- Symposium
- 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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- The Past and Future of the International Criminal Court
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 Past and Future of the International Criminal Court
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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- The Past and Future of the International Criminal Court
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 Past and Future of the International Criminal Court
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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- The Past and Future of the International Criminal Court
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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- The Past and Future of the International Criminal Court
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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- The Past and Future of the International Criminal Court
(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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- The Past and Future of the International Criminal Court
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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- The Past and Future of the International Criminal Court
‘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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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
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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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
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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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
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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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
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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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
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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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
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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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
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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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
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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- 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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- 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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- Interview
- 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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- Interview
- 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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- Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
Protecting Whose Children?
23.03.2022
In the fight against climate change, going to court has become one of the most powerful strategies of climate activists. Since the Urgenda v. the Netherlands ruling of 2015, many...
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- Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
No Kidding!
23.03.2022
Lorenzo Gradoni
Martina Mantovani
When Greta Thunberg invited us adults to panic, few of us thought that she was about to sue, if only because litigation is quintessentially a game for grown-ups. On 23...
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- Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
A Climate Warrior for the Global South
22.03.2022
Sathiabama. S
Vedavalli. S
As the global average temperature rises, the number of human rights violations, too, will increase. In the Anthropocene epoch, protecting human rights is a clarion call for all States to...
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- Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
The Right to Health in Climate Change Litigation
22.03.2022
As Latin America’s inequalities exacerbate the climate-related health crises that disproportionately affects marginalized communities, the need to realize these populations’ right to health becomes ever more pressing. While the region’s...
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- Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
Climate Change Litigation: What the ECtHR Could Learn from Courts in the Global South
22.03.2022
Melanie Murcott
Maria Antonia Tigre
Nesa Zimmermann
Climate change is increasingly recognized as an issue of justice, including because it is causing (and worsening) human rights violations (see here, here, and here). In response to climate injustice,...
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- Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
Tracing the Trend
21.03.2022
Tatenda Lucia Wangui
Cathrin Zengerling
Oliver Fuo
Legal and social science scholars observe a growing trend in climate litigation over the last three decades with large regional discrepancies. Of roughly 1,900 climate cases concluded or pending by...
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- Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
Governing through Courts?
21.03.2022
Indonesia is one of the 10 biggest greenhouse gas emitters in the world. This is because of the emissions from two sectors: forestry (47.8%) especially from deforestation for plantation and...
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- Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
Introducing the Symposium on Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
21.03.2022
Maxim Bönnemann
Meike Krakau
Anna-Julia Saiger
“We are dealing with core, indeed, high policy-making”. Last week, in overturning the ground-breaking Sharma decision, Justice Allsop of the Australian Federal Court made this crucial statement. This decision has...
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- Women in International Law Vol. 1
TWAIL Feminist Perspectives on Conflict
19.03.2022
In 2002, the Feminist Majority Foundation famously heralded the US and NATO forces as a “Coalition of Hope” that was heroically “freeing Afghan women.” In 2021, 20 years after it...
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- Women in International Law Vol. 1
Ukraine’s Travel Ban, Gender and Human Rights
18.03.2022
There is a war in Europe. Since almost three weeks, pictures of bomb attacks on Ukrainian cities, people in shelters and soldiers in tanks have been broadcast all over the...
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- Women in International Law Vol. 1
We Must All Engage with Feminist Approaches to International Law
10.03.2022
In course of the last few weeks, my Twitter feed displayed three different trending news with varying degrees of urgency: Ukrainian responses to the Russian armed attack, a record complaint...
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- Women in International Law Vol. 1
India’s Forced Sterilization Practices Under International Human Rights Law
10.03.2022
Raji Kevat (story originally found here) consented to a procedure in 2014 that promised her the possibility of spacing the birth of her children. Her sister-in-law suggested it because she...
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- Women in International Law Vol. 1
The Status of Women’s Reproductive Rights in Africa
09.03.2022
Sexual and reproductive health and rights has been recognized to be embodied in human rights instruments. The achievement of sexual and reproductive health relies on realizing sexual and reproductive rights. This means...
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- Bofaxe
- Women in International Law Vol. 1
Abortion in Latin America Through the Lens of the IACtHR
08.03.2022
Lea Bilke
Vanessa Bliecke
Ella Schönleben
Discussing reproductive rights – and more specifically abortion rights – in a legal setting is challenging. Legal arguments blend with political, moral and religious discussions, blurring the line between lex...
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- Women in International Law Vol. 1
A Womb of One’s Own?
08.03.2022
Reproduction is one of the most intimate and fundamental human experiences, and inextricably linked to our bodily autonomy. Despite significant progress in European health care, abortion remains a crime in...
