beitrag vom 02.03.2020 nimmt der Autor mit dem Pseudonym Johann Verhaelen die schnelle Vergabe von russischen Staatsangehörigkeiten (200.000 Einbürgerungen seit Mai 2019) zum Anlass, einige Fragen im Kontext...
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Is the spread of Coronavirus already a pandemic?
09.03.2020
On 26 February 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that the current spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) “has pandemic potential”. That is, despite the fact...
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40 days and 40 nights
05.03.2020
Eukti Garg
Abhijeet Vaishnav
The word ‘quarantine’ is rooted in the practice of quaranta giorni, which meant isolating ships arriving from infected ports for 40 days. For ages, countries have dressed the curtailment of...
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Staat oder kein Staat, das ist hier die (einzige) Frage
04.03.2020
In dem hier kürzlich erschienenen Blogpost „Deutschland als amicus curiae – Zur Debatte um die Staatlichkeit Palästinas als Voraussetzung der Jurisdiktion des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs“ kritisiert Özgen Özdemir Deutschlands Rechtsauffassung, wonach...
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When your landlord is North Korea
03.03.2020
In May 2018, Bezirksamt Mitte, the local authority managing Berlin’s central district, enforced a Security Council Resolution to restore public order. The Bezirksamt’s decision to close the “City Hostel Berlin”...
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And the victims’ voices?
21.02.2020
On January 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) unanimously issued its provisional measures order for the case of the Rohingya. Even though the international community has welcomed the indication...
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EGMR billigt Festung Europa mit Toren
14.02.2020
Am 13. August 2014 versuchten rund 600 Personen, den Grenzzaun der spanischen Exklave Melilla und damit die Außengrenze des Schengen-Raumes zu stürmen. Zwei von ihnen, N.D. und N.T., schafften es...
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One-eyed prosecution?
04.02.2020
The recent calls for the establishment of a new ad hoc-tribunal, namely to prosecute members of the terror armed group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), may re-spread the...
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Entre ambitions et réalités
29.01.2020
Circuler librement entre les États du continent africain ; résider et s’établir librement dans l’un ou l’autre de ses pays – voici les ambitions du Protocole au Traité instituant la Communauté...
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The 2019-2020 novel coronavirus outbreak and the importance of good faith for international law
28.01.2020
The 2019-2020 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak first identified in Wuhan, China currently stands at the center of the international community’s focus. The World Health Organization (WHO) issues daily situation reports...
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Grundrechte schützen – eine grenzenlose Verpflichtung?
23.01.2020
Mit Spannung konnte man in der letzten Woche eine außergewöhnliche Verhandlung vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht verfolgen. Die geheimste deutsche Behörde, der Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), musste sich im Rahmen einer Verfassungsbeschwerde den kritischen...
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SDGs and the rule of law: the need to globalize the ethics of legal tech
20.01.2020
In the context of the rapid adoption and integration of legal technology at a global level, this blog will problematize the consequences of the bias of current discussions on the...
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Zur Tötung von Qasem Soleimani: Wann darf man Soldaten töten?
16.01.2020
Der tödliche Drohnenangriff auf Qasem Soleimani und Mitglieder der „Popular Mobilization Forces“, darunter deren Anführer Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, wirft eine Reihe rechtlicher Fragen auf. Neben dem (an dieser Stelle nicht näher...
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The targeted killing of Qassem Soleimani – a short recapitulation
10.01.2020
A lot has been said, written and tweeted about the targeted killing of Qassem Soleimani and the aftermath since his death on January 3. This post aims to organize the...
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The Brexit agreement: an unlikely role model for the WTO?
17.12.2019
On the one hand, the WTO. This institution that was considered the ‘jewel in the crown’, has now been deprived of an Appellate body, a problem which is only the...
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Fighting modern slavery in Brazil
16.12.2019
Franz Christian Ebert
Luiza Soares Mariano Costa
Formally abolished by law in 1888, slavery – in its modern forms – continues to exist in Brazil to this date. In 1995, the Brazilian State officially recognized this fact...
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Saber-rattling in space
10.12.2019
Does international law entitle states to have military space forces? Recent efforts by several states as well as NATO to strengthen their military space capabilities re-ignite this debate. The issue...
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Climate change in the Security Council
09.12.2019
Wildfires are heating the Earth from the Arctic to the Amazon, islands are drowning, and the record for the hottest year has been broken every year since 2015. No one...
