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Chatting with Tamsin Phillipa Paige
29.09.2023
Tamsin Phillipa Paige
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Tamsin Phillipa Paige, and through the following questions, we will try...
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- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Keynote: Searching for Progress in International Law
23.09.2023
As the conclusion of the online symposium on “Progress and International Law”, we welcome you to the livestream of the keynote speech by Hilary Charlesworth on “Searching for Progress in...
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The “Responsibility to and for Progress” in International Law
22.09.2023
How do we achieve a responsible approach to progress and its consequences? This old question of humankind has been given new momentum by recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI): Numerous...
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Agenda 2030 Between the Ideology of Progress and the Reality of Poverty and Exploitation
21.09.2023
Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis
Adopted in 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development promises to eliminate poverty and promote sustainable development, peace, and prosperity for all by 2030. The Agenda introduced 17 Sustainable Development...
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Towards a Feminist Interpretation of the ECHR’s Provisions on Access to Abortion
21.09.2023
While applications regarding the incompatibility of deadly restrictive abortion policies with the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) are piling up before the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’, ‘Court’),...
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Towards an (Im)possible Polis: Legal Imagination and State Continuity
20.09.2023
Thomas Baty once quipped that ‘[i]nternational law, it is generally agreed, has something to do with states’. By opening The Canons of International Law in this manner, Baty draws our...
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Border Dialectics: Progress, Regress, and Resistance
20.09.2023
Received knowledge about the protection of migrants in international law tells a story of progress. A story of expanded refugee definitions, complementary protection, and extraterritorial obligations. Yet a counternarrative has...
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Locating Progress in the European Convention on Human Rights
19.09.2023
Progress may seem to be a temporal concept. That is certainly how it is usually understood in the literature on progress and international law. Statements of progress are said, for...
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Progress and Linear Time: How to Rethink International Law to Account for Ecologically Precarious Presents?
19.09.2023
We live in the ‘era of global boiling’, says UN Secretary-General Guterres, as July 2023 set to be the hottest month on record. While the ecological conditions of planetary life...
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Visions of Progress and International Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
18.09.2023
The concept of progress in international legal scholarship and practice has been explored over time. The narratives of progress in international law are conventionally drawn from the European or North...
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Introducing the Symposium ‘Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?’
18.09.2023
Alexander Holzer
Lisa Kujus
Rebecca Kruse
Júlia Miklasová
Jasper Mührel
Paula Rhein-Fischer
Lorenz Wielenga
Sara Wissmann
The notion of progress is firmly embedded at the core of international law discourse. “When we speak of something as progressive, we assume that it is a desirable improvement compared...
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Chatting with Thoko Kaime
15.09.2023
Thoko Kaime
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Thoko Kaime, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Alexander Orakhelashvili
01.09.2023
Alexander Orakhelashvili
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Giulia Raimondo
14.07.2023
Giulia Raimondo
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Giulia Raimondo, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Beyond Black and White: Normative Ambiguities and the Delivery of Cluster Bombs
12.07.2023
Elvira Rosert
Frank Sauer
Hendrik Simon
Following the decision by the United States of America to provide cluster bombs to Ukraine, a contentious public and academic discourse has emerged, centering on the legality and legitimacy of...
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Chatting with Olabisi D. Akinkugbe
23.06.2023
Olabisi D. Akinkugbe
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, and through the following questions, we will try...
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Chatting with Noëlle Quénivet
09.06.2023
Noëlle Quénivet
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Noëlle Quénivet, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Moira Dustin
26.05.2023
Moira Dustin
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Moira Dustin, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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- Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives
Theory as Practice in International Law
25.05.2023
International law is indeterminate yet, as Koskenniemi argues, it is also structured around a series of ‘embedded preferences’, fostering ‘structural biases’ and limiting the range of possible outcomes. Consequently, international law...
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Making Sense of Posthuman Feminist Theory in International Law
24.05.2023
Anastasia Hammerschmied
Amelie Herzog
Feminist engagements with international law oscillate between seeking legal change from within the law and the need to look beyond that system to completely reimagine it. This well-known tension of...
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Nature and the Conceit of Law
23.05.2023
Coming to this erudite text from Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAlL), I found much to agree with and learn. TWAIL is an anti-colonial anti-imperial disciplinary movement formative to...
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‘Life as Relation not Dividuation’
22.05.2023
A deepening climate crisis. A failing legal framework. A search for alternative imaginations. In this reflection on Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives by Emily Jones, I will engage...
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An Invite to Stay With the Trouble
19.05.2023
Emily Jones’ monograph Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives is an invitation to explore how posthuman feminist theory sheds new light on a range of contemporary issues and debates...
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Must We Instrumentalize?
18.05.2023
Chapter 2 of Emily Jones’s rich and generative new book, Feminist Theory of International Law Posthuman Perspectives, draws attention to all the ways in which humans and machines “are already...
