Out of Sight, out of Mind?
On June 14th 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued an interim measure against the United Kingdom, effectively halting a deportation flight at the 11th hour that would...
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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
A Framework Agreement in Business and Human Rights?
24.06.2022
Surya Deva
Claire Methven O'Brien
Michael Riegner
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Justine Batura
We are pleased to conclude our Symposium with a special treat for our readers: a double interview with two renowned scholars, Surya Deva and Claire Methven O’Brien, who are rather emblematic for different approaches...
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Beyond the Ritual of Treaties as Gestures
24.06.2022
Larry Catá Backer
A framework convention approach to the regulatory management of the human rights and sustainability effects of economic activity holds much promise. Defined as an international instrument establishing a general governance...
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Resisting Corporate Capture
23.06.2022
Flávia do Amaral Vieira
In 2014, the Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 26/9, which established, for the first time in the history of the United Nations, an intergovernmental body charged with the responsibility to...
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How to Avoid Politicised Monitoring?
23.06.2022
Nils-Hendrik Grohmann
It is one thing to draft international laws that protect individuals, but quite another to ensure their implementation and compliance by State parties. Taking into consideration existing framework conventions, particularly...
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Oops! They Did It Again
When they finally joined negotiations on the proposed business and human rights (BHR) treaty, the USA immediately called for ‘exploring alternative[s]’ to the current draft, including a potential framework convention. In...
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Bounded Rationality, Metonymy, Humility
22.06.2022
Claire Methven O'Brien
History does not stop, a truth of which recent years have provided a gruesome reminder. Trajectories of globalising production and exchange that were widely perceived as uninterruptable have, since 2019,...
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Caught between Principles and Perfectionism
One of the driving forces behind the movement towards a legally binding instrument on business and human rights (BHR) has been the need for effective remedies for victims of corporate...
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The Short Arm of the Law and the Long Arm of Economics
21.06.2022
Jonathan Klaaren
How does the idea of Business and Human Rights framework agreements (BHR framework agreements) look from an African perspective and – more specifically from one aware of the growing impact...
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Unpacking the Potentials of a Framework Agreement on Business and Human Rights
In a context of mounting evidence of adverse impacts of business activities on human rights and the environment, the Business and Human Rights (BHR) legal framework has gained momentum in...
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Framing Business & Human Rights?
20.06.2022
Justine Batura
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Michael Riegner
Business and human rights (BHR), as an emerging field of modern law and legal research, is at an inflection point. On the one hand, its most prominent set of norms,...
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Framing Business & Human Rights?
With a view to regulating business in the field of human rights, an Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIGWG) has been...
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The Dangers of Hacktivism
15.06.2022
Stephan Koloßa
The Russian Federation (Russia) has turned almost the whole Western world against it by attacking and invading Ukraine. While States are intensively debating about the strictest yet legally sound ways...
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Cyber-Enabled Disinformation and International Law
14.06.2022
William Letrone
Cyberspace undeniably made our world smaller. But the resulting state of interconnectivity came at a price; a greater vulnerability to foreign influences and interferences. From a legal perspective, the capacity...
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Suspending Belarus and Russia from the World Bank and EBRD
13.06.2022
Francesco Seatzu
Paolo Vargiu
On 2 March 2022, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (hereinafter the Bank or the World Bank) issued a Joint Statement announcing the suspension of their...
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International Law and Class Dynamics
10.06.2022
Umut Özsu
Hendrik Simon
In the face of massive crises and revealed ambiguities of the liberal international order, Marxist thought has experienced a significant revival in recent years—also in (international) legal thought. But what...
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- International Law and the Political
Revolutions Are Not Made by Laws
09.06.2022
Umut Özsu
Hendrik Simon
In the face of massive crises and revealed ambiguities of the liberal international order, Marxist thought has experienced a significant revival in recent years—also in (international) legal thought. But what...
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Editorial #18: On the Summer of Our Discontent
08.06.2022
Isabel Lischewski
It has been a long, long spring, and by now we have all learned to not count on a “Sommerloch” to allow us to catch our collective breath. Yet, while...
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Summoning Solidarity Through Sanctions
While the EU, US, and allies are increasingly imposing sanctions against Russia for its use of force in Ukraine, not as many followers have been attracted to join the sanctioning...
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Turning the Tide
07.06.2022
Vivien Wefringhaus
By 2100 sea level will rise between 0.43 m and 0.84 m due to climate change. Doesn't sound like much to you? Then imagine living on an island with an...
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#18 Völkerrecht und Verfassung
03.06.2022
Erik Tuchtfeld
Sophie Schuberth
Isabel Lischewski
Philipp Eschenhagen
Die deutsche Verfassung ist „völkerrechtsfreundlich“. Doch was heißt das eigentlich genau? Isabel erklärt, wie das Völkerrecht in Deutschland Wirkung entfaltet und was der Unterschied zwischen Monismus und Dualismus ist. Erik...
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Embracing Fluidity: Dynamic Approaches to Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
02.06.2022
Bastiaan Klerk
Marine protected areas (MPAs) in international waters (i.e. beyond the 12 nautical mile territorial seas) are in virtually all instances static, in the sense that their boundaries and measures are,...
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What Do We Do with the Non-‘White, Blonde, Blue-Eyed’ Asylum Seekers?
02.06.2022
Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni
Following the Russian invasion, it is estimated that over 6 million persons have fled Ukraine. Although this number is significantly higher than any other refugee wave reaching the EU since...
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The Birth of Global Environmentalism
50 years ago, at least three events occurred that had a major and lasting impact on the (legal) relationship between human and nature. The release of the photograph “The Blue...
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