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- Women in International Law Vol. 1
Introducing the Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium
08.03.2022
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog celebrates women in international law with the establishment of the annual ‘Women in International...
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- A Critical Christmas Week
The ICJ and the Winter Holidays
24.12.2021
As the mood of winter holidays has found its way in different parts of the world by now, readers interested in international law might curiously wonder what is happening during...
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- A Critical Christmas Week
A Grinch-Like View on Environmentally Unfriendly Christmas Traditions
23.12.2021
Usually when Christmas is portrayed in the media, a fairy-tale like scene takes place. Family and friends meet up, gather around a beautifully decorated Christmas tree, joyfully present each other...
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- A Critical Christmas Week
Ein Weihnachtsgeschenk für Enten und Gänse
22.12.2021
Das insbesondere in Frankreich beliebte Weihnachtsessen Foie gras ist ein krankes Produkt, nämlich die pathologisch verfettete Leber von Enten und Gänsen. Die mit der Herstellung verbundene Tierquälerei sollte EU-weit beendet...
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- A Critical Christmas Week
De-Ritualizing International Law
21.12.2021
Christmas time was story time. My childhood memories of Advent season are filled with them. I remember fairy-tales about mystical creatures, gospel readings about compassion and forgiveness, and movies about...
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- A Critical Christmas Week
Introducing the Critical Christmas Week
21.12.2021
Spyridoula Katsoni
Meike Krakau
Cathérine Van de Graaf
For many of us, the current days lead into a bit of a winter break. In the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter solstice today - the days will be getting...
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- Law Beyond the State
Response: States and the Paradox of Commitment
12.11.2021
Many thanks to the Völkerrechtsblog for hosting this symposium, to Andreas Føllesdal and Steven Ratner for collecting and editing the comments and my reply, and to Kostia Gorobets, Kristen Hessler,...
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- Law Beyond the State
Doing Away with Hobbes
11.11.2021
Carmen Pavel’s new book Law Beyond the State is a great example of how political philosophy of international law may be compelling, thought-provoking, and analytically razor-sharp. Its basic premise about...
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- Law Beyond the State
On Pavel’s Division of Labor
10.11.2021
Central to the thesis of Carmen Pavel’s book is the claim that international law already contains the normative and conceptual resources of a global constitutional pact that she is advocating...
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- Law Beyond the State
Why Not Kant?
09.11.2021
Pavel’s argument in favor of constitutionalizing international law begins by defending a Humean normative framework. I’ll argue that this focus is not the best fit for her own positive proposals,...
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- Law Beyond the State
Is a Global Constitutional Order Possible, or Even Desirable?
08.11.2021
Carmen Pavel’s new book, Law Beyond the State, provides a lucid and generally compelling argument for the necessity of international law, and indeed, for the development of a robust global...
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- Law Beyond the State
A Moral Defense of Robust International Law
08.11.2021
Steven Ratner
Andreas Follesdal
Do today’s international lawyers and political philosophers have something to learn from one another? Do they, we dare say, share any common agendas about the future of global governance? Judging...
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Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective
25.10.2021
Anna-Julia Saiger
Michael Riegner
Maxim Bönnemann
We invite you to send us your blogposts for a joint blog symposium to be published on Verfassungsblog and on Völkerrechtsblog. Selected contributions may also be developed into full articles for a...
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- International Law and the Political
(Writing) International Legal Histories – Continuation of Politics by Other Means?
17.09.2021
Anne Peters
Raphael Schäfer
Hendrik Simon
Dear Professor Peters, dear Mr. Schäfer – to begin with the genesis of your anthology Politics and the Histories of International Law: How did this publication project come about? Where...
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- International Law and the Political
Völkerrechtsgeschichte (schreiben) – Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln?
17.09.2021
Anne Peters
Raphael Schäfer
Hendrik Simon
Liebe Frau Professorin Peters, lieber Herr Schäfer - um mit der Entstehungsgeschichte Ihres Sammelbandes „Politics and the Histories of International Law“ zu beginnen: Wie kam es zu diesem Publikationsprojekt? Wo würden Sie...
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- International Law and the Political
International Law and the Political: Setting the Scene
17.09.2021
With this blogpost we start our new interview series ‘International Law and the Political’. Regardless of one’s school of thought, it can hardly be contested today that international law is...
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- The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
Komplexitäten und Parforce-Ritte
06.09.2021
Mit dem Buch "Die konkrete Utopie der Menschenrechte" wollte ich kein fertiges Konzept vorlegen, sondern einen Beitrag in einem offenen Diskussionsprozess. Diese Einladung zur Debatte scheint - auch dank des...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Livestream: Who Speaks International Law?
