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Between War and Peace – On the Logic and Language of Imperial Violence. An Interview with Lauren Benton

13.09.2024

The differentiation between war and peace is central to the historiography of international relations and international law. In her new book “They Called it Peace”, Lauren Benton shows how violence...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Machiko Kanetake

13.09.2024

Machiko Kanetake Spyridoula (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...

Article

Let Those Without Sin Cast the First Stone

12.09.2024

Kiran Mohan Vazhapully

It has been said that “satellites don’t have mothers”. However, a nuclear-material-laden satellite detonating in space could have consequences that produce ripple effects on global peace and security. This threat...

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Interview
International Law and the Political

Towards Realistic Universalism?, or: Provincializing Realism! An Interview with Matthew Specter

11.09.2024

Matthew G. Specter Hendrik Simon

In his book The Atlantic Realists, Matthew Specter presents a genealogy of modern realism as a discourse between US-American and German intellectuals. An interview about the origins of the central...

Article

Bilateral Investment Treaties as a Tool for Global Climate Governance?

11.09.2024

Alistair Lieser

International Investment Law (IIL) has long been understood as counterproductive to adopting effective climate change policy. As IIL aims for predictable investment protection, International Climate Change Law (ICCL) requires flexibility...

Article

Is It Time?

10.09.2024

Paulina Rundel

While the UN and almost every region around the world have explicitly recognized the right to a healthy environment, there is one region that still lacks this right: Europe. But...

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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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What #Ö Read during the Mid-Year Break (Part I)

09.09.2024

Polina Kulish Cathérine Van de Graaf Fatima Mehmood

Finding inspiration (under the sun) This year, we decided to document some of our readings during the mid-year break and share it on the blog. Although the places where our...

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

Contrapuntal Readings of/in/through International Law

02.08.2024

Michelle Staggs Kelsall

Fugue Liberal Legal Order Re:dux, Re:boot, Re:turn. “The liberal international legal order is dead. Long live the liberal international legal order!” This, it seems, remains the paradox of our contemporary...

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

Is “Dis/ordering International Law” the Panacea to the Many Frustrations Found in Critical International Legal Scholarship?

01.08.2024

Amaka Vanni

re:sources Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Sabanoh Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (mehr …)

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#39 Targeted Killings: Von Tiergarten bis Teheran

06.09.2024

Erik Tuchtfeld Isabel Lischewski Daniela Rau

In den letzten Monaten häufen sich Berichten von targeted killings hochrangiger militärischer und politischer Führungspersonen außerhalb unmittelbarer Kampfgebiete, wie die Tötung von Fuad Schukr, einem Hisbollah-Kommandeur, in Beirut oder...

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Post-Pandemic Reform Discussions in International Health Law: The Reform of the International Health Regulations and the Proposal for the new WHO Pandemic Agreement

28.07.2024

Anika Klafki

The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated that international cooperation to combat pandemics is insufficient. The World Health Organisation has therefore recently reformed the International Health Regulations. The World Health Assembly...

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Saving the Climate in Strasbourg? – A Critical Look at the European Court of Human Rights’ Climate Cases

07.07.2024

Marko Milanovic

On 9th April 2024, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights issued decisions in three significant climate change cases. In this edition of the Current Issues in...

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#38 Smarte Kriege: Künstliche Intelligenz in bewaffneten Konflikten

05.07.2024

Erik Tuchtfeld Isabel Lischewski Philipp Eschenhagen

Der Gaza-Krieg hat den Einsatz Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in bewaffneten Konflikten erneut in die öffentliche Debatte gebracht. Berichte, dass die israelische Armee zur Identifizierung von Hamas-Terroristen Systeme namens Lavender, Where’s...

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The ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and the Law of the Sea – What follows from the Qualification of GHG Emissions as Marine Pollution?

10.06.2024

Nele Matz-Lück

The ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and the Law of the Sea from 21 May 2024 is a landmark decision. Not only does the ITLOS define GHG emissions from...

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#37 Waffenexporte vor Gericht

07.06.2024

Philipp Eschenhagen Isabel Lischewski Erik Tuchtfeld

Das VG Berlin beschäftigt sich dieser Tage intensiv mit dem Humanitären Völkerrecht anlässlich einer Klage gegen deutsche Waffenexporte nach Israel. Philipp Eschenhagen spricht im Interview mit Alexander Schwarz vom European...

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Mexico v Ecuador/Ecuador v Mexico: With Diplomatic Asylum Back before the ICJ, Can Legal Certainty on This Divisive Issue Finally Be Won?

30.05.2024

Laura Hughes-Gerber

On the evening of 5th April 2024, Ecuadorian police forcibly entered the Mexican embassy in Quito and arrested Jorge Glas, former Vice-President of Ecuador (2013-2017), who had entered the embassy...

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Der UN-Ausschuss zur Beseitigung rassistischer Diskriminierung

24.05.2024

Mehrdad Payandeh

Der Vortrag stellt Organisation und Tätigkeit des UN-Ausschuss zur Beseitigung rassistischer Diskriminierung vor. Dem Ausschuss, dem ältesten der zehn UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies, kommt die Aufgabe zu, die Einhaltung...

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Die deutsche Staatsräson auf dem Prüfstand – Deutschland vor dem IGH

12.05.2024

Andreas von Arnauld Gundula Maxwill Lilo Bärbel Rösch

Am 1. März 2024 hat Nicaragua beim Internationalen Gerichtshof (IGH) eine Klage gegen Deutschland eingereicht. Die Vorwürfe wiegen schwer: Deutschland verstoße durch seine Unterstützung Israels in Bezug auf den Krieg...

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