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Closing Doors to Investor-State Dispute Settlement

02.10.2023
Erick Guapizaca
Global South countries have often asserted that Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) ensnare them, culminating in manifestations of neocolonialism, where their populations endure poverty while foreign corporations profit from their vast...
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Chatting with Tamsin Phillipa Paige

29.09.2023
Tamsin Phillipa Paige Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni
Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Tamsin Phillipa Paige, and through the following questions, we will try...
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Prohibition of Racial Discrimination is not Enough

27.09.2023
Tobias Wirthle
On 27 June 2023, 17-year-old Nahel M. was fatally shot by police during a vehicle stop in Paris, sparking nationwide riots. On the basis of video evidence, a number of...
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The “Responsibility to and for Progress” in International Law

22.09.2023
Martin Schwamborn
How do we achieve a responsible approach to progress and its consequences? This old question of humankind has been given new momentum by recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI): Numerous...
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Agenda 2030 Between the Ideology of Progress and the Reality of Poverty and Exploitation

21.09.2023
Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis
Adopted in 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development promises to eliminate poverty and promote sustainable development, peace, and prosperity for all by 2030. The Agenda introduced 17 Sustainable Development...
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Towards a Feminist Interpretation of the ECHR’s Provisions on Access to Abortion

21.09.2023
Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni
While applications regarding the incompatibility of deadly restrictive abortion policies with the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) are piling up before the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’, ‘Court’),...
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Towards an (Im)possible Polis: Legal Imagination and State Continuity

20.09.2023
Alex Green
Thomas Baty once quipped that ‘[i]nternational law, it is generally agreed, has something to do with states’. By opening The Canons of International Law in this manner, Baty draws our...
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Border Dialectics: Progress, Regress, and Resistance

20.09.2023
Giulia Raimondo
Received knowledge about the protection of migrants in international law tells a story of progress. A story of expanded refugee definitions, complementary protection, and extraterritorial obligations. Yet a counternarrative has...
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Locating Progress in the European Convention on Human Rights

19.09.2023
Jens T. Theilen
Progress may seem to be a temporal concept. That is certainly how it is usually understood in the literature on progress and international law. Statements of progress are said, for...
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Progress and Linear Time: How to Rethink International Law to Account for Ecologically Precarious Presents?

19.09.2023
Eliana Cusato
We live in the ‘era of global boiling’, says UN Secretary-General Guterres, as July 2023 set to be the hottest month on record. While the ecological conditions of planetary life...
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Keynote: Searching for Progress in International Law

23.09.2023
As the conclusion of the online symposium on “Progress and International Law”, we welcome you to the livestream of the keynote speech by Hilary Charlesworth on “Searching for Progress in...
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General Principles Formed within the International Legal System: Theoretical Debates and Practical Ramifications in Light the Work of the ILC

27.07.2023
Matina Papadaki
This episode of the Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen focusses on the work of the International Law Commission (ILC) regarding general principles. The ILC's work on general principles of law identified two categories...
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Land Grabbing, Human Rights and Multinational Corporations – Treating Human Rights Differently

27.07.2023
Jean-Claude N. Ashukem
This episode of the Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen examines the parallel developments of the United Nations Draft Resolution on Business and Human Rights and the African Commission on People’s and Human Rights...
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Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Peacekeepers

20.07.2023
András Hárs
This episode of the Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen focuses on crimes of sexual nature. Specifically, those not alien to the United Nations peace operations as they have been present since the 1960’s....
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Völkerrecht und Nationalsozialismus (Teil I)

10.07.2023
Viktoria Loukia Moissiadis Isabel Lischewski Sophie Schuberth Erik Tuchtfeld Philipp Eschenhagen
In welchem Verhältnis stehen das Völkerrecht und Nationalsozialismus zueinander? Welche Völkerrechtler spielten im Nationalsozialismus eine Rolle? Welche Einfallstore für nationalsozialistisches Gedankengut gab es im Völkerrecht? Und wie ging es nach dem...
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Cyber-Attacks and the Use of Force

07.06.2023
Iris Anastasiadu
This episode of the "Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen" with the speaker Iris Anastasiadou will focus on the failure of the very core of the international legal framework to adequately address cyber-attacks, especially...
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#28 Menschenrechtsausschüsse

02.06.2023
Philipp Eschenhagen Isabel Lischewski Erik Tuchtfeld Sophie Schuberth
Wir werfen einen Blick auf die sogenannten Menschenrechtsausschüsse oder menschenrechtlichen Vertragsorgane. Dazu zählen insgesamt neun Ausschüsse, u.a. CCPR, CESCR, CEDAW, CERD und viele mehr. Wie unterscheiden sie sich von den...
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Compensation for Damages during Armed Conflict

24.05.2023
Steven van de Put
This episode of the “Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen” with the speaker Steven van de Put focuses on the increasing practice of states compensating individuals during armed conflict. The presenter highlights specifically the...
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Contemporary Sanctions as a Challenge to the Doctrine of Jurisdiction

10.05.2023
Nathanael Tilahun
Contemporary sanctions based on extraterritorial control of national products and infrastructure such as currencies, high-tech products, and cyberspace are stretching established doctrines of states’ jurisdiction under international law. The presenter...
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