Centenary struggles: climate change & informality at ILO 100

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Centenary struggles: climate change & informality at ILO 100

10.06.2019

Sabaa A. Khan

One of the most disruptive new realities transforming the contemporary world of work is that of climate change. Escalating dislocations, disasters, floods, extreme heat, and other ‘exceptional’ catastrophes are on...

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Ukrainische Matrosen bald auf der Heimreise?

28.05.2019

Valentin J. Schatz

Russland muss drei ukrainische Kriegsschiffe und 24 inhaftierte Crewmitglieder unverzüglich freilassen. Das hat der Internationale Seegerichtshof (ITLOS) am 25. Mai 2019 in einem Verfahren zum einstweiligen Rechtsschutz im Case concerning...

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Retaliatory strikes as a reaction to cyber-attacks?

22.05.2019

Tassilo Singer

Between Friday (3 May 2019) and Sunday (5 May 2019) violence erupted again between Israel and the Palestinians led by governing Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In the course of...

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The climax of the Al-Bashir saga

20.05.2019

Annegret Hartig

In the judgment of 6 May 2019, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) found that Jordan had failed to comply with its obligation to arrest and surrender...

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Controversies in Caracas

17.05.2019

Lukas Kleinert

After the failure of the uprising of the Venezuelan opposition, prosecuted politicians and military members are seeking refuge in the diplomatic representations of Brazil, Spain, Argentina and Italy. One might...

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Can German courts stop “Hellfire” from Ramstein?

15.05.2019

Karoline Dołgowski

Being a Saarbrücken-based legal scholar traveling regularly to Frankfurt, the sight of the American Ramstein Air Base (or “Ramstein” for short) approaching just before Kaiserslautern is nothing unusual. Most of...

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Where the Kaiser meets Pinochet

13.05.2019

Elisabeth Baier

I recently visited a rather dubious location in Santiago de Chile. A restaurant, owned by a German, designed like a Bavarian beer house, praised by the local press as an...

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Judge Ozaki’s Case

10.05.2019

Parimal Kashyap

On March 19, 2019, seventeen of the eighteen judges of International Criminal Court (hereinafter ‘the Court’) sat to decide on the fate of Judge Ozaki as a judge of the...

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Setback for the descendants of the Nama and Ovaherero indigenous peoples

08.05.2019

Felicia Jaspert

Almost two years after members and descendants of the Nama and Ovaherero indigenous peoples filed a class action complaint against the Federal Republic of Germany in a United States District...

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Meilenstein für LGBTIQ*-Rechte

01.05.2019

Andreas Gutmann

In den nächsten Wochen wird sich das ecuadorianische Verfassungsgericht zur Ehe für alle äußern müssen. Ein Gericht (Corte Provincial de Justicia de Pichincha) hatte dem Gerichtshof die Frage vorgelegt, ob...

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The necessity to develop a regional refugee framework for South Asia

24.04.2019

Avinash Reddy Sabavath Apoorva

There are more than two and half million refugees in the South Asian countries, with majority of them residing in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. At the same time, the South...

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The CLOUD Act

08.04.2019

Mélina Cardinal-Bradette Fabian Unser-Nad

From violent protests in Sudan to airstrikes in Syria, access to online open source material and digital information is becoming essential for the fight against impunity. Open Source Information is...

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India’s anti-satellite missile test

02.04.2019

Kiran Mohan Vazhapully

In a much-publicized address on 27th March, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the country successfully tested its anti-satellite (ASAT) missile by destroying a live mini-satellite placed in Low...

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The alleged seizure of the El Hiblu 1 by rescued migrants

31.03.2019

Valentin J. Schatz

On 28 March 2019, a Maltese patrol vessel intercepted the Palau-flagged tanker vessel El Hiblu 1 (IMO: 9753258) at the outer limit of Malta’s territorial sea, and the ship was subsequently boarded...

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Filtering fundamental rights

25.03.2019

Erik Tuchtfeld

The legislation process of the “Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market” has been accompanied by many unusual events, such as a – later removed – communication by the...

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Judicial imperialism and the PCIJ’s interpretation of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne (Part II)

21.03.2019

Valentin Jeutner

This is the second part of a two-part analysis of the PCIJ’s Advisory Opinion concerning the Interpretation of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. The first part reviewed the opinion’s background...

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Judicial imperialism and the PCIJ’s interpretation of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne (Part I)

20.03.2019

Valentin Jeutner

It is commonly accepted that the contemporary instability in certain areas of the Middle East is attributable, at least in part, to the arbitrary manner in which many boundaries were...

