From Denial to Accountability
12.05.2025
Sissy Katsoni
Mariana Gkliati
A long-denied reality by the Greek authorities is now on court record. Through its judgement in A.R.E. v Greece the European Court of Human Rights (Court) has confirmed the longstanding...
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Call for Contributions: Symposium on Knowledge under Occupation
14.03.2025
Khaled El Mahmoud
Sissy Katsoni
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
We hereby announce our forthcoming online blogpost symposium, ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’, which will be held in collaboration with Opinio Juris and will...
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#44 Feminist Resistance in Armed Conflicts: Beyond Victimhood, Toward Justice
07.03.2025
Polina Kulish
Rishiti Choudaha
Céline Chausse
Sissy Katsoni
Women play diverse and complex roles in armed conflicts – whether as combatants, peacebuilders, community organizers, or as those directly impacted by war, including through gender-based violence. Yet, international law...
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Introducing the Fourth Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium
03.03.2025
Céline Chausse
Rishiti Choudaha
Polina Kulish
Sissy Katsoni
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog hosts the 'Women in International Law' symposium. Held each year during this week, it features...
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- Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management: Data Protection and Fundamental Rights Concerns
Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management
10.02.2025
Sissy Katsoni
Daniela Vitiello
Giulia Raimondo
Sara Arapiles
As migration management systems across the globe increasingly adopt advanced digital technologies, new challenges emerge at the intersection of technological innovations, human rights, and data protection. From artificial intelligence (dataAI)...
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Chatting with Ramona Vijeyarasa
07.02.2025
Ramona Vijeyarasa
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Ramona Vijeyarasa, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Dire Tladi
10.01.2025
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Judge Dire Tladi, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Call for Papers: Women in International Law Vol. 4
20.12.2024
Sissy Katsoni
Polina Kulish
Rishiti Choudaha
Céline Chausse
Völkerrechtsblog welcomes blog post proposals for its upcoming symposium ‘Women in International Law Vol. 4’. The ‘Women in International Law’ symposium is an online symposium held annually (in March) and...
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Chatting with Philippa Webb
20.12.2024
Philippa Webb
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Philippa Webb, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Danish Sheikh
02.12.2024
Danish Sheikh
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Danish Sheikh, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Iulia Motoc
08.11.2024
Iulia Motoc
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Judge Iulia Motoc, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Kathryn McNeilly
25.10.2024
Kathryn McNeilly
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Kathryn McNeilly, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Stewart Manley
11.10.2024
Stewart Manley
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Stewart Manley, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Seline Trevisanut
27.09.2024
Seline Trevisanut
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Seline Trevisanut, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Editorial #38: Entering the New Academic Year Anew
18.09.2024
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Sissy Katsoni
Leopold Raab
As a brat summer is slowly giving its spot to a very demure fall and as our mid-year break has officially ended, we are writing to welcome you back to...
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Chatting with Machiko Kanetake
13.09.2024
Machiko Kanetake
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Machiko Kanetake, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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- Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries
Introducing the Book Review Symposium on ‘Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries’
27.05.2024
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) has played a prominent role in the development of positive obligations while interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Variable factual...
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Chatting with Pierre Thielbörger
10.05.2024
Pierre Thielbörger
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Pierre Thielbörger, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with Vladyslav Lanovoy
29.03.2024
Vladyslav Lanovoy
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Vladyslav Lanovoy, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Chatting with André Nollkaemper
15.03.2024
André Nollkaemper
Sissy Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. André Nollkaemper, and through the following questions, we will try to...
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Introducing the Third Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium
04.03.2024
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog celebrates women in international law with the annual ‘Women in International Law’ symposium. The...
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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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Call for Papers: Women in International Law Vol. 3
19.01.2024
Völkerrechtsblog welcomes blog post proposals for its upcoming symposium ‘Women in International Law Vol. 3’. The ‘Women in International Law’ symposium is an online symposium held annually (in March) and...
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Editorial #33: From a Proximate Ending to New Beginnings
05.12.2023
As the end of the calendar year is approaching, a new beginning at our blog has been marked. Since last Friday, our team has officially grown much bigger, and 12...
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- The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law
Introducing the Book Review Symposium on “The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law”
13.11.2023
Jan-Henrik Hinselmann
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?
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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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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Editorial #31: To A Smooth Restart!
14.09.2023
As we are getting used to (editorial) life after our post mid-year break, we thought of catching up and sharing the news of what’s to come. The Völkerrechtsblog kicked off...
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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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How the Committee on the Rights of the Child Paved the Way for Stronger Abortion Rights
05.07.2023
Sissy Katsoni
Vanessa Bliecke
On 13 June 2023, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CtRC) published its decision in the case of Camila v Peru (pseudonymised), marking a significant milestone in the...
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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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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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An Unneighborly Gift in Times of Need
20.04.2023
In February 2023, the news of devastating deadly earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria shook the globe. The horrifying effects of these earthquakes led to a death toll that has surpassed...
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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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Editorial #26: Springing into March
14.03.2023
March has already been a rather busy month on the blog, and as the second annual ‘Women in International Law’ symposium took over last week, you are only hearing from...
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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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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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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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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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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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Editorial #22: On Finding Inspiration
01.11.2022
Inspiration must be very desirable for artists. The relieving advent of inspiration following the anguishing search thereof has been praised in valuable artworks of various forms (see for example Homer’s...
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- Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh
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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What Do We Do with the Non-‘White, Blonde, Blue-Eyed’ Asylum Seekers?
02.06.2022
Following the Russian invasion, it is estimated that over 6 million persons have fled Ukraine. Although this number is significantly higher than any other refugee wave reaching the EU since...
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Introducing the Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium
08.03.2022
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog celebrates women in international law with the establishment of the annual ‘Women in International...
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Is the Feministisation of the ECtHR’s Abortion-Related Jurisprudence a Realistic Expectation?
28.01.2022
Feminist legal theories have repeatedly highlighted the patriarchal bias in law and decision-making: Sexuality, biology and reproductivity have been parameters of persons’ positioning in the eyes of the law and...
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- A Critical Christmas Week
Introducing the Critical Christmas Week
21.12.2021
Sissy Katsoni
Meike Krakau
Cathérine Van de Graaf
For many of us, the current days lead into a bit of a winter break. In the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter solstice today - the days will be getting...
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Is Your Dating App Swiping Left on Human Rights?
01.12.2021
Sissy Katsoni
Paul Philipp Stewens
TW // sexual violence, rape If you or someone you know experiences/has experienced sexual violence, please reach out for support here (for Germany; for an overview of national helplines see...
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Editorial #11: Here is to Blogposts, Editors and Authors! Cheers!
01.11.2021
Sissy Katsoni
Meike Krakau
Cathérine Van de Graaf
Journal articles are okay but blogposts go all the way! The road to publication of journal articles (let’s not even dwell on the process for books) is often paved with...
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Re-rethinking the Amicable Settlement of Inter-State ECHR Disputes
30.09.2021
The amicable settlement of inter-State disputes under the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) was thoroughly discussed on Völkerrechtsblog earlier this year, during the ‘Inter-State Cases under the ECHR’ symposium....
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Refoulement Beyond Pushbacks
20.09.2021
Since the Taliban took control of Kabul, the news has abounded in heart-breaking images of people trying to flee Afghanistan. Following some sympathetic responses, however, the discourse has shifted to...
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Livestream: COVID-19 Vaccinations and Human Rights
28.06.2021
Lisa M. Cohen
Rouven Diekjobst
Marko Milanovic
Iris Goldner Lang
Sissy Katsoni
The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated political, academic, and societal debates for the past one and a half years. As soon as they became available in late 2020, COVID-19 vaccines...
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COVID-19 Vaccines and Work-Related Rights
22.06.2021
As States’ capacities to provide COVID-19 vaccines rise, questions on whether employers can lawfully require their employees to get vaccinated arise accordingly. As the lawfulness of States imposing compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations has been already...
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The Future of “Climate Refugees” in International Law
05.06.2021
Sissy Katsoni
Jan-Phillip Graf
The issue of “climate refugees” has attracted scholarly attention for over a decade. The historic ruling of the Human Rights Committee (‘HRCtee’) in Ioane Teitiota v. New Zealand further increased...
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What Does the Vavřička Judgement Tell Us About the Compatibility of Compulsory COVID-19 Vaccinations with the ECHR?
21.04.2021
On the 8th of April, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (‘the Court’) issued its widely-anticipated judgement on Vavřička and others v. the Czech Republic shedding some...
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The Right to Abortion and the European Convention on Human Rights
19.03.2021
Abortion bans are back in Vogue! Nearly 165 years after the first massive demonstration on women’s rights, discussions on the extent to which interference with female bodies falls within States’...
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Populism’s lethal effect on the respect for human rights
11.03.2021
The rise of populism in Europe is a fact. Along with it, discussions of the effects of populism on the rule of law have arisen. The purpose of the present...
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Do compulsory vaccinations against COVID-19 violate human rights?
02.12.2020
As soon as the announcement of a vaccine against the coronavirus hit the news, discussions on the permissibility of compulsory vaccination multiplied. As anti-vaccination campaigns flourish and fake news spread...
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
10.09.2020
Although the higher risk of COVID-19’s contagion among those residing in overly-populated asylum-seeker centres has been underlined by cassandric voices since the early days of its outbreak, Moria Reception and...
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