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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
‘Populate or Perish’ – Zu den Interessen Australiens und Venezuelas in den Verhandlungen der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention
20.04.2021
Die politische Aushandlung, Formulierung und Verabschiedung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention vor siebzig Jahren ging mit einer rassistisch gefärbten Modernisierungspolitik in Staaten des Globalen Südens einher, die es mitzuberücksichtigen gilt, wenn nach...
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Eurozentrismus und strategische Interessen in der Wissensproduktion über Migration in den 1940er und 1950er Jahren
13.04.2021
Die politische Aushandlung, Formulierung und Verabschiedung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention von siebzig Jahren ging mit einem Wissen über Migration als einem global zu lösenden Problem einher, das es kritisch zu hinterfragen...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
Livestream: Conference on “Inter-State Cases under the European Convention on Human Rights – Experiences and Current Challenges”
12.04.2021
LIVE NOW: The conference can be watched live: here. On 12 and 13 April 2021, Völkerrechtsblog will host the live-stream of the conference “Inter-State Cases under the European Convention on...
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Fünf Fragen an PD Dr. Roman Schmidt-Radefeldt
12.04.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 19. April 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Herr PD Dr. Roman Schmidt-Radefeldt der zehnte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Er ist Regierungsdirektor bei den Wissenschaftlichen Diensten des Deutschen Bundestages....
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Before 1951, Outside Europe
06.04.2021
The 1951 Refugee Convention and the UNHCR had a longer pre-history drawing on experiences influencing its further developments. A critical predecessor in this regard was the UN’s International Refugee Organization...
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- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
The Case for the Right to Defend Human Rights in Colombia
01.04.2021
The work of environmental and human rights defenders (EHRD) is pivotal in promoting human rights protection and strengthening democracies. It has been particularly important during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, EHRD...
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- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
When Two Wrongs Make a “Right”
31.03.2021
Achinthi Vithanage
Robert Habermann
History has shown us that global crises have prompted strong human rights responses. The atrocities of the world wars led to a re-evaluation of the human condition that demanded the...
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Colonial Effects on the Founding of the 1951 Refugee Convention
30.03.2021
Whether internationally or nationally, law does not simply exist but is made by political actors; those involved thus have the power to set standards. Exactly this politicization of international refugee...
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Koloniale Einflüsse auf die Gründung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention
30.03.2021
Ob international oder national, Recht existiert nicht einfach, sondern wird stets von politischen Akteur*innen geschaffen. Die Beteiligten haben also die Macht, Standards zu setzen. Genau diese Politisierung des internationalen Flüchtlingsrechts...
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- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
The COVID-19 Response and the Right to a Healthy Environment in India
30.03.2021
Sathiabama. S
Vedavalli. S
With the plight of the worldwide pandemic the need for humanity to protect the environment and maintain ecological balance became more apparent. While India’s lockdown led to reduced anthropogenic interference...
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Fünf Fragen an Prof. Dr. Jörg Polakiewicz
29.03.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 5. April 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Herr Prof. Dr. Jörg Polakiewicz der neunte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Er ist Direktor der Rechts- und Völkerrechtsabteilung des Europarates....
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- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
Awakening from “Sleeping Beauty’s” Slumber
29.03.2021
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the already fragile situation of vulnerable groups is in a downward spiral. The infringements of the human rights of vulnerable groups stirred by the current crisis are...
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- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
A Glimmer of Hope for All?
26.03.2021
The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic causes serious risks for human beings and, therefore, challenges the human rights system and the capacity of governments to adopt quick and adequate measures....
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- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
Time to Counter “Vaccine Nationalism”?
26.03.2021
To this date, states with access to vaccines against the new coronavirus are focusing exclusively on inoculating people under their jurisdiction. This process has been accurately described as “vaccine nationalism”....
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- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
Grow Together or Perish Alone
25.03.2021
The COVID-19 health crisis has shown that public institutions can tackle major crises with a collaborative approach. During the Aspen Security Forum in 2020, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated:...
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- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
Using Human Security to Harness Human Rights in the Post-COVID World
24.03.2021
In a global pandemic, it is commonplace to look toward global solutions for global issues. But the pandemic has highlighted how states cannot unilaterally counter complex threats that cross borders...
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
“Nowhere to be found”: Three Decades of UNHCR in South Africa
23.03.2021
Though the UNHCR in South Africa go to great efforts to be neutral and provide the best possible assistance to those seeking refuge, by design they have to work together...