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Gender inclusive trade and the limits of liberal feminism

11.03.2019

Pallavi Arora

The 11th Ministerial Conference of the WTO saw the coming together of 121 WTO members to support the Buenos Aires Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment (hereinafter ‘Gender Declaration’). Members...

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Provoking the single story

04.03.2019

Sebastian M. Spitra

Telling a history of international law is every time a mode of echoing oneself in the present. The danger of a single storyand its oppressive force to identities and peoples...

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Sind die USA noch an den INF-Vertrag gebunden?

02.03.2019

Ferdinand Abbate

Der Vertrag über die Beseitigung nuklearer Mittelstreckensysteme (sog. INF-Vertrag, Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty) wurde noch während des Kalten Krieges zwischen den USA und der damaligen Sowjetunion geschlossen und ist...

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Imperialism, international law and the Chagos Islands

01.03.2019

Kanad Bagchi

The Chagos tragedy (the Advisory Opinion of the ICJ can be found here) represents a story that in one way or the other is fundamentally a story of international law...

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Who is calling the shots?

22.02.2019

Theresa Reinold

In his thought-provoking essay on UN peacekeeping and the developing world Gabriel Amvane sheds light on the mismatch between the fact that while peacekeeping operations are mainly carried out in and...

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Recognizing violent encounters in North East India as internal armed conflict

13.02.2019

Avinash Reddy

The Non-State Armed Groups in North East India have been consistently engaged in hostilities with the Indian armed forces, resulting in a myriad of human rights violations by both sides....

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Of BITs and pieces, resistance and simplification

01.02.2019

Velimir Živković

It has been a pleasure to read to what now amounts to an exchange of views between Prof. Ranjan and Kanad Bagchi on some of the critical issues surrounding the...

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A new object in the sky

30.01.2019

Merve Erdem

While cyber activities have been growing rapidly since the 1970’s, the law was not able to catch up with this development immediately. However, over the years, law-making efforts at the...

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A BIT of resistance

26.01.2019

Kanad Bagchi

In our current framework of post-truth/factual/reality politics, much of the debates surrounding crucial issues of both domestic and international governance are invariably couched in an inflexible, partisan and for most...

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Alea iacta est?

24.01.2019

Johannes Tropper

Almost a year has passed since the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its ground-breaking judgment– Achmea C-284/16 – concerning the incompatibility of EU law and a Dutch-Slovakian...

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An investment arbitration avalanche after a No-Deal Brexit?

21.01.2019

Julien Berger

On Tuesday, January 15th, an overwhelming majority in the British House of Commons rejected the Brexit deal, i.e. the Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU....

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The ICC’s ‘evidence problem’

18.01.2019

Patryk I. Labuda

On 15 January, Trial Chamber I acquitted Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé of crimes against humanity. This is an important decision. Gbagbo is the first former head of state...

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Truth or dare?

17.01.2019

Malthe Hilal-Harvald

On 25 October 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down its decision in the case of E.S. v. Austria. The case had begun in the fall 2009...

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Das Gespenst einer europäischen Armee

19.12.2018

Alexander Groß

In den vergangenen Wochen geisterte einmal mehr die Vision einer europäischen Armee durch die Medien und Köpfe einiger europäischer Staats- und Regierungschefs. Die Idee einer stärkeren Kooperation der EU im...

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Brexit means Brexit!?

10.12.2018

Alexander Thiele

"Brexit means Brexit!“ So lautete das Mantra, das von der britischen Premierministerin im Nachklang zur Brexitentscheidung immer wieder vorgetragen wurde. Das offenbarte nicht nur eine gewisse Hilflosigkeit, sondern zeigte zugleich,...

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Voting down international law?

03.12.2018

Raffaela Kunz Anne Peters

There was quite some relief in Switzerland when it became clear on Sunday 25thNovember that the so called “initiative on democratic self-determination” had been rejected by the voters (the end result...

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A power struggle or something more?

28.11.2018

Elisabeth Baier

The past six months at the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, the successor organisation of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (in the...

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Der Globale Migrationspakt: Zwischen Mythen und Sorgen

14.11.2018

Ralph Janik

Die österreichische Bundesregierung hat bekanntgegeben, dem globalen Migrationspakt fernzubleiben. Ein Schritt, der in Deutschland von der AfD bejubelt wurde. Woher kommt die Skepsis? Fest steht: Um den Text ranken sich...

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Why international investment law is not violated by the GDPR

05.11.2018

Erik Tuchtfeld Lars Borchardt

In her recent blog article, Vishaka Ramesh claims that International Investment Law is violated by Data Protection Principles around the world, supporting her thesis in particular with rules set out...

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Die neue WSK-Rechtsprechung des IAGMR

02.11.2018

Franz Christian Ebert Charlotte Fabricius

In einem früheren Post auf diesem Blog hat Lucas Sánchez eine bedeutende Rechtsprechungsänderung des Interamerikanischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte (IAGMR) im Bereich der wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und kulturellen Rechte (WSK-Rechte) thematisiert. Zentral hierfür ist...

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Between narratives and borders

29.10.2018

Priya Singh Nelson

A significant number of Ethiopians are migrating to the Gulf countries to work in the domestic labor market. In late 2013, the Ethiopian government passed a temporary ban on labor...

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Cyber-War oder Cyber-Wahn?

24.10.2018

Sanija Ameti

Der Cyberkrieg ist in aller Munde. Ein aktueller, in den Medien als „Cyberkrieg“ bezeichnete Vorfall vom 4. Oktober betraf die Spionageaffäre in den Niederlanden. Vier Agenten des russischen Geheimdienstes hatten versucht,...

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The direct justiciability of the right to health at the IACtHR

22.10.2018

Pedro Villarreal

In a previous post, Lucas Sánchez discussed how the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) recently found, for the first time, a direct violation of the right to health in...

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Im „Handelskrieg“ schweigen die Gesetze

15.10.2018

Ralph Janik

Im gegenwärtigen Disput zwischen den USA auf der einen und einer Reihe von anderen WTO-Mitgliedern auf der anderen Seite stößt das Welthandelsrecht an seine Grenzen. Die US-Zölle verstoßen jedenfalls gegen...

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Plausibility and the ICJ

12.10.2018

Cameron Miles

Since the ICJ’s 2001 decision in LaGrand (Germany v US), the Court’s jurisprudence on provisional measures indicated under Article 41 of its Statute has expanded dramatically. This is for two...

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Taking Trump seriously

10.10.2018

Philipp Eschenhagen

In her recent contribution “Trump’s latest attack on international law”, Lena Riemer very accurately points out the threat to international customs and institutions posed by Trump and – currently –...

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Data protection principles around the world

08.10.2018

Vishaka Ramesh

There has been a recent surge in the proliferation of data protection regulations globally, the most recent example of which is the General Data Protection Regulation. Since data protection laws...

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The urgent, the plausible and the irreparable

05.10.2018

Tom Sparks Mark Somos

The ICJ’s decision on Iran’s application for provisional measures in its high-profile proceedings against the United States of America for alleged violations of their 1955 Treaty of Amity was handed...

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Will tariff wars unravel the multilateral trading system?

01.10.2018

Pallavi Arora

History is not unfamiliar with the rigours of tariff wars. Back in the 1930s, retaliatory tariff escalation led to the great depression, which in turn contributed to the Second World...

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Kofi Annan and international law in Kenya

26.09.2018

Edward Maroncha

Dr. Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the United Nations, died recently. Many Kenyans took to social media to mourn the death of the African diplomat they had come...

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Trump’s latest attack on international law

19.09.2018

Lena Riemer

It seems that US-President Donald Trump has won a powerful supporter for his onslaught on international law and international institutions: Supreme Court Judge nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The nomination of judge...

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Gibt es noch Hoffnung für überstaatliche Demokratie?

12.09.2018

Matthias Goldmann

In seinem Interview auf diesem Blog vertritt Armin von Bogdandy die Position, dass sich die Rahmenbedingungen für überstaatliche Demokratie in den letzten Jahren verschärft hätten. Zwar zeigt er sich überzeugt,...

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A further “constitutionalization” to the detriment of the individual?

27.08.2018

Raffaela Kunz

When the ECtHR presented its most recent statistics at the beginning of this year, at first glance this looked like a huge success: The number of pending applications before the...

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Der IAGMR und WSK-Rechte

20.08.2018

Lucas Sánchez

Jüngst hat der Interamerikanische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (IAGMR) zum ersten Mal eine direkte Verletzung des Rechts auf Gesundheit auf der Basis von Art. 26 der Amerikanischen Konvention für Menschenrechte (AMRK)...

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Artenschutz als Menschenrecht?

18.08.2018

Carsten Schenke

In dem Beitrag „Human rights and the international protection of biodiversity – a promising alliance“ (Teil 1 und Teil 2) stellt Romy Klimke die These auf, dass der Schutz der...

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Somaliland and secession politics in Eastern Africa

13.08.2018

Edward Maroncha

Somalia has been that isolated relative that no one speaks about. The one that lives in a little hut, far away from the general community, with little interaction with anyone....

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Examining the legal anomalies created by inconsistencies between the European Convention on Human Rights and the Dayton Constitution

09.08.2018

Vishesh Bhatia

On 15th February, 2016, Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter Bosnia) applied for membership to the European Union. It has since seen little progress towards achieving this goal, which is heavily due...

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Galeone San José: Schatzjagd und Unterwasserkulturerbe

01.08.2018

Anna Petrig Maria Stemmler

Als die im frühen 18. Jahrhundert gesunkene, vermutlich mit sagenhaften Schätzen beladene Galeone San José 2015 vor der Küste Kolumbiens geortet wurde, war dies eine internationale Sensation. Als kürzlich bekannt wurde, dass...

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It could have been worse

17.07.2018

Mala Loth

Both historians and jurists are intrigued by the future: historians – despite their habitual claims to the contrary – wish to say something meaningful about the future by studying the...

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‘Vetoing’ the admission of a third state in international organizations

29.06.2018

Christos Kypraios

On the 17th June, ‘the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’ (hereinafter: ‘fYROM’) and Greece signed an Agreement to resolve their 27-year-long dispute over the former’s name. Most importantly, fYROM committed to change...

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Neue Initiative der polnischen Regierung in Sachen deutscher Weltkriegsreparationen

27.06.2018

Wojciech Lewandowski

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Disentangling the cyber security debate

20.06.2018

Leonhard Kreuzer

In his insightful LJIL article Kubo Mačák discusses the under-developed state of international cyber security law. He assesses that the absence of cyber security law-making has created a power vacuum...

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Leveraging technology to enhance access to justice for children in Africa

14.06.2018

Sabine Witting

To keep a finger on the pulse of time, technology and innovation are central to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Context-informed and locally-adapted...

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Endlich! – Erster Haftbefehl gegen einen ranghohen Vertreter des syrischen Assad-Regimes

11.06.2018

Boris Burghardt

Können mutmaßliche syrische Völkerrechtsverbrecher einfach unbehelligt nach Europa ein- und wieder ausreisen? Diesen Eindruck musste man bei der Lektüre eines Berichtes gewinnen, der vor einigen Wochen in der französischen Tageszeitung...

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Human rights and the international protection of biodiversity – A promising alliance (Part II)

08.06.2018

Romy Klimke

The first part of this post established the intrinsic connection between human rights and the protection of biodiversity, looked at human rights and the environment in international public law in...

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Human rights and the international protection of biodiversity – A promising alliance (Part I)

04.06.2018

Romy Klimke

For a long time, the legal and political endeavours to protect humans from violations of their basic rights seemed in no way connected to the preservation of biodiversity. In the...

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The first genocide of the 20th century before a domestic court

28.05.2018

Felicia Stephan

Once more, Germany is confronted with compensation claims concerning wrongs committed in the past (see on this topic already the post by Andreas Buser). After unsuccessful previous cases against Germany by...

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Access to information and the fourth wave of rights

27.04.2018

Michael Riegner

The Inter-American and the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee, the European Union, Germany, India, South Africa, and Brazil all share one common legal feature: They...

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Neue Initiative der polnischen Regierung in Sachen deutscher Weltkriegsreparationen

20.04.2018

Lukas Kleinert

Erneut fanden sich Anfang Januar 2018 Meldungen über Erwägungen der polnischen Regierung, Reparationsansprüche gegen die Bundesrepublik für Schäden des Landes während der deutschen Besatzung im 2. Weltkrieg geltend zu machen....

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The Philippines’ move away from the International Criminal Court over the war on drugs: A blow for human rights in Asia

13.04.2018

Harsh Mahaseth

As a signatory to every human rights treaty and being at the forefront of promoting international human rights, Philippines is considered as one of the “architects” of the United Nations...

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Stretching abstract reasoning to its limits

06.04.2018

Pedro Villarreal

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued the Advisory Opinion (AO) of 15 November, 2017 (OC-23/17), on the subject matter of the environment and human rights. Its wide-ranging features already...

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Defending the defenders

26.03.2018

Alexander Gorski

On 3 March 2016 Honduran indigenous activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated. She was a coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and one of the...

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The Kosovo Specialist Chambers

14.03.2018

Silvia Steininger

As the doors were closing on Churchillplein 1, the Hague, the former home of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), only a short walk away a new...

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Rainbow jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court?

12.03.2018

Valérie V. Suhr

On 8 November 2017, something happened which can be seen as a milestone for gay rights: a communication was submitted to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that...

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Schadensersatzansprüche vor nationalen Gerichten aufgrund von Völkerrechtsverstößen?

07.03.2018

Felix Behnke

Können ausländische Unternehmen und Individuen die Verletzung von Völkerrechtsnormen durch andere ausländische Unternehmen vor Gericht rügen und Schadenersatzansprüche geltend machen? Die Verfahren gegen Arab Bank Plc. Ein solcher Fall wird...

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Opt-in vs. Opt-out = opt-in-opt-out?

07.02.2018

Annegret Hartig

In December 2017, the States Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC) had the chance to realize in New York what Robert H. Jackson called for in his opening statement...

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One law to rule them all

05.02.2018

Alexander Kloth

In May 2016, the EU adopted its long-awaited new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and thereby opened a new chapter in the history of European and global data protection law. Meeting the...

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Cheating Chile

19.01.2018

Michael Riegner

A rare mea culpa emanated from the leading international development institution, the World Bank, last week. The Bank’s Chief Economist, Paul Romer, told the Wall Street Journal: “I want to...

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Das Dilemma der Intra-EU Investor-Staat Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit

17.01.2018

Julien Berger

Über den Achmea-Fall (Rechtssache C-284/16), seine Hintergründe und die mündliche Verhandlung wurde auf diesem Blog bereits an anderer Stelle berichtet. Die dem Fall zugrundeliegende rechtliche Problematik beruht auf den bilateralen...

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Nature as a bearer of rights – a legal construction in pursuit for better environmental protection?

27.12.2017

Manuela Niehaus

The World Climate Conference (COP 23), held in Bonn, Germany, has ended on November 17th and some of its key outcomes seem to be auspicious (e.g. the coal phase-out promoted...

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Self-defence against the PKK?

22.12.2017

Saeed Bagheri

The conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as a Kurdish insurgent movement is a four-decade-long (from the 1980s) guerrilla war in the southeast region of the country....

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Zu ihrem Glück vereint

15.12.2017

Alexander Groß

Das öffentliche Interesse an dem Besuch von EU-Kommissionspräsident Jean-Claude Junker am 22. November in Bern war groß. Im Vorfeld des – schon von langer Hand geplanten – Treffens mit dem...

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The winds in New York have not changed after the recent ICJ elections

13.12.2017

Kanad Bagchi Lovish Garg

Inflamed passions, relentless rallying and 11 voting sessions hence, the International Court of Justice (ICJ/World Court/Court) was finally made complete. Contrary to previous occasions characterizing the Court’s history, ‘completeness’ this...

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Die Trump-Administration, der Kongress und das Dilemma des JCPOA

11.12.2017

Khashayar Biria

Nach knapp 12 Jahren stockend verlaufender Verhandlungen, verbunden mit massivem wirtschaftlichen Druck auf Iran, konnten sich am 14.07.2015 die Außenminister der EU-3+3 – Bezeichnung für Staaten (P5+Deutschland), die sich den...

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Last but not least: Lebenslang für den “Schlächter des Balkans”

08.12.2017

Annegret Hartig

Bei der Verfolgung massiver Gewaltverbrechen spielen die Verfahren gegen die Entscheidungsträger*innen eine besondere Rolle. Die bloße Verfolgung „kleiner Rädchen im Getriebe“ verspricht nicht den gleichen Effekt auf die nach Gerechtigkeit...

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Can we detect paradigmatic shifts when we see them?

06.12.2017

Simon Blätgen

There certainly is no shortage of supposedly common wisdoms in academia on the futility of interdisciplinary work, not all of them as witty as MacIntyres’ observation that it “seems impossible...

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Quo Vadis PMSC?

04.12.2017

Frauke Renz

In his recent post, Mirko Sossai succinctly summarized three phases of research on Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC). He also named the challenges on the way forward, particularly the...

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Verstoß von Deutschland gegen EMRK wegen mangelnder Untersuchung von Polizeigewalt

01.12.2017

Jