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The Rooms We Wanted

An Elective, or a Foundation?

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Siddharth Peter de Souza

This blog post concludes the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at the University...

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Decolonial “And”

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Hilda Tizeba Sukru Kagan Surucu

This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...

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From Inside Ethics Review Boards

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Morshed Mannan Rebecca Tapscott

This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...

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A Form to Be Signed

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Chloe Young

This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...

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Beyond the Traditional Framework

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Rohini Sen

This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...

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Writing from the Margins

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Ahmed Raza Memon

This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...

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Unravelling the Neutral Scholar

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Alexandrine Lamarre Linn Pfitzner

This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...

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The Rooms We Wanted

The Rooms We Wanted

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Btissam Boulakhrif

In July 2025, the University of Edinburgh published Decolonised Transformations, the findings of a four-year long inquiry into its own history of enslavement, eugenics and colonialism, for which the University...

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Teaching International Law Vol. 1

Teaching International Law as World-Making

In the spring of 2024, I participated in a series of teach-outs on international law and Palestine at the student encampments that spread across university campuses in the United Kingdom...

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Teaching International Law Vol. 1

The Human Rights Clinic as Contested Ground

Ramya Jawahar Kudekallu

Recently, while leading a seminar class on the fundamentals of International Human Rights Law, I was lamenting before my students on the US government’s latest flagrant dismissal of human rights...

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Teaching International Law Vol. 1

Beyond the Formalist Illusion

To teach international law, including international human rights law, from a critical perspective is to confront a foundational paradox immediately. The discipline routinely presents itself as a universal framework of...

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Teaching International Law Vol. 1

Decolonial Feminist Pedagogy Beyond the Master’s House

Dorothy Makaza-Goede

Every semester, at the conclusion of my lectures on various themes under public international law, I return to Audre Lorde's well-known observation that "the master's tools will never dismantle the...

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Teaching International Law Vol. 1

Introducing the First Annual “Teaching International Law” Symposium

Sissy Katsoni Btissam Boulakhrif

On the occasion of the new academic year, which starts in most countries in late summer/beginning of fall, Völkerrechtsblog introduces the establishment of the annual “Teaching International Law” symposium. The...

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In conversation with Iftach Cohen, Co-founder and Co-director of Front-LEX

Iftach Cohen Antonio Guzmán Mutis

Mr. Cohen, thank you very much for accepting this invitation from the Völkerrechtsblog, which will constitute part of a Völkerrechtsblog series: The Person behind the Practitioner. [IC] Thank you very...

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Chatting with Ioannis Ktistakis

Ioannis Ktistakis Sissy Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Judge Ioannis Ktistakis, and through the following questions, we will try to...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

“The Law Can Open Doors, but Movements Force Them Open”

Lea Kayali M. A.

We are honored to have Lea Kayali join us for a conversation on grassroots movements against arms trade. Lea, you are a community organizer, writer, and movement lawyer specializing in...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

Courts as Gatekeepers

Miriam Heipertz

In Germany, attempts to challenge arms exports to Israel have repeatedly failed to reach the merits. Courts have dismissed claims for lack of standing, characterised alleged harm as merely indirect,...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

War De Lege Artis

Armaghan Naghipour

In February 2026, the German Federal Constitutional Court declined to admit a constitutional complaint brought by a Palestinian applicant from Gaza challenging German arms exports to Israel. While the Court...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

After Victory in Domestic Litigations

This article examines how the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) deters illegal arms exports, focusing on the critical juncture where the international...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

“Folded Law, Unbound Arms”

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

Arms Trade Litigation before the German Federal Constitutional Court

Madalena Simões

This blog post critically examines the February 2026 judgment delivered by the German Federal Constitutional Court, in which the Court did not admit for a decision a Palestinian’s constitutional complaint...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

Nothing to See Here

Sué González Hauck Jens T. Theilen

On 12 February 2026, the Tagesschau, the most widely-seen tv news show in Germany, covered the following topics: Trump decides that greenhouse gases don’t endanger public health, the ICE surge...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