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- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
Queer(ing) Vulnerabilities and Human Rights
23.03.2021
When asked about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on their community, Deniz Deniz, the owner of a famous LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, Queer, Intersex and Asexual) bar in...
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COVID-19 and “New” Human Rights Symposium
22.03.2021
Maria Antonia Tigre
Anna-Julia Saiger
Nesa Zimmermann
Legal debates on the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the urgently needed containment measures, the distribution of vaccines, and the protection of human rights are flourishing. A year after the WHO declared...
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Parallel Lives: The Geneva Refugee Convention and the Federal Expellee Law
17.03.2021
The Geneva Refugee Convention is not the only piece of postwar refugee law to survive into the present. The 1953 West German Federal Expellee Law is in many ways a...
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Parallele Leben
17.03.2021
Die Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention (GFK) ist nicht das einzige Dokument des Flüchtlingsrechts der Nachkriegszeit, das bis in die Gegenwart überdauert hat. Das 1953 erlassene westdeutsche Bundesvertriebenengesetz (BVFG) ist ein in vielerlei...
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Globale Entwicklungen, Errungenschaften und Herausforderungen
16.03.2021
Ulrike Krause
Dana Schmalz
*** for the English version, see below *** Das UN-Flüchtlingshilfswerk (UNHCR) und die Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention stellen die wichtigsten Säulen des internationalen Flüchtlingsschutzregimes dar. Beide gehen auf das Jahr 1951 zurück,...
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
70 Jahre UNHCR und Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention: Globale Entwicklungen
16.03.2021
Ulrike Krause
Dana Schmalz
*** for the English version, see below *** Für das globale Flüchtlingsregime stellte 1951 ein wegweisendes Jahr dar. UNHCR nahm die Arbeit im Januar 1951 auf und das Abkommen über...
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Fünf Fragen an Dr. Katja Göcke
15.03.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 22. März 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Frau Dr. Katja Göcke der achte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Frau Dr. Katja Göcke ist Rechtsanwältin bei GvW – Graf...
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- Investment Law and Human Rights
The space between human rights and the right to regulate
13.03.2021
Tomer Broude
Caroline Henckels
We are thankful for the opportunity provided by Völkerrechtsblog and the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) to discuss our recent article on the loss-gain frame of investor rights and human rights...
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- Investment Law and Human Rights
Human rights in the hyphen: reframing investor-state arbitration through the duty to regulate
12.03.2021
International investment law is commonly associated with the priority of the global over the local, the private over the public, the economic over the social. A leitmotif of the Leiden...
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- Investment Law and Human Rights
Reply: Looking for a saviour in international investment law?
11.03.2021
I am grateful to Silvia Steininger for her thought-provoking comments ('From the Margins to the Center - Can Social Movements Save International Investment Law?'). From the first time I encountered...
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From the margins to the center – can social movements save international investment law?
10.03.2021
Can social movements save international investment law? There have been few works in international law, which have been as decisive for my research interests than Moshe Hirsch’s rich and interdisciplinary...
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Symposium on international investment law and human rights
09.03.2021
Isabel Daum
Fabian Simon Eichberger
International investment law and human rights law share an uneasy relationship. Ever since the problematic interaction between the two areas of law entered mainstream discourse over a decade ago, the...
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Fünf Fragen an Dr. Christiane Höhn
08.03.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 15. März 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Frau Dr. Christiane Höhn der siebte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Frau Dr. Christiane Höhn, LL.M. (Harvard) ist die führende Beraterin...
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- Dialing into Jessup
Call for contributions: Dialing into Jessup
04.03.2021
The 2021 Jessup season is in full swing with national competitions being carried out these weeks and the International Rounds just around the corner. This year differs significantly from past...
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Fünf Fragen an Dr. Nicola Wenzel
01.03.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 8. März 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Frau Dr. Nicola Wenzel der sechste Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Frau Dr. Wenzel ist Leiterin des Referats IV C 1...
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- The role of the ILC
Experts’ interpretations of treaties
26.02.2021
Danae Azaria’s article makes a very valuable contribution to the understanding of interpretation in international law and of the significant role of the ILC. It prompts further thoughts regarding experts’...
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- The role of the ILC
Counsel to sovereign states
25.02.2021
Alejandro Celorio Alcántara
The International Law Commission’s (ILC) invaluable work has been the first stepping-stone for the creation of many treaties. However, its work must not be considered as a source for States’...
