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- International Law and the Political
(Writing) International Legal Histories – Continuation of Politics by Other Means?
17.09.2021
Anne Peters
Raphael Schäfer
Hendrik Simon
Dear Professor Peters, dear Mr. Schäfer – to begin with the genesis of your anthology Politics and the Histories of International Law: How did this publication project come about? Where...
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- International Law and the Political
Völkerrechtsgeschichte (schreiben) – Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln?
17.09.2021
Anne Peters
Raphael Schäfer
Hendrik Simon
Liebe Frau Professorin Peters, lieber Herr Schäfer - um mit der Entstehungsgeschichte Ihres Sammelbandes „Politics and the Histories of International Law“ zu beginnen: Wie kam es zu diesem Publikationsprojekt? Wo würden Sie...
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- International Law and the Political
International Law and the Political: Setting the Scene
17.09.2021
With this blogpost we start our new interview series ‘International Law and the Political’. Regardless of one’s school of thought, it can hardly be contested today that international law is...
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- The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
Komplexitäten und Parforce-Ritte
06.09.2021
Mit dem Buch "Die konkrete Utopie der Menschenrechte" wollte ich kein fertiges Konzept vorlegen, sondern einen Beitrag in einem offenen Diskussionsprozess. Diese Einladung zur Debatte scheint - auch dank des...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Livestream: Who Speaks International Law?
04.09.2021
Sundhya Pahuja
Shaun McVeigh
Today at 8:45 am CEST, we will livestream Prof. Dr. Sundhya Pahuja and Prof. Dr. Shaun McVeigh's keynote here. They will engage in a conversation on the theme of the...
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Livestream: Race, Borders and Jurisdiction
03.09.2021
Today at 5 pm CEST, we will livestream Professor Achiume’s keynote ‘Race, Borders and Jurisdiction’ here. This keynote is part of this year’s AjV-DGIR conference on ‘Jurisdiction – Who Speaks International...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Constitutionalization of Territory
03.09.2021
Delimitation disputes in Latin America must face a constitutional reality: territory clauses. How States interpret their constitution and their territory clause in Latin America is crucial to the authority of...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Jurisdiction Over the Post-Ceasefire
02.09.2021
The end of the Second War in Nagorno-Karabakh and the signing of the ceasefire agreement by the Azerbaijan President, the Armenian Prime Minister, and the Russian President on the night...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Invoking Systemic Ideals or Legal Rules?
01.09.2021
What “law” are specialised international economic tribunals authorised to apply? This seems to be a simple question, but the inconsistent practice of the WTO and investor-state tribunals suggests otherwise. Different...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Show Justice
31.08.2021
“Colonel Powell, Ma’am, I am the pilot in command responsible for releasing the weapon. I have the right to ask for the CDE to be run again. I will not...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Who Speaks International Law?
30.08.2021
Sué González Hauck
Julian A. Hettihewa
The legal concept of jurisdiction refers to an actor’s competence to provide binding answers to legal questions. Questions of legal validity cannot be answered without examining the notion of jurisdiction....
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Response: Storytelling
27.08.2021
Was I writing a sequel to Mahabharata? Surabhi Ranganathan’s comment wriggled its way under my skin to give eloquent expression to a tradition of storytelling that she suggested was evoked...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Dastan-e Western Civ: Martti Koskenniemi as Storyteller
26.08.2021
In this review, I suggest we read To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth as an exercise in storytelling that evokes the narrative traditions of India, as also other parts of...
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- The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
The ‘Virtue of Failure’
25.08.2021
In his most recent book ‘Die konkrete Utopie der Menschenrechte’ [‘The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights’], Wolfgang Kaleck ventures to square the circle of delineating a future vision of human...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Martti Koskenniemi’s (German) Legal Imagination and the Politics of Panorama
25.08.2021
Earlier this summer, on a long car trip that took me from my hometown of Seligenstadt am Main (a small but significant lieu de mémoire of that very idea of...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
The Koskenniemi Sutra: Britain, Empire, and Legal Imaginations
24.08.2021
What sutras (principles) do we extract from the three chapters on Britain in Martti Koskenniemi’s To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth (TUPE)? Part III of the book has three...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
French Legal Imaginations from Richelieu to Rayneval
24.08.2021
“This is not a history of international law. Instead, it is a history of the legal imagination as it operates in relationship to the use of power in contexts that...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
A Teleology of Ius Gentium?
