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- Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities in International Law and Technology
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
Sissy 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
Sissy 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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- ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine
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
Mónica García-Salmones Rovira
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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Introducing the Book Review Symposium on “The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law”
13.11.2023
Jan-Henrik Hinselmann
Sissy 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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Chatting with Angelika Nußberger
13.10.2023
Angelika Nußberger
Sissy 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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Chatting with Tamsin Phillipa Paige
29.09.2023
Tamsin Phillipa Paige
Sissy 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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- 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Chatting with Thoko Kaime
15.09.2023
Thoko Kaime
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Thoko Kaime, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Alexander Orakhelashvili
01.09.2023
Alexander Orakhelashvili
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Giulia Raimondo
14.07.2023
Giulia Raimondo
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Giulia Raimondo, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Beyond Black and White: Normative Ambiguities and the Delivery of Cluster Bombs
12.07.2023
Elvira Rosert
Frank Sauer
Hendrik Simon
Following the decision by the United States of America to provide cluster bombs to Ukraine, a contentious public and academic discourse has emerged, centering on the legality and legitimacy of...
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Chatting with Olabisi D. Akinkugbe
23.06.2023
Olabisi D. Akinkugbe
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, and through the following questions, we will try...
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Chatting with Noëlle Quénivet
09.06.2023
Noëlle Quénivet
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Noëlle Quénivet, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Moira Dustin
26.05.2023
Moira Dustin
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Moira Dustin, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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- Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives
Theory as Practice in International Law
25.05.2023
International law is indeterminate yet, as Koskenniemi argues, it is also structured around a series of ‘embedded preferences’, fostering ‘structural biases’ and limiting the range of possible outcomes. Consequently, international law...
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Making Sense of Posthuman Feminist Theory in International Law
24.05.2023
Anastasia Hammerschmied
Amelie Herzog
Feminist engagements with international law oscillate between seeking legal change from within the law and the need to look beyond that system to completely reimagine it. This well-known tension of...
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Nature and the Conceit of Law
23.05.2023
Coming to this erudite text from Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAlL), I found much to agree with and learn. TWAIL is an anti-colonial anti-imperial disciplinary movement formative to...
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‘Life as Relation not Dividuation’
22.05.2023
A deepening climate crisis. A failing legal framework. A search for alternative imaginations. In this reflection on Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives by Emily Jones, I will engage...
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An Invite to Stay With the Trouble
19.05.2023
Emily Jones’ monograph Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives is an invitation to explore how posthuman feminist theory sheds new light on a range of contemporary issues and debates...
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Must We Instrumentalize?
18.05.2023
Chapter 2 of Emily Jones’s rich and generative new book, Feminist Theory of International Law Posthuman Perspectives, draws attention to all the ways in which humans and machines “are already...
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Exclusionary Humanism and Anthropocentrism: A Valid Tandem?
17.05.2023
International law is all-too-human, argues Emily Jones in Chapter 1 of her penetrating and deeply insightful Posthuman Feminism. International law might well gravitate around nonhuman entities – the state, international...
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Introducing the Symposium on Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives by Emily Jones
17.05.2023
Lys Kulamadayil
Isabel Lischewski
Sebastian M. Spitra
Emily Jones is known in the international law research community as a co-host of the Essex Public International Law lecture series. She, herself a critical international law scholar, initiated this...
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Chatting with Andreas Føllesdal
12.05.2023
Andreas Føllesdal
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Andreas Føllesdal, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Jean d’Aspremont
28.04.2023
Jean d’Aspremont
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Jean d'Aspremont, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Sergey Sayapin
14.04.2023
Sergey Sayapin
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Sergey Sayapin, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Marko Milanovic
31.03.2023
Marko Milanovic
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Marko Milanovic, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Vasuki Nesiah
17.03.2023
Vasuki Nesiah
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to another interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Vasuki Nesiah, and through the following questions, we will try to get...
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Goodbye Refuge, Hello Bespokism
10.03.2023
In recent months and years, the United Kingdom (UK) has increasingly shifted away from a robust asylum and protection framework and towards increasing reliance on inadequate bespoke ‘safe and legal’...
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Forced Marriage of Afghan Girls and the Bifurcated Approach for Defining Persecution
09.03.2023
Cristina María Zamora Gómez
Since the Taliban took control of Kabul in August 2021, women and girls have been erased from public life and have had their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights...
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“Voluntary” Repatriation
08.03.2023
Voluntary repatriation has been upheld as the ideal durable solution for refugees by the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner’s Programme (‘Ex Com’) and has its roots in efforts...
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How Joining a Majorette Group Can Lead You to Being Denied International Protection
07.03.2023
“… [Y]ou have been working since you were 17 ...; you are financially independent ...; [a member of a] religious community..., the choir ..., [and] the majorette group ...; [and]...
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Introducing the Second Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium
07.03.2023
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 8th of March, the Völkerrechtsblog celebrates women in international law with the annual ‘Women in International Law’ symposium....
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Chatting with Vladislava Stoyanova
24.02.2023
Vladislava Stoyanova
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Associate Prof. Vladislava Stoyanova, and through the following questions, we will try...
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Chatting with Diane Desierto
10.02.2023
Diane A. Desierto
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Diane Desierto, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Relapse into ‘Civilisation’?! A Narrative’s Continuity and Change
01.02.2023
Ntina Tzouvala
Hendrik Simon
Critical International Law has become increasingly influential in academic discourse. However, argues Ntina Tzouvala, there remain important blind spots. An interview on capitalism, racism, and the ongoing impact of ‘civilisation’....
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(Merging the) Fragments of Critical International Law
31.01.2023
Ntina Tzouvala
Hendrik Simon
Critical International Law has become increasingly influential in academic discourse. However, argues Ntina Tzouvala, there remain important blind spots. An interview on capitalism, racism, and the ongoing impact of ‘civilisation’....
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Chatting with Itamar Mann
27.01.2023
Itamar Mann
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to another interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Itamar Mann, and through the following questions, we will try to get...
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Chatting with Lys Kulamadayil
13.01.2023
Lys Kulamadayil
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the first interview of 2023 for the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Lys Kulamadayil, and through the following questions, we will...
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Chatting with Dianne Otto
23.12.2022
Dianne Otto
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to another interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! Through this interview, we will try to get a glimpse of Prof. Dianne Otto’s interests, sources of...
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- Racial Profiling in Germany
Racist Police Practices
15.12.2022
In 2012, Biplab Basu and his daughter rode a train from Prague to Berlin. The train had just passed the Czech Republic, when two German federal police officers got on...
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Race and Empire in International Law
14.12.2022
The prohibition of racial discrimination has played a marginal role within the global human rights agenda. This corresponds to the subordination and neglect of ‘race’ in how international legal scholars...
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Human Rights Standards for Accountability and Effective Remedies
13.12.2022
In Germany, for a long time, racial profiling was regarded as a problem that exists in other countries. However, in recent years more victims of racial discrimination have brought cases...
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Racial Profiling in Germany
13.12.2022
In Basu v. Germany, an international body reminded Germany once again of its less-than-perfect human rights record regarding racial discrimination. In this case, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...
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Chatting with Satang Nabaneh
09.12.2022
Satang Nabaneh
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to another interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Satang Nabaneh, and through the following questions, we will try to get...
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Chatting with Rohini Sen
02.12.2022
Welcome to the fifth interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Rohini Sen, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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- The World Bank’s Lawyers
In Gratitude
25.11.2022
Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
One of the most challenging parts of writing The World Bank’s Lawyers was coming to terms with its closure – the closure of its cover, its core claims, the changes...
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Disentangling Global Governance
25.11.2022
Whatever happened to chaos theory anyway? Its heyday seems to be over within social sciences at least. With a longer history in ‘natural’ or ‘hard’ sciences, the theory became big...
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The Firm
24.11.2022
In his ethnographic book on the World Bank, Goldman describes the bank as “a fickle place to experience and comprehend. Mental maps mislead, directional signs baffle, and paths through it...
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International Institutional Law “Under the Radar”
23.11.2022
When I arrived at the World Bank in Washington D.C. in 2014, the Bank was in the process of incorporating a new agenda on security, conflict and fragility in its...
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A New Map of (International Law’s) Empire?
22.11.2022
In a (very) short story, “On Exactitude in Science”, Jorge Luis Borges tells how, in a certain Empire, “the Art of Cartography” had “attained such Perfection” that eventually “a Map...
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Unsettling the Place of Law in International Organizations
21.11.2022
In The World Bank’s Lawyers Dimitri Van Den Meerssche does a great service to legal scholarship on international organizations by insisting that the place of law therein is not guaranteed,...
