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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Völkerrechtslunch: Fünf Fragen an Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann, Universität Potsdam
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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Völkerrechtslunch: Fünf Fragen an Botschafterin 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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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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- Crimes Against Humanity
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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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- International Law in Pandemic Times
To sue or not to sue
04.06.2020
Various areas of international law highlight the value of information and the essential role of the obligation to notify in fulfilling other duties. The current COVID-19 global crisis has further...
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- International Law in Pandemic Times
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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- International Law in Pandemic Times
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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- International Law in Pandemic Times
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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- International Law in Pandemic Times
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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- International Law in Pandemic Times
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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- International Law in Pandemic Times
Look for everyday solidarity
25.05.2020
Ling Chen
Vishakha Wijenayake
The absent global leadership and starkly uncoordinated cross-border responses have exacerbated the spread of the coronavirus. On a positive note, countries are progressively joining forces to address immediate humanitarian appeals....
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- International Law in Pandemic Times
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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- Climate Justice
La solidarité dans le droit international: entre mythe et réalité
15.05.2020
Le droit international n’est pas toujours conforme à l’image que l’on veut lui donner, et qu’en donne les internationalistes, qu’ils soient positivistes ou relativistes. Les critères sont relatifs et ne...
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- Climate Justice
How behavioural law can promote sustainable development
14.05.2020
The idea that human society and peoples should develop in a sustainable way can be traced back to ancient cultures, practices and legal traditions. However, only recently there is an...
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- Climate Justice
Could “Net”-Zero Emissions prove to be a fatal blow for climate justice?
13.05.2020
In 2015, after intense lobbying efforts and to the frustration of many climate justice activists, the Human Rights dimension of climate change was included not in the text, but only...
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Art. XX GATT 1994 – Climate change and disadvantaged nations
12.05.2020
As signs of a looming climate catastrophe emerge, international law scholars and lawyers frequently seek additional paths to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions and to protect the environment. On a regular basis,...
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Securing pathways to environmental justice for indigenous women
11.05.2020
Across the Americas, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) or the World Bank (WB), finance public and private projects to support the development of the...
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- Climate Justice
Access to justice and climate-related disasters: Do we need “disaster justice”?
07.05.2020
The world is experiencing an increasing number of disasters, both those caused by natural hazards and those linked to human activities, and this fact renders cooperation and coordination at the...
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Klimagerechtigkeit – ein Recht auf Heimat?
06.05.2020
Das Thema Klimagerechtigkeit hat in den letzten Jahren viel Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Die explizite Aufnahme von Klimagerechtigkeit in die Präambel des Pariser Übereinkommens von 2015 wurde sowohl von Aktivisten als auch...
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Displacement in connection with climate change: does transitional justice offer a lens for durable solutions?
05.05.2020
Forced displacement is not a recent phenomenon. However, in recent years, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has estimated that there are over 65.6 million persons forcibly displaced...
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Democratising international climate law
04.05.2020
Government centred action has so far failed to respond adequately to the climate crisis, opening the space for new governance experiments, including through subnational coalitions, social movements and private standards....
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The state is dead – long live the state! Statehood in an age of catastrophe
01.05.2020
Viljam Engström
Michel Rouleau-Dick
The geographical impact of climate change on statehood is rather clear. Ever since scientists have been warning about climate change and the rise in sea levels it would involve, several...
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Judging climate change obligations: Can the World Court rise to the occasion?
30.04.2020
Tom Sparks
Nataša Nedeski
Gleider Hernández
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic piles crisis atop crisis. As confirmed infection rates cross 2.5 million and attributed deaths pass 170,000 (at time of writing, in April 2020), it is increasingly being...
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Judging climate change obligations: Can the World Court rise to the occasion?
30.04.2020
Tom Sparks
Nataša Nedeski
Gleider Hernández
In Part I of this post, we sought to identify the core rules of international environmental law that needed evolution and clarification for a claim relating to climate change to...
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Pursuing climate justice through public interest litigation: the Urgenda case
29.04.2020
This blog post critically examines the contribution of public interest litigation to the global fight for climate justice. I consider the Urgenda case, which culminated in the Netherlands’ Supreme Court...
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Global South climate litigation versus climate justice: duty of international cooperation as a remedy?
28.04.2020
Imagine for a moment that you are a Bolivian small farmer whose livelihood depends on the continuing flow of a river to water your crops. Now, due to climate change,...
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International law in an age of catastrophe
27.04.2020
Dana Schmalz
Raffaela Kunz
Anna-Julia Saiger
The symposium on climate justice is starting on the blog today, and it appears both a most urgent and a curious moment for it. Last year, the climate crisis finally...
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‘Staying with the trouble’
27.04.2020
Among the issues raised in the call for contributions to the symposium on ‘Climate Justice – International Law in an Age of Catastrophe’, we find the question whether ‘international law...
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- Young Approaches to International Law
Irrational, unprofessional, radical?
18.04.2020
Raffaela Kunz
Anna Holzscheiter
2019 has marked the year in which the climate crisis has entered broader public debate. The main trigger were young people protesting around the globe and demanding that their governments...
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Denying juveniles’ agency role: truly in their best interest?
17.04.2020
How is it possible that thus far the agency role of juveniles in international law appears to be diminished and underestimated, even though they constitute a large number of the...
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Enter the youth, a protagonist behind the scenes
16.04.2020
Laura Fischer
Franka Weckner
The 1992 Rio Declaration suggested that young people would soon become protagonists in international law-making. Accordingly, it should be no surprise that the youth has become louder and louder in...
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Do youth delegates at the UN have an influence on public international law?
15.04.2020
Young people, mostly defined as people aged between 15 and 24 in the UN context (for more information on the definition of youth, see here), are generally underrepresented in political...
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Rejuvenating international law
14.04.2020
Lewis Wattenberg
Julian A. Hettihewa
Felix Schott
Selin Dirik
Announcing a “Youthquake”, Time Magazine rang the bell of change, declaring that a new generation is on its way to power. International legal scholarship, however, has not yet recognised this...
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- International Law in Pandemic Times
Call for Contributions: International law in pandemic times
06.04.2020
The current COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis of global dimension. With numerous countries imposing shut-downs, closing their borders and limiting international trade and cooperation, the crisis in some ways...
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International law in an age of catastrophe
10.02.2020
Dana Schmalz
Raffaela Kunz
Anna-Julia Saiger
We live in an age of catastrophe. This is not alarmism. Rather, denying this would mean disregarding all scientific evidence we have. At the beginning of this new decade, Australia...
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- Feminist Engagement with International Law
Crisis and hypocrisy?
20.01.2020
Sué González Hauck
Isabel Lischewski
The Book Review Symposium on Feminist Engagement with International Law has been taking place against the backdrop of multiple crises. The crisis that has been dominating the news worldwide is...
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Intersectional feminist engagements with international law (Part II)
15.01.2020
In this second part of our interview with CIJ founder and executive director Emilia Roig, we move from general questions on intersectionality and the category ‘women’ to more specific questions...
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Intersectional feminist engagements with international law (Part I)
14.01.2020
Most contributions to our online review symposium argue in favor of an intersectional approach. Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term ‘intersectionality’ in 1989. Crenshaw is also the president of...
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Whose womanhood? Feminist postcolonial approaches to law
13.01.2020
In July 2019, shortly before her election as the first ever female president of the European Commission, German centre-right minister of defence Ursula von der Leyen introduced the Hashtag #EuropeIsAWoman....
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TWAILing feminist engagement with international law: Toward an intersectional governance feminism
10.01.2020
The recently published Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law [’the Handbook’] does not only provide a glimpse at the breadth of contemporary critical feminist international law scholarship, but, perhaps...
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- Feminist Engagement with International Law
The problem of “sport sex”
09.01.2020
Female track athletes with certain differences of sex development (DSD) are now barred from the women’s category of international competition – that is, unless they undergo procedures to “normalise” the...
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- Feminist Engagement with International Law
Book Symposium on “Feminist Engagement with International Law”
08.01.2020
Sué González Hauck
Isabel Lischewski
“Feminist analysis is like friendship: an ongoing process of deepening complexity, interactive, contradictory, insightful, emotional, enlightening, challenging, conflicting”, Nancy O. Dowd wrote in her introduction to Feminist Legal Theory: An...
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- Feminist Engagement with International Law
‘It’s not a research gap, it’s a research crevasse!’
08.01.2020
To kick off our book symposium on the Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law, Völkerrechtsblog’s Isabel Lischewski talks to editors Susan Harris Rimmer, Associate Professor, Griffith University Law...
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- Internet Governance Forum
The Contract for the Web: The newest manifestation of digital constitutionalism?
29.11.2019
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is intended to bring together the multistakeholder community to talk about the current and the future Internet. It is distinctly not supposed to bring about...
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- Internet Governance Forum
A tale of two foundational orders
28.11.2019
The Internet – as a global technological facility enabling information and communication creation and exchange – has become an object of regulation by international law. But more than that: the...
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- Internet Governance Forum
Three eras of digital governance
27.11.2019
To understand where digital governance is going, we must take stock of where it’s been, because the timbre of mainstream thinking around digital governance today is dramatically different than it...
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- Internet Governance Forum
Free speech in the age of online content moderation
26.11.2019
Content moderation is not a novelty in the media sector. As content providers, traditional media outlets like televisions and newspaper have always selected the information to broadcast or disclose. Nevertheless,...
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- Internet Governance Forum
Thoughts on ‘one World, one Net, one Vision’
25.11.2019
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Matthias K. Klatt
That the Internet is more than a global infrastructure is old news. But the changes and challenges to our global understanding of territorial boarders, governance, sovereignty and communication are still...
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- Internet Governance Forum
Ein globaler „Dauerbrenner“
25.11.2019
Hate Speech umgrenzen, verstehen und bekämpfen – ein weiterhin aktuelles Thema im Kontext von Online-Kommunikation. Das Thema ist demzufolge auf dem Internet Governance Forum gut aufgehoben, denn es betrifft alle...
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- Colonial Repercussions in Germany and Namibia
The role of museums
22.11.2019
When we talk about addressing the colonial past and decolonization, museums should play an active role and make their numerous voices heard. In order to play a relevant role in...
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- Colonial Repercussions in Germany and Namibia
German colonialism, reparations and international law
21.11.2019
Reparations have become an increasingly important entry point to the conversation about the unfinished business of decolonization. Even though reparations have an established role in transitional justice and human rights,...
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- Colonial Repercussions in Germany and Namibia
Participation rights of indigenous peoples
20.11.2019
Over the past three decades, indigenous peoples’rights have become an important component of international law and policy. This is a result of a movement driven by indigenous peoples, civil society...
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