23.08.2021
It is not an easy task to review and do justice to the chapter on “The Political Theology of Ius Gentium. The Expansion of Spain 1524–1559” in Martti Koskenniemi’s monumental...
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- To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth
Legal Imagination as Bricolage
23.08.2021
Christian Pogies
Hendrik Simon
The publication of Martti Koskenniemi’s new book marks a much-anticipated event among scholars working on the Theory and History of International Law. This may come as little surprise, given that...
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- The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
The Borders of Human Rights and the Need for Utopian Blueprints Today
19.08.2021
Wolfgang Kaleck’s book The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights has emerged from within a period of crisis and profound transformation - and could thus not be any timelier. The Covid-19 pandemic has...
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- The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
Die Komplexität der Menschenrechte
18.08.2021
Das Buch „Die konkrete Utopie der Menschenrechte“ von Wolfgang Kaleck (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights) leistet im besten Sinne Menschenrechtsarbeit. Es verbindet Menschenrechtstheorie und Menschenrechtspraxis, sozialwissenschaftliche und juristische Perspektiven,...
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- The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
Women, Rights, Human Rights
16.08.2021
Magdalena Baran-Szołtys
Christian Berger
Failure as a Concept Reading Wolfgang Kaleck’s “Die konkrete Utopie der Menschenrechte” [The concrete utopia of human rights] is fun. And so should be human rights work! However, Kaleck articulates the...
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- The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
Symposium Introduction: The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights
16.08.2021
Dana Schmalz
Sebastian M. Spitra
This week, Völkerrechtsblog hosts a symposium on Wolfgang Kaleck’s newly published book Die konkrete Utopie der Menschenrechte. The book discusses the history and present of the legal struggle for human...
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
The UNHCR in 2021: Refugee Resettlement as a Challenge of Underfunding, Power Imbalance and Impartiality
20.07.2021
In 2021 and beyond, refugee resettlement remains an indispensable protection tool for refugees facing particular vulnerability in countries of (first) refuge. Alarmingly, the resettlement numbers have reached the lowest levels...
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Oldie but Goodie: Resilience of the 1951 Refugee Convention 70 Years On
13.07.2021
While many question the relevance of the 1951 Refugee Convention today, refugee protection in the EU has actually expanded in the past 30 years. In just one generation, doctrinal shifts...
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- Defining Ecocide
Defining Ecocide – An Interview with Christina Voigt
09.07.2021
Justine Batura
Philipp Eschenhagen
Raphael Oidtmann
Christina Voigt
Wrapping up our Symposium ‘Defining Ecocide’, Christina Voigt, member of the Independent Expert Panel, explains her views on the definition of ecocide. In a conversation with Justine Batura, Philipp Eschenhagen...
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- Defining Ecocide
A Missed Opportunity for Accountability?
09.07.2021
In June 2021 the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide issued its proposal of the legal definition of ecocide along with its accompanying commentary. With its proposal,...
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- Defining Ecocide
Repairing Ecocide
08.07.2021
Given the justified rhetoric of urgency surrounding ecocide, this post thinks ridiculously far into the future: it thinks about a time when the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) will have enacted...
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- Defining Ecocide
On Symbolism and Beyond
08.07.2021
On 22 June 2021, more than 300 curious minds joined the Stop Ecocide Foundation for a video conference in which the long-awaited definition of ‘ecocide’ was to be unveiled. It...
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- Defining Ecocide
Mens Rea and the Proposed Legal Definition of Ecocide
07.07.2021
This June, a panel of international experts revealed a proposed legal definition for “ecocide,” with the hopes that this crime eventually can be included in the Rome Statute and heard...
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- Defining Ecocide
Introducing the Symposium on the Draft Definition of Ecocide
07.07.2021
Justine Batura
Philipp Eschenhagen
Raphael Oidtmann
The proposed definition of a novel international crime of ecocide - unveiled on 22 June by the StopEcocide initiative - has been discussed widely across the international law blogosphere and beyond....