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The World Bank’s Lawyers: Book Launch
21.11.2022
Florenz Volkaert
Tommaso Soave
Ahmed Memon
Gail Lythgoe
Negar Mansouri
Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
On Wednesday 16 November, the ESIL Interest Groups on History of Intentional Law and International Organisations and Völkerrechtsblog, hosted a book launch for The World Bank’s Lawyers by Dr. Dimitri...
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Ever Shifting, Ever Changing
21.11.2022
As international scholars, we have been trained to accept a certain role law occupies in international and global settings, and have adopted a very peculiar perspective on how to study...
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Chatting with Fuad Zarbiyev
18.11.2022
Fuad Zarbiyev
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to today’s interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us, we have Prof. Fuad Zarbiyev, and through the following questions, we will try to get...
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Can We Trust Each Other?
15.11.2022
Filipe dos Reis
Hendrik Simon
Interdisciplinarity still seems to be the order of the day. Despite its many advantages, it tends to be a sometimes-ambivalent undertaking: demanded in academia’s bureaucracies (for funding applications, no less),...
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Chatting with Marco Sassòli
11.11.2022
Marco Sassòli
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to another interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! Through this interview, we will try to learn more about the interests and sources of inspiration of...
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Chatting with Jan Klabbers
04.11.2022
Jan Klabbers
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the second interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Jan Klabbers, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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- Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh
India Trains Its Sights on Dissent in Chhattisgarh
28.10.2022
Development in the form of profit-driven resource exploitation ventures in India’s central state of Chhattisgarh, led by corporations and facilitated by the state, have wreaked havoc on the lives and...
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The State vs. Adivasis
27.10.2022
The Bastar region in southern Chhattisgarh has been the site of an ongoing armed conflict over the last decades. The armed struggle in the region arose due to the lack...
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Punished for Seeking Justice
26.10.2022
In 2009, Himanshu Kumar, a social activist, filed a petition with the Supreme Court of India against the state of Chhattisgarh. The case concerned the massacre of 16 indigenous people...
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Tigers over Tribal Rights
25.10.2022
Indigenous communities around the world who have relied on and considered themselves custodians of the land have long confronted existential challenges in the face of privatization, extraction, and development. Often...
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Economic Growth or Adivasi Rights?
24.10.2022
“We exist because the forest does, and the forest exists because we do.” - Member of the Gond Adivasi people in Hasdeo Aranya That the world is facing an...
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Landgrabs, Institutional Violence and Shrinking Civic Space
24.10.2022
Alev Erhan
Allison West
Sissy Katsoni
Meike Krakau
India is often referred to as the “world’s largest democracy,” yet minority protection has always been a field of fierce contestation in post-independence India. Adivasis (the indigenous peoples of India)...
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Chatting with Mando Rachovitsa
21.10.2022
Mando Rachovitsa
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the first Interview that kicks off the symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! For this very special interview, I could not have wished for another guest than Mando...
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Introducing the Symposium ‘The Person Behind the Academic’
21.10.2022
If one’s academic personality and inner value system are interconnected and inseparable, then getting to know the person behind the academic can help readers to better understand one’s work. If,...
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- The Past and Future of the International Criminal Court
Stocktaking of the International Criminal Court
15.07.2022
Michael Lysander Fremuth
Konstantina Stavrou
Andreas Sauermoser
We are extremely grateful to the editors of Völkerrechtsblog, especially, Miriam Nomanni and Raphael Oidtmann, for hosting this symposium. A big ‘thank you’ also goes to the contributors – Tom...
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Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes
15.07.2022
One metric by which the success or failure of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has often been measured is that of its record regarding sexual and gender-based crimes (SGBCs). This...
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The ICC at 20 and the Crime of Aggression
14.07.2022
As the International Criminal Court (ICC) enters its third decade, the Court is at an inflection point. So, too, is the criminalization of aggression. However, while the catalyst for these...
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Towards an ‘International Criminal Evidence’?
14.07.2022
Does the International Criminal Court (ICC) have an ‘evidence problem’? Recent practice would seem to suggest so. Numerous cases have been dismissed at the confirmation of charges stage, with the...
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The End of an (Unsuccessful) Era?
13.07.2022
Much hope was put into the possibility of gaining jurisdiction over situations in States which are not party to the Rome Statute through the UN Security Council (UNSC) referral mechanism....
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