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- Customary International Law
The principle of responsibility-sharing in refugee protection
06.03.2019
In December 2018, the Global Compact on Refugees was adopted. Especially over the last year, its drafting and negotiations could appear in odd contrast to the surrounding world, in which...
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- Customary International Law
Corporate liability under customary international law
27.02.2019
Human rights and business issues are far more complex than is often considered in most scholarly writings on the topic. The following is an example of the complexity, taken from...
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- Customary International Law
Why customary international law matters in protecting human rights
25.02.2019
Does customary international law really matter in protecting human rights, and if so how? This was the theme of a panel at International Law Weekend in New York on October 20,...
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- Semi-Colonialism
Semi-colonialism and international legal history: the view from Bhutan
28.01.2019
As simply a matter of history, the Kingdom of Bhutan’s experience with Occidental powers could not be more different than that of the colonial experience of Bhutan’s neighbor and closest...
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- Semi-Colonialism
The a-historicity of Preah Vihear and the space for inter-disciplinarity in international law
25.01.2019
Of International Law, Semi-colonial Thailand, and Imperial Ghosts is wide-ranging in research, nuanced in analysis, and replete with archival nuggets and food for thought. Prabhakar makes a number of important and...
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- Semi-Colonialism
The gods and demons of the Preah Vihear Temple
23.01.2019
The Churning I finally visited the Temple of Preah Vihear on 22 December 2018. Strikingly, the makers of the ancient temples of Cambodia appear infatuated with a particular Indian mythic...
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- South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law
Multiperspectivism in and on international law
15.01.2019
The symposium on “South and East Asian perspectives on international law” postulates that perspectives matter for the understanding, interpretation, and application of international law. I agree, but would like to...
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Backlash against international law by the East?
11.01.2019
The symbolic metaphor of ‘Eastphalia’ that has been referred to in the opening post of this symposium, which is a wordplay around ‘Westphalia’, is very loaded in its curious terminological choice....
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- South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law
Are we living in an Eastphalian moment?
08.01.2019
Lys Kulamadayil
Sulekha Agarwal
It is indisputable that economic and geopolitical power has shifted east and that the core-semi periphery-periphery symbolism, a common reference for liberal, socialist and postcolonial states, increasingly mischaracterizes the complexities...
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- South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law
From liberal and equal to fraternal international legal order?
02.01.2019
A quarter half of a century has passed since Francis Fukuyama declared in The End of History the ultimate triumph of Western liberal democracy. Contrary to this prophecy, we are...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
A Japanese approach to international law
21.12.2018
In Japan, only a few academic scholars are aware of the plurality of academic scholarly perspectives. Most others do not think that their methods are different from the Western methods....
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- South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law
The ecological atlas of international law
17.12.2018
In an effort to “identify, analyze, and explain similarities and differencesin how international law is understood, interpreted, applied, and approached by different national and international actors”, comparative international law as...
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- South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law
The ‘Standard of Civilization’ in international law
12.12.2018
Any history of international law in Japan and the discourse on Japan’s semi-civilized status begin with nineteenth-century European encounters. Although there is thick literature on the ‘pre-modern’ international order in...
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- South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law
Are we living in the “Eastphalian” moment?
10.12.2018
Raffaela Kunz
Sebastian M. Spitra
Diverging views and perspectives on international law are unavoidable. The global span of this body of law and the different geographical, cultural, religious and educational backgrounds of those who work...
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- Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World
Zwischen Recht und Politik
28.09.2018
Bisher „ungedachte juristische Konstruktionen“ wünscht sich Bénédicte Savoy, wenn sie in ihrem jüngsten Werk über die Zukunft des (kolonialen) Kulturerbes nachdenkt. Doch wie ist eigentlich die Rechtslage an kolonialen Kulturobjekten? Bestehen...
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- Cynical International Law
Conference Announcement and CfP: Cynical International Law?
25.09.2018
Völkerrechtsblog is proud to announce its support of a joint conference of the Working Group of Young Scholars in Public International Law (Arbeitskreis junger Völkerrechtswissenschaftler*innen – AjV) and the German...
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- Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World
Artefact or heritage?
