Apartheid in Palästina?
27.07.2024
Ein Buch über die Frage, ob es Apartheid in Palästina gibt, scheint in der Zeit, in der der durch den Angriff der Hamas am 7. Oktober 2023 ausgelöste furchtbare Krieg...
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- Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space
Know Your Enemy and Know Yourself
13.06.2024
Five years into the submission of my doctoral thesis and three years after the publication of “Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space”, Polina Kulish’s and Tero...
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Zombie Self-Determination?
12.06.2024
As part of our mission to foster OA, we regularly collaborate with publishers and journals. For this review symposium, Bill Bowring’s review ‘Zombie Self-Determination?’ of Johannes Socher’s monograph ‘Russia and...
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A Journey for Understanding (Part II)
12.06.2024
Polina Kulish
Tero Lundstedt
This is Part II of the Book Review on Johannes Socher’s “Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space” (Oxford University Press, 2021). You can read Part I...
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A Journey for Understanding (Part I)
11.06.2024
Polina Kulish
Tero Lundstedt
This is Part I of the Book Review on Johannes Socher’s “Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space” (Oxford University Press, 2021). You can read Part II...
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Lingering at the Borders of an Argument
11.06.2024
Christian Pogies
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Any claim to the Right to Self-Determination is an exercise in reconsidering “belonging” under international law. Akin to a prism, it draws our attention to the contact zones between international...
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- Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries
Author’s Response to the Reviews
31.05.2024
I would like to thank Elena Abrusci, Maria Louiza Deftou, Vassilis Tzevelekos, Lea Raible, Mariana Ferolla Vallandro do Valle and Rick Lawson who contributed to the blog symposium by engaging...
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- Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries
Oasis or Mirage?
30.05.2024
Into the Desert Paradoxically, the longest chapter in Vladislava Stoyanova’s book on positive obligations is devoted to the desert: the grim and arid lands extra muros. Where States operate beyond...
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Positive Obligations, Extraterritoriality, and the Kind of Society We Want
29.05.2024
Mariana Ferolla Vallandro do Valle
As our awareness of social problems evolves and an increasing variety of complex scenarios call for assessment under human rights lenses, it becomes increasingly evident that determining the content of...
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Climate Change and Positive Obligations in the ECHR
29.05.2024
Stoyanova’s book, Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries, rigorously analyses positive obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), proposing a characterisation...
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In Dialogue with Stoyanova
28.05.2024
Vladislava Stoyanova’s recently published monograph on positive human rights obligations within the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) regime consolidates various earlier seminal papers of hers on the same topic...
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Delineating the Boundaries of Substantive Positive Obligations
28.05.2024
Given the duality of human rights law, encompassing not only the corpus of human rights proclaimed in treaties but also the necessary specification of the relative obligations of their holders,...
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Positive Obligations, Deference and Subsidiarity
27.05.2024
International human rights law and its enforcement systems rely on the collaboration of states to respect their obligations and protect rights. It follows that even when regional human rights courts...
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Introducing the Book Review Symposium on ‘Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries’
27.05.2024
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) has played a prominent role in the development of positive obligations while interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Variable factual...
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- International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability
The Positive Complementarity Turn
25.01.2024
I would like to thank the seven contributors for their generous and though-provoking analyses of my book. For a first-time author, it is humbling and rewarding to read how others...
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- International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability
In the Court’s Shadow
25.01.2024
The practice of international criminal law is essentially a series of compromises. Despite the purported universalist goals of international criminal law and its institutions, its exercise inevitably remains trapped by...
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Complementarity at the Regional Level
24.01.2024
Patryk Labuda has written an excellent book about the challenges and limitations of complementarity in achieving “genuine” investigations and prosecutions at the national level. He compares the experience of the...
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Going Beyond the ICC
24.01.2024
Daniele Perissi
Guy Mushiata
In “International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability. In the Court’s Shadow”, Patryk Labuda offers a very original analytical framework describing the interplay between the functioning of international tribunals and States’...
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Not All Shadows Are Created Equal
23.01.2024
A pronounced turn toward domestic prosecutions of serious crimes committed in violation of international law is highlighted by Patryk I. Labuda in his new book International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic...
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The Political Realities of Complementarity
23.01.2024
In its 1995 Tadić ruling, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) asserted that international tribunals should have primacy over national courts, in order to ensure that international...