Doors Wide Shut

In February 2026, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (GFCC) did not admit for decision a constitutional complaint of a Palestinian from Gaza challenging German military export licenses to the...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

The Illusion of Compliance

Vera Strobel Sabrina Ohm

Prior to 2024, litigation against arms export licenses constituted an infrequent legal remedy in Germany. This was caused by interconnected determinants, comprising the complex dual structure of the German arms...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

Höchstrichterlich besiegelte Doppelstandards

Leonardo Shahin

Mit dem Nichtannahmebeschluss vom 3.2.2026 (2 BvR 1626/25) zeigt das Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG) der strategischen Prozessführung gegen Rüstungsexporte nach Israel Grenzen auf. Einige NGOs hatten seit 2024 Palästinenser aus dem Gaza-Streifen...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

Judikative Selbstbeschränkung bei Schutzpflichten

Vincent Holzhauer

Mit Beschluss vom 3. Februar 2026 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht eine Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen die Genehmigung von Rüstungsexporten nach Israel nicht zur Entscheidung angenommen. Die im Ramstein-Urteil nur ein halbes Jahr zuvor...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

Discretion Without Limits

Lilian Löwenbrück Alina Pucko

“[...] the legislator and the executive did not fail to take action, but have created a general framework of protection in order to effectively address the risks of exports of...

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Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

Introducing the Symposium ‘Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective’

M. A. Julian A. Hettihewa Isabel Madeleine Kaiser Salman Khan Anna Sophia Tiedeke

Since the fall of 2023, Israel’s military campaigns in Gaza have resulted in large-scale destruction, mass displacement, and a mounting death toll. As a result, concerns and scrutiny in national...

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The Person Behind the Practitioner

In Conversation with Ana María Mondragón Duque, Assistant Judge of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace

Ana María Mondragón Duque Antonio Guzmán Mutis

Judge Mondragón, thank you very much for accepting this invitation, which will be a part of the Völkerrechtsblog symposium: The Person behind the Practitioner. [AMMD] Thank you, Antonio, for the...

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International Criminal Law in Turmoil: Charting New Paths as They Unfold

Understanding International Criminal Justice as a Network

Patrick Siegle Claire Beutter Shima Esmailian

The richness of the symposium contributions presented on Völkerrechtsblog over the course of the past days has brought to light an evident fact, but one which nonetheless merits attention today...

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International Criminal Law in Turmoil: Charting New Paths as They Unfold

Reconstructing International Criminal Justice in Real Time

International criminal justice has long been structured around a familiar temporal sequence: first, the violence; later, accountability. Investigations follow ceasefires, indictments come after peace agreements (notwithstanding recent efforts by the...

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International Criminal Law in Turmoil: Charting New Paths as They Unfold

Criminal Law of Mass Crimes: Individuals, Corporations and States’ Responsibilities

Since Nuremberg, accountability for mass crimes has relied almost exclusively on a model centred on individual criminal responsibility, by transposing criminal doctrines and procedure from ordinary criminal law into contexts...

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International Criminal Law in Turmoil: Charting New Paths as They Unfold

The Complex Realities of International Criminal Justice’s Growing Domestic Practice

Marie Wilmet Damien Scalia

As we write this post, we reiterate our firm condemnation of the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide – such as in Gaza, the Middle East, South Sudan, and...

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International Criminal Law in Turmoil: Charting New Paths as They Unfold

The Ljubljana-The Hague Convention

In May 2023, The Ljubljana-The Hague Convention on International Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crime of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes and other International Crimes (LHC) was...

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International Criminal Law in Turmoil: Charting New Paths as They Unfold

High-Profile Targets, Empty Courtrooms?

2025 opened with an unprecedented challenge for the International Criminal Court (ICC). For the first time in its history, the ICC faced the prospect of having no future trials. While...

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International Criminal Law in Turmoil: Charting New Paths as They Unfold

Introducing the Symposium “International Criminal Law in Turmoil: Charting New Paths as They Unfold”

Caleb H. Wheeler Kyra Wigard Franka Pues Alexandre Skander Galand Claudio Pala

International criminal justice currently finds itself under tremendous stress. The spirit of international cooperation, which enabled the reinvigoration of the discipline in the 1990s and 2000s, has long since dissipated,...

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In Conversation with François Alabrune

François Alabrune Aurelio Corneo

Dear Ambassador Alabrune, thank you very much for accepting the invitation from Völkerrechtsblog. This interview will be part of a Völkerrechtsblog interview series: The Person behind the Practitioner. Thank you...

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From Incarceration to Erasure: Palestinian Prisoners in the Architecture of Genocide, Apartheid, and Torture

قانون عقوبة الإعدام كأداة قانونية للقمع الاستعماري والعنف البنيوي

This article is also available in English. لم يكن من المفاجئ أن يصادق الكنيست، في 30 آذار 2026، على قانون يجيز فرض عقوبة الإعدام على الفلسطينيين. كما لم تكن مصادفة...

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From Incarceration to Erasure: Palestinian Prisoners in the Architecture of Genocide, Apartheid, and Torture

The Death Penalty Law as a Legal Instrument of Colonial Oppression and Structural Violence

هذه المقالة متوفرة أيضاً باللغة العربية. It came as little surprise that the Knesset, on March 30, 2026, approved a law authorizing the use of capital punishment for Palestinians....

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Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog

A Canon Event

Now twelve years ago, Völkerrechtsblog was founded with the goal of using the tools provided by the internet to challenge existing publication formats for international legal scholarship. While books, journal...

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The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law

Beyond Pathology

Raghavi Viswanath Claire Smith

In The Pathology of Plenty, Lys Kulamadayil unpacks how the resource curse has come to inflict postcolonial countries and examines international law’s complicities in sustaining this socio-economic and political predicament....

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From Incarceration to Erasure: Palestinian Prisoners in the Architecture of Genocide, Apartheid, and Torture

معاناة الأسرى الفلسطينيين في إسرائيل: مقابلة مع جنان عبده

Janan Abdu Khaled El Mahmoud M. A.

This interview is also available in English. يشرفنا أن نرحّب بالمحامية جنان عبده، وهي محامية، وباحثة، ومدافعة عن حقوق الإنسان، تقدّم الاستشارة القانونية للأسرى الفلسطينيين. تتخصص جنان في قضايا التعذيب،...

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From Incarceration to Erasure: Palestinian Prisoners in the Architecture of Genocide, Apartheid, and Torture

The Plight of Palestinian Prisoners in Israel

Janan Abdu Khaled El Mahmoud M. A.

لقراءة المقابلة باللغة العربية، الرجاء الضغط هنا. We are honored to welcome Advocate Janan Abdu, a distinguished attorney, researcher, and human rights defender who provides legal counsel to Palestinian prisoners....

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From Incarceration to Erasure: Palestinian Prisoners in the Architecture of Genocide, Apartheid, and Torture

Introducing the Symposium “From Incarceration to Erasure: Palestinian Prisoners in the Architecture of Genocide, Apartheid, and Torture”

Khaled El Mahmoud M. A.

April 17 marks Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, an international day of commemoration dedicated to raising awareness of the Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and to advocating for their rights and release. The...

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The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law

Pathology of Plenty

In the opening months of the Gaza Genocide, and more specifically in November 2023, the Bloomberg New Economy Forum convened. An annual conference linking world economics to contemporary issues, crises,...

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The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law

From the Pathology of Plenty to Carbon Metastasis

Lys Kulamadayil's The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law (TPP) offers a fundamental reconstruction of how international law is constitutive of – rather than merely responsive to – the...

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The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law

Unveiling Hidden Challenges of Resource Wealth

Francesca Romanin Jacur Roberta Ezechia

This piece engages with Lys Kulamadayil’s analysis of the so-called “pathology of plenty” by focusing on two aspects that emerge as particularly significant in the governance of natural resources. On...

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The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law

The Historical Timeliness of Lys Kulamadayil’s Pathology of Plenty

Lys Kulamadayil’s The Pathology of Plenty gives a critical account of the role of international law in governing natural resources, primarily those of the Global South. While readers might be...