24.09.2018
“One of the most noble incarnations of a people’s genius is its cultural heritage. The vicissitudes of history have nevertheless robbed many peoples of this inheritance. They .. have not...
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- Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World
Ambivalent futures
21.09.2018
The legacies of colonialism and imperialism are keeping the European museum scene busy. At first glance, it seems that colonial amnesia is overcome and museums are paving the way for...
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- Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World
Property and possession
18.09.2018
In his preface to the German dictionary Deutsches Wörterbuch, Jacob Grimm calls the German legal language of his time “unhealthy and feeble, much overloaded with Roman terminology” (Dt. WBVorrede, XXXI)....
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- Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World
Eigentum und Besitz
17.09.2018
In der Vorrede zum Deutschen Wörterbuch nennt Jacob Grimm die deutsche Rechtssprache seiner Zeit „ungesund und saftlos, mit römischer terminologie hart überladen“ (Dt. WBVorrede, XXXI). Er lobt dagegen die griffige...
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- Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World
Dekoloniale Perspektiven zu Berlins Humboldt Forum
14.09.2018
Jährlich demonstrieren Afrikaner*innen aus ehemaligen (deutschen) Kolonien sowie People of Colour (PoC) und Schwarze diasporische bzw. migrantische Communities für die Anerkennung kolonialen Unrechts und die Rückgabe von Gebeinen und Kultursubjekten,[1]...
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- Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World
Wozu internationaler Kulturgüterschutz?
10.09.2018
Was ist Kultur? Die Frage nach der Bestimmung des, prima facie, hoffnungslos unbestimmbaren Begriffs ist in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften aktueller denn je. Leidenschaftlich wird darum gefochten, ob Kultur offen...
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- Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World
Cultural heritage protection: a truly “global” legal problem?
05.09.2018
In the course of recent years, international legal efforts to safeguard cultural heritage have undergone two seemingly contrasting developments: on the one hand, the general public has expressed an increasing...
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- Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World
The politics of cultural heritage protection in international law
03.09.2018
Every legal field has its own history and every history has its own master narrative, in the case of international law protecting cultural heritage it is a plain success story....
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- Business and Human Rights
Extraterritoriale Regulierung als Staatenpflicht
03.08.2018
Kontext Zwei Aspekte des von der zwischenstaatlichen Arbeitsgruppe im September 2017 vorgelegten Diskussionspapiers, das die Grundlage des gegenwärtigen Tauziehens um eine verbindliche internationale Regelung der Unternehmensverantwortung für Menschenrechte bildet, sind...
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- Business and Human Rights
Which business?
30.07.2018
The United Nations treaty process, the current endeavor in the open-ended working group to draft a legally binding instrument to “regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational...
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- Business and Human Rights
Giving human rights a future
27.07.2018
The future of human rights, as scholars and practitioners alike emphasize, depends on its ability to address economic inequality. For this aim, human rights lawmaking needs to listen to more...
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- Business and Human Rights
Human rights due diligence
25.07.2018
In its recently released General Comment (GC) No 24 the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) makes a crucial point: It establishes that regulation imposing Human Rights Due...
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- Business and Human Rights
Das Verhältnis von Handels- und Investitionsabkommen zu einem Abkommen zu Unternehmen und Menschenrechten
23.07.2018
I. Der Ausgangsbefund: Wirtschaftsabkommen und Menschenrechte 1. Angesichts der vor allem seit den 1990er Jahren zu verzeichnenden Effektivierung und Erweiterung des Anwendungsbereichs des völkervertragsrechtlichen Handels- und Investitionsrechts sind vermehrt Fallkonstellationen...
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- Business and Human Rights
A future treaty on business and human rights – its main functions
20.07.2018
The state-based paradigm of international human rights law poses a significant challenge to modern day human rights problems as traditional mechanisms largely fail to adequately address corporate conduct and to...
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- Business and Human Rights
Germany’s moral responsibility to support a treaty on business and human rights
18.07.2018
As a Jewish academic currently writing a book in Berlin, I am moved by the significant efforts in evidence across the city to remember the victims of the Holocaust. From...
