Withdrawing from the ‚Withdrawal Doctrine‘
21.01.2021
Shortly after his election, President Joe Biden announced a number of issues he would tackle during his first days in office. Amongst others, this included reversing the effects of what...
Mehr lesen
Unlikely encounters of international law and technology
20.01.2021
Dana Schmalz
Valentin Jeutner
Valentin Jeutner’s book [l]ex machina: Unlikely encounters of international law and technology is a collection of international law poetry and international law visual art works that he created with the...
Mehr lesen
Call for Contributions: COVID-19 and “New” Human Rights
19.01.2021
Maria Antonia Tigre
Nesa Zimmermann
Anna-Julia Saiger
COVID-19 has spread all over the world, unequivocally reaching countries of very different socio-economic development. Yet, COVID-19 has unequally affected different groups and communities around the world and continues to...
Mehr lesen
South Korea’s denial of Japan’s immunity for international crimes
18.01.2021
The issue of sexual enslavement of Korean women during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945 has been called ‘the most emotional historical dispute’ between South...
Mehr lesen
- Interview
- Symposium
- Völkerrechtslunch
Völkerrechtslunch: Fünf Fragen an Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann, Universität Potsdam
18.01.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 25. Januar 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann der zweite Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe "Völkerrechtslunches". Er ist Professor für Öffentliches Recht, insb. Europa- und Völkerrecht...
Mehr lesen
Chaos averted or executive overreach?
15.01.2021
No “No-Deal Brexit”! On Christmas Eve 2020, a continent breathes a sigh of relief. The EU and the UK adopt the “EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement” (TCA) to resolve years...
Mehr lesen
Universal jurisdiction without universal outreach?
13.01.2021
Alexander Dünkelsbühler
Alexander Suttor
Lea Borger
Creating a framework for the prosecution of international crimes under universal jurisdiction is clearly worthwhile. But as the intervention by the German Constitutional Court (BVerfG) in the Syrian war crimes...
Mehr lesen
Trump’s deadly legacy?
11.01.2021
As lethal injection drugs are more and more difficult to obtain in the United States, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released an amendment to the federal execution protocols on November...
Mehr lesen
- Media
- Völkerrechtspodcast
#1 Das Interventionsverbot
08.01.2021
Sophie Schuberth
Erik Tuchtfeld
Isabel Lischewski
Philipp Eschenhagen
Warum wird der deutsche Außenminister von der chinesischen Regierung kritisiert, wenn er sich zu zivilgesellschaftlichen Protesten in Hongkong äußert? Und was hat Nicaragua schon wieder damit zu tun? In...
Mehr lesen
- Interview
- Symposium
- Völkerrechtslunch
Völkerrechtslunch: Fünf Fragen an Botschafterin Dr. Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger
05.01.2021
Lukas Kleinert
Matthias C. Kettemann
Am 11. Januar 2021 ist Dr. Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger der erste Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe "Völkerrechtslunches". Sie war 2020 Präsidentin des UN-Menschenrechtsrates und ist Ständige Vertreterin Österreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen in Genf. In insgesamt zwölf Online-Gesprächsterminen...
Mehr lesen
Völkerrechtslunch
05.01.2021
Beim „Völkerrechtslunch“ handelt sich um ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt des Völkerrechtsblogs, des Leibniz-Institutes für Medienforschung / Hans-Bredow-Institut, des Max-Planck-Institutes für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, sowie...
Mehr lesen
Looking back on a special year
04.01.2021
Following what has become a tradition, we start the new year on the blog with a little overview of the most read articles of the last year. While usually, this...
Mehr lesen
- Book Review
- Symposium
- The Battle for International Law
Decolonization as Dialectic Process in Law and Literature
31.12.2020
The Battle for International Law addresses the South-North contest over the content and structure of international law during the period of decolonization in the global South (1955-1975). Edited volumes are...
Mehr lesen
- Book Review
- Symposium
- The Battle for International Law
Worthy of the “increasingly global perspective”?
30.12.2020
Considering the debates on current backlashes against international law and the international rule of law, the matter of a peaceful ocean governance has come under pressure. This is due not...
Mehr lesen
- Book Review
- Symposium
- The Battle for International Law
It’s the system, stupid!
29.12.2020
The title of The Battle for International Law evokes Rudolf von Jhering’s (“The Struggle / Battle for Law”). In this work, Jhering describes law as the product of struggle between...
Mehr lesen
- Book Review
- Symposium
- The Battle for International Law
Water under the bridge?
28.12.2020
Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann’s ‘The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era’ (Battle for International Law) is an ambitious undertaking. The editors along with their...
Mehr lesen
The Battle for International Law
24.12.2020
This Book Symposium discusses "The Battle for International Law - South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era" by Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann.
Mehr lesen
- Book Review
- Symposium
- Interview
- The Battle for International Law
“‘The West’ might not exist anymore”
24.12.2020
Christian Pogies
Anna-Julia Saiger
Sebastian Spitra
This interview is the beginning of a book symposium on Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann´s edited volume on The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era...
Mehr lesen
Of crabbed age and bold youth
24.12.2020
Nadine Grünhagen
Rouven Diekjobst
On November 30th, news broke that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) had decided to fast-track a lawsuit submitted by six Portuguese children and adolescents (“the application”), supported by...
Mehr lesen
Avenues for victims of enforced disappearances in The Gambia
23.12.2020
In Africa, enforced disappearances occur in multiple situations such as during armed conflicts, in the fight against terrorism, in policing migration, or in dictatorial regimes. It has been used for...
Mehr lesen
99’000 disappeared and counting
23.12.2020
It is estimated that about 1.2 million Syrian citizens have been arrested and detained at some point since March 2011. During this period, an estimated number of 99 000 persons...
Mehr lesen
One man’s martyr is another man’s malignant nuclear missile designer
22.12.2020
‘Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh’, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2018. On 27 November 2020, the world remembered. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a man who Israel and the United States have...
Mehr lesen
Die zwei Körper des Königs: Das “Treiben” des thailändischen Monarchen in Bayern
22.12.2020
König Rama X. - oder doch Privatmann Maha Vajiralongkorn? Wer "residiert" da aus Sicht des Völkerrechts in Garmisch-Partenkirchen und Tutzing? Darf er aus dem bayerischen "Homeoffice" heraus Hoheitsakte erlassen? Und...
Mehr lesen
Video: 75 Jahre Vereinte Nationen
22.12.2020
Die Vereinten Nationen sind in diesem Jahr 75 geworden. Deshalb spricht Hannah Birkenkötter, LL.M., darüber, wie sich u.a. die institutionelle Struktur und die Arbeit der Vereinten Nationen über die letzten...
Mehr lesen