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Exclusionary Humanism and Anthropocentrism: A Valid Tandem?
17.05.2023
International law is all-too-human, argues Emily Jones in Chapter 1 of her penetrating and deeply insightful Posthuman Feminism. International law might well gravitate around nonhuman entities – the state, international...
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Introducing the Symposium on Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives by Emily Jones
17.05.2023
Lys Kulamadayil
Isabel Lischewski
Sebastian M. Spitra
Emily Jones is known in the international law research community as a co-host of the Essex Public International Law lecture series. She, herself a critical international law scholar, initiated this...
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Chatting with Andreas Føllesdal
12.05.2023
Andreas Føllesdal
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Andreas Føllesdal, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Jean d’Aspremont
28.04.2023
Jean d’Aspremont
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Jean d'Aspremont, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Sergey Sayapin
14.04.2023
Sergey Sayapin
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Sergey Sayapin, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Marko Milanovic
31.03.2023
Marko Milanovic
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Marko Milanovic, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Vasuki Nesiah
17.03.2023
Vasuki Nesiah
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to another interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Vasuki Nesiah, and through the following questions, we will try to get...
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- Women in International Law Vol. 2
Goodbye Refuge, Hello Bespokism
10.03.2023
In recent months and years, the United Kingdom (UK) has increasingly shifted away from a robust asylum and protection framework and towards increasing reliance on inadequate bespoke ‘safe and legal’...
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Forced Marriage of Afghan Girls and the Bifurcated Approach for Defining Persecution
09.03.2023
Cristina María Zamora Gómez
Since the Taliban took control of Kabul in August 2021, women and girls have been erased from public life and have had their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights...
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“Voluntary” Repatriation
08.03.2023
Voluntary repatriation has been upheld as the ideal durable solution for refugees by the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner’s Programme (‘Ex Com’) and has its roots in efforts...
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How Joining a Majorette Group Can Lead You to Being Denied International Protection
07.03.2023
“… [Y]ou have been working since you were 17 ...; you are financially independent ...; [a member of a] religious community..., the choir ..., [and] the majorette group ...; [and]...
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Introducing the Second Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium
07.03.2023
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 8th of March, the Völkerrechtsblog celebrates women in international law with the annual ‘Women in International Law’ symposium....
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Chatting with Vladislava Stoyanova
24.02.2023
Vladislava Stoyanova
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Associate Prof. Vladislava Stoyanova, and through the following questions, we will try...
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Chatting with Diane Desierto
10.02.2023
Diane A. Desierto
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Diane Desierto, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Relapse into ‘Civilisation’?! A Narrative’s Continuity and Change
01.02.2023
Ntina Tzouvala
Hendrik Simon
Critical International Law has become increasingly influential in academic discourse. However, argues Ntina Tzouvala, there remain important blind spots. An interview on capitalism, racism, and the ongoing impact of ‘civilisation’....
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(Merging the) Fragments of Critical International Law
31.01.2023
Ntina Tzouvala
Hendrik Simon
Critical International Law has become increasingly influential in academic discourse. However, argues Ntina Tzouvala, there remain important blind spots. An interview on capitalism, racism, and the ongoing impact of ‘civilisation’....
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Chatting with Itamar Mann
27.01.2023
Itamar Mann
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to another interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Itamar Mann, and through the following questions, we will try to get...
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Chatting with Lys Kulamadayil
13.01.2023
Lys Kulamadayil
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the first interview of 2023 for the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Lys Kulamadayil, and through the following questions, we will...
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Chatting with Dianne Otto
23.12.2022
Dianne Otto
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to another interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! Through this interview, we will try to get a glimpse of Prof. Dianne Otto’s interests, sources of...
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- Racial Profiling in Germany
Racist Police Practices
15.12.2022
In 2012, Biplab Basu and his daughter rode a train from Prague to Berlin. The train had just passed the Czech Republic, when two German federal police officers got on...
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Race and Empire in International Law
14.12.2022
The prohibition of racial discrimination has played a marginal role within the global human rights agenda. This corresponds to the subordination and neglect of ‘race’ in how international legal scholars...
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- Racial Profiling in Germany
Human Rights Standards for Accountability and Effective Remedies
13.12.2022
In Germany, for a long time, racial profiling was regarded as a problem that exists in other countries. However, in recent years more victims of racial discrimination have brought cases...
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Racial Profiling in Germany
13.12.2022
In Basu v. Germany, an international body reminded Germany once again of its less-than-perfect human rights record regarding racial discrimination. In this case, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...
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Chatting with Satang Nabaneh
09.12.2022
Satang Nabaneh
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to another interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Satang Nabaneh, and through the following questions, we will try to get...
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Chatting with Rohini Sen
02.12.2022
Rohini Sen
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the fifth interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Rohini Sen, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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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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Chatting with Fuad Zarbiyev
18.11.2022
Fuad Zarbiyev
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to today’s interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us, we have Prof. Fuad Zarbiyev, and through the following questions, we will try to get...
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Can We Trust Each Other?
15.11.2022
Filipe dos Reis
Hendrik Simon
Interdisciplinarity still seems to be the order of the day. Despite its many advantages, it tends to be a sometimes-ambivalent undertaking: demanded in academia’s bureaucracies (for funding applications, no less),...
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Chatting with Marco Sassòli
11.11.2022
Marco Sassòli
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to another interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! Through this interview, we will try to learn more about the interests and sources of inspiration of...
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Chatting with Jan Klabbers
04.11.2022
Jan Klabbers
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the second interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Jan Klabbers, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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- Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh
India Trains Its Sights on Dissent in Chhattisgarh
28.10.2022
Development in the form of profit-driven resource exploitation ventures in India’s central state of Chhattisgarh, led by corporations and facilitated by the state, have wreaked havoc on the lives and...
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- Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh
The State vs. Adivasis
27.10.2022
The Bastar region in southern Chhattisgarh has been the site of an ongoing armed conflict over the last decades. The armed struggle in the region arose due to the lack...
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Punished for Seeking Justice
26.10.2022
In 2009, Himanshu Kumar, a social activist, filed a petition with the Supreme Court of India against the state of Chhattisgarh. The case concerned the massacre of 16 indigenous people...
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Tigers over Tribal Rights
25.10.2022
Indigenous communities around the world who have relied on and considered themselves custodians of the land have long confronted existential challenges in the face of privatization, extraction, and development. Often...
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Economic Growth or Adivasi Rights?
24.10.2022
“We exist because the forest does, and the forest exists because we do.” - Member of the Gond Adivasi people in Hasdeo Aranya That the world is facing an...
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Landgrabs, Institutional Violence and Shrinking Civic Space
24.10.2022
Alev Erhan
Allison West
Spyridoula Katsoni
Meike Krakau
India is often referred to as the “world’s largest democracy,” yet minority protection has always been a field of fierce contestation in post-independence India. Adivasis (the indigenous peoples of India)...
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Chatting with Mando Rachovitsa
21.10.2022
Mando Rachovitsa
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the first Interview that kicks off the symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! For this very special interview, I could not have wished for another guest than Mando...
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Introducing the Symposium ‘The Person Behind the Academic’
21.10.2022
If one’s academic personality and inner value system are interconnected and inseparable, then getting to know the person behind the academic can help readers to better understand one’s work. If,...
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- The Past and Future of the International Criminal Court
Stocktaking of the International Criminal Court
15.07.2022
Michael Lysander Fremuth
Konstantina Stavrou
Andreas Sauermoser
We are extremely grateful to the editors of Völkerrechtsblog, especially, Miriam Nomanni and Raphael Oidtmann, for hosting this symposium. A big ‘thank you’ also goes to the contributors – Tom...
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Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes
15.07.2022
One metric by which the success or failure of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has often been measured is that of its record regarding sexual and gender-based crimes (SGBCs). This...
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The ICC at 20 and the Crime of Aggression
14.07.2022
As the International Criminal Court (ICC) enters its third decade, the Court is at an inflection point. So, too, is the criminalization of aggression. However, while the catalyst for these...
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Towards an ‘International Criminal Evidence’?
14.07.2022
Does the International Criminal Court (ICC) have an ‘evidence problem’? Recent practice would seem to suggest so. Numerous cases have been dismissed at the confirmation of charges stage, with the...
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The End of an (Unsuccessful) Era?
13.07.2022
Much hope was put into the possibility of gaining jurisdiction over situations in States which are not party to the Rome Statute through the UN Security Council (UNSC) referral mechanism....
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Back to the Drawing Table!
13.07.2022
It is fairly generally accepted amongst ICL-scholars that the success of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after being some 20 years in operation is not to be merely gauged by...
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Referrals, Deferrals and Many Double Standards
12.07.2022
The International Criminal Court’s (“ICC”) 20th birthday provides an opportunity to briefly recapitulate the troubled history of the relationship between the Security Council (“SC”) and the ICC. It all started...
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(In-)Sufficient Gravity of Cases before the International Criminal Court
12.07.2022
According to article 17(1)(d) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Statute), ‘the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where [it is] not of sufficient gravity...
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Reflections on the International Criminal Trial Experience
11.07.2022
While the war in Ukraine is raging and many war crimes have been committed, the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, is presented as one of...
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‘An International Criminal Court […] is Hereby Established’
11.07.2022
Andreas Sauermoser
Konstantina Stavrou
Benjamin Berell Ferencz, former prosecutor at the Nuremburg tribunal, once said ‘There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to...