04.09.2021
Sundhya Pahuja
Shaun McVeigh
Today at 8:45 am CEST, we will livestream Prof. Dr. Sundhya Pahuja and Prof. Dr. Shaun McVeigh's keynote here. They will engage in a conversation on the theme of the...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Livestream: Race, Borders and Jurisdiction
03.09.2021
Today at 5 pm CEST, we will livestream Professor Achiume’s keynote ‘Race, Borders and Jurisdiction’ here. This keynote is part of this year’s AjV-DGIR conference on ‘Jurisdiction – Who Speaks International...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Constitutionalization of Territory
03.09.2021
Delimitation disputes in Latin America must face a constitutional reality: territory clauses. How States interpret their constitution and their territory clause in Latin America is crucial to the authority of...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Jurisdiction Over the Post-Ceasefire
02.09.2021
The end of the Second War in Nagorno-Karabakh and the signing of the ceasefire agreement by the Azerbaijan President, the Armenian Prime Minister, and the Russian President on the night...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Invoking Systemic Ideals or Legal Rules?
01.09.2021
What “law” are specialised international economic tribunals authorised to apply? This seems to be a simple question, but the inconsistent practice of the WTO and investor-state tribunals suggests otherwise. Different...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Show Justice
31.08.2021
“Colonel Powell, Ma’am, I am the pilot in command responsible for releasing the weapon. I have the right to ask for the CDE to be run again. I will not...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Who Speaks International Law?
30.08.2021
Sué González Hauck
Julian A. Hettihewa
The legal concept of jurisdiction refers to an actor’s competence to provide binding answers to legal questions. Questions of legal validity cannot be answered without examining the notion of jurisdiction....
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Response: Storytelling
27.08.2021
Was I writing a sequel to Mahabharata? Surabhi Ranganathan’s comment wriggled its way under my skin to give eloquent expression to a tradition of storytelling that she suggested was evoked...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Dastan-e Western Civ: Martti Koskenniemi as Storyteller
26.08.2021
In this review, I suggest we read To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth as an exercise in storytelling that evokes the narrative traditions of India, as also other parts of...
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- The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
The ‘Virtue of Failure’
25.08.2021
In his most recent book ‘Die konkrete Utopie der Menschenrechte’ [‘The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights’], Wolfgang Kaleck ventures to square the circle of delineating a future vision of human...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Martti Koskenniemi’s (German) Legal Imagination and the Politics of Panorama
25.08.2021
Earlier this summer, on a long car trip that took me from my hometown of Seligenstadt am Main (a small but significant lieu de mémoire of that very idea of...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
The Koskenniemi Sutra: Britain, Empire, and Legal Imaginations
24.08.2021
What sutras (principles) do we extract from the three chapters on Britain in Martti Koskenniemi’s To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth (TUPE)? Part III of the book has three...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
French Legal Imaginations from Richelieu to Rayneval
24.08.2021
“This is not a history of international law. Instead, it is a history of the legal imagination as it operates in relationship to the use of power in contexts that...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
A Teleology of Ius Gentium?
23.08.2021
It is not an easy task to review and do justice to the chapter on “The Political Theology of Ius Gentium. The Expansion of Spain 1524–1559” in Martti Koskenniemi’s monumental...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Legal Imagination as Bricolage
23.08.2021
Christian Pogies
Hendrik Simon
The publication of Martti Koskenniemi’s new book marks a much-anticipated event among scholars working on the Theory and History of International Law. This may come as little surprise, given that...
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- The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
The Borders of Human Rights and the Need for Utopian Blueprints Today
19.08.2021
Wolfgang Kaleck’s book The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights has emerged from within a period of crisis and profound transformation - and could thus not be any timelier. The Covid-19 pandemic has...
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- The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
Die Komplexität der Menschenrechte
18.08.2021
Das Buch „Die konkrete Utopie der Menschenrechte“ von Wolfgang Kaleck (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights) leistet im besten Sinne Menschenrechtsarbeit. Es verbindet Menschenrechtstheorie und Menschenrechtspraxis, sozialwissenschaftliche und juristische Perspektiven,...
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- The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
Women, Rights, Human Rights
16.08.2021
Magdalena Baran-Szołtys
Christian Berger
Failure as a Concept Reading Wolfgang Kaleck’s “Die konkrete Utopie der Menschenrechte” [The concrete utopia of human rights] is fun. And so should be human rights work! However, Kaleck articulates the...
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- The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
Symposium Introduction: The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
16.08.2021
Dana Schmalz
Sebastian M. Spitra
This week, Völkerrechtsblog hosts a symposium on Wolfgang Kaleck’s newly published book Die konkrete Utopie der Menschenrechte. The book discusses the history and present of the legal struggle for human...