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Mobilizing International Networks for Domestic Accountability
22.01.2024
In these comments, I suggest that we should evaluate international criminal tribunals (“ICTs”) as one aspect of an international criminal law environment that includes numerous, diverse actors with commitments to...
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Introducing the Book Review Symposium on ‘International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability’
22.01.2024
The notion of strengthening and advancing international criminal justice and its respective institutions and mechanisms has been all over the place in recent months and years: amongst others, the Syrian...
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- The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law
Editors’ Response
17.11.2023
Panos Merkouris
Jörg Kammerhofer
Noora Arajärvi
We would like to thank the editors of the Völkerrechtsblog for organising this symposium on The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law, and the commentators for thoughtfully and...
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The Evergreen Examination Question
16.11.2023
As ChatGPT-4 and other artificial intelligence machines are all but extinguishing the essay-writing practice, it is high time that we receive the right answer to the ever-green topic of international...
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Reflections on Customary International Law and Interpretation
15.11.2023
It is not often that one reads about Schrödinger's cat, the particle and wave qualities of light, and Latour’s idea that modern discourses are always driven by their foundational contradictions...
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The Practical Question of the Interpretation of Customary International Law
14.11.2023
The featured monograph in this symposium – The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law – offers welcome engagement with the question of whether there can be such a...
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Legal Appropriation or Rechtsnahme through Customary International Law
13.11.2023
Legal Appropriation or, what is the same, Rechtsnahme means in this contribution the space of human interaction that is appropriated by international judges, lawyers and other legal actors when they...
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Introducing the Book Review Symposium on “The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law”
13.11.2023
Jan-Henrik Hinselmann
Spyridoula Katsoni
Raphael Oidtmann
This summer, Judge Hilary Charlesworth made international lawyers very happy (some of them at least) when her dissenting opinion appended to the judgment of the International Court of Justice in...
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- The World Bank’s Lawyers
In Gratitude
25.11.2022
Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
One of the most challenging parts of writing The World Bank’s Lawyers was coming to terms with its closure – the closure of its cover, its core claims, the changes...
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Disentangling Global Governance
25.11.2022
Whatever happened to chaos theory anyway? Its heyday seems to be over within social sciences at least. With a longer history in ‘natural’ or ‘hard’ sciences, the theory became big...
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The Firm
24.11.2022
In his ethnographic book on the World Bank, Goldman describes the bank as “a fickle place to experience and comprehend. Mental maps mislead, directional signs baffle, and paths through it...
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International Institutional Law “Under the Radar”
23.11.2022
When I arrived at the World Bank in Washington D.C. in 2014, the Bank was in the process of incorporating a new agenda on security, conflict and fragility in its...
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A New Map of (International Law’s) Empire?
22.11.2022
In a (very) short story, “On Exactitude in Science”, Jorge Luis Borges tells how, in a certain Empire, “the Art of Cartography” had “attained such Perfection” that eventually “a Map...
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Unsettling the Place of Law in International Organizations
21.11.2022
In The World Bank’s Lawyers Dimitri Van Den Meerssche does a great service to legal scholarship on international organizations by insisting that the place of law therein is not guaranteed,...
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The World Bank’s Lawyers: Book Launch
21.11.2022
Florenz Volkaert
Tommaso Soave
Ahmed Memon
Gail Lythgoe
Negar Mansouri
Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
On Wednesday 16 November, the ESIL Interest Groups on History of Intentional Law and International Organisations and Völkerrechtsblog, hosted a book launch for The World Bank’s Lawyers by Dr. Dimitri...
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Ever Shifting, Ever Changing
21.11.2022
As international scholars, we have been trained to accept a certain role law occupies in international and global settings, and have adopted a very peculiar perspective on how to study...
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„Wissenschaft“ in Krisenzeiten
17.11.2022
Veröffentlichungen von Wissenschaftler*innen, die sich an ein breites Publikum richten, haben in Zeiten der Corona-Pandemie und des Krieges in der Ukraine Konjunktur, erscheinen sogar in Bestsellerlisten. Unter diesen Veröffentlichungen lassen...
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The Principle of Effectiveness
10.10.2022
Daniel Rietiker
Sofie Steller
In his latest book, Georgios A. Serghides, Judge and Section Vice-President at the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, the ‘Court’), delves into the interpretation and application of the European...
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Russia’s Approaches to International Humanitarian Law
13.04.2022
The pictures and videos of the brutal attacks against civilians in Mariupol, Bucha, and other Ukrainian cities have left us shocked and disturbed. With these disturbing pictures in mind, I...
