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- Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage
What’s in a Name? Genocide, the Universal and the Common in International Law
17.09.2025
Isabel Feichtner
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Khaled El Mahmoud
Sissy Katsoni
The following text was prompted by a discontent with the way international lawyers in Germany have addressed the question of genocide in Gaza, if they have done so at all....
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- Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage
Building Critical Spaces: The Palestine Project and the Future of Legal Education
16.09.2025
Souheir Edelbi
Khaled El Mahmoud
I am honoured to be speaking with Dr. Souheir Edelbi, one of the founders of the Palestine Project and a legal academic whose work sits at the intersection of pedagogy, international criminal...
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- Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage
Isn’t it Ironic?
11.09.2025
Khaled El Mahmoud
Sissy Katsoni
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
When a group of (early-career) scholars decides to organize a symposium on the alarming global restrictions of academic freedom – set against the backdrop of the “unfolding Genocide“ in Gaza...
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Introducing the Symposium ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’
08.09.2025
Khaled El Mahmoud
Sissy Katsoni
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Earlier this year, in the Call for Contributions announcing the arrival of the present symposium, we highlighted numerous measures taken globally evincing an increasing attempt to silence or censor (academic)...
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- Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion
One Climate, Many Courts
13.08.2025
On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’) issued its advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change, marking a significant moment in the evolving...
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- Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion
Climate Change at the Forefront of the Structural Transformation of International Law
04.08.2025
Khaled El Mahmoud
Jannika Jahn
Moritz Vinken
The ICJ’s advisory opinion on climate protection has far-reaching implications – both for climate action and for the entirety of (environmental) international law. The Court was faced with a complex...
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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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Historical Revisionism or Selective Memory? Black History Month and Germany’s Colonial Past
28.02.2025
Elisabeth Kaneza
Khaled El Mahmoud
Elisabeth, thank you very much for agreeing to this interview. We are delighted to have the opportunity to engage with you on this significant topic. Black History Month is an...
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Special Editorial: A Nation in Crisis
21.02.2025
The 19 February 2025 marks the fifth anniversary of the Hanau terror attack, a heinous act of violence perpetrated by a far-right extremist whose racist ideology culminated in the killing...
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- Climate Change Conference COP29
Missed Opportunities in a Microcosm of Broader Challenges
27.11.2024
Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh
Khaled El Mahmoud
Dear Margaretha, a very warm welcome back! I believe that the overall sentiment among all of us was one of ambitious expectations for the outcomes of COP29, accompanied by a...
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Setting the Scene for COP29
11.11.2024
Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh
Khaled El Mahmoud
Dear Margaretha, we would like to express our gratitude for accepting our invitation and for agreeing to this interview. We are delighted to have the opportunity to engage in discourse...
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- Climate Change Conference COP29
Climate Diplomacy in an Era of Permacrisis
11.11.2024
Justine Batura
Khaled El Mahmoud
Humanity is facing in an era marked by turbulence, uncertainty, and instability. Increasingly referred to as a permacrisis, this period is defined by a series of complex and interconnected crises...
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What #Ö Read during the Mid-Year Break (Part II)
10.09.2024
Hendrik Simon
Alicja Polakiewicz
Khaled El Mahmoud
Welcome to Part II of What #Ö Read during the Mid-Year Break (read Part I here). Reading KafKant at the End of “the End of History” (or Summer) Immanuel...
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Editorial #37: All Are Equal, but Some Are More Equal than Others
26.07.2024
A notable milestone in the annals of international criminal law is the anniversary of the Rome Statute, adopted on 17 July 1998, which constituted the most significant legal institution in...
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