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Social media platforms as expropriated investors
03.12.2019
The reach and expanse of social media in the past decade has been enormous. With its growth, several legal issues have emerged. Particularly, instances of refusal to share personal data...
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The Gambia and the Rohingya’s nightmare
28.11.2019
The Gambia submitted an application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 11 November 2019 against the Republic of the Union of Myanmar for acts of genocide committed against...
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Justice for the Rohingya: three roads to accountability
21.11.2019
The past week (11-15 November 2019) has seen Myanmar facing an arsenal of legal challenges for alleged international crimes before the International Criminal Court (ICC), International Court of Justice (ICJ)...
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An unlikely couple
14.11.2019
We are currently witnessing a general trend towards more ethical consumption, more sustainable food production, and more awareness about the origins of products. However, it seems a far stretch to...
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Beyond the exhumation of the dictator
01.11.2019
After the pronouncement of the Spanish Supreme Court endorsing the exhumation of the remains of the dictator Franco from the “Valle de los Caidos” (the enormous mausoleum built by the prisoners...
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Europäische Einigkeit in Action: Menschenwürde im Strafvollzug
31.10.2019
Dass eine nationale Justizbehörde beim Vollstrecken eines Europäischen Haftbefehls ausnahmsweise dem Grundrechtsschutz Vorrang vor der Wirksamkeit des Haftbefehls einräumen darf und muss, hat der Gerichtshof in der Rechtssache Aranyosi und...
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Harmony in the Chinese just war tradition
21.10.2019
One of the fundamental characteristics of international humanitarian law (IHL) is the separation between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which was originally devised in the West, subsequent to...
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(Un-)Precedented?
11.10.2019
The communication brought by sixteen children before the Committee on the Rights of the Child to address the effects of states’ inaction on climate change seems at first glance unprecedented...
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More than just a scientific report
09.10.2019
In May 2019, headlines worldwide suddenly became concerned with biodiversity. News sites and journals all quoted a report from the United Nations and its alarming conclusions that a million species...
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International climate change adjudication: A means to amplify voices of the global south?
07.10.2019
Traditionally, the UN Climate change regime has been premised on an intergovernmental negotiations paradigm where political actors play the dominant role in the development of norms. In this post, I...
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Not for sale?
03.10.2019
Pierre Thielbörger and Timeela Manandhar have given an innovative and thought-provoking account of the lawfulness of the incumbent US president’s potential plans to purchase Greenland. Vividly and succinctly they make their case...
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Thank you, Greta & friends!
02.10.2019
Sixteen children, among them the popular Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, from 12 different countries have filed a communication to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child under...
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Nord Stream 2: arbitration notices from Moscow
01.10.2019
Sometimes the unimaginable becomes reality: Donald Trump, his Democrat counterparts, the European Parliament and the European Commission are all united – in their opposition against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline....
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Only a small step forward
25.09.2019
On June 30th, 2019, the European Union signed a trade agreement and an investment protection agreement with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. This is the third time the EU has...
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Repatriated to “Prison”
24.09.2019
The Rohingya, a religious and ethnic minority in Myanmar, have been systematically persecuted and discriminated against for decades. The government and the military (“Tatmadaw”) enforced various measures against the Rohingya,...
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Future of whaling vis-à-vis Japan’s withdrawal from IWC
23.09.2019
Priyanka Preet
Vini Srivastava
Japan conducted its first successful commercial whale hunt on July 1, 2019 since thirty years, against significant resistance from the international community, after it had formally withdrawn from the International...
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What’s next to preserve the linguistic richness of Indigenous Peoples?
16.09.2019
Alexandra Tomaselli
L. Mariana Olvera Colin
This year, 2019, marks the International Year of Indigenous Languages. Based on the United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolution 71/178, it represents a massive effort to finally raise awareness on...
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Manual scavenging: outlawed, yet persisting
13.09.2019
Shubhang Chaturvedi
Priyanka Preet
The stinking legacy of suffocation and stigma captures the degrading practice of Manual Scavenging in India. Twenty-six years after this repulsive practice has been outlawed by the Manual Scavengers and...
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A chain as strong as its weakest link
11.09.2019
In spring 2019, Mozambique was hit by a large-scale disaster. Cyclones Idai and Kenneth tore through the country on 14 March and 25 April, resulting in heavy rainfall and causing...