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The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law

Introducing the Book Review Symposium on ‘The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law’

Khaled El Mahmoud

The current moment in West Asia is marked by a profound and escalating destabilization. Entire urban areas are being flattened through sustained bombardment. This material destruction is accompanied by increasingly...

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International Law and the Political

Innocently Indebted?

Edward Jones Corredera Hendrik Simon

Is it immoral to be in debt? When can debt be odious? Hendrik Simon discusses these questions with Edward Jones Corredera, author of Odious Debt, a genealogy of the morality...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

#54 Publish, Parent, Perish? Making Space for Mothers in Legal Academia

Joyce De Coninck Michelle Staggs Kelsall Tania Ixchel Atilano Sissy Katsoni Polina Kulish Céline Chausse Rishiti Choudaha

Motherhood sits uneasily within the institutional imagination of international legal academia. Academic career paths are still commonly structured around expectations of uninterrupted productivity, geographic mobility, and “always-on” availability...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

Womanhood, International Law, and the Global South

Marianne Crielle G. Vitug

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Women in their 20s and 30s continue to face the age-old questions of whether and when they should have children. While more and more...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

P is for Parents, P is for Politics

Aurélia Gervasoni

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Researchers spend their time trying to deconstruct (themselves) before daring to hope they might add another brick in the wall. They seek to strike...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

Motherhood as an Amplifier of Inequalities in International Legal Academia

Tania Ixchel Atilano

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. As Immi Tallgreen in her introduction to the volume Portraits of Women in International Law shows, the international lawyer is assumed as a neutral...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

Care as Legal Knowledge

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. The world of international legal negotiations is often seen as one of neutrality and technocracy – the art of bracketing, footnoting and carefully negotiating...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

Mothers of Acari

Carolina Lozano Martinez Xilene Margarita Díaz Palacio

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. This post examines the case of the Mothers of Acari and argues that it represents a pioneer maternal activism experience before the Inter-American Human...

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Redefining Family?

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Legal traditions are formed by deeply rooted assumptions about social realities. Who legally counts as a parent and what relationships count as kin are...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

‘I’m… Your… Mother’

Miriam Bak McKenna Maj Grasten

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. While the term ‘mother’ is not strictly defined in international law, normative constructions of ‘motherhood’ (encompassing the socially constructed and prescribed expectations placed upon...

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Motherhood and Laws of Social Reproduction

Dilara Karmen Yaman

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Everything has a value. Even those forms of labour that society persistently devalues, like motherhood and the caregiving work accompanying it. In contemporary societies,...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

When Protection Becomes Persecution

Devran Gulel Sanja Djajić Ruth Dineen

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. “My crime is being a victim of domestic violence in a foreign country.” (Mothers' Voices, 2023) TW // Domestic violence The 1980 Hague Convention on...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

Why the Context of Childbirth Matters for Human Rights Law

Verónica García de Cortázar

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Childbirth is a life-changing event in a woman’s life. Yet a significant proportion of women worldwide experience obstetric violence and mistreatment during childbirth at...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

Non/Motherhood and Reproductive Violence in International Criminal Law

Mariagiulia Masiero Arianna Vettorel

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Reproductive violence, and, more broadly, gender-based violence, has long been a recurring feature of armed conflicts, authoritarian governance, and systemic discrimination, specifically and disproportionately...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

Mothers and Others?

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. In a binary system, everything is either one thing or the other: A is never B. Gender scholars have long critiqued these dichotomies as...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

When “Consent” Becomes Control

Dilruba Begüm Kartepe Kemaloğlu Mariia Zheltukha

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. "This ‘positive’ sense of the word ‘liberty’ derives from the wish on the part of the individual to be his own master. I wish...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

Girls, Forced Pregnancy, and the Right to Non-Motherhood under International Human Rights Law

Paulina Macías Ortega Samantha Rodríguez Santillán

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. International human rights bodies and courts have progressively characterized forced pregnancy as a form of gender-based violence that violates adult women’s rights to autonomy,...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

Motherhood as the Norm; Non-Motherhood, Conditions Apply

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Parenthood can be a source of meaning, care and fulfillment for many. It is not, and need not be, for all. Across time and...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

‘Women Are Mothers’ as the Worst Stereotype of All

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. ‘The most globally pervasive of the harmful cultural practices […] is the stereotyping of women exclusively as mothers and housewives in a way that...