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- Law and Development
Between (re-)empowerment and (hyper-)conditionality
17.07.2018
Ever since David Trubek and Mark Galanter’s seminal ‘Scholars in Self-Estrangement’, which Philip Dann, during the seminar that gave rise to this post, aptly termed the ‘law and development movement’s...
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Beyond the ‘moments’ of law and development
16.07.2018
An integral aspect of law and development (L&D) studies have been its intimate relationship with the global economy and the regulatory framework which governs it. A rapidly emerging arena of...
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- Law and Development
Agenda 2030 – Time to Revisit Rule of Law programming
13.07.2018
Elizabeth Bakibinga-Gaswaga
As the development community re-focuses on how the rule of law agenda enables sustainable development as expected in fulfilment of Agenda 2030, questions will continue to arise concerning the mixed...
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- Law and Development
Law and Development: Theory and Practice
12.07.2018
The field of Law and Development studies positions itself at a highly interesting, yet academically challenging juncture: What is the relationship between law and social and economic development? For most...
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- Law and Development
Beyond a fourth moment in law and development
12.07.2018
In the wake of the decolonization wave after World War II, a law and development (L&D) practice and academic strand emerged. So far, scholarship on law and development that self-identifies...
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- Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World
CfP: Cultural Heritage in a Post-colonial World – New Framings of a Global Legal Problem
18.06.2018
The Voelkerrechtsblog is happy to announce an interdisciplinary online symposium on “Cultural Heritage in a Post-colonial World – New Framings of a Global Legal Problem”. Cultural and anthropological objects from...
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- Business and Human Rights
Symposium on Business and Human Rights: Call for Contributions
01.06.2018
On June 24, 2016 the United Nations’ Council on Human Rights established an intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations. The working group is tasked with the elaboration of an international...
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- Critical Race Perspectives on International Law
Intersectionality in Europe: a depoliticized concept?
06.03.2018
The reach of intersectionality in Germany has been such that as many disciplinary fields as sociology, cultural studies, ethnology, history, law, philosophy, psychology, migration studies, public policy and of course,...
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- Critical Race Perspectives on International Law
Whiteness as international citizenship in European Union law
02.03.2018
The European Union admits that its Romani citizens – the continent’s largest ethnic minority – are excluded and denigrated. And the EU seems to be trying to do something about...
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- Critical Race Perspectives on International Law
“There is still a lot of work to be done.”
28.02.2018
Patricia Tuitt is a UK based legal academic with a sustained track record of teaching, research and strategic management within the field of critical legal studies. She has written extensively...
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- Critical Race Perspectives on International Law
Framing race and law in Europe
26.02.2018
To frame “Race and Law in Europe” involves a set of basic questions: 1) What is Race? 2) What is Law? and 3) What is Europe? The real challenge is...
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- Critical Race Perspectives on International Law
The framing of the African Union in international criminal law: A racialized logic
21.02.2018
The International Criminal Court (ICC) 'has been put in place only for African countries, only for poor countries...Every year that passes, I am proved right.… Rwanda cannot be part of...
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- Critical Race Perspectives on International Law
Learning from anthropology
19.02.2018
Despite anthropology’s troublesome contribution to the colonial project, the discipline as it is today has much to offer to critical race theory (CRT) and postcolonial approaches to international law. Already...
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- Critical Race Perspectives on International Law
Building Islam as a race in French colonial law
16.02.2018
The conquest of Algeria introduced in French law new chapters pertaining to the treatment of indigenous people. In fact, the French Algeria gained the status of department in 1848 and...
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- Critical Race Perspectives on International Law
Sind Juden weiß?
14.02.2018
Das umstrittene Urteil des Landgerichts Frankfurt zum Flugverbot für israelische Staatsbürger bei Kuwait Airways ist auch in antidiskriminierungsrechtlicher Hinsicht interessant. Es zeigt, wie schwer es Gerichten fällt Antisemitismus unter die...
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- Critical Race Perspectives on International Law
We need to talk about ‘race’
12.02.2018
Dana Schmalz
Mareike Riedel
Valérie V. Suhr
“Race is the child of racism, not the father,” writes Ta-Nehisi Coates in “Between the World and Me”. Such understanding of race, not as an empirical category but as a...
