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The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) with its 55 member states (including the EU’s except for Italy) is the only energy specific international investment agreement. The treaty is increasingly put under...

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A Straight Line Towards the Sea

18.10.2021

Christoph Saake

Almost to the day six months after the public hearings took place (for a comment see here), the International Court of Justice delivered its judgment in the case of Maritime...

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Watch Your Facebook Comment Section!

15.10.2021

Frederic Kupsch

Recently, in Sanchez v France, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) swung the door towards social media users’ liability wide open, allowing not only politicians, as in the...

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Remedies for Bad Faith Violations

13.10.2021

Başak Çalı

In this blog post, I discuss how the Committee of Ministers (CoM) has developed the Article 18 remedial jurisprudence in the field of individual measures through its monitoring of the...

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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

11.10.2021

Marco Vöhringer

Last year, the Netherlands presented their comments on the International Law Commission (ILC)’s Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms of General International Law (jus cogens). The Dutch report, which is set...

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The End of Indicators

06.10.2021

Michael Riegner

On 16 September 2021, the World Bank unceremonially buried one of its most controversial projects, the Doing Business ranking: in a tight-lipped statement, the Bank announced that “management has taken the...

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Editorial #10: On Equal Access to the International Legal Profession

04.10.2021

Justine Batura

The interns' room at Palais Wilson, hosting most of the UN's human rights activities, is a pleasant room with a gorgeous view of Lake Geneva. In contrast, the entry door...

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Re-rethinking the Amicable Settlement of Inter-State ECHR Disputes

30.09.2021

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

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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Is History a Good Legal Argument?

24.09.2021

Lucia Leontiev Punsara Amarasinghe

It has become a frequent occurrence for Russia’s top leaders to write about their views on the western approaches to international law and international relations concerning Russia or the Post-Soviet...

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From Achmea to Komstroy

22.09.2021

Johannes Tropper

In a recent landmark decision Moldova v. Komstroy, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 2 September 2021 found intra-EU investment arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty...

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Miriam Nomanni ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena und arbeitet derzeit an ihrer Dissertation „Der Strafvollzug an Verurteilten nach dem Völkerstrafgesetzbuch“. Zu ihren Forschungsgebieten gehören das Völkerstrafrecht und seine Tribunale sowie die universelle Gerichtsbarkeit und der Strafvollzug im Zusammenhang mit internationalen Verbrechen.

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# 10 Kritische Perspektiven auf das Völkerrecht

01.10.2021

Erik Tuchtfeld Isabel Lischewski Philipp Eschenhagen Sophie Schuberth

Warum ist unser (Völker-)Recht so, wie es ist? Welche Machtverhältnisse begünstigen bestimmte Auslegungen einzelner Normen? Kritische Perspektiven auf das Völkerrecht hinterfragen den Kontext von Normen und ihre Entstehungsgeschichte. Weil...

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Livestream: Ecocide – Legal Revolution or Symbolism?

23.09.2021

Jan-Phillip Graf Romina Pezzot Philippe Sands Paola Gaeta Kai Ambos Jorge E. Viñuales

In June 2021 the first legal definition of the international crime of ‘ecocide’ was proposed by an Independent Expert Panel. Join leading international experts in the discussion about its potential...

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Rule of Law Rules # 9: “Legal Tech is Still Risky Because of Humans”

23.09.2021

“Rule of Law Rules” is the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s podcast on Rule of Law in the age of digitalization. The host of the podcast is Dr Angela Daly, a socio-legal scholar of...

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Livestream: Heidelberger Salon digital – „Welt(un)ordnung und Internationales Recht“

21.09.2021

Unmittelbar vor der Wahl zum 20. Deutschen Bundestag werden Professor Dr. Carlo Masala (Universität der Bundeswehr, München), Dr. Christian Marxsen (MPIL/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Dr. Carolyn Moser (MPIL) und Professorin Dr....

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Livestream: Who Speaks International Law?

04.09.2021

Today at 8:45 am CEST, we will livestream Prof. Dr. Sundhya Pahuja and Prof. Dr. Shaun McVeigh's keynote here. They will engage in a conversation on the theme of the...

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Livestream: Race, Borders and Jurisdiction

03.09.2021

Today at 5 pm CEST, we will livestream Professor Achiume’s keynote ‘Race, Borders and Jurisdiction’ here. This keynote is part of this year’s AjV-DGIR conference on ‘Jurisdiction – Who Speaks International...

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#9 Brennendes Öl

03.09.2021

Sophie Schuberth Isabel Lischewski Philipp Eschenhagen Erik Tuchtfeld

Ist im Krieg wirklich alles erlaubt? Zumindest nicht, wenn es nach dem sogenannten humanitären Völkerrecht geht. Das regelt nämlich - insbesondere in den Genfer Konventionen -, wie unnötiges Leiden...

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Rule of Law Rules #8: „Access to Justice is in my View a Two-Sided Coin“

26.08.2021

“Rule of Law Rules” is the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s podcast on Rule of Law in the age of digitalization. The host of the podcast is Dr Angela Daly, a socio-legal scholar of...

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#8 Seevölkerrecht

06.08.2021

Philipp Eschenhagen Erik Tuchtfeld Isabel Lischewski Sophie Schuberth

Sommer, Strand und – Überfischung? Zur Urlaubssaison widmen wir uns einer der Geburtsstätten des Völkerrechts, dem Meer. Isabel erklärt die Basics des Seevölkerrechts und warum die Freiheit auf hoher See...

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