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Women in International Law Vol. 5

Introducing the Fifth Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium

Sissy Katsoni Polina Kulish Rishiti Choudaha Céline Chausse

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. On the occasion of International Women’s Day, celebrated on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog hosts the ‘Women in International Law’ symposium. Held each year...

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Joint Book Review Symposium on International Organizations

Reflections on the Contours of International Organizations Law

Orfeas Chasapis-Tassinis Negar Mansouri Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín Anna Sophia Tiedeke

Dear Orfeas, Negar, and Daniel, Let us start our conversation by taking a step back. When I first suggested doing a joint book review symposium on “A Theory of International...

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Seeing International Organizations in a Shifting Landscape

Melissa J. Durkee

This book review symposium comes at a moment of visible strain in the postwar legal order. As of this writing, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has described a ‘rupture’ in...

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Freeing International Organisations from the Shadow of State-Centred Legal Theory?

Angelo Jr Golia

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed G.K. Chesterton International Organisations and the...

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The Hidden Life of International Organizations

Rita Guerreiro Teixeira

The task of bringing into conversation the edited volume by Negar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín on ‘Ways of Seeing International Organisations’ and the monograph ‘A Theory of International Organizations...

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International Organizations: From Black Boxes to Kaleidoscopes

I was drafting this review in Bogotá in January 2026, at the precise moment when the United States crossed into Venezuelan territory and captured Nicolás Maduro in a military operation...

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Joint Book Review Symposium on International Organizations

Theories in Practice

Sebastian Machado Ramírez

In Book VIII, Chapter 10 of Physics, Aristotle offered a detailed explanation of projectile motion. He theorised that throwing a stone involved different types of forces, and upon the exhaustion...

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Joint Book Review Symposium on International Organizations

Reimagining International Organisations

María José Escobar Gil

Opening black boxes is a recurrent idea in both Ways of Seeing International Organisations and A Theory of International Organizations in Public International Law. Whether addressing knowledge-production, natural and artificial...

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Joint Book Review Symposium on International Organizations

Not Beyond Good and Evil

Mónica García-Salmones Rovira

‘When I’m really enjoying a book, I stop taking notes’ said one of the 2025 Booker Prize judges in a recent interview. I found myself in the same situation with...

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Joint Book Review Symposium on International Organizations

Reimagining Public Power

Introduction: Diagnosing the Impasse from Different Angles International organizations law has long been dominated by what B.S. Chimni terms ‘mainstream international institutional law scholarship’ (MIILS)—a primarily doctrinal approach focused on...

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Joint Book Review Symposium on International Organizations

Introducing Our Joint Book Review Symposium on International Organisations

Anna Sophia Tiedeke

Reading a book is usually something you do on your own. It is an opportunity to practise solitude, offering a contemplative moment of voluntary seclusion. It is the time to...

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International Law and the Political

Privatizing War

Sarah Katharina Stein Hendrik Simon

The modern state has a monopoly on the use of force. Nevertheless, private actors have been increasingly deployed in armed conflicts since the 1990s. How can this be? And what...

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Post-Hegemonic International Law?

Post-Hegemonic International Law?

Tania Ixchel Atilano Paulette Baeriswyl Banciella Sabrina Ferrazzi Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo Alicja Polakiewicz Camilo Ramírez Gutiérrez Garima Tiwari Kebene Wodajo Felix Würkert Raffaela Kunz

It has become a cliché to say we live in a globalized world. This conference is itself evidence of the world’s interconnectedness, as we all come from and are based...

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Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business

Could the Road from Arusha Lead to London?

The recent wave of international Advisory Opinions on Climate Change have drawn attention to the possibility of holding large corporate actors responsible for their contribution to climate change. All three...