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
The UNHCR in 2021: Refugee Resettlement as a Challenge of Underfunding, Power Imbalance and Impartiality
20.07.2021
In 2021 and beyond, refugee resettlement remains an indispensable protection tool for refugees facing particular vulnerability in countries of (first) refuge. Alarmingly, the resettlement numbers have reached the lowest levels...
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Oldie but Goodie: Resilience of the 1951 Refugee Convention 70 Years On
13.07.2021
While many question the relevance of the 1951 Refugee Convention today, refugee protection in the EU has actually expanded in the past 30 years. In just one generation, doctrinal shifts...
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- Defining Ecocide
Defining Ecocide – An Interview with Christina Voigt
09.07.2021
Justine Batura
Philipp Eschenhagen
Raphael Oidtmann
Christina Voigt
Wrapping up our Symposium ‘Defining Ecocide’, Christina Voigt, member of the Independent Expert Panel, explains her views on the definition of ecocide. In a conversation with Justine Batura, Philipp Eschenhagen...
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- Defining Ecocide
A Missed Opportunity for Accountability?
09.07.2021
In June 2021 the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide issued its proposal of the legal definition of ecocide along with its accompanying commentary. With its proposal,...
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- Defining Ecocide
Repairing Ecocide
08.07.2021
Given the justified rhetoric of urgency surrounding ecocide, this post thinks ridiculously far into the future: it thinks about a time when the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) will have enacted...
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- Defining Ecocide
On Symbolism and Beyond
08.07.2021
On 22 June 2021, more than 300 curious minds joined the Stop Ecocide Foundation for a video conference in which the long-awaited definition of ‘ecocide’ was to be unveiled. It...
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- Defining Ecocide
Mens Rea and the Proposed Legal Definition of Ecocide
07.07.2021
This June, a panel of international experts revealed a proposed legal definition for “ecocide,” with the hopes that this crime eventually can be included in the Rome Statute and heard...
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- Defining Ecocide
Introducing the Symposium on the Draft Definition of Ecocide
07.07.2021
Justine Batura
Philipp Eschenhagen
Raphael Oidtmann
The proposed definition of a novel international crime of ecocide - unveiled on 22 June by the StopEcocide initiative - has been discussed widely across the international law blogosphere and beyond....
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Ungarn 1989, oder: Wie die Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention half, die Berliner Mauer einzureißen
06.07.2021
2021 ist aus migrationshistorischer und völkerrechtlicher Sicht ein ambivalentes Gedenkjahr. Neben der in dieser Blogreihe erinnerten Gründung des UNHCR und der Unterzeichnung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention (GFK) vor 70 Jahren sollte...
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- Contingency in International Law
How Could International Law Have Been Otherwise? A Rejoinder
18.06.2021
Our edited volume has asked a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: Could international law have been otherwise? One could expect the answer to be a resounding ‘yes’, given...
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- Contingency in International Law
Revisiting the Impossible
18.06.2021
Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller’s edited volume "Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories" (Oxford University Press, 2021) (hereinafter: Contingency) is a rare editorial accomplishment....
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Planned Obsolescence of International Law
17.06.2021
‘Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories’, an ambitious volume edited by Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller which was published in April 2021, puts international...
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Contingency “Between” and “Beyond”
17.06.2021
Between you and me, Professors Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller’s edited collection reads like a classic expositional text on the ways to think about contingency in international law –...
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Thinking Like ‘Fools’: Recovering the Radical Potential of Contingency in International Law
16.06.2021
Edited collections often tend to surface within the hegemonic voice of the editors – they introduce the concept, set the frame, determine the contours, and also illustrate the specific set...
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Are What-Ifs a Virtual Experiment or a Parlour Game?
16.06.2021
In his famous series of lectures delivered at Cambridge University, E. H. Carr displayed a cynical attitude towards those who tend to ask what if an event had happened otherwise....
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Afrikas vergessene Flüchtlingskonvention
15.06.2021
1969 entwickelte die OAU (Organisation für Afrikanische Einheit, heute die Afrikanische Union, AU) ihre eigene Flüchtlingskonvention, welche afrikanische Werte widerspiegeln sollte. Sie wurde am 10. September 1969 in Addis Abeba...
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Contingency in the History of International Law?
15.06.2021
At a time when overseas travel, in-person academic events, and mediocre conference food were still commonplace, I attended the conference in Amsterdam that forms the backdrop for this impressive volume....
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New Music for Old Ears
14.06.2021
Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller’s Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories, an edited volume with thirty distinct contributions just published by Oxford University Press,...
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