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The International Law Commission as a sui generis organ?
24.02.2021
Danae Azaria’s article is set to be an essential reference for the study of the International Law Commission’s (ILC) mandate concerning the codification and progressive development of international law. In...
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The outside keeps creeping in: On the impossibility of engaging in purely doctrinal scholarship
23.02.2021
Danae Azaria’s article is a perfect example of a specific genre of international law scholarship: an ‘orthodox’ account that wishes to stay neatly within the lines that legal doctrine draws...
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- The role of the ILC
Multiple actors, one task: the joint responsibility of international law making
22.02.2021
The 70th anniversary of the International Law Commission (ILC), celebrated in 2018, has provided an opportunity to reflect on the Commission’s role in international law-making and its continued relevance at...
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The International Law Commission as an interpreter of international law?
22.02.2021
Justine Batura
Sué González Hauck
Sophie Schuberth
The role of the International Law Commission (ILC), as the subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly charged with the promotion and codification of progressive development of international law, has...
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Fünf Fragen an Dr. Cristina Verones
15.02.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 22. Februar 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Frau Dr. Cristina Verones der fünfte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Frau Dr. Cristina Verones ist Diplomatin für die Schweiz. In...
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Fünf Fragen an RA Wolfgang Kaleck
01.02.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 08. Februar 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Herr Rechtsanwalt Wolfgang Kaleck der vierte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Herr Rechtsanwalt Wolfgang Kaleck ist Fachanwalt für Strafrecht sowie Generalsekretär...
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Fünf Fragen an Gyde Jensen
26.01.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 01. Februar 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Gyde Jensen der dritte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Frau Abgeordnete Jensen ist seit 2017 Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages. Dort leitet...
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Call for Contributions: COVID-19 and “New” Human Rights
19.01.2021
Maria Antonia Tigre
Nesa Zimmermann
Anna-Julia Saiger
COVID-19 has spread all over the world, unequivocally reaching countries of very different socio-economic development. Yet, COVID-19 has unequally affected different groups and communities around the world and continues to...
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Fünf Fragen an Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann
18.01.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 25. Januar 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann der zweite Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe "Völkerrechtslunches". Er ist Professor für Öffentliches Recht, insb. Europa- und Völkerrecht...
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Fünf Fragen an Dr. Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger
05.01.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 11. Januar 2021 ist Dr. Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger der erste Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe "Völkerrechtslunches". Sie war 2020 Präsidentin des UN-Menschenrechtsrates und ist Ständige Vertreterin Österreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen in Genf. In insgesamt zwölf Online-Gesprächsterminen...
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- The Battle for International Law
Decolonization as Dialectic Process in Law and Literature
31.12.2020
The Battle for International Law addresses the South-North contest over the content and structure of international law during the period of decolonization in the global South (1955-1975). Edited volumes are...
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- The Battle for International Law
Worthy of the “increasingly global perspective”?
30.12.2020
Considering the debates on current backlashes against international law and the international rule of law, the matter of a peaceful ocean governance has come under pressure. This is due not...
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It’s the system, stupid!
29.12.2020
The title of The Battle for International Law evokes Rudolf von Jhering’s (“The Struggle / Battle for Law”). In this work, Jhering describes law as the product of struggle between...
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Water under the bridge?
28.12.2020
Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann’s ‘The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era’ (Battle for International Law) is an ambitious undertaking. The editors along with their...
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“‘The West’ might not exist anymore”
24.12.2020
Christian Pogies
Anna-Julia Saiger
Sebastian Spitra
This interview is the beginning of a book symposium on Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann´s edited volume on The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era...
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Avenues for victims of enforced disappearances in The Gambia
23.12.2020
In Africa, enforced disappearances occur in multiple situations such as during armed conflicts, in the fight against terrorism, in policing migration, or in dictatorial regimes. It has been used for...
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99’000 disappeared and counting
23.12.2020
It is estimated that about 1.2 million Syrian citizens have been arrested and detained at some point since March 2011. During this period, an estimated number of 99 000 persons...
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Setting precedents at the UN
22.12.2020
Suzanne Seiller
Juan Carlos Gutiérrez
Mexico suffers from an entrenched situation of violence, with gross human rights violations committed daily since 2006, when the “war against organized crime” was started by former President Calderón. The...