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Handschlag oder Kniefall?
30.08.2019
Timeela Manandhar
Pierre Thielbörger
Am 16.07.2019 hat die UN-Arbeitsgruppe „Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights“ (OEIWG) einen überarbeiteten Entwurf [revised draft (RD)] für einen...
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Entzug von Mitgliedschaftsrechten zur Implementierung von Demokratie
28.08.2019
Im Juni 2019 suspendierte die Afrikanische Union (AU) die Mitgliedschaftsrechte der Republik Sudan nach einem Staatsstreich des Militärs gegen den langjährigen Machthaber Umar al-Bashir. Hierdurch machte die AU erneut von...
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Poor due to climate impacts
19.08.2019
Angela Dua
Manthan Nagpal
UN special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Phillip Alston, recently released a report assessing the impact of climate change on human rights, especially the rights of people livingin...
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Are EU misappropriation sanctions dead?
08.08.2019
On 11 July 2019, the EU’s General Court delivered seven analogous judgments in a series of Ukraine-related sanctions cases, including that concerning Ukraine’s ex-president Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych is best known...
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After the trial is before the trial
05.08.2019
Keertana Venkatesh
Rahul Kanoujia
The interplay of international court decisions and their domestic implications is currently challenged in the Kulbhushan Jadhav Case (India v. Pakistan). In this case, the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...
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Finally holding the World Bank accountable?
29.07.2019
The World Bank (WB), a financial institution born in the Bretton Woods Hotel at the end of the Second World War which enjoys far-reaching immunity due to its status as...
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Identifying customary international law from the ivory tower?
22.07.2019
The discussion about the right of self-defence of states against non-state actors is in flux. Among the reasons for that could be new types of terrorism and conflicts which have...
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Strafverfolgung ohne Jurisdiktion?
11.07.2019
Felix Braun
Dilken Celebi
Die Chef-Anklägerin des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs (IStGH) sorgte mit ihrem neusten Antrag vergangene Woche für einigen Wirbel. Am letzten Donnerstag ersuchte Fatou Bensouda die Vorverfahrenskammer um Erlaubnis, mit ihren Ermittlungen um...
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In the wake of the ICJ’s Opinion in Chagos: Britannia waives the rules
09.07.2019
The United Kingdom recently reacted against the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on the separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius. Has the UK abandoned the international rule of...
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Conference “Cynical International Law?”
08.07.2019
The joint conference of the Working Group of Young Scholars in Public International Law (Arbeitskreis junger Völkerrechtswissenschaftler*innen – AjV) and the German Society of International Law (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales...
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100 years of the International Labour Organization or: You can’t have the birthday cake and eat it
04.07.2019
In June, more than 6000 delegates celebrated the centenary of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the occasion of the 108th International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva. A broad range...
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Setting the record straight how detention and indictment works in Sweden – as illustrated by the Assange case
03.07.2019
In a recently published text, Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Human Rights Chair, Geneva Academy and Professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow, felt “repulsion and...
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The US armed forces at the Mexican border – entering legally murky territories?
02.07.2019
The Trump-Administration is increasingly concerned about the security situation within Mexico. It views it as a threat to national security in light of its cross-boundary implications, such as the flow...
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Mehr davon!
28.06.2019
In seinem Beitrag „Neues Tribunal, neues Glück?“ vom 12. Juni 2019 stellt Simon Gauseweg umfassend die Möglichkeiten einer völkerstrafrechtlichen Aufarbeitung des „Islamischen Staats“ dar. Es geht ihm dabei nicht nur...
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Winter is (no longer) coming
21.06.2019
Climate Change is an all-engulfing global challenge, triggering its share of fear, skepticism and most recently outright denial. This reality is alarming. An IPCC special report warns of global temperatures...
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Lost in translation
17.06.2019
“Of course, international law is the same everywhere, so it’s not a problem, right?” is the response I often get when talking about my transition into German academia. Anthea Roberts...
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Neues Tribunal, neues Glück?
12.06.2019
Im Februar drohte U.S.-Präsident Donald Trump per Twitter an, Kämpfer der Terrormiliz „Islamischer Staat“ (IS), die sich im Gewahrsam kurdischer Milizen in Syrien befinden, freizulassen. Viele der Kämpfer sind Staatsangehörige...
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