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- The Justification of War and International Order
Discourses of Power and Normativity
04.06.2021
Lothar Brock
Hendrik Simon
We would like to thank the contributors as well as the editorial team at Völkerrechtsblog, and particularly Sué González Hauck, for putting together this thought-provoking symposium on “The Justification of...
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Rethinking the Justification of War
03.06.2021
A good book makes you rethink. It alerts you to things you didn’t know. It offers new ways of looking at what you already knew – or thought you knew....
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words
02.06.2021
Few legal disciplines seem to manifest such a consistently discouraging discrepancy between the law in the books and the law in action as the international laws regulating the use of...
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We’re (Not) Talkin’ bout a Revolution
01.06.2021
In a stupendous effort, Lothar Brock and Hendrik Simon have put together a volume that ranges widely in perspectives and ‘traditions of justification’ (p. 8). Their book, ‘The Justification of...
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War and International Order: The Old and the New
31.05.2021
Lothar Brock and Hendrik Simon’s edited book on The Justification of War and International Order (2021) is a rich volume that brings together scholars from across international law, political theory, history, and international...
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War! What Is It Good For?
31.05.2021
Sué González Hauck
Sebastian M. Spitra
Nesa Zimmermann
‘The history of war is also a history of its justification’ (p. 3) – this is the momentous starting point of the volume on The Justification of War and International...
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- The Battle for International Law
Decolonization as Dialectic Process in Law and Literature
31.12.2020
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...
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Worthy of the “increasingly global perspective”?
30.12.2020
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...
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It’s the system, stupid!
29.12.2020
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...
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Water under the bridge?
28.12.2020
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...
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“‘The West’ might not exist anymore”
24.12.2020
Christian Pogies
Anna-Julia Saiger
Sebastian M. Spitra
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...
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- Crimes Against Humanity
Transnational biographies and “legal flows”
02.10.2020
I feel honoured by the inspiring comments my book has received from so many eminent colleagues, and I would like to thank everybody, and also the Völkerrechtsblog for the opportunity...
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A melody for legal reform?
01.10.2020
In Crimes Against Humanity, Kerstin von Lingen proposes a twofold argument about the history of the eponymous concept. First, von Lingen emphasizes the longue-durée history of crimes against humanity as...
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A (time) travelling concept
28.09.2020
In May 2001, the French National Assembly passed the so-called Lois Taubina which retroactively decreed the colonial slave trade as a "crime against humanity". In 2019, Pope Francis publicly called...
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Civilizing wartime violence?
24.09.2020
For many years, legal concepts were a domain of legal analysis in which the historical context was hardly addressed. This has slowly changed since the beginning of the 21st century,...
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A matter of evolution, not invention
23.09.2020
On the morning of Sunday July 29th 1945, Robert Jackson, recently named as Chief Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal to be established in Nuremberg, was driven from his hotel...
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Symposium introduction: crimes against humanity
22.09.2020
Sebastian M. Spitra
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
This post is the opening of a symposium on Kerstin von Lingen’s award-winning book Crimes Against Humanity. Eine Ideengeschichte der Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt 1864–1945. The book looks at the intellectual...
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Summer Reading List of the #Ö
21.08.2020
Dana Schmalz
Sué González Hauck
Sebastian M. Spitra
In today’s second part of our Summer Reading List, Sué Gonzáles Hauck introduces Lea David’s ‘The Past Can’t Heal Us’, Dana Schmalz reviews Étienne Balibar’s ‘Secularism and Cosmopolitanism’, and Sebastian...
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Summer Reading List of the #Ö
19.08.2020
Thomas Dollmaier
Philipp Eschenhagen
Out of all seasons, summer is the best time to read, in my opinion. You can find a shady spot below your favorite tree, sip wine outside while watching how...
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- Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity
Indigenous peoples and biodiversity law in Ecuador
08.07.2020
Alexandra Tomaselli
Daqui Lema Maldonado
The book symposium on Federica Cittadino’s attempt to incorporate indigenous rights in international biodiversity law raised various theoretical and practical issues for international legal scholarship. But how is the link...
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Incorporating indigenous rights in the CBD
30.06.2020
Let me start by thanking the symposium’s editors and the three researchers that have accepted to review my work for their thoughtful comments and for sparking a lively discussion. In...
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Two opposing commitments?
29.06.2020
Federica Cittadino’s book examines the tension that underpins the relationship between two key commitments undertaken by the international community, namely the commitment to protect indigenous people’s rights and the commitment...