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Ungarn 1989, oder: Wie die Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention half, die Berliner Mauer einzureißen
06.07.2021
2021 ist aus migrationshistorischer und völkerrechtlicher Sicht ein ambivalentes Gedenkjahr. Neben der in dieser Blogreihe erinnerten Gründung des UNHCR und der Unterzeichnung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention (GFK) vor 70 Jahren sollte...
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- Contingency in International Law
How Could International Law Have Been Otherwise? A Rejoinder
18.06.2021
Our edited volume has asked a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: Could international law have been otherwise? One could expect the answer to be a resounding ‘yes’, given...
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- Contingency in International Law
Revisiting the Impossible
18.06.2021
Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller’s edited volume "Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories" (Oxford University Press, 2021) (hereinafter: Contingency) is a rare editorial accomplishment....
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- Contingency in International Law
Planned Obsolescence of International Law
17.06.2021
‘Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories’, an ambitious volume edited by Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller which was published in April 2021, puts international...
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Contingency “Between” and “Beyond”
17.06.2021
Between you and me, Professors Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller’s edited collection reads like a classic expositional text on the ways to think about contingency in international law –...
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Thinking Like ‘Fools’: Recovering the Radical Potential of Contingency in International Law
16.06.2021
Edited collections often tend to surface within the hegemonic voice of the editors – they introduce the concept, set the frame, determine the contours, and also illustrate the specific set...
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Are What-Ifs a Virtual Experiment or a Parlour Game?
16.06.2021
In his famous series of lectures delivered at Cambridge University, E. H. Carr displayed a cynical attitude towards those who tend to ask what if an event had happened otherwise....
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Afrikas vergessene Flüchtlingskonvention
15.06.2021
1969 entwickelte die OAU (Organisation für Afrikanische Einheit, heute die Afrikanische Union, AU) ihre eigene Flüchtlingskonvention, welche afrikanische Werte widerspiegeln sollte. Sie wurde am 10. September 1969 in Addis Abeba...
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- Contingency in International Law
Contingency in the History of International Law?
15.06.2021
At a time when overseas travel, in-person academic events, and mediocre conference food were still commonplace, I attended the conference in Amsterdam that forms the backdrop for this impressive volume....
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- Contingency in International Law
New Music for Old Ears
14.06.2021
Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller’s Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories, an edited volume with thirty distinct contributions just published by Oxford University Press,...
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Book Review Symposium: Contingency in International Law
14.06.2021
Raffaela Kunz
Raphael Oidtmann
Anna-Julia Saiger
Could international law have turned out differently? What were contingent crossings at which international law could have taken different avenues? And why might it be worth thinking counter-factually? Over the...
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- Rewarding in International Law
On Rewarding in International Law
11.06.2021
Veronika Fikfak
Anne van Aaken
Betül Simsek
Engaging with the contributions of the Symposium 'Rewarding in International Law', Veronika Fikfak discusses the new approach proposed in 'Rewarding in International Law' (AJIL) with the two authors, Anne van...
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- Rewarding in International Law
Designing Rewards
11.06.2021
Cristiane Lucena Carneiro
This essay engages with the literature on regime design and problem structure in order to propose a set of questions to frame our thinking about rewarding in international law. I...
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- Rewarding in International Law
Rewarding in EU Law
10.06.2021
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), as a principle voice of the EU legal order, has long ago severed the link between EU law and international law...
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- Rewarding in International Law
Reparation and Judicial Discretion
09.06.2021
In Rewarding in International Law, Professor Anne van Aaken and Betül Simsek argue that rewards are an effective means to induce State compliance with treaty law. Rewarding is inscribed in the analytical framework of ‘compliance...
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- Rewarding in International Law
Beyond Shaming
09.06.2021
In human rights law, shame is ubiquitous. ‘Naming and shaming’ has become the core tactic of human rights advocacy and the modus operandi of international NGOs such as Amnesty International....