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- Critical Race Perspectives on International Law
The concept of race in international criminal law
12.02.2018
The Nazis defined the Jews as a race inferior to the Aryan race, the Khmer Rouge identified the ‘new people’ as enemies with a biologically dissimilar essence, and in Darfur...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
Cleavages in international law and the danger of a pull towards non-compliance
31.01.2018
International law faces difficult times, with cleavages running deep between what is often labelled “the West” on the one hand, and Russia on the other hand. With the annexation of...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
Who holds Russia’s judges and public prosecutors to account?
29.01.2018
This piece is about the growing number of politically-motivated charges and convictions against human rights defenders in Russia and the absence of credible monitoring or audit procedures to hold judges...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
Is Russia the guardian of humanitarian intervention?
26.01.2018
In the UN Security Council, the Russian Federation has repeatedly put forward in no uncertain terms its stance regarding humanitarian intervention and its concern that this fairly recent concept may...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
Das EU-Russland Zivilgesellschaftsforum
24.01.2018
Spricht man über die Rolle Russlands in der zeitgenössischen internationalen Rechtsdebatte, so ist es hilfreich, sich nicht nur auf die konkreten Themen und Fragen zu fokussieren, sondern – wie bei...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum
24.01.2018
When speaking of the role of Russia in the contemporary international legal debate, it is helpful not only to focus on particular topics and questions, but – as with all...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
‘Peaceful’ and ‘remedial’ annexations of Crimea
19.01.2018
This post analyzes the ‘two annexations’ of Crimea in the Russian narrative of ‘reclaiming its historical rights’ over the peninsula in 2014. As many aspects surrounding the occupation of Crimea...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
Ukraine v. Russia: Passage through Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov
15.01.2018
Valentin J. Schatz
Dmytro Koval
In our first and second post, we have considered the status of the Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait and, on that basis, identified passage rights of Ukraine that could...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
Ukraine v. Russia: Passage through Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov
12.01.2018
Valentin J. Schatz
Dmytro Koval
In our previous post, we have taken a look at the legal status of the Sea of Azov and concluded that there are two possible Scenarios involving either a shared...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
Ukraine v. Russia: Passage through Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov
10.01.2018
Valentin J. Schatz
Dmytro Koval
On 16 September 2016, Ukraine instituted arbitral proceedings against Russia under Part XV and Annex VII of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
Les évolutions de la primauté de la souveraineté dans l’approche russe du droit international
08.01.2018
« Du passé faisons table rase » : à l’heure de fêter le centième anniversaire de la Révolution d’Octobre, ces paroles de l’Internationale ont résonné dans beaucoup de têtes. Ainsi en est-il de...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
A nationalized approach to international law: the case of Russia
05.01.2018
When a new edition of one of the most authoritative Soviet international law textbooks co-authored by professor Tunkin was published in 1999, most of its chapters repeated the previous 1981...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
Symposium: “Russian Perspectives on International Law”
03.01.2018
Dana Schmalz
Valentin Jeutner
Manuela Niehaus
We are excited to launch the Symposium “Russian Perspectives on International Law”. It has been in planning for a while, and we were enthusiastic about the response to our call...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
Strasbourg’s effect on Russia – and Russia’s effect on Strasbourg
03.01.2018
It has been occasionally asked, in the light of case law that comes out from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), whether Russia actually complies with the ECtHR’s judgments....
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- Critical Race Perspectives on International Law
Call for Contributions: Critical Race Perspectives on International Law
13.11.2017
“Race is the child of racism, not the father,” writes Ta-Nehisi Coates in “Between the World and Me”. Such understanding of race not as an empirical category but as a...
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- Russian Perspectives on International Law
Call for Contributions: Russian Perspectives on International Law
25.10.2017
The Völkerrechtsblog is happy to announce an online symposium on “International Law Seen from Russia”. This symposium is meant to offer insights from scholars working on international law issues related...
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- Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law
Auctoritas non veritas facit Legem
18.10.2017
This blog post is a response to Roberto Niembro’s post on authoritarian constitutionalism for the Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law. This post will be cross-posted on the Blog of...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
Access to justice for socio-economic rights: lessons from the Indian experience
15.09.2017
This is a cross-post shared with the blog of the International Association of Constitutional Law as part of a collaboration between Voelkerrechtsblog and the IACL Blog. Professor David Bilchitz in a recent blog...
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- Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law
Constitutional authoritarianism, not authoritarian constitutionalism!
31.08.2017
In these times of re-emerging illiberalism, populism and authoritarianism, there is an increasing need for us to attempt to find new academic concepts to describe the phenomena that are emerging....
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- Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law
Interrogating “Constitutionalism of the South” and new pathways for research
07.08.2017
Carlos Arturo Villagrán Sandoval
Latin American constitutional scholarship is on the rise in the Anglophone world. New collaborative works (such as Dixon and Ginsburg’s new comparative constitutional law edition (2017), the Borges et al...
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- Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law
Knowledge production in comparative constitutional law
31.07.2017
The idea and the reality of the Global South represent different types of epistemological challenges to the disciplinary identity of comparative (constitutional) law. As a term, it is no more...
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- Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law
Towards a constitutionalism of the wretched
27.07.2017
The field of Global Constitutionalism (also sometimes called “International Constitutionalism”) is a very odd field, one which, with very limited exceptions (Frankenberg, Schwöbel, and Volk), has been neglected by most...
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- Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law
Expanding access to justice for socio-economic rights complaints in South Africa
24.07.2017
The South African constitution has been lauded for its inclusion of justiciable socio-economic rights. Yet, making claims flowing from these rights remains inaccessible to many people across the country. This...
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- Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law
Pushing for transformation
20.07.2017
Transformative constitutionalism is a somewhat fuzzy notion. Reflecting about its exact meaning, one wonders what it actually is that distinguishes transformative constitutions of other types of constitutions. On the surface,...
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- Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law
Conceptualizing authoritarian constitutionalism
17.07.2017
Authoritarian constitutionalism is a new category used by constitutional law scholars to refer to a distinct type of regime wherein there are faulty practices and a constitution with an authoritarian...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
The Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law
14.07.2017
While scholarship in comparative constitutional law is booming, this anniversary conference is an unusual event in at least two ways: It is asking particularly about the role of the Global...
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- Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law
The 12mm-Winchester-Gun and the Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law
13.07.2017
This week, our partner journal Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (VRÜ) / Law and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America celebrates its 50th birthday with an international conference on...
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- Feminist Critiques of International Courts
Vive la diversité!
15.05.2017
As of May 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR) appears to be the most gender balanced bench in the world, with women occupying 45% (5 out...
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- Feminist Critiques of International Courts
Judgment and diversity
03.05.2017
If the number of female judges in an international tribunal is one out of twenty-one, as in the case of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS),...
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- Feminist Critiques of International Courts
Why a woman’s presence on the bench is a human rights issue
27.04.2017
In order to avoid the danger of an essentialist approach when talking about women’s representation in international courts, the issue should be framed as of of human rights and not...
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- Feminist Critiques of International Courts
Feminist judgments in international law
24.04.2017
Troy Lavers
Loveday Hodson
A feminist critique of international courts can confront the lack of representation and inclusion of women as well as women's lack of access to courts and the justice system. However,...
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- Feminist Critiques of International Courts
Feminism and the International Criminal Court – still an issue?
19.04.2017
While the International Criminal Court (ICC) has always been subject to criticism and is maybe currently facing its biggest crisis with member states withdrawing, the things that are actually going...
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- Feminist Critiques of International Courts
Symposium: Feminist Critiques of International Courts
17.04.2017
In the upcoming days, we are very glad to host a symposium on feminist critiques of international courts. Where to begin when introducing this topic? There is much to say...
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- Feminist Critiques of International Courts
It’s not about “women’s issues”.
17.04.2017
Dana Schmalz
Nienke Grossman
There is no way to get around Nienke Grossman’s work when reflecting about diversity on the benches of international courts. Her scholarship offers statistics about the numbers of women judges,...
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- Gunneflo Book Symposium
Gunneflo Book Symposium: The author’s response
12.04.2017
I could not be happier that this book symposium turned out to be a forum for such wide-ranging and critical commentary about targeted killing. All contributors offer nuanced readings of...
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Gunneflo Book Symposium: Part 5
07.04.2017
1. In October 2015, some four and a half years after the Osama bin Laden killing, the New York Times disclosed that weeks before the Abbottabad raid, federal lawyers had...
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Gunneflo Book Symposium: Part 4
29.03.2017
On a clear November morning in 2000, Hussein Abayat, a senior official in the Fatah faction Tanzim, was killed by a hellfire anti-tank missile fired from an Israeli helicopter. When...
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Gunneflo Book Symposium: Part 3
22.03.2017
Markus Gunneflo’s book shows how the normalization of targeted killing emerged through extensive legal work. Offering a meticulous account of history and practice, the book highlights the law and politics...
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Gunneflo Book Symposium: Part 2
15.03.2017
It is worth repeating that the suggestion that drone technology constitutes a ‘paradigm change’ and a ‘break with the past’ in the international law of force is of limited heuristic...
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- Nuremberg Trials
If you are looking for perfect justice look somewhere else.
13.03.2017
It is not very often that a historian’s book, even one about a pivotal moment in the annals of international criminal law, meets with such interest among his legal and...
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- Dialing Into Jessup
Targeted killing: a legal and political history
08.03.2017
Over the coming weeks, the Völkerrechtsblog will host an online symposium on the recently published book Targeted Killing: A Legal and Political History (CUP 2016) by Markus Gunneflo. Markus Gunneflo...
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Gunneflo Book Symposium: Part 1
08.03.2017
1. On 4 January 2017, a military court in Jaffa convicted Israeli soldier Elor Azaria of manslaughter. The case has set Israeli public debate ablaze for almost a year now,...
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- Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg and the contemporary commitment to international criminal justice
22.02.2017
The Nuremberg trial often stands as a nostalgic memory in the minds of international criminal lawyers. Perhaps it is the particular black and white simplicity of the trial, the mostly...
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- Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg trials a betrayal to history?
20.02.2017
Kerry-Luise Prior
Marjana Papa
Kim Priemel’s “The Betrayal” is a very thoroughly researched historical but also philosophical and critical narrative of the Nuremberg Trials. Two principal questions guide the reader through the book: Can...
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Sovereign debt restructuring – in the machine room of legal engineering
13.02.2017
The authors and editors of the special issue on sovereign debt restructuring are highly grateful to the contributors to this symposium on sovereign debt for their thought-provoking contributions. As I...
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Not only good faith
03.02.2017
Staying of enforcement plays a topical role in sovereign debt litigation as enforcing a debt claim may have a negative impact on the dynamics of restructuring processes and the regular...
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Inter-Creditor equity in corporate and sovereign debt restructuring
01.02.2017
Broadly defined, inter-creditor equity represents a normative evaluation of the treatment a debtor accords to a certain creditor (or group of creditors) vis a vis the treatment that the debtor’s...
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Sovereign debt and international law
30.01.2017
Events of historic proportions often feel anti-climactic. In March 2012, Greece, a developed capitalist state and a member of the Eurozone, engaged in the biggest debt restructuring venture to date,...
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Setting the scope of and the limits to the incremental approach to sovereign debt restructurings
25.01.2017
Anyone interested in legal issues surrounding sovereign debt should pay careful attention to the last special edition of the Yale Journal of International Law in which a framework is set...
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- The Person Behind the Academic
Constant dripping wears away the stone… including sovereign debt
23.01.2017
The sovereign debt crises in the Eurozone, in Argentina, or in Ukraine have highlighted that the current international legal regime on sovereign debt is ill equipped to resolve the bankruptcy...
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- Digital Surveillance and cyber espionage
Unilateralism ahead?
12.12.2016
Here we are. It could seem a bit obvious to start with this overwhelming event, but it is truly important to stress that the recent results of the US elections...
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- Digital Surveillance and cyber espionage
Der Schutz der Menschenrechte im Cyberspace durch die EMRK
07.12.2016
Der EGMR hat im Laufe seiner Rechtsprechung die „offline“ Gewährleistungen aus dem Recht auf Achtung des Privat- und Familienlebens aus Art. 8 EMRK und dem Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung aus...
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