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‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. As Immi Tallgreen in her introduction to the volume Portraits of Women in International Law shows, the international lawyer is assumed as a neutral...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. The world of international legal negotiations is often seen as one of neutrality and technocracy – the art of bracketing, footnoting and carefully negotiating...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. This post examines the case of the Mothers of Acari and argues that it represents a pioneer maternal activism experience before the Inter-American Human...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Legal traditions are formed by deeply rooted assumptions about social realities. Who legally counts as a parent and what relationships count as kin are...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. While the term ‘mother’ is not strictly defined in international law, normative constructions of ‘motherhood’ (encompassing the socially constructed and prescribed expectations placed upon...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Everything has a value. Even those forms of labour that society persistently devalues, like motherhood and the caregiving work accompanying it. In contemporary societies,...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. “My crime is being a victim of domestic violence in a foreign country.” (Mothers' Voices, 2023) TW // Domestic violence The 1980 Hague Convention on...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Childbirth is a life-changing event in a woman’s life. Yet a significant proportion of women worldwide experience obstetric violence and mistreatment during childbirth at...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Reproductive violence, and, more broadly, gender-based violence, has long been a recurring feature of armed conflicts, authoritarian governance, and systemic discrimination, specifically and disproportionately...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. In a binary system, everything is either one thing or the other: A is never B. Gender scholars have long critiqued these dichotomies as...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. "This ‘positive’ sense of the word ‘liberty’ derives from the wish on the part of the individual to be his own master. I wish...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. International human rights bodies and courts have progressively characterized forced pregnancy as a form of gender-based violence that violates adult women’s rights to autonomy,...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. Parenthood can be a source of meaning, care and fulfillment for many. It is not, and need not be, for all. Across time and...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. ‘The most globally pervasive of the harmful cultural practices […] is the stereotyping of women exclusively as mothers and housewives in a way that...

‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler. On the occasion of International Women’s Day, celebrated on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog hosts the ‘Women in International Law’ symposium. Held each year...

On 2 December 2025, the White House published the National Security Strategy 2025. It contains the explicit invocation of a ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine. The US attack on Venezuela...

In May 2021, the cargo vessel X-Press Pearl caught fire off the coast of Sri Lanka. After burning for days before eventually sinking, the ship released 70- 75 billion plastic...

According to a widespread view among scholars, heads of state and heads of government are, and have long been, entitled to an absolute personal immunity from foreign jurisdiction (here, here and...

Despite two decades of jurisprudence and procedural refinement, the International Criminal Court (ICC or Court) continues to struggle with the length, complexity, and unpredictability of its proceedings. Much has been...

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The widely discussed (see here and here) legal basis for EU’s executive economic measures enshrined in Article 122(1) TFEU is commonly referred to as an “emergency clause”. Once again, this...

Since 15 April 2023, Sudan has experienced renewed hostilities, rooted in patterns of violence originating in the early twenty-first century. The current hostilities have quickly escalated into some of the...

What makes a lawyer a lawyer? The question sounds elementary, yet legal systems rarely confront it directly. Ordinarily, they need not to: the role is constituted through a familiar constellation...