Symposium introduction: crimes against humanity
22.09.2020
Sebastian Spitra
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
This post is the opening of a symposium on Kerstin Lingen’s award-winning book Crimes Against Humanity. Eine Ideengeschichte der Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt 1864–1945. The book looks at the inte...
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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 scholar...
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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 my book, I arg...
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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 peo...
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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 In...
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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 the world’s land sur...
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Incorporating indigenous rights in the international regime on biodiversity protection
24.06.2020
Sebastian 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-sharin...
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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 into my 500-page tome. I ho...
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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 d...
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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 auf da...
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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 of the relationship ...
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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 the rule of law, these h...
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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 wa...
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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 exem...
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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 para...
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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 tra...
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- International Law in Pandemic Times
The case for global constitutionalism in pandemic times
06.06.2020
As the first shock wave caused by the Covid-19 has partially passed, the conditions and effects of the epidemic and even the post-pandemic process started to be discussed among international public...
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- International Law in Pandemic Times
Creating a kingdom of stone walls
05.06.2020
India has 376 million active social media users, out of which 66 million are aged between 5 and 11 years, suggesting that a significant number of India’s demographics on social media are school chi...
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- International Law in Pandemic Times
To sue or not to sue
04.06.2020
Various areas of international law highlight the value of information and the essential role of the obligation to notify in fulfilling other duties. The current COVID-19 global crisis has further s...
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Racial violence and COVID-19
03.06.2020
Since COVID-19 emerged, Western discourse vivifies the exclusion and objectification of racial groups regarding both a responsible subject and potential solutions to the pandemic. These solutions a...
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Claims after COVID?
02.06.2020
COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc – not only by taking the lives of thousands of people across the world but also by impacting the national and international economy. The pandemic has disrupted bus...
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Testing Europe: COVID-19 and the rule of law
02.06.2020
“Sovereign is he who decides on the exception,” wrote the notorious constitutional law scholar Carl Schmitt in 1922 in his work Political Theology, “exception” understood as measures undertaken in ...
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A burden to share
01.06.2020
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The spread of the Coronavirus disease prompts the question whether EU Member...
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Vulnerability in times of Corona
28.05.2020
Two years ago, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court) issued a seminal ruling regarding the right to health established in Article 26 of the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR). Fo...
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The Corona effect
27.05.2020
María Elisa Vera Madrigal
Two years ago, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court) issued a seminal ruling regarding the right to health established in Article 26 of the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR). Fo...
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Beauty and the virus
26.05.2020
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Many parts of the world are in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As mos...
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Look for everyday solidarity
25.05.2020
Ling Chen
Vishakha Wijenayake
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The absent global leadership and starkly uncoordinated cross-border response...
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Symposium: International law in pandemic times
25.05.2020
Today we kick off our symposium on „International law in pandemic times“. International lawyers have started to debate the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on a range of fora (see here, here a...
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La solidarité dans le droit international: entre mythe et réalité
15.05.2020
Le droit international n’est pas toujours conforme à l’image que l’on veut lui donner, et qu’en donne les internationalistes, qu’ils soient positivistes ou relativistes. Les critères sont relatifs ...
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- Climate Justice
How behavioural law can promote sustainable development
14.05.2020
The idea that human society and peoples should develop in a sustainable way can be traced back to ancient cultures, practices and legal traditions. However, only recently there is an observable inc...
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- Climate Justice
Could “Net”-Zero Emissions prove to be a fatal blow for climate justice?
13.05.2020
In 2015, after intense lobbying efforts and to the frustration of many climate justice activists, the Human Rights dimension of climate change was included not in the text, but only the preamble to...
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Art. XX GATT 1994 – Climate change and disadvantaged nations
12.05.2020
As signs of a looming climate catastrophe emerge, international law scholars and lawyers frequently seek additional paths to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions and to protect the environment. On a r...
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Securing pathways to environmental justice for indigenous women
11.05.2020
Across the Americas, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) or the World Bank (WB), finance public and private projects to support the development ...
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Access to justice and climate-related disasters: Do we need “disaster justice”?
07.05.2020
The world is experiencing an increasing number of disasters, both those caused by natural hazards and those linked to human activities, and this fact renders cooperation and coordination at the int...
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Klimagerechtigkeit – ein Recht auf Heimat?
06.05.2020
Das Thema Klimagerechtigkeit hat in den letzten Jahren viel Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Die explizite Aufnahme von Klimagerechtigkeit in die Präambel des Pariser Übereinkommens von 2015 wurde sowohl v...
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Displacement in connection with climate change: does transitional justice offer a lens for durable solutions?
05.05.2020
Forced displacement is not a recent phenomenon. However, in recent years, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has estimated that there are over 65.6 million persons forcibly d...
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Democratising international climate law
04.05.2020
Government centred action has so far failed to respond adequately to the climate crisis, opening the space for new governance experiments, including through subnational coalitions, social movements...
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The state is dead – long live the state! Statehood in an age of catastrophe
01.05.2020
Viljam Engström
Michel Rouleau-Dick
The geographical impact of climate change on statehood is rather clear. Ever since scientists have been warning about climate change and the rise in sea levels it would involve, several small islan...
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Judging climate change obligations: Can the World Court rise to the occasion?
30.04.2020
Tom Sparks
Nataša Nedeski
Gleider Hernández
In Part I of this post, we sought to identify the core rules of international environmental law that needed evolution and clarification for a claim relating to climate change to succeed. We now tur...
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Judging climate change obligations: Can the World Court rise to the occasion?
30.04.2020
Tom Sparks
Nataša Nedeski
Gleider Hernández
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic piles crisis atop crisis. As confirmed infection rates cross 2.5 million and attributed deaths pass 170,000 (at time of writing, in April 2020), it is increasingly being acc...
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Pursuing climate justice through public interest litigation: the Urgenda case
29.04.2020
This blog post critically examines the contribution of public interest litigation to the global fight for climate justice. I consider the Urgenda case, which culminated in the Netherlands’ Supreme ...
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Global South climate litigation versus climate justice: duty of international cooperation as a remedy?
28.04.2020
Imagine for a moment that you are a Bolivian small farmer whose livelihood depends on the continuing flow of a river to water your crops. Now, due to climate change, glaciers that used to feed loca...
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‘Staying with the trouble’
27.04.2020
Among the issues raised in the call for contributions to the symposium on ‘Climate Justice – International Law in an Age of Catastrophe’, we find the question whether ‘international law as we know ...
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International law in an age of catastrophe
27.04.2020
Dana Schmalz
Raffaela Kunz
Anna-Julia Saiger
The symposium on climate justice is starting on the blog today, and it appears both a most urgent and a curious moment for it. Last year, the climate crisis finally entered broader public debate. Y...
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- Young Approaches to International Law
Irrational, unprofessional, radical?
18.04.2020
Raffaela Kunz
Anna Holzscheiter
2019 has marked the year in which the climate crisis has entered broader public debate. The main trigger were young people protesting around the globe and demanding that their governments finally t...
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Denying juveniles’ agency role: truly in their best interest?
17.04.2020
How is it possible that thus far the agency role of juveniles in international law appears to be diminished and underestimated, even though they constitute a large number of the world´s population?...
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Enter the youth, a protagonist behind the scenes
16.04.2020
Laura Fischer
Franka Weckner
The 1992 Rio Declaration suggested that young people would soon become protagonists in international law-making. Accordingly, it should be no surprise that the youth has become louder and louder in...
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Do youth delegates at the UN have an influence on public international law?
15.04.2020
Young people, mostly defined as people aged between 15 and 24 in the UN context (for more information on the definition of youth, see here), are generally underrepresented in political processes at...
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Rejuvenating international law
14.04.2020
Lewis Wattenberg
Julian Hettihewa
Felix Schott
Selin Dirik
Announcing a “Youthquake”, Time Magazine rang the bell of change, declaring that a new generation is on its way to power. International legal scholarship, however, has not yet recognised this dynam...
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Call for Contributions: International law in pandemic times
06.04.2020
The current COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis of global dimension. With numerous countries imposing shut-downs, closing their borders and limiting international trade and cooperation, the crisis...
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International law in an age of catastrophe
10.02.2020
Dana Schmalz
Raffaela Kunz
Anna-Julia Saiger
We live in an age of catastrophe. This is not alarmism. Rather, denying this would mean disregarding all scientific evidence we have. At the beginning of this new decade, Australia is literally on ...
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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 one ...
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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 on ...
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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 pre...
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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 #EuropeI...
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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 sch...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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- Internet Governance Forum
The Contract for the Web: The newest manifestation of digital constitutionalism?
29.11.2019
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is intended to bring together the multistakeholder community to talk about the current and the future Internet. It is distinctly not supposed to bring about agre...
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- Internet Governance Forum
A tale of two foundational orders
28.11.2019
The Internet – as a global technological facility enabling information and communication creation and exchange – has become an object of regulation by international law. But more than that: the Int...
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Three eras of digital governance
27.11.2019
To understand where digital governance is going, we must take stock of where it’s been, because the timbre of mainstream thinking around digital governance today is dramatically different than it w...
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Free speech in the age of online content moderation
26.11.2019
Content moderation is not a novelty in the media sector. As content providers, traditional media outlets like televisions and newspaper have always selected the information to broadcast or disclose...
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- Internet Governance Forum
Ein globaler „Dauerbrenner“
25.11.2019
Hate Speech umgrenzen, verstehen und bekämpfen – ein weiterhin aktuelles Thema im Kontext von Online-Kommunikation. Das Thema ist demzufolge auf dem Internet Governance Forum gut aufgehoben, denn e...
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Thoughts on ‘one World, one Net, one Vision’
25.11.2019
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Matthias K. Klatt
That the Internet is more than a global infrastructure is old news. But the changes and challenges to our global understanding of territorial boarders, governance, sovereignty and communication are...
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- Colonial Repercussions in Germany and Namibia
The role of museums
22.11.2019
When we talk about addressing the colonial past and decolonization, museums should play an active role and make their numerous voices heard. In order to play a relevant role in this context, a muse...
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German colonialism, reparations and international law
21.11.2019
Reparations have become an increasingly important entry point to the conversation about the unfinished business of decolonization. Even though reparations have an established role in transitional j...
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Participation rights of indigenous peoples
20.11.2019
Over the past three decades, indigenous peoples’rights have become an important component of international law and policy. This is a result of a movement driven by indigenous peoples, civil society...
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- Colonial Repercussions in Germany and Namibia
From ideological fixity to moral argument
19.11.2019
Today, international law – and international human rights law in particular – provides the dominant frame, often augmented by negotiations, for responding to acts of genocide. While this frame is n...
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Racist repercussions and transgenerational exclusion
18.11.2019
The German and Namibian governments seem to be about to finalize their negotiations on (the costs of) reconciliation. Several civil society actors and Ovaherero and Nama representatives criticize t...
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- Colonial Repercussions in Germany and Namibia
The law as a (limited) means to address colonial injustice
15.11.2019
Calls for reparations for historic injustices dominate current Namibian discourse. Such calls are directed to both the German and Namibian governments. The German government is called upon to take ...
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- Colonial Repercussions in Germany and Namibia
The genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama peoples
15.11.2019
The German colonization of what became German South West Africa commenced in 1884 and ended with German forces’ surrender to the Union of South Africa in July 1915. The genocidal atrocities committ...
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Decolonizing intertemporal international law
13.11.2019
As with many legal disputes concerning Europe’s bloody colonial past, conversations about the Ovaherero and Nama’s right to reparations from Germany often reach a dead end at the mention of interte...
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Historical originis of the Ovaherero and Nama Genocide
11.11.2019
One cannot discuss the issue of the Ovaherero and Nama genocide without referring to the causes that gave rise to it. Although Eurocentric historiographers have written most of the history of our g...
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Colonial repercussions in Germany and Namibia
11.11.2019
The colonial past and its complex repercussions are finally present in post-colonial European public discourse. So far, however, this has had little to no effect on formerly colonized societies. On...
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- Plurality of Law and Development
More law in development
18.10.2019
The post 'More law in development' was subject to an external complaint and was provisionally taken down while the blog was conducting an internal investigation in line with internationally accepte...
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“Sexual orientation is not a fashion statement”
18.10.2019
With the High Court’s judgment from June 11th 2019, judge Michael Elburu suspended section 164 a and c and section 165 of the Penal Code from 1965 which punish same-sex relations in Botswana with u...
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Burning issues in the “Land of the Future”
17.10.2019
Mariana Monteiro de Matos
Since his first visit, Stefan Zweig had been fascinated by Brazil. Friendly people, good weather, and terrific landscapes. This fascination has led Zweig to publish a book called Brazil, Land...
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The new wave of law and development
15.10.2019
This short note was inspired by the 2019 Law and Development Research Network Conference in Berlin. The Conference was organised by the Chair for Public Law and Comparative Law at Humboldt Univers...
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Reflections on the history and future of Law and Development
10.10.2019
Watch here the recording of the Keynote Lecture of David Trubek (University of Wisconsin-Madison) who reflects upon the history and future of Law and Development and its main current challenges, a...
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Social justice – a vehicle for transformative constitutionalism
10.10.2019
Watch here the recording of the Keynote of Justice Madan Lokur (Supreme Court of India) who explains the challenges and opportunities of transformative constitutionalism as a vehicle for social jus...
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Towards comparative legal institutionalism
09.10.2019
Watch here the Keynote Lecture of Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School) reflecting on questions of method and theory through her approach of "comparative legal institutionalism", opening the LDRN ...
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- Plurality of Law and Development
Alternatives to development in the Andes
04.10.2019
The concept of “development” has become a buzzword for social change, economic redistribution and ultimately socio-economic rights. This concerns both economic relations maintained in the internati...
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- Plurality of Law and Development
Scholars in mutual estrangement?
01.10.2019
There is a curious estrangement between two scholarly communities that ought to have a lot in common: The first studies “transformative constitutionalism”, the second “law and development”. There i...
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- Plurality of Law and Development
Empowerment of indigenous and ethnic groups
30.09.2019
Ten years ago, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided on the admissibility of the case Handölsdalen Sami Village and Others v Sweden dealing with the land use of the Sami and their rein...
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A slow revolution to protect the poor and vulnerable?
27.09.2019
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the "single most influential international actor not only in relation to fiscal policy but also to social protection". This is how the Special Rapporteur on...
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- Plurality of Law and Development
Increasing the benefits, reducing the costs
26.09.2019
With an increase in the spread and impact of independent regulatory agencies, Africa now has a nascent but significant network of competition authorities and other economic regulators. This growth...
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- Plurality of Law and Development
The plurality of law and development
25.09.2019
Michael Riegner
Philipp Dann
Thomas Dollmaier
As a legal field, law and development is often traced back to the movement of US-American scholars and practitioners in the 1960s and 1970s, both epitomized and criticized by David Trubek’s seminal...
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- Cynical International Law
A rule to catch them all
06.09.2019
One of the legal regimes where cynicism is most prevalent in the eye of the public is tax law. After the so-called ‘Panama Papers’ and ‘Paradise Papers’ public debate on fair taxation of companies ...
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Back in time to Roman Law
06.09.2019
Andrea Faraci
Luigi Lonardo
The prohibition of abuse of right calls into question that branch of legal positivism that sees law as a ‘pure’ discipline with necessarily no connection with morality (the so-called exclusive posi...
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How to be cynical: some suggestions
06.09.2019
Watch here the livestream of Prof. Gerry Simpson's Keynote Lecture, opening the Working Group of Young Scholars in Public International Law's (Arbeitskreis junger Völkerrechtswissenschaftler*innen ...
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Cynicism? Yes, please!
05.09.2019
Debates surrounding cynicism in international law have an inherently negative focus. But why not try to take something positive-constructive out of the cynicism an institution is experiencing? Sinc...
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All’s fair in the law of war?
05.09.2019
On June 1, 2018, Razan Al-Najjar, a twenty-one-year-old Palestinian paramedic, was killed by Israeli fire during demonstrations along the Israel–Gaza border. Her death triggered intense debates con...
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In international law we (do not) trust
04.09.2019
Economic and Social Rights (ESRs) are the unloved and unwanted last born child of the human rights family. Despite a promising start in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the UDHR), ESRs st...
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The Edge of Enlightenment
04.09.2019
Recently, Harvard professor Steven Pinker’s book “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress”, which explores the effect of the Enlightenment on contemporary societies ...
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An ideal at sea
03.09.2019
International law is supposed to establish peace and prevent inter-state conflicts. At the same time, it is the central means for states to legitimize and communicate their claims in respect of the...
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- Cynical International Law
From speaking truth to power to speaking power’s truth
03.09.2019
Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin
From San José to Karlsruhe, Strasbourg to New Delhi, in both the Global North and South, judges have been at the forefront of the establishment of a new jus gentium common to all humankind. Implici...
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- Cynical International Law
International law beyond cynicism and critique
02.09.2019
Cynics do not have to look far: critical international law has uncovered the ways in which the forces of colonialism and imperialism have been present in the international legal system from its fou...
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Cynical International Law?
02.09.2019
Cynicism and its relation to international law is a question that has so far not comprehensively been studied. Cynicism has been used in a cursory fashion by international lawyers, e.g. when denoun...
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