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- Rewarding in International Law
Rewarding Compliance
08.06.2021
In their recent article, Rewarding in International Law, Anne van Aaken and Betül Simsek provide a novel typology of incentives that exist to promote compliance with international law, arguing that...
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- Rewarding in International Law
From Sticks to Carrots?
07.06.2021
Justine Batura
Veronika Fikfak
Christian Pogies
A new article on how States could be encouraged to comply with international law promises to revolutionize how we think about incentives in international relations. In ‘Rewarding in International Law’,...
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- The Justification of War and International Order
Discourses of Power and Normativity
04.06.2021
Lothar Brock
Hendrik Simon
We would like to thank the contributors as well as the editorial team at Völkerrechtsblog, and particularly Sué González Hauck, for putting together this thought-provoking symposium on “The Justification of...
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- The Justification of War and International Order
Rethinking the Justification of War
03.06.2021
A good book makes you rethink. It alerts you to things you didn’t know. It offers new ways of looking at what you already knew – or thought you knew....
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- The Justification of War and International Order
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
02.06.2021
Few legal disciplines seem to manifest such a consistently discouraging discrepancy between the law in the books and the law in action as the international laws regulating the use of...
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
From State Petitions to Protection Space
02.06.2021
Although UNHCR has a mandatory duty to promote accession to the 1951 Refugee Convention, UNHCR appears to increasingly take the back seat when it comes to petitioning for state accession....
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- The Justification of War and International Order
We’re (Not) Talkin’ bout a Revolution
01.06.2021
In a stupendous effort, Lothar Brock and Hendrik Simon have put together a volume that ranges widely in perspectives and ‘traditions of justification’ (p. 8). Their book, ‘The Justification of...
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- The Justification of War and International Order
War and International Order: The Old and the New
31.05.2021
Lothar Brock and Hendrik Simon’s edited book on The Justification of War and International Order (2021) is a rich volume that brings together scholars from across international law, political theory, history, and international...
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- The Justification of War and International Order
War! What Is It Good For?
31.05.2021
Sué González Hauck
Sebastian M. Spitra
Nesa Zimmermann
‘The history of war is also a history of its justification’ (p. 3) – this is the momentous starting point of the volume on The Justification of War and International...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
How to Become a Team
29.05.2021
Clara Schott
Tizita Gelaye
Lasse Lindloff
Ada Klenner
The Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition is as much about public international law as it is about the personal experiences made over months of hard work and constant companionship....
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- Dialing Into Jessup
Nudging from the Distance
28.05.2021
Ever since I first took part in a moot court competition, I secretly hoped that one day I will be able to help and encourage others to take part in...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
Jessup 2021: A Door Opener for Chinese Teams
27.05.2021
This year ought to have its place in the history of moot court competitions – when the pandemic sets us apart, the internet unites us all. ILSA took this chance...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
The Best of Both Worlds
27.05.2021
Those familiar with the structure of the Jessup competition know that the chances of advancing from the national level to the international rounds not only depend on your performance, but...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
A Virtual Steppingstone: Jessup 2021 in Mexico
26.05.2021
The relationship between Mexico and the Jessup dates back to 1976, when a Mexican team took part to the International Rounds for the first time. Since 1987, Mexico has had...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
Of Techliffs, the JessApp and Franconian Care Packages
26.05.2021
Martin Gronemann
Rachel Hoepfner
The German National Rounds (GNR) are usually a highlight for all German teams competing in the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition. Every year, a different university volunteers to host...
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Making the Convention “Universal”: Other Views of the Additional Protocol
26.05.2021
This blogpost complicates the received wisdom on the origins of the Additional Protocol of 1967. Following B.S. Chimni, I argue that the need for the Protocol was heightened by the...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
The Pandemic Moot Court
25.05.2021
The adoption of a virtual format for the Jessup in 2021 was borne out of the necessity of striking a balance between the mobility restrictions imposed to control the pandemic...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
Expect the Unexpected
25.05.2021
Lena Riemer
Sabrina Schäfer
Comparing the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and Jessup is a bit like comparing apples and oranges. The ICJ’s mandate is to adjudicate contentious questions of international law, while one...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
To Rule or Not to Rule
24.05.2021
I was both honoured and daunted by Lesley Benn’s invitation to be a member of the Contingency Planning Task Force (not a name that stuck) in April 2020. The pandemic...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
‘The students bring it to life’
24.05.2021
After authoring his first Jessup Problem in 2018, Peter Tzeng returned this year with the ‘Case Concerning the J-VID-18 Pandemic’. In an unusual competition year, the case – somewhat unsurprisingly –...