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Indigenous power beyond human rights
26.06.2020
Indigenous power in international law has long been subsumed under the language of international human rights, and we have turned ourselves blind to other possibilities in international law that Indigenous...
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Traditional knowledge and customary law
25.06.2020
While the world’s 370 million of persons belonging to an Indigenous people account for less than five percent of the total human population, they hold tenure over 25 percent of...
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Incorporating indigenous rights in the international regime on biodiversity protection
24.06.2020
Sebastian M. Spitra
Anna-Julia Saiger
This post is the first of a series of four that will discuss Federica Cittadino’s book Incorporating Indigenous Rights in the International Regime on Biodiversity Protection. Access, Benefit-sharing and Conservation...
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Perfect pandemic reading
21.06.2020
I am very excited about my book being discussed in the Völkerrechtsblog and grateful to Michael Bader for organising it, and for the six readers taking their time to dip...
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Between utopia and affirmation of the status quo
20.06.2020
For someone who has been working in the field of so-called strategic litigation against multinational corporations in international (criminal) law and other fields of national law for more than a...
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- The Corporation, Law and Capitalism
International law and capitalist logic of exploitation
19.06.2020
The Corporation, Law and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy is a loud book. The author promises to "radically" change our view...
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Internationales Recht und kapitalistische Verwertungslogik
19.06.2020
The Corporation, Law and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy ist ein lautes Buch. Die Autor*in verspricht, auf “radikale” Weise unseren Blick...
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Of law(s) and capitalism(s)
18.06.2020
The thrive for corporate accountability has given rise to some of the most vivid legal developments since the post-war era. In a liberal logic and from the vantage point of...
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Rechtsform(en) jenseits des Kapitalismus?
17.06.2020
The Corporation, Law and Capitalism ist ein wichtiges Buch. Mit einem historisch-materialistischen Fokus auf die rechtliche Konfigurierung des Unternehmens als Rechtsperson zeigt Grietje Baars exemplarisch die Rolle des Rechts für...
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Legal form(s) beyond capitalism?
17.06.2020
The Corporation, Law and Capitalism is an important book. With a historical-materialist focus on the legal configuration of the corporation as a legal entity, Grietje Baars shows in an exemplary...
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Seeking corporate accountability for human rights
16.06.2020
The Corporation, Law and Capitalism provided a fantastically refreshing (if a little depressing) counter-narrative of international (criminal) law’s intimate relationship with capital, and the paradoxical effect this has on attempts...
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Working toward the world we want to live in
15.06.2020
Grietje Baars’ recently published book The Corporation, Law and Capitalism is a powerful intervention on multiple accounts. Baars’ study spearheads and complements a newly revived Marxist legal tradition in the...
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Global information governance in pandemic times
10.04.2020
The main argument of my book, which we are discussing in this symposium, is that international institutions are not only diplomatic fora, lawmakers or financiers, but also act and govern...
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Governing the world through information (law)
09.04.2020
Knowledge is power – power is knowledge. While this nexus certainly is a commonplace in the critical sociology of knowledge, it may actually never have been more topical than today....
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In search for principles
08.04.2020
This post opens the book symposium on Michael Riegner's "The International Institutional Law of Information" (Mohr Siebeck 2017; original German title: Informationsverwaltungsrecht internationaler Institutionen). It will be followed by a text...
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The “pseudo doctrine”, still a real problem
25.03.2020
In her post “The ‘pseudo doctrine’ – a pseudo problem?” Raffaela Kunz reviews my thesis “Das Scheininstitut der unmittelbaren Anwendbarkeit“. Her friendly and well written review raises a few questions,...
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The „pseudo doctrine“ – a pseudo problem?
23.03.2020
The question of the “self-executingness” or “direct applicability” of international law is in fact a question of domestic law, but still almost all textbooks on international law address it. The...
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Crisis and hypocrisy?
20.01.2020
Sué González Hauck
Isabel Lischewski
The Book Review Symposium on Feminist Engagement with International Law has been taking place against the backdrop of multiple crises. The crisis that has been dominating the news worldwide is...
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Intersectional feminist engagements with international law (Part II)
15.01.2020
In this second part of our interview with CIJ founder and executive director Emilia Roig, we move from general questions on intersectionality and the category ‘women’ to more specific questions...
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Intersectional feminist engagements with international law (Part I)
14.01.2020
Most contributions to our online review symposium argue in favor of an intersectional approach. Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term ‘intersectionality’ in 1989. Crenshaw is also the president of...