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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
A Framework Agreement in Business and Human Rights?
24.06.2022
Surya Deva
Claire Methven O'Brien
Michael Riegner
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Justine Batura
We are pleased to conclude our Symposium with a special treat for our readers: a double interview with two renowned scholars, Surya Deva and Claire Methven O’Brien, who are rather emblematic for different approaches...
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Beyond the Ritual of Treaties as Gestures
24.06.2022
A framework convention approach to the regulatory management of the human rights and sustainability effects of economic activity holds much promise. Defined as an international instrument establishing a general governance...
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Resisting Corporate Capture
23.06.2022
In 2014, the Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 26/9, which established, for the first time in the history of the United Nations, an intergovernmental body charged with the responsibility to...
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How to Avoid Politicised Monitoring?
23.06.2022
It is one thing to draft international laws that protect individuals, but quite another to ensure their implementation and compliance by State parties. Taking into consideration existing framework conventions, particularly...
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Oops! They Did It Again
22.06.2022
When they finally joined negotiations on the proposed business and human rights (BHR) treaty, the USA immediately called for ‘exploring alternative[s]’ to the current draft, including a potential framework convention. In...
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Bounded Rationality, Metonymy, Humility
22.06.2022
History does not stop, a truth of which recent years have provided a gruesome reminder. Trajectories of globalising production and exchange that were widely perceived as uninterruptable have, since 2019,...
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Caught between Principles and Perfectionism
21.06.2022
One of the driving forces behind the movement towards a legally binding instrument on business and human rights (BHR) has been the need for effective remedies for victims of corporate...
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The Short Arm of the Law and the Long Arm of Economics
21.06.2022
How does the idea of Business and Human Rights framework agreements (BHR framework agreements) look from an African perspective and – more specifically from one aware of the growing impact...
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Unpacking the Potentials of a Framework Agreement on Business and Human Rights
20.06.2022
In a context of mounting evidence of adverse impacts of business activities on human rights and the environment, the Business and Human Rights (BHR) legal framework has gained momentum in...
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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
Framing Business & Human Rights?
20.06.2022
Justine Batura
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Michael Riegner
Business and human rights (BHR), as an emerging field of modern law and legal research, is at an inflection point. On the one hand, its most prominent set of norms,...
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- Symposium
- International Law and the Political
International Law and Class Dynamics
10.06.2022
In the face of massive crises and revealed ambiguities of the liberal international order, Marxist thought has experienced a significant revival in recent years—also in (international) legal thought. But what...
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- Symposium
- International Law and the Political
Revolutions Are Not Made by Laws
09.06.2022
In the face of massive crises and revealed ambiguities of the liberal international order, Marxist thought has experienced a significant revival in recent years—also in (international) legal thought. But what...
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- International Law and the Political
On History, Responsibility and Critique
25.05.2022
Anne Orford
Sué González Hauck
Hendrik Simon
While in the first part of our conversation with Anne Orford we talked about the politics of "turning to history" in international legal scholarship, the second part is about possible...
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- International Law and the Political
Turning to History – A Political Project?
24.05.2022
Anne Orford
Sué González Hauck
Hendrik Simon
In the last 30 years, a considerable part of international legal scholarship has discovered a renewed interest in the history of international law. But is this 'turn to history' perhaps...
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- Media
- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Returning ‘To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth’
20.05.2022
Martti Koskenniemi
Ankit Malhotra
Christian Pogies
Hendrik Simon
Following the Völkerrechtsblog symposium on Martti Koskenniemi’s new book, our editorial board members Christian Pogies and Hendrik Simon were invited by Ankit Malhotra of the Jindal Society of International Law...
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- Interview
- International Law and the Political
Sentiment without Sentimentality
08.04.2022
Gerry Simpson
Hendrik Simon
In his new book, Gerry Simpson engages with the ‘Sentimental Life of International Law’ (OUP 2021). But what does ‘sentiment’ – without sentimentality, as the author points out – mean...
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- Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
Lessons on “Adaptation Litigation” from the Global South
25.03.2022
In the most recent IPCC report, global climate experts warned “Any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window...
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- Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
Indigenous Climate Litigation in Anglophone Settler-Colonial States
25.03.2022
The “Global South” is a concept constructed by histories of colonialism., reflecting a binary divide between empires and colonies. Current and former colonies of the Global South continue to bear...
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- Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
As the Lung of the Earth Dries Out, Climate Litigation Heats Up
24.03.2022
Known as lung of the earth, the Amazon Forest is one of the most valuable ecosystems on earth, both for the ecological services it provides to the communities living in...
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- Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
Transformative Constitutionalism and Climate Litigation
24.03.2022
Climate change through its very nature is making survival much more difficult for those most vulnerable and dependent on natural resources. It hits those countries the hardest which have contributed...
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