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The Person Behind the Academic

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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Forcing Women to Deprioritize Their Health?

30.03.2023

Mara Ebbers

Six of the sixteen countries in the world, which prohibit abortions under all circumstances, are located in Middle America. Yet it remains unclear whether absolute bans on abortions are compatible...

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When A Princess Causes a Nightmare

27.03.2023

Sonja Susann Schäfer

On February 28, 2023, the tanker Princess Empress sank off the coast of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines as a result of engine damage. Since then, the loaded 800,000 liters of industrial...

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Participants’ Reflections on the 2023 Jessup German National Rounds

24.03.2023

Angelina Georgousi Eveline Guschtschin Nina Harbecke Patrick Beer

On 4 March 2023 the German National Rounds of the world’s biggest and most prestigious moot court competition, the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court, came to an end....

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Return to the Jessup

23.03.2023

Anna Hoffmann

It’s great to be back. Like so many things, the Jessup competition had to move online due to the pandemic but this year the Jessup is back in person. Undoubtedly...

Cooperation Cherry-Picking at the ICC

21.03.2023

Franka Pues

On the 8th of March 2023, the Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a decision on the interim release of Maxime Mokom. While it held that...

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Chatting with Vasuki Nesiah

17.03.2023

Vasuki Nesiah Spyridoula (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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New Ways to Deal With Old Crimes?

15.03.2023

Mara Ebbers Anna Müller

Do countries take responsibility for grave violations of current international law committed in the past? This question has once again been raised in the negotiations between Germany and Namibia over...

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Editorial #26: Springing into March

14.03.2023

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

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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Post-COP27 Thoughts on Greening the Cape Town Convention

13.03.2023

Nikolas Klausmann

In June 2022, the governing council of UNIDROIT, a Rome-based intergovernmental organization with the objective to harmonize international private law across countries through uniform rules, discussed proposals for their upcoming...

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13th Government Law College International Law Summit Ukraine?! – Hintergründe und Diskussionen The Construction and De(con)struction of Rights in America: Practice and Anti-Practice from Madison to Trump The Law of Treaties as Applied to Private International Law Quelles limites aux droits nationaux et européens de la consommation ? German Angst: facing colonial reverberations and legal repercussions Gender, Politics and the Legal Profession with Dr. Barbara Giovanna Bello and The Forum for Gender, Law and Policy, University of Haifa Book Launch: Research Handbook on EU Migration and Asylum Law

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#25 Putin vor Gericht: Mit welchen völkerstrafrechtlichen Mitteln?

03.03.2023

Philipp Eschenhagen Erik Tuchtfeld Isabel Lischewski Sophie Schuberth

Wir nehmen die Diskussionen rund um eine völkerstrafrechtliche Verantwortung russischer Akteure für den Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine auf. Konkret: Auf welcher Ebene, national oder international, vor welchem Gericht könnten Putin...

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Of Parties, Third Parties, and Treaty Interpretation: Ukraine v. Russia before the European Court of Human Rights

15.02.2023

Isabella Risini Justine Batura

An unprecedented number of member States have requested permission to intervene in the case Ukraine v. Russia (X) before the European Court of Human Rights. The significance that can be...

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Woman, Life, Freedom – Women’s Rights and Revolution(s) in Iran

15.02.2023

Farnush Ghadery

The ongoing revolution in Iran started with the murder of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian Jina Mahsa Amini, who was violently detained, brutalised, and killed by the morality police for not sufficiently...

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Von den völkerrechtlichen Fesseln befreit? Zur Rolle des Rechts in der „neuen Weltunordnung“

06.02.2023

Heike Krieger

In der ersten Francis Lieber Lecture on International Law stellt Prof. Dr. Heike Krieger die Frage, ob sich „eine realistische Politik für das 21. Jahrhundert von der Fessel des selbstverordneten...

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#24 Nothing to hide? Das Recht auf Privatsphäre im Digitalen Zeitalter

03.02.2023

Erik Tuchtfeld Sophie Schuberth Isabel Lischewski Philipp Eschenhagen

„Niemand darf willkürlichen oder rechtswidrigen Eingriffen in sein Privatleben [...] und seinen Schriftverkehr […] ausgesetzt werden“, so steht es in Artikel 17 des UN-Zivilpakts. Doch welche Bedeutung hat dieses Recht...

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The Role of Blogs

19.12.2022

International law is, by definition, a global discipline. Yet in practice, scholarly discourse often remains hampered by the borders of national publishing cultures and fora. The voices that are most...

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Open Educational Resources, Digitalization and Education in International Law

19.12.2022

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Publishing Infrastructure and the Internationalization of International Law

19.12.2022

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Due Diligence and the High Seas

14.12.2022

Tony Cabus

There has been a rapid growth of interest in due diligence, especially in the fields of environmental law and the law of the sea. Yet, confusion seems to surround this...

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Chatting with Marko Milanovic

Forcing Women to Deprioritize Their Health?

When A Princess Causes a Nightmare

Participants’ Reflections on the 2023 Jessup German National Rounds

Return to the Jessup

Cooperation Cherry-Picking at the ICC

Chatting with Vasuki Nesiah

New Ways to Deal With Old Crimes?

Editorial #26: Springing into March

Post-COP27 Thoughts on Greening the Cape Town Convention

#25 Putin vor Gericht: Mit welchen völkerstrafrechtlichen Mitteln?

Of Parties, Third Parties, and Treaty Interpretation: Ukraine v. Russia before the European Court of Human Rights

Woman, Life, Freedom – Women’s Rights and Revolution(s) in Iran

Von den völkerrechtlichen Fesseln befreit? Zur Rolle des Rechts in der „neuen Weltunordnung“

#24 Nothing to hide? Das Recht auf Privatsphäre im Digitalen Zeitalter

The Role of Blogs

Open Educational Resources, Digitalization and Education in International Law

Publishing Infrastructure and the Internationalization of International Law

Due Diligence and the High Seas

Women in International Law Vol. 2

Racial Profiling in Germany

The World Bank’s Lawyers

Alle Macht den Staaten?

How Joining a Majorette Group Can Lead You to Being Denied International Protection

Forced Marriage of Afghan Girls and the Bifurcated Approach for Defining Persecution