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Whose womanhood? Feminist postcolonial approaches to law
13.01.2020
In July 2019, shortly before her election as the first ever female president of the European Commission, German centre-right minister of defence Ursula von der Leyen introduced the Hashtag #EuropeIsAWoman....
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TWAILing feminist engagement with international law: Toward an intersectional governance feminism
10.01.2020
The recently published Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law [’the Handbook’] does not only provide a glimpse at the breadth of contemporary critical feminist international law scholarship, but, perhaps...
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The problem of “sport sex”
09.01.2020
Female track athletes with certain differences of sex development (DSD) are now barred from the women’s category of international competition – that is, unless they undergo procedures to “normalise” the...
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Book Symposium on “Feminist Engagement with International Law”
08.01.2020
Sué González Hauck
Isabel Lischewski
“Feminist analysis is like friendship: an ongoing process of deepening complexity, interactive, contradictory, insightful, emotional, enlightening, challenging, conflicting”, Nancy O. Dowd wrote in her introduction to Feminist Legal Theory: An...
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‘It’s not a research gap, it’s a research crevasse!’
08.01.2020
To kick off our book symposium on the Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law, Völkerrechtsblog’s Isabel Lischewski talks to editors Susan Harris Rimmer, Associate Professor, Griffith University Law...
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- ABC of OPT
Response: Critiquing in the light of The ABC of the OPT
19.07.2019
Orna Ben-Naftali
Michael Sfard
Hedi Viterbo
We are grateful to Verfassungblog for dedicating a symposium to The ABC of the OPT; to Anne Peters and Alexandra Kemmerer for their generosity of mind, indeed the contextual mindfulness in...
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“Say my name”: the politics of not naming
18.07.2019
At first sight, the “ABC of the OPT” creates the impression that this is yet another book written exclusively by Israeli academics about a situation that has profoundly transformed the...
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The broken promise of belligerent occupation law
17.07.2019
The ABC of the OPT, the award-winning new publication by three outstanding Israeli scholars and jurists - Orna Ben-Naftali, Michael Sfard and Hedi Viterbo –demonstrates, in a masterly fashion, the use...
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Phantom sovereignty and the imaginary version of international law
16.07.2019
In the ABC of the OPT, Orna Ben-Naftali, Michael Sfard and Hedi Viterbo offer a guidebook for the legal tourist - a narrated cartography to the strange legal planet that...
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From “Assigned Residence” to “Zone”
15.07.2019
Alexandra Kemmerer
Anne Peters
Israel’s occupation or “control” (as the book prefers to call it) of Palestinian Territory that began with six days in June 1967, presents a depressing and tragic political and moral...
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Mobilizing the untapped capacity of international law
15.07.2019
It is a particular honour to be asked to contribute to the Book Review Symposium at Verfassungsblog because of the occasion: the arrival of an outstanding work on international law...
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Dilemmatic Discomfort: Author’s Response
08.07.2019
I am very grateful to Rostam Neuwirth, Surabhi Ranganathan, Wolfgang Thierse and Lea Wisken for taking the time to engage with my book in such a thoughtful and constructive manner....
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“Irresolvable Norm Conflicts”: An Oxymoron?
05.07.2019
Norm conflicts in international law have received surprisingly little attention, given their fundamental relevance for law in general and the present international legal order in particular. Long ago, a few...
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Legal dilemmas: the first step towards a solution is to acknowledge the problem
01.07.2019
Imagine that you are the captain of a ship located halfway between several people drowning. You have a duty towards each of them but are unable to save everyone. In...
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Romancing the State
26.06.2019
Perhaps the first and very pleasant thought that will strike readers of Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law is that the medium is not the message. The book is about...
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Irresolvable Norm Conflicts: The Concept of a Legal Dilemma
24.06.2019
Over the course of the next few days the Völkerrechtsblog is pleased to host an online symposium of Valentin Jeutner's recently published book: Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law: The...
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Heroes and theories
17.04.2019
In his post, Raphael Schäfer provides a considerate, careful and kind re-reading of my dissertation on Hermann Mosler and West German international legal scholarship after 1945. Raphael makes, by and large,...
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Practice as method
16.04.2019
‘International law is what international lawyers do.’ This statement slightly abridged taken from Martti Koskenniemi’s seminal Gentle Civilizer of Nations, points forthright to one of international law’s key characteristics: it...
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