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Between War and Peace – On the Logic and Language of Imperial Violence. An Interview with Lauren Benton
13.09.2024
Lauren Benton
Hendrik Simon
The differentiation between war and peace is central to the historiography of international relations and international law. In her new book “They Called it Peace”, Lauren Benton shows how violence...
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Chatting with Machiko Kanetake
13.09.2024
Machiko Kanetake
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Machiko Kanetake, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Towards Realistic Universalism?, or: Provincializing Realism! An Interview with Matthew Specter
11.09.2024
Matthew G. Specter
Hendrik Simon
In his book The Atlantic Realists, Matthew Specter presents a genealogy of modern realism as a discourse between US-American and German intellectuals. An interview about the origins of the central...
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Contrapuntal Readings of/in/through International Law
02.08.2024
Fugue Liberal Legal Order Re:dux, Re:boot, Re:turn. “The liberal international legal order is dead. Long live the liberal international legal order!” This, it seems, remains the paradox of our contemporary...
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Is “Dis/ordering International Law” the Panacea to the Many Frustrations Found in Critical International Legal Scholarship?
01.08.2024
re:sources Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Sabanoh Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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‘To Do Away with All Mediation’
01.08.2024
re:sources Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Sabanoh Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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‘Re/de/composing’ International Law
31.07.2024
juris:generative Maya Youssef, Breakthrough Classic FM session Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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Palestine, Israel and the (Dis)ordering of International Law
31.07.2024
juris:generative Maya Youssef, Breakthrough Classic FM session Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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Dreaming of ‘Disorder’ and Imagining Reimagination
30.07.2024
response:ability Anna Tijoux, Niñx Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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Governmentalities of Disorder
30.07.2024
Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
response:ability Anna Tijoux, Niñx Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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Organising International Law
30.07.2024
response:ability Anna Tijoux, Niñx Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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(Dis)ordering Anthropocentric Hierarchies
29.07.2024
state:hood Nitin Sawnhey, Homelands Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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Reflections in Art
29.07.2024
Rose Sydney Parfitt
Michelle Staggs Kelsall
state:hood Nitin Sawnhey, Homelands Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (more…)
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Embracing ‘Pataphysics of International Law
29.07.2024
Sué González Hauck
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
When walking down Hobrechtstraße in Berlin-Neukölln, Germany on the last weekend of June 2024, it was hard not to contemplate questions of order and disorder. Two persons dressed in what...
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- Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space
Know Your Enemy and Know Yourself
13.06.2024
Five years into the submission of my doctoral thesis and three years after the publication of “Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space”, Polina Kulish’s and Tero...
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Zombie Self-Determination?
12.06.2024
As part of our mission to foster OA, we regularly collaborate with publishers and journals. For this review symposium, Bill Bowring’s review ‘Zombie Self-Determination?’ of Johannes Socher’s monograph ‘Russia and...
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A Journey for Understanding (Part II)
12.06.2024
Polina Kulish
Tero Lundstedt
This is Part II of the Book Review on Johannes Socher’s “Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space” (Oxford University Press, 2021). You can read Part I...
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A Journey for Understanding (Part I)
11.06.2024
Polina Kulish
Tero Lundstedt
This is Part I of the Book Review on Johannes Socher’s “Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space” (Oxford University Press, 2021). You can read Part II...
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Lingering at the Borders of an Argument
11.06.2024
Christian Pogies
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Any claim to the Right to Self-Determination is an exercise in reconsidering “belonging” under international law. Akin to a prism, it draws our attention to the contact zones between international...
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Global Histories of International Law’s Practice in Wartime
04.06.2024
Boyd van Dijk
Hendrik Simon
While we talked about the making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions in Part I of our interview with Boyd van Dijk, the second part is about more global histories of...
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Ordering the Power to Protect and Destroy Civilian Lives
03.06.2024
Boyd van Dijk
Hendrik Simon
The four 1949 Geneva Conventions – the most important rules ever formulated for regulating warfare – were shaped by liberal humanitarianism and the idea of progress through international law. In...
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- Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries
Author’s Response to the Reviews
31.05.2024
I would like to thank Elena Abrusci, Maria Louiza Deftou, Vassilis Tzevelekos, Lea Raible, Mariana Ferolla Vallandro do Valle and Rick Lawson who contributed to the blog symposium by engaging...
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Oasis or Mirage?
30.05.2024
Into the Desert Paradoxically, the longest chapter in Vladislava Stoyanova’s book on positive obligations is devoted to the desert: the grim and arid lands extra muros. Where States operate beyond...
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Positive Obligations, Extraterritoriality, and the Kind of Society We Want
29.05.2024
Mariana Ferolla Vallandro do Valle
As our awareness of social problems evolves and an increasing variety of complex scenarios call for assessment under human rights lenses, it becomes increasingly evident that determining the content of...
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Climate Change and Positive Obligations in the ECHR
29.05.2024
Stoyanova’s book, Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries, rigorously analyses positive obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), proposing a characterisation...
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In Dialogue with Stoyanova
28.05.2024
Vladislava Stoyanova’s recently published monograph on positive human rights obligations within the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) regime consolidates various earlier seminal papers of hers on the same topic...
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Delineating the Boundaries of Substantive Positive Obligations
28.05.2024
Given the duality of human rights law, encompassing not only the corpus of human rights proclaimed in treaties but also the necessary specification of the relative obligations of their holders,...
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Positive Obligations, Deference and Subsidiarity
27.05.2024
International human rights law and its enforcement systems rely on the collaboration of states to respect their obligations and protect rights. It follows that even when regional human rights courts...
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Introducing the Book Review Symposium on ‘Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries’
27.05.2024
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) has played a prominent role in the development of positive obligations while interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Variable factual...
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- Bridging Epistemic Divides in Cultural Heritage Research
Navigating the Complex Interplay of Politics, Conservation, and Community in World Heritage Management
23.05.2024
Tejas Rao
Elisa Fallani
Roger Negredo
Tatiana Rozochkina
Where heritage sites are not just cultural landmarks but also political tools, the question of epistemic authority - who decides things, and how - in heritage management becomes impossible to...
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Private Heritage Management for World Heritage City
22.05.2024
Manvita Baradi
Anurag Anthony
This contribution explores the hurdles faced by private heritage building owners in availing the benefits of heritage tradable development rights (HTDR) – a floor space index (FSI)/ floor area ratio...
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A World of Its Own
22.05.2024
The field of cultural heritage is dominated by numerous heterogeneous interests (see for instance Starrenburg, Baradi and Anthony). When cultural property is at stake, debates may arise if, for instance,...
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Refusal and Loss in Cultural Heritage Law
21.05.2024
UNESCO’s heritage lists are one of the greatest success stories of the organisation. Even to those unacquainted with cultural heritage law, many will be familiar with the World Heritage List,...
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When Did Everyone Start Talking About Heritage Restitution? And What Does International Law Have to Do with This?
21.05.2024
Not that long ago, few questions were asked around museums, the objects they own and the histories of how they landed on display. In popular culture, a scene in the...
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Bridging Epistemic Divides
20.05.2024
Jadé Botha
Raghavi Viswanath
Jessica Wiseman
This symposium invites readers to think with us and the authors about bridging epistemic divides both in the theory and practice of heritage policy. While the symposium continues the discussions...
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The Monroe Doctrine in an Age of Anti-Interventionism
13.05.2024
How have the premises and ambiguities of the Monroe Doctrine been reflected in American debates about military intervention abroad, and how did they re-appear (if at all) in current debates...
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Chatting with Pierre Thielbörger
10.05.2024
Pierre Thielbörger
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Pierre Thielbörger, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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- Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog
Völkerrechtsblog at 10 Years
03.05.2024
Raffaela Kunz
Dana Schmalz
Saying that Völkerrechtsblog is a remarkable success story is not an empty phrase we utter on its 10th anniversary. Looking at the blog today, it is hard to believe that...
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Happy Birthday, Völkerrechtsblog!
03.05.2024
I became involved with the blog first in the scientific advisory board eight years ago. In this time, I have realized how much effort, stress resistance, and creativity goes into...
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Revisiting a Rejoinder on past Wrongs
03.05.2024
As the Völkerrechtsblog turns ten, I have the pleasure of revisiting an old blog post, asking myself how it has aged, what has changed since and how the post came...
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In the Tenth Year of the War
02.05.2024
In 2014, I was invited to write a post on Ukraine. Everyone understood Ukraine’s crisis mattered, and wouldn’t be short, so I wrote three. Instead of discussing doctrinal unniceties, I...
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Revisiting “The Right to Land”
01.05.2024
First and foremost, I would like to thank Völkerrechtsblog for allowing me to rediscover and discuss my 2016 blog post. At the time of writing, I felt it was necessary...
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Debating Cosmopolitan Law – 9 Years On
30.04.2024
When this esteemed blog was still in its infancy, I contributed a fictional conversation with two giants of philosophy and international law: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Georg Friedrich von Martens...
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“The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same?”
29.04.2024
Sué González Hauck
Meike Krakau
Isabel Lischewski
At Völkerrechtsblog, we have quite frequently wondered about time, speed, timing, and temporalities. For example, when drafting an editorial for a ten-year anniversary, there is considerable temptation initially to divide...
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Chatting with Vladyslav Lanovoy
29.03.2024
Vladyslav Lanovoy
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Vladyslav Lanovoy, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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The Imperial Project of France in Mexico and the “Official” Absence of the Monroe Doctrine
22.03.2024
In 1896 American historian Frederic Bancroft wrote that the “(…) Monroe Doctrine was absolutely superfluous during the French Intervention as it was no part of International Law”. Indeed, the case...
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Chatting with André Nollkaemper
15.03.2024
André Nollkaemper
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. André Nollkaemper, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Supply Chain Laws and Women’s Rights
08.03.2024
Supply Chain Laws are at the center of the debate considering business and human rights, especially after the enactment of such laws by France and Germany and the discussions developed...
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Staining International Law
08.03.2024
“Women are born with pain built in. It’s our physical destiny – period pains, sore boobs, childbirth. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives.” Belinda in Fleabag, Series 2,...
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A Call for A Feminist Perspective on Enforced Disappearances
07.03.2024
The prohibition on enforced disappearances is a rather novel human right, set out in the 2010 International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED). Since then,...
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Public Health as a Strategic Instrument
07.03.2024
Public health as a policy pursuit and a legally prescribed goal has consistently served as a veneer for the implementation of discriminatory policies. Migration laws and policies have also played...
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Forgotten Victims
06.03.2024
María Emilia Lehne Cerrón
From 1980 to 2000 Peru was experiencing one of the bloodiest periods of its recent history. An internal armed conflict and a sterilization program implemented by the government led to...
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Indian Women v. Indian Armed Forces
06.03.2024
Sexual violence and crimes against women are commonplace in India. With judicial remedy running at a painfully slow pace, high-profile politicians condemning rapes is nothing but lip service to women...
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To Participate or Not to Participate?
05.03.2024
Survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) are often portrayed as passive and trauma-ridden individuals whose participation in social, political and economic life and community reintegration are hindered by stigma, shame...
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Reversing Disability Discrimination in Armed Conflict
05.03.2024
An estimated 1.3 billion people, approximately 16 per cent of the world population, live with some form of disability, with substantially higher rates in conflict-affected populations. In armed conflict, the...
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A Much-Needed Queer Look at International Humanitarian Law
04.03.2024
People with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities (SOGI) are particularly vulnerable in times of conflict. However, due to the gender binary it is based on, international humanitarian law (IHL)...
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Introducing the Third Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium
04.03.2024
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog celebrates women in international law with the annual ‘Women in International Law’ symposium. The...
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8th Episode: Closing Conversation
01.03.2024
Daniela Gandorfer
Mireille Hildebrandt
Gregor Noll
Andrea Leiter
Delphine Dogot
In this final session of our first season Andrea Leiter and Delphine Dogot are joined by Daniela Gandorfer, lecturer at the University of Westminster, Mireille Hildebrandt, Professor for Interfacing Law...
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7th Episode: International Trade Law and Global Data Governance
29.02.2024
Neha Mishra
Andrea Leiter
Delphine Dogot
Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, discusses her work on Trade Law and Global Data Governance together with Andrea Leiter and Delphine Dogot. (more…)
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6th Episode: Sovereignty and the Law of Surveillance
29.02.2024
Beatriz Botero Arcila
Andrea Leiter
Delphine Dogot
Beatriz Botero Arcila, Assistant Professor at Sciences Po Law School, introduces her thoughts on Sovereignty and the Law of Surveillance and discusses them with Andrea Leiter and Delphine Dogot. (more…)
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5th Episode: Terrorism through the Eyes of the Algorithm
28.02.2024
Tasniem Anwar
Andrea Leiter
Delphine Dogot
Tasniem Anwar, Assistant Professor at the Vrije University Amsterdam, discusses terrorism in the eyes of the algorithm together with Andrea Leiter and Delphine Dogot. (more…)
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4th Episode: International Law Becomes a Cyborg Science
28.02.2024
John Haskell
Andrea Leiter
Delphine Dogot
John Haskell, Professor of Law at the University of Manchester, describes how international law is or is not becoming a cyborg science and discusses his ideas with Andrea Leiter and...
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3rd Episode: Emerging Technologies and International Governance
27.02.2024
Outi Korhonen
Andrea Leiter
Delphine Dogot
Outi Korhonen, Professor of Law at the University of Turku, discusses emerging technologies and international governance with Andrea Leiter and Delphine Dogot. (more…)
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2nd Episode: New Modes of Law-Making and Resistance in the Digital Age
27.02.2024
Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi
Andrea Leiter
Delphine Dogot
Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Delphine Dogot and Andrea Leiter discuss new modes of law making and resistance in Artificial Intelligence. (more…)
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1st Episode: Opening Conversation
26.02.2024
Matilda Arvidsson
Fleur Johns
Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
Andrea Leiter
Delphine Dogot
Andrea Leiter, Delphine Dogot, Matilda Arvidsson, Fleur Johns and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche explore different ways of how they came to engage with international law and technology. (more…)
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Introducing Digital Echoes
26.02.2024
Delphine Dogot
Andrea Leiter
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Noah Boerhave
Daniela Rau
The first season of “Digital Echoes” brings together leading scholars in international law, international relations and legal theory to present their work and discuss the implications of an ever-increasing digitisation...
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On Struggle and Contextualised History
13.02.2024
Steven L.B. Jensen
Hendrik Simon
While we talked about new histories of social rights in Part I of our interview, the second part of the interview with Steven Jensen is about political history and the...
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Against the Historiographical Hierarchization of Human Rights
12.02.2024
Steven L.B. Jensen
Hendrik Simon
Social and economic rights have often been considered part of so-called ‘second-generation rights’ – falsely, as Steven L. B. Jensen argues. Instead, he calls for a new historiography of social...
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Chatting with Hilary Charlesworth
09.02.2024
Hilary Charlesworth
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Judge Hilary Charlesworth, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Dimitry Kochenov
02.02.2024
Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’, the first one for 2024! With us we have Prof. Dimitry Kochenov, and through the following...
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The Positive Complementarity Turn
25.01.2024
I would like to thank the seven contributors for their generous and though-provoking analyses of my book. For a first-time author, it is humbling and rewarding to read how others...
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In the Court’s Shadow
25.01.2024
The practice of international criminal law is essentially a series of compromises. Despite the purported universalist goals of international criminal law and its institutions, its exercise inevitably remains trapped by...
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Complementarity at the Regional Level
24.01.2024
Patryk Labuda has written an excellent book about the challenges and limitations of complementarity in achieving “genuine” investigations and prosecutions at the national level. He compares the experience of the...
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Going Beyond the ICC
24.01.2024
Daniele Perissi
Guy Mushiata
In “International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability. In the Court’s Shadow”, Patryk Labuda offers a very original analytical framework describing the interplay between the functioning of international tribunals and States’...
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Not All Shadows Are Created Equal
23.01.2024
A pronounced turn toward domestic prosecutions of serious crimes committed in violation of international law is highlighted by Patryk I. Labuda in his new book International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic...
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The Political Realities of Complementarity
23.01.2024
In its 1995 Tadić ruling, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) asserted that international tribunals should have primacy over national courts, in order to ensure that international...
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Mobilizing International Networks for Domestic Accountability
22.01.2024
In these comments, I suggest that we should evaluate international criminal tribunals (“ICTs”) as one aspect of an international criminal law environment that includes numerous, diverse actors with commitments to...
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Introducing the Book Review Symposium on ‘International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability’
22.01.2024
The notion of strengthening and advancing international criminal justice and its respective institutions and mechanisms has been all over the place in recent months and years: amongst others, the Syrian...
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200 Years of Monsters
20.12.2023
This essay argues that the legal implications and geopolitical meaning of the Monroe Doctrine can only be understood in relation to its respective antagonists. The Doctrine’s internal mechanism of hemispheric...
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ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine
18.12.2023
Juan Pablo Scarfi
Hendrik Simon
With this post we start our new, open-ended symposium entitled ‘ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine’. On the 2nd December 1823, U.S. President James Monroe delivered his famous...
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Fetishizing the State: Gentili and the Myth of the Modern Laws of War
21.11.2023
Claire Vergerio
Hendrik Simon
According to international humanitarian law, the answer to the question of who is considered a legitimate actor of force is primarily the following: sovereign states. This state-centred answer is often...
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- The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law
Editors’ Response
17.11.2023
Panos Merkouris
Jörg Kammerhofer
Noora Arajärvi
We would like to thank the editors of the Völkerrechtsblog for organising this symposium on The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law, and the commentators for thoughtfully and...
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The Evergreen Examination Question
16.11.2023
As ChatGPT-4 and other artificial intelligence machines are all but extinguishing the essay-writing practice, it is high time that we receive the right answer to the ever-green topic of international...
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Reflections on Customary International Law and Interpretation
15.11.2023
It is not often that one reads about Schrödinger's cat, the particle and wave qualities of light, and Latour’s idea that modern discourses are always driven by their foundational contradictions...
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The Practical Question of the Interpretation of Customary International Law
14.11.2023
The featured monograph in this symposium – The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law – offers welcome engagement with the question of whether there can be such a...
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Legal Appropriation or Rechtsnahme through Customary International Law
13.11.2023
Legal Appropriation or, what is the same, Rechtsnahme means in this contribution the space of human interaction that is appropriated by international judges, lawyers and other legal actors when they...
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- Book Review
- The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law
Introducing the Book Review Symposium on “The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law”
13.11.2023
Jan-Henrik Hinselmann
Spyridoula Katsoni
Raphael Oidtmann
This summer, Judge Hilary Charlesworth made international lawyers very happy (some of them at least) when her dissenting opinion appended to the judgment of the International Court of Justice in...
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- The Person Behind the Academic
Chatting with Angelika Nußberger
13.10.2023
Angelika Nußberger
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Angelika Nußberger, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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- The Person Behind the Academic
Chatting with Tamsin Phillipa Paige
29.09.2023
Tamsin Phillipa Paige
Spyridoula Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Tamsin Phillipa Paige, and through the following questions, we will try...
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- Symposium
- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Keynote: Searching for Progress in International Law
23.09.2023
As the conclusion of the online symposium on “Progress and International Law”, we welcome you to the livestream of the keynote speech by Hilary Charlesworth on “Searching for Progress in...
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The “Responsibility to and for Progress” in International Law
22.09.2023
How do we achieve a responsible approach to progress and its consequences? This old question of humankind has been given new momentum by recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI): Numerous...
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- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Agenda 2030 Between the Ideology of Progress and the Reality of Poverty and Exploitation
21.09.2023
Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis
Adopted in 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development promises to eliminate poverty and promote sustainable development, peace, and prosperity for all by 2030. The Agenda introduced 17 Sustainable Development...
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Towards a Feminist Interpretation of the ECHR’s Provisions on Access to Abortion
21.09.2023
While applications regarding the incompatibility of deadly restrictive abortion policies with the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) are piling up before the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’, ‘Court’),...
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- Symposium
- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Towards an (Im)possible Polis: Legal Imagination and State Continuity
20.09.2023
Thomas Baty once quipped that ‘[i]nternational law, it is generally agreed, has something to do with states’. By opening The Canons of International Law in this manner, Baty draws our...
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- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Border Dialectics: Progress, Regress, and Resistance
20.09.2023
Received knowledge about the protection of migrants in international law tells a story of progress. A story of expanded refugee definitions, complementary protection, and extraterritorial obligations. Yet a counternarrative has...
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- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Locating Progress in the European Convention on Human Rights
19.09.2023
Progress may seem to be a temporal concept. That is certainly how it is usually understood in the literature on progress and international law. Statements of progress are said, for...
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- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Progress and Linear Time: How to Rethink International Law to Account for Ecologically Precarious Presents?
19.09.2023
We live in the ‘era of global boiling’, says UN Secretary-General Guterres, as July 2023 set to be the hottest month on record. While the ecological conditions of planetary life...
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- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Visions of Progress and International Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
18.09.2023
The concept of progress in international legal scholarship and practice has been explored over time. The narratives of progress in international law are conventionally drawn from the European or North...
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- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Introducing the Symposium ‘Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?’
18.09.2023
Alexander Holzer
Lisa Kujus
Rebecca Kruse
Júlia Miklasová
Jasper Mührel
Paula Rhein-Fischer
Lorenz Wielenga
Sara Wissmann
The notion of progress is firmly embedded at the core of international law discourse. “When we speak of something as progressive, we assume that it is a desirable improvement compared...
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