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Dialing Into Jessup
24.05.2021
Jens Kaiser
Alicia Köppen
On 11 March 2020, right after the completion of most National Rounds, the International Law Students Association (ILSA) issued an unprecedented announcement: The cancellation of the 2020 Jessup International Rounds due to...
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Nothing to Celebrate?
11.05.2021
Although Indonesia has not signed the 1951 Refugee Convention and is deemed unlikely to do so in the near future for a number of reasons, Indonesia has been hosting thousands...
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- Völkerrechtslunch
Fünf Fragen an Stephan Marquardt
10.05.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 17. Mai 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Herr Stephan Marquardt der zwölfte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Herr Marquardt leitet die Rechtsabteilung des Europäischen Auswärtigen Dienstes (EAD) in...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
Of Foxes Guarding Chickens, and Their Fellow Foxes
30.04.2021
Isabella Risini
Geir Ulfstein
Andreas Zimmermann
Ever since the adoption of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the system of inter-State applications has constituted an inherent and indeed important part of its enforcement mechanism, as...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
A Promising Avenue to Explore from a Remedial Perspective
30.04.2021
Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen
Inter-State conflicts that reach the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today are all, with rare exceptions, highly political. They constitute conflicts that are rooted in a long history: the...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
Could the Collective Guarantee Mechanism be Detrimental to Individuals’ International Litigation Capacity?
30.04.2021
International Human Rights Bodies are familiar with the issue of coexistence of multiple adjudication proceedings. However, the issues currently raised by the increasing number of inter-State applications brought before the...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
Enhancing Fact-finding in Inter-State Cases
29.04.2021
At the April 2021 online conference, European Court of Human Rights President Robert Spano averred that inter-State cases present exceptional challenges for the Court, not least complex issues of jurisdiction...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
Less is More
29.04.2021
Inter-state cases under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) are important but challenging. Ensuring a meaningful role for the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) means to address the...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
Fact-Finding or Just Evidence Assessment?
29.04.2021
The international adjudicatory system has developed few compulsory rules concerning the production, admissibility and weight of evidence. This is particularly true for judicial institutions like the International Tribunal for the...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
Rethinking Friendly Settlements under the European Convention on Human Rights
28.04.2021
The issue of friendly settlements has been remarkably absent from most discussions on inter-State cases under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It is true that friendly settlements in...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
Friendly Settlements as the Sleeping Beauty in Inter-State Cases
28.04.2021
Helen Keller
Réka Piskóty
With their flexible legal framework, friendly settlements (‘FS’) before the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’) have proved helpful in managing the Court’s ever-growing caseload of individual applications (Keller et...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
Towards an ‘Amicable Solution’ in the Universal Human Rights System
28.04.2021
The 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is the first of the core UN human rights treaties. It has 182 States parties and...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
Inter-State Cases in Disguise under Inter-American Human Rights Law
27.04.2021
Unlike the European human rights system, where the amount of inter-State disputes is significant – and growing— the inter-State disputes mechanism under the inter-American human rights regime has had virtually...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
A Procedure Likely to Remain Rare in the African System
27.04.2021
In the African regional human rights system, very little use has been made of inter-State communications. In this blogpost, I outline this particular kind of communications and analyse the most...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
Interim Measures in Inter-State Proceedings
26.04.2021
The views in this contribution are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of any institution with which the author is or has been affiliated....
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The Way Forward
26.04.2021
In armed conflicts human righs violations are omnipresent. The victims are not counted one by one, but by the hundreds or thousands. For a court such as the European Court...
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- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
On Current Developments and Reforms
26.04.2021
Justine Batura
Isabella Risini
What is the significance of inter-State cases within the European System of Human Rights? And what does their constant increase over the last decade mean for the European Court of...