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An unattainable dream
21.12.2020
Ten years have passed since the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED or the Convention). It seems to be only yesterday...
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New wine in old bottles
21.12.2020
On 16 June 2017, 40-year-old Murat Okumuş was abducted in broad daylight by several plainclothes men in Izmir, Turkey’s third largest metropole. The abductors arrived in two unmarked cars, pushed Mr. Okumuş into one...
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Unlocatable Violence
19.12.2020
Enforced disappearance is not simply the act of violence of its constituent parts: of detention, torture, inhumane treatment, murder. Enforced disappearance operates on a different political register: it not only...
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(Enforced) disappearances – when state and criminal perpetrators blur
18.12.2020
Mexico intellectual and organizer Gustavo Esteva uses “lodo” (lit. mud, Spanish), as an analogy to talk about violence in Mexico. For Esteva, the State and organized crime are no longer separate entities –...
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Excluding enforced disappearances from military jurisdiction
18.12.2020
Enforced disappearances often result in impunity, which is a “distinctive trait” of such crimes (UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, 2020 Annual Report, paras. 1, 93). A range of factors can contribute...
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Bringing home the remains of forcibly disappeared persons
17.12.2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it impossible for millions of people around the globe to say goodbye to their loved ones or to bury them according to their beliefs. This situation...
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The vicious cycle of impunity
16.12.2020
Ana Srovin Coralli
Pamela Favre
Despite being a country where disappearances have been committed for decades, El Salvador’s approach towards the search for disappeared persons and prosecution of these crimes remains under-explored by the international community....
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The Committee on Enforced Disappearances
16.12.2020
Albane Prophette-Pallasco
Anna Batalla Trilla
With the ratification of the 2006 International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED), States officially confirm their commitment to fight against enforced disappearances and to prevent their...
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Non-judicial search for disappeared persons
15.12.2020
In view of the failure of the criminal justice systems, which have been unable to make effective progress in the investigation and search for disappeared persons, a new model of...
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Disappeared migrants and refugees
15.12.2020
Barbara Lochbihler
Silke Voß-Kyeck
Grażyna Baranowska
Every year thousands of migrants and refugees disappear en route to reach their destination country or in the host country itself. While this phenomenon has been articulated recently in the...
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A precursor to comprehensive perspectives on Enforced Disappearances
14.12.2020
Enforced disappearance is one of the most atrocious criminal behaviours: its intention is to erase a person from his or her environment, to hide his or her whereabouts and thus...
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A decade of victim-centred approaches
12.12.2020
Carmen Rosa Villa Quintana
“¿Dónde están? Vivos se los llevaron, vivos los queremos!” (lit. Where are they? Alive they were taken, alive we want them!) is the cry of the relatives of disappeared persons....
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My story: a case of enforced disappearance
11.12.2020
My name is Raza Mahmood Khan and I have been disappeared for seven months. I am a peace educator and have worked actively with children across the border of India...
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Empty chairs
10.12.2020
Justine Batura
Nesa Zimmermann
“Enforced disappearance is a particularly heinous crime”. This phrase has been repeated time and again by civil society organisations and UN experts, and states have condemned this crime countless times....
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Call for Contributions: Symposium on Enforced Disappearances
03.11.2020
Justine Batura
Nesa Zimmermann
The year 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED) and the 40th anniversary...
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- Crimes Against Humanity
Transnational biographies and “legal flows”
02.10.2020
I feel honoured by the inspiring comments my book has received from so many eminent colleagues, and I would like to thank everybody, and also the Völkerrechtsblog for the opportunity...
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A melody for legal reform?
01.10.2020
In Crimes Against Humanity, Kerstin von Lingen proposes a twofold argument about the history of the eponymous concept. First, von Lingen emphasizes the longue-durée history of crimes against humanity as...
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A (time) travelling concept
28.09.2020
In May 2001, the French National Assembly passed the so-called Lois Taubina which retroactively decreed the colonial slave trade as a "crime against humanity". In 2019, Pope Francis publicly called...
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- Crimes Against Humanity
Civilizing wartime violence?
24.09.2020
For many years, legal concepts were a domain of legal analysis in which the historical context was hardly addressed. This has slowly changed since the beginning of the 21st century,...
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- Crimes Against Humanity
A matter of evolution, not invention
23.09.2020
On the morning of Sunday July 29th 1945, Robert Jackson, recently named as Chief Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal to be established in Nuremberg, was driven from his hotel...
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Symposium introduction: crimes against humanity
22.09.2020
Sebastian Spitra
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
This post is the opening of a symposium on Kerstin von Lingen’s award-winning book Crimes Against Humanity. Eine Ideengeschichte der Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt 1864–1945. The book looks at the intellectual...
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- Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity
Indigenous peoples and biodiversity law in Ecuador
08.07.2020
Alexandra Tomaselli
Daqui Lema Maldonado
The book symposium on Federica Cittadino’s attempt to incorporate indigenous rights in international biodiversity law raised various theoretical and practical issues for international legal scholarship. But how is the link...
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- Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity
Incorporating indigenous rights in the CBD
30.06.2020
Let me start by thanking the symposium’s editors and the three researchers that have accepted to review my work for their thoughtful comments and for sparking a lively discussion. In...
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- Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity
Two opposing commitments?
29.06.2020
Federica Cittadino’s book examines the tension that underpins the relationship between two key commitments undertaken by the international community, namely the commitment to protect indigenous people’s rights and the commitment...
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- Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity
Indigenous power beyond human rights
26.06.2020
Indigenous power in international law has long been subsumed under the language of international human rights, and we have turned ourselves blind to other possibilities in international law that Indigenous...
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- Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity
Traditional knowledge and customary law
25.06.2020
While the world’s 370 million of persons belonging to an Indigenous people account for less than five percent of the total human population, they hold tenure over 25 percent of...
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- Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity
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-sharing and Conservation...
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- The Corporation, Law and Capitalism
Perfect pandemic reading
21.06.2020
I am very excited about my book being discussed in the Völkerrechtsblog and grateful to Michael Bader for organising it, and for the six readers taking their time to dip...
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Between utopia and affirmation of the status quo
20.06.2020
For someone who has been working in the field of so-called strategic litigation against multinational corporations in international (criminal) law and other fields of national law for more than a...
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- The Corporation, Law and Capitalism
International law and capitalist logic of exploitation
19.06.2020
The Corporation, Law and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy is a loud book. The author promises to "radically" change our view...
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- The Corporation, Law and Capitalism
Internationales Recht und kapitalistische Verwertungslogik
19.06.2020
The Corporation, Law and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy ist ein lautes Buch. Die Autor*in verspricht, auf “radikale” Weise unseren Blick...
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- The Corporation, Law and Capitalism
Of law(s) and capitalism(s)
18.06.2020
The thrive for corporate accountability has given rise to some of the most vivid legal developments since the post-war era. In a liberal logic and from the vantage point of...
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- The Corporation, Law and Capitalism
Rechtsform(en) jenseits des Kapitalismus?
17.06.2020
The Corporation, Law and Capitalism ist ein wichtiges Buch. Mit einem historisch-materialistischen Fokus auf die rechtliche Konfigurierung des Unternehmens als Rechtsperson zeigt Grietje Baars exemplarisch die Rolle des Rechts für...
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Legal form(s) beyond capitalism?
17.06.2020
The Corporation, Law and Capitalism is an important book. With a historical-materialist focus on the legal configuration of the corporation as a legal entity, Grietje Baars shows in an exemplary...
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- The Corporation, Law and Capitalism
Seeking corporate accountability for human rights
16.06.2020
The Corporation, Law and Capitalism provided a fantastically refreshing (if a little depressing) counter-narrative of international (criminal) law’s intimate relationship with capital, and the paradoxical effect this has on attempts...
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Working toward the world we want to live in
15.06.2020
Grietje Baars’ recently published book The Corporation, Law and Capitalism is a powerful intervention on multiple accounts. Baars’ study spearheads and complements a newly revived Marxist legal tradition in the...
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- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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 articulate political interests instead...
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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 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...
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A burden to share
01.06.2020
The spread of the Coronavirus disease prompts the question whether EU Member states should show solidarity and, if so, to what extent. It is clear that Italy is one of...
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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...
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The Corona effect
27.05.2020
María Elisa Vera Madrigal
Can the flap of a bat’s wings in Hunan, China, send global markets into freefall and threaten democracy in the Americas? Today, most of us would answer in the affirmative...
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Beauty and the virus
26.05.2020
Many parts of the world are in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As most of Europe was hit hard by the virus and its rapid spread, countries implemented lockdown...
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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 and...
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