- Symposium
- reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law
Embracing ‘Pataphysics of International Law
29.07.2024
Sué González Hauck
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
When walking down Hobrechtstraße in Berlin-Neukölln, Germany on the last weekend of June 2024, it was hard not to contemplate questions of order and disorder. Two persons dressed in what...
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Closing Channels
26.07.2024
Sué González Hauck
Isabel Lischewski
In this piece, we offer some reflections on our time as Editors-in-Chief at Völkerrechtsblog. In doing so, we do not speak for the blog as a whole, but also not...
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- Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog
“The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same?”
29.04.2024
Sué González Hauck
Meike Krakau
Isabel Lischewski
At Völkerrechtsblog, we have quite frequently wondered about time, speed, timing, and temporalities. For example, when drafting an editorial for a ten-year anniversary, there is considerable temptation initially to divide...
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Opening the World of International Law Education
28.03.2024
Raffaela Kunz
Max Milas
Sué González Hauck
Yota Negishi
Miharu Hirano
Earlier this month, the book Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach was published. It is the first-ever openly accessible and collectively written textbook from different perspectives with digital pedagogical materials....
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Call for reflectiÖns on “Ordering and Disordering”
27.03.2024
Sué González Hauck
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
„For me now, what I’m realizing is I’m done trying to treat people as if they’re finished beings. Because we’re all unfinished basically, we’re all unravelling. So it's very unfair...
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Call for reflectiÖns on “Ordering and Disordering”
09.11.2023
Sué González Hauck
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
"For me now, what I’m realizing is I’m done trying to treat people as if they’re finished beings. Because we’re all unfinished basically, we’re all unravelling. So it's very unfair...
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- Symposium
- Racial Profiling in Germany
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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Editorial #19: Taking Time
05.08.2022
As in the months before, Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine has continued to play a central role in the contributions to Völkerrechtsblog. The interview with Alain Pellet, in which...
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Rassifizierte Grenzregime und die Grenzen des menschenrechtlichen Schutzes vor Rassismus
08.07.2022
In den vergangenen Monaten zeigten sich vermehrt Hierarchien der Solidarität bei der Aufnahmebereitschaft gegenüber ukrainischen Geflüchteten im Vergleich zu der Aufnahmebereitschaft gegenüber Menschen, die beispielsweise aus Afghanistan, Syrien oder aus...
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- Interview
- International Law and the Political
On History, Responsibility and Critique
25.05.2022
Anne Orford
Sué González Hauck
Hendrik Simon
While in the first part of our conversation with Anne Orford we talked about the politics of "turning to history" in international legal scholarship, the second part is about possible...
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- Interview
- International Law and the Political
Turning to History – A Political Project?
24.05.2022
Anne Orford
Sué González Hauck
Hendrik Simon
In the last 30 years, a considerable part of international legal scholarship has discovered a renewed interest in the history of international law. But is this 'turn to history' perhaps...
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- Who Speaks International Law?
Who Speaks International Law?
30.08.2021
Sué González Hauck
Julian A. Hettihewa
The legal concept of jurisdiction refers to an actor’s competence to provide binding answers to legal questions. Questions of legal validity cannot be answered without examining the notion of jurisdiction....
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- Book Review
- Symposium
- The Justification of War and International Order
War! What Is It Good For?
31.05.2021
Sué González Hauck
Sebastian M. Spitra
Nesa Zimmermann
‘The history of war is also a history of its justification’ (p. 3) – this is the momentous starting point of the volume on The Justification of War and International...
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- Symposium
- The role of the ILC
The outside keeps creeping in: On the impossibility of engaging in purely doctrinal scholarship
23.02.2021
Danae Azaria’s article is a perfect example of a specific genre of international law scholarship: an ‘orthodox’ account that wishes to stay neatly within the lines that legal doctrine draws...
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- The role of the ILC
The International Law Commission as an interpreter of international law?
22.02.2021
Justine Batura
Sué González Hauck
Sophie Schuberth
The role of the International Law Commission (ILC), as the subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly charged with the promotion and codification of progressive development of international law, has...
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- Book Review
- Symposium
- The Battle for International Law
It’s the system, stupid!
29.12.2020
The title of The Battle for International Law evokes Rudolf von Jhering’s (“The Struggle / Battle for Law”). In this work, Jhering describes law as the product of struggle between...
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Summer Reading List of the #Ö
21.08.2020
Dana Schmalz
Sué González Hauck
Sebastian M. Spitra
In today’s second part of our Summer Reading List, Sué Gonzáles Hauck introduces Lea David’s ‘The Past Can’t Heal Us’, Dana Schmalz reviews Étienne Balibar’s ‘Secularism and Cosmopolitanism’, and Sebastian...
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- Book Review
- Feminist Engagement with International Law
Crisis and hypocrisy?
20.01.2020
Sué González Hauck
Isabel Lischewski
The Book Review Symposium on Feminist Engagement with International Law has been taking place against the backdrop of multiple crises. The crisis that has been dominating the news worldwide is...
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- Book Review
- Feminist Engagement with International Law
Intersectional feminist engagements with international law (Part II)
15.01.2020
In this second part of our interview with CIJ founder and executive director Emilia Roig, we move from general questions on intersectionality and the category ‘women’ to more specific questions...
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- Book Review
- Feminist Engagement with International Law
Intersectional feminist engagements with international law (Part I)
14.01.2020
Most contributions to our online review symposium argue in favor of an intersectional approach. Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term ‘intersectionality’ in 1989. Crenshaw is also the president of...
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- Book Review
- Feminist Engagement with International Law
Book Symposium on “Feminist Engagement with International Law”
08.01.2020
Sué González Hauck
Isabel Lischewski
“Feminist analysis is like friendship: an ongoing process of deepening complexity, interactive, contradictory, insightful, emotional, enlightening, challenging, conflicting”, Nancy O. Dowd wrote in her introduction to Feminist Legal Theory: An...
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The proportionality critique still stands
12.08.2015
A Rejoinder to Johann Ruben Leiss Johann Ruben Leiss critically remarks that the perception underlying my original post “overburdens proportionality balancing with assumptions and expectations that do not reflect its...
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A critique of proportionality balancing as a harmonization technique in international law
05.08.2015
Since the publication of the Fragmentation Report by the International Law Commission, international legal scholars and practitioners alike seem to be less concerned about the theoretical questions raised by the...
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