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- Völkerrechtslunch
Five Questions to Álvaro Nistal
26.04.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
PLEASE NOTE: there has been a change of date. The event will exceptionally take place on Tuesday (4th of May) instead of Monday, 3rd of May. On the 4th of...
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
‘Populate or Perish’
20.04.2021
Die politische Aushandlung, Formulierung und Verabschiedung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention vor siebzig Jahren ging mit einer rassistisch gefärbten Modernisierungspolitik in Staaten des Globalen Südens einher, die es mitzuberücksichtigen gilt, wenn nach...
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Eurozentrismus und strategische Interessen in der Wissensproduktion über Migration in den 1940er und 1950er Jahren
13.04.2021
Die politische Aushandlung, Formulierung und Verabschiedung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention von siebzig Jahren ging mit einem Wissen über Migration als einem global zu lösenden Problem einher, das es kritisch zu hinterfragen...
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- Völkerrechtslunch
Fünf Fragen an PD Dr. Roman Schmidt-Radefeldt
12.04.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 19. April 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Herr PD Dr. Roman Schmidt-Radefeldt der zehnte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Er ist Regierungsdirektor bei den Wissenschaftlichen Diensten des Deutschen Bundestages....
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- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Before 1951, Outside Europe
06.04.2021
The 1951 Refugee Convention and the UNHCR had a longer pre-history drawing on experiences influencing its further developments. A critical predecessor in this regard was the UN’s International Refugee Organization...
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- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
The Case for the Right to Defend Human Rights in Colombia
01.04.2021
The work of environmental and human rights defenders (EHRD) is pivotal in promoting human rights protection and strengthening democracies. It has been particularly important during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, EHRD...
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- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
When Two Wrongs Make a “Right”
31.03.2021
Achinthi Vithanage
Robert Habermann
History has shown us that global crises have prompted strong human rights responses. The atrocities of the world wars led to a re-evaluation of the human condition that demanded the...
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- Symposium
- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Colonial Effects on the Founding of the 1951 Refugee Convention
30.03.2021
Whether internationally or nationally, law does not simply exist but is made by political actors; those involved thus have the power to set standards. Exactly this politicization of international refugee...
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- Symposium
- 70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention
Koloniale Einflüsse auf die Gründung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention
30.03.2021
Ob international oder national, Recht existiert nicht einfach, sondern wird stets von politischen Akteur*innen geschaffen. Die Beteiligten haben also die Macht, Standards zu setzen. Genau diese Politisierung des internationalen Flüchtlingsrechts...
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- Symposium
- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
The COVID-19 Response and the Right to a Healthy Environment in India
30.03.2021
Sathiabama. S
Vedavalli. S
With the plight of the worldwide pandemic the need for humanity to protect the environment and maintain ecological balance became more apparent. While India’s lockdown led to reduced anthropogenic interference...
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- Interview
- Völkerrechtslunch
Fünf Fragen an Prof. Dr. Jörg Polakiewicz
29.03.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 5. April 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Herr Prof. Dr. Jörg Polakiewicz der neunte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Er ist Direktor der Rechts- und Völkerrechtsabteilung des Europarates....
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- Symposium
- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
Awakening from “Sleeping Beauty’s” Slumber
29.03.2021
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the already fragile situation of vulnerable groups is in a downward spiral. The infringements of the human rights of vulnerable groups stirred by the current crisis are...
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- Symposium
- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
A Glimmer of Hope for All?
26.03.2021
The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic causes serious risks for human beings and, therefore, challenges the human rights system and the capacity of governments to adopt quick and adequate measures....
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- Symposium
- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
Time to Counter “Vaccine Nationalism”?
26.03.2021
To this date, states with access to vaccines against the new coronavirus are focusing exclusively on inoculating people under their jurisdiction. This process has been accurately described as “vaccine nationalism”....
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- Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights
Grow Together or Perish Alone
25.03.2021
The COVID-19 health crisis has shown that public institutions can tackle major crises with a collaborative approach. During the Aspen Security Forum in 2020, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated:...
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