Space Data as ‘Investment’ in International Investment Law
Outer space is now a dynamic, commercialized arena, prompting economic and legal systems to reassess how value is defined beyond Earth. The rise of private actors has driven new value...
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Dracarys and Law
11.06.2025
Davit Khachatryan
Fiction constructs speculative worlds where the meaning of restraint, responsibility, and legitimacy can be tested and revealed. Focusing on the destruction of King’s Landing in Season 8, Episode 5 of...
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The Hague and Europe’s Last Dictatorship
10.06.2025
Mayya Chaykina
Aleksandr Lukashenko’s regime has been in power for over 30 years. Belarusians who have fled the country report years of systematic repression, persecution, and inhuman treatment by authorities. These accounts...
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#47 Hungersnot: Belagerungen und Blockaden im Lichte des humanitären Völkerrechts
06.06.2025
Rouven Diekjobst
Isabel Lischewski
Daniela Rau
Die ohnehin prekäre humanitäre Situation im Gazastreifen hat sich seit Anfang März 2025 noch einmal verschärft. Israel sah sich bereits seit Oktober 2023 mehrfach dem Vorwurf ausgesetzt, durch die Blockade...
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Deutschland im DämMerzustand?
05.06.2025
Niklas von Estorff
Lukas Herich
Die Regierung der 21. Legislaturperiode, bestehend aus einer Koalition von CDU, CSU und SPD, wurde am 06.05. vereidigt und Friedrich Merz zum 10. Bundeskanzler gewählt. Die Besuche in Warschau, Paris...
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Thin Line Between Protection and Permission
02.06.2025
Shreya Margale
On April 1, 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered a landmark ruling in Ships Waste Oil Collector B.V. and Others v. the Netherlands. They held that the Netherlands’...
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Editorial #45: Reflection on Identity in Light of the Canadian Elections
30.05.2025
Narek Chakhalyan
On 28 April 2025, Canadians made their way to the urns to elect their next government. Despite the many crises that Canadian society faces, such as the housing crisis, the...
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Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Accord Explained
The global reserve currency is weakening, US stock prices have fallen dramatically, and global growth is slowing significantly. The reason for this is the new US trade strategy: imposing high...
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Unchecked Industrialization, Environmental Degradation, Risk Society, Spatial Justice
Introduction Recently, the Supreme Court of India took suo motu cognizance with respect to the deforestation activities being undertaken in the Kancha Gachibowli Forest, Telangana. Shrubs and bushes were felled,...
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Statement of over a Hundred International Academics and Lawyers Writing to Law & Society Institute (LSI), Humboldt University Berlin Seeking Reflection on Lack of Academic Integrity Re: Gaza
The following text is published in the category of "Open Letters and Statements". Law & Society Institute, Humboldt University Berlin Repeatedly Violates Academic Integrity by Inviting Israeli Supreme Court Judge...
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Hiding in Plain Sight
27.05.2025
Jan-Phillip Graf
Continuing an ongoing trend, 2025 has so far been a challenging year for international refugee law. In the United States, the new administration began what it promised to become the...
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EU Steps Forward
22.05.2025
Yahel Gerlic
Rimon Weiss
Corporate accountability is increasingly recognized as essential in addressing the twin triple planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. As transnational corporations (TNCs) dominate global supply chains, their...
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Trump’s Tariff Plan
21.05.2025
Poorva Sharma
Vasujit Dubey
In February 2025, US President Donald Trump announced the Fair and Reciprocal Trade Plan (hereinafter ‘F&RP’), a comprehensive overhaul of US trade policy aimed at ‘rebalancing’ what he views as...
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Between a Soft and a Hard Place
20.05.2025
Cristina Elena Popa Tache
Cătălin-Silviu Săraru
International financial governance is characterised by an increased proliferation of non-binding instruments (‘soft law’). The European Union (EU) stands out as an influential actor in this trend, both through the...
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Sacred Days, Silent Guns?
19.05.2025
Rouven Diekjobst
The relationship between religion and international humanitarian law (IHL) has been the subject of academic study for decades: Rules of IHL are reflected in the teachings of most if not...
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Chatting with Alejandro Rodiles
Behind every academic contribution lies a personal journey – of questions asked, challenges embraced, and convictions tested. In this edition of ‘The Person behind the Academic,’ we had the pleasure of speaking...
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The Paris Agreement’s Crucial Test
15.05.2025
Harsh Mahaseth
Aryaman Keshav
Humans survive. Whether it is pandemics, volcanic eruptions, or the ice age; humans endure and survive. With the effects of global warming at the door, human survival is once again...
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The UK Supreme Court’s Unworkable Sex Definitions in For Women Scotland
14.05.2025
Manon Beury
Lena Holzer
Electra Zacharias
On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court decided in the case of For Women Scotland Ltd v. The Scottish Ministers that the term “woman” in the Equality Act 2010...
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India, the Indus Waters Treaty, and the Limits of Good Faith
14.05.2025
Parthiban Babu
Sai Ramani Garimella
The terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on April 22, 2025, reportedly perpetrated by militants operating from Pakistani territory, has reopened a long-familiar fault line in South Asian politics. Yet...
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The New European Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer
On March 12, 2025, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe unanimously adopted the European Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer (‘the Convention’). This instrument...
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From Denial to Accountability
12.05.2025
Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni
Mariana Gkliati
A long-denied reality by the Greek authorities is now on court record. Through its judgement in A.R.E. v Greece the European Court of Human Rights (Court) has confirmed the longstanding...
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Will the Swiss Grandmas Travel the World?
12.05.2025
Hannah Leoni Stahl
Aylin Yildiz Noorda
Liz Hicks
Anticipation has run high for what some call the KlimaSeniorinnen ruling delivered on 9 April 2024. While it is too early to definitively assess the KlimaSeniorinnen ruling’s impact on law...
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#46 Internet für Alle? Debatten über den Internetzugang als Menschenrecht
09.05.2025
Jasmin Wachau
Rouven Diekjobst
Isabel Lischewski
In den letzten Jahren ist die Zahl der Internetnutzer:innen weltweit kontinuierlich gewachsen, während vielen Menschen der Zugang zum Netz nach wie vor verwehrt bleibt. Gleichzeitig berichten zahlreiche Regionen von...
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Trumps ökonomische Erpressung
09.05.2025
Vincent Holzhauer
Die Zollpolitik der USA unter Donald Trump war schon 2018 ein rechtspolitischer Stresstest. In der öffentlichen und juristischen Diskussion dominierte damals die Bewertung im Rahmen des Welthandelsrechts – insbesondere nach...
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