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Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business

Mining the Green Deal

Charlotte Dierickx-Visschers

In January 2023, the mining company LKAB announced the discovery of Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth elements in Kiruna, northern Sweden. LKAB’s CEO described this as good news, not...

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Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business

Do No Significant Harm

Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez Charles Deberdt

Sustainability today is shaped by multiple forces, with investments acting as a powerful catalyst behind the scenes. Within this context, the European Union (EU) seeks to channel financial flows toward...

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Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business

Transnational Environmental Crime and Extraterritorial Corporate Liability

Alessandra Aceti

Transnational environmental crime (TEC) has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges of our time. As the third most profitable criminal activity worldwide, TEC exacerbates climate change, undermines human...

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Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business

What Role Can the Crime of Ecocide Play in the Corporate Context?

Prompted by frustration over climate inaction and unchecked extractivism, the campaign to add ecocide to the mandate of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the 5th international crime has gained...

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Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business

Introducing the Symposium on Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business

Dani Spizzichino Rishiti Choudaha Annika Blaschke

This symposium has called for critical assessments of recent legal instruments dealing with the growing relevance of human rights and environmental considerations in the context of transnational corporate operations. With...

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The Person Behind the Practitioner

In Conversation with Dr Penelope Ridings

Penelope Ridings Antonio Guzmán Mutis

Dr Ridings, thank you very much for accepting this kind invitation, which will constitute part of the Völkerrechtsblog symposium The Person behind the Practitioner. Thank you for inviting me to...

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Revisiting Customary IHL: The ICRC Study at 20

A Question of Authority and Risk

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...

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Revisiting Customary IHL: The ICRC Study at 20

Promise and Peril of Relying on Human Rights in the Customary International Humanitarian Law Study

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...

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Revisiting Customary IHL: The ICRC Study at 20

The Encyclopaedic Value of the ICRC’s Customary IHL Study

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...

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Revisiting Customary IHL: The ICRC Study at 20

Beyond Headcounts

Stanislau Lashkevich

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...

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Revisiting Customary IHL: The ICRC Study at 20

Revisiting Customary IHL

Rouven Diekjobst Rosa-Lena Lauterbach Paulina Rob

Editors’ note: This post introduces a symposium relating to the ICRC's Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The symposium highlights presentations delivered at the young...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Learning From Oppressed Groups How to Resist Silently

Jean d’Aspremont Anna Sophia Tiedeke

Dear Jean, Thank you very much for taking the time for a concluding interview with us! Though, the word “concluding” may indeed give the wrong impression, as you have pointed...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Dear Anna, Khaled and Sissy,

Marina Veličković

thank you so much for your invitation (& for reading the CLT piece). I have a complicated relationship to the idea of academic freedom (on the one hand I think...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

What’s in a Name? Genocide, the Universal and the Common in International Law

Isabel Feichtner Anna Sophia Tiedeke Khaled El Mahmoud Sissy Katsoni

The following text was prompted by a discontent with the way international lawyers in Germany have addressed the question of genocide in Gaza, if they have done so at all....

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Interview
Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Building Critical Spaces: The Palestine Project and the Future of Legal Education

Souheir Edelbi Khaled El Mahmoud

I am honoured to be speaking with Dr. Souheir Edelbi, one of the founders of the Palestine Project and a legal academic whose work sits at the intersection of pedagogy, international criminal...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

The Gaza War Reconsidered

Future historians looking back upon the Israel-Gaza conflict may see that it stands at the nodal point of three major developments which have reshaped the coordinates of international institutions established in...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Editorial Decision-Making in Times of Controversy at EJIL:Talk! and the Leiden Journal of International Law

Does an editorial decision to publish legitimise the piece’s author, the author’s affiliated institution or the piece’s content? How should we think about an editorial decision to publish an article...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Say My Name: Legal Silence That Speaks on the Ongoing Nakba in Palestine

International law (IL) remains complicit in its omissions, not only through what it permits, but through what it refuses to name. Nowhere is this more evident than in its persistent...