A ‘golden age’ of inter-state complaints?
16.09.2020
Isabella Risini
Justine Batura
Lukas Kleinert
Recently, the Principality of Liechtenstein brought an inter-state complaint against the Czech Republic to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Already before, the two countries shared a complicated relationship....
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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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“To be a judge means to be criticized from all sides”
03.02.2020
Dana Schmalz
Raffaela Kunz
Angelika Nußberger was the German judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for nine years; her term of office came to an end at the turn of the...
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„Richter sein bedeutet, von allen Seiten kritisiert zu werden“
27.01.2020
Dana Schmalz
Raffaela Kunz
Angelika Nußberger war neun Jahre die deutsche Richterin am Europäischen Menschenrechtsgerichtshofs (EGMR), zum Jahreswechsel ist ihre Amtszeit zu Ende gegangen. Zurück an ihrem Lehrstuhl an der Universität Köln blickt die...
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Awarding inspiration
22.01.2020
In 2018 the Max Planck Society established the Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law (MaxCamPIL), a research prize awarded jointly by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and...
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Whose rights? Whose justice? (Second part)
13.12.2019
Völkerrechtsblog is pleased to present the second part of the interview with Marta Torre‑Schaub. In this section, we will discuss the status of the Amazonian forest in international law, the importance...
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Whose rights? Whose justice? (First part)
12.12.2019
The urgent need to combat climate change seems widely accepted. Nonetheless, the measures taken so far have remained ineffective while irreparable environmental damages are constantly augmenting and threats to the...
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Quel droit? Quelle justice? (Deuxiéme partie)
06.12.2019
Völkerrechtsblog est ravi de vous présenter la deuxième partie de l’interview avec Marta Torre‑Schaub. Dans cette partie, nous parlerons du statut de la région Amazonienne en droit international, de l’importance des...
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Quel droit? Quelle justice? (Première partie)
05.12.2019
Il ne paraît guère nécessaire de répéter l’urgence demandée pour lutter contre le changement climatique. Néanmoins, les mesures prises jusque‑là sont restées ineffectives, les dommages irréparables pour l’environnement augmentent. De...
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Law in capitalism
28.10.2019
Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, New York, and Director of the Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformation. After delivering...
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With a diplomatic solution, there would be no loser.
30.08.2019
Christian Pogies
Rüdiger Wolfrum
The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most important waterways worldwide. Nearly one fifth of the global transport of oil and about one quarter of the production of liquefied...
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Bei einer diplomatischen Lösung gibt es keinen Verlierer
21.08.2019
Christian Pogies
Rüdiger Wolfrum
Die Straße von Hormus ist einer der wichtigsten Wasserwege. Knapp ein Fünftel der globalen Öl-Transporte und etwa ein Viertel der weltweiten Produktion von Flüssiggas passieren jährlich die wenige Kilometer breite...
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„Wer entscheidet, macht sich schuldig“
24.06.2019
Wolfgang Thierse (SPD) war von 1998 – 2005 Präsident und von 2005 – 2013 Vizepräsident des Deutschen Bundestages. Von 1991 – 2013 war Thierse Vorsitzender der Grundwertekommission der SPD. Das...
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“The one who decides is guilty”
24.06.2019
Wolfgang Thierse (SPD) was the President of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2005 and its Vice-President from 2005 to 2013. From 1991 to 2013, Thierse was chairman of the...
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‘Understanding our colonial past is a prerequisite to understanding the current migration situation’
15.02.2019
Wolfgang Kaleck is the founder and General Secretary of the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), a legal human rights organisation based in Berlin, Germany, dedicated to hold...
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Demokratie und Völkerrecht
15.08.2018
Es wird zur Zeit viel über die Funktionsfähigkeit von Demokratie und über die Effektivität internationalen Rechts gesprochen, aber selten über beides zusammen. Wer wäre besser aufgestellt, um dazu etwas Erhellendes...
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On history, geography, and radical change in international law
02.05.2018
Silvia Steininger
Tom Sparks
These are exciting times for international legal scholarship - on this point, the interviewers and Professor BS Chimni can immediately agree. But what are the consequences of recent challenges to...
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“There is still a lot of work to be done.”
28.02.2018
Patricia Tuitt is a UK based legal academic with a sustained track record of teaching, research and strategic management within the field of critical legal studies. She has written extensively...
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David gegen Goliath
23.08.2017
Mareike Riedel
Survival International
Wenn man über indigene Völker in den Medien liest, dann liest man in der Regel leider selten Gutes: Land Grabbing, Vertreibung oder, wie in Australien, der Kampf der Aborigines um...
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“You learn a lot from your teachers but mostly from your students”
06.07.2017
Dana Schmalz
Raffaela Kunz
From Joseph Weiler you can learn a lot - not only about what he teaches, but also about how to teach. That was the widely shared impression of participants in the 2017 Masterclass at the Max Planck Institute...
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“The Inter-American System has always been in crisis, and we always found a way out”
17.10.2016
Raffaela Kunz
Lucas Sánchez
Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot is the Vice President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and one of the most progressive judges currently in office. This summer he spent some...
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„Who among us gets to be global?“
18.05.2016
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian wrote a book entitled „The Cosmopolites“, which speaks about global citizenship in a way that is deeply informed by the theoretical discussion but at the same time...
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Law as a site of politics (Part II)
17.02.2016
Völkerrechtsblog is delighted to post the second part of our conversation with Hilary Charlesworth. In this part of the interview she tells us more about the power of rituals and ritualism in human rights...
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Law as a site of politics (Part I)
15.02.2016
Hilary Charlesworth is best known for her work on feminist theory and international law, however her intellectual curiosity extends far beyond this - for example she recently explored the role...
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Debating Cosmopolitan Law
03.08.2015
This is the second part of a fictional conversation with Immanuel Kant and Georg Friedrich von Martens. These two outstanding scholars never met face-to-face in real life but come together...
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Debating Cosmopolitan Law
29.07.2015
This fictional conversation will bring together two persons of outstanding importance for science in the late 18th and early 19th century who never met face-to-face. One was a professor of...
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There is no point in waiting
15.07.2015
To better understand how climate change affects migration and displacement, we were inevitably led to interview Walter Kälin. Professor Kälin holds a chair at the University Bern, with a research...
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Es hat keinen Sinn zu warten.
15.07.2015
Wenn es um Klimawandel als Ursache von Migration und Flucht geht, dann bietet sich ein Gespräch mit Walter Kälin an. Seit dreißig Jahren forscht und lehrt Professor Kälin an der...
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„Am Völkerrecht kommt heute niemand mehr vorbei.“
10.07.2015
Professor Rudolf Bernhardt hat eine glanzvolle Karriere hinter sich: Er war Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Völkerrecht, saß lange Jahre im völkerrechtswissenschaftlichen Beirat des Auswärtigen Amtes, war Richter und Präsident am...
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Insights from the Practitioner of International Law
08.10.2014
Professor James Crawford is not only the Special Rapporteur of the Draft Articles on State Responsibility, but has extensive experience as counsel in international litigation. Thus talking to him is...
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On kitsch, zombies and true love
21.05.2014
Listening to him doesn’t get boring. Martti Koskenniemi is one of the great critical minds in contemporary scholarship of international law, and when he talks, no stone is left on...
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