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The 2025 ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change at ¶299 holds that “notification and consultation are particularly warranted when an activity significantly affects collective efforts to address harm to the climate...

Fourteen years ago, the International Court of Justice, in Jurisdictional Immunities, affirmed State immunity even for cases of jus cogens violations or human rights abuses. Yet, victims of State-caused harm continue...

On 31 July 2025, the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht or ‘BVerfG’) delivered a decision that revived interest in the German Federal Court of Justice’s (Bundesgerichtshof or ‘BGH’) ruling of 12...

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Consider the following hypothetical: State A exercises jurisdiction and control over space object Ares II, which is damaged by space debris. State A seeks to attribute the damage by space...

 Gibt es ein Menschenrecht­ auf Demokratie? So ungefähr lautet eine der Fragen, die Guatemala im Dezember 2024 dem Inter-Amerikanischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte v­orlegte und über die im März 2026...

In March 2026, the Paris Judicial Court issued a landmark decision in the Yves Rocher case, marking one of the first instances in which a parent company was held liable...

On 2 February 2026, Elon Musk confirmed that SpaceX has acquired the billionaire’s artificial intelligence (AI) start-up xAI with the aim to ‘form an “innovation engine” putting AI, rockets, space-based...

Whenever incidents surrounding naval operations, particularly naval warfare, come up in recent discussions, their lack of impact on legal development tends to be almost lamented. In this regard, the early...

The road towards the Paris Agreement was potholed, full of controversies and antagonizing positions of States. Ultimately, the normative value of some provisions of the Convention was left unclear (Rajamani,...

This article is also available in English. لم يكن من المفاجئ أن يصادق الكنيست، في 30 آذار 2026، على قانون يجيز فرض عقوبة الإعدام على الفلسطينيين. كما لم تكن مصادفة...

هذه المقالة متوفرة أيضاً باللغة العربية.   It came as little surprise that the Knesset, on March 30, 2026, approved a law authorizing the use of capital punishment for Palestinians....

The establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine constitutes a significant moment in the development of international criminal law. Designed to address the International Criminal...

On 20 February 2026, the United States (‘US’) Supreme Court held in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (‘IEEPA’) does not authorise the President...

In its judgments in Seyhan and Others, Karslı and Others and Bozyokuş and Others v. Türkiye, published on 16 December 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court or...

Now twelve years ago, Völkerrechtsblog was founded with the goal of using the tools provided by the internet to challenge existing publication formats for international legal scholarship. While books, journal...

“The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the UN and what it means clearly. Everything will...

AI regulation is splitting across major jurisdictions. This post examines divergent AI regulations across jurisdictions, particularly in the EU, US, and China, and how such divergence generates compliance costs, liability uncertainty, and...

The first part of this post articulated non-violent evacuation operations (NVEOs) as a specific legal category of rescue operations that are defined negatively – as those rescues which do not...

In 2011, the UK, Germany and (seemingly) the Netherlands launched targeted rescue operations to rescue their nationals (before the passing of UNSC Resolution 1973, which authorised “all necessary measures [short...

In The Pathology of Plenty, Lys Kulamadayil unpacks how the resource curse has come to inflict postcolonial countries and examines international law’s complicities in sustaining this socio-economic and political predicament....

On 8 March 2026, the sky over Tehran showed almost apocalyptic scenes. Towering flames rising from fuel depots and refineries after the US-Israel-led strikes on Iranian oil infrastructure were seen...

“We tried to structure this meeting like a proper board meeting, like we do in the private sector, where we have all the preparation, we get the right people together,...

The US-Israeli attacks against Iran, launched on 28 February 2026, have plunged the Middle East into a dangerous and expanding conflict – triggering a broader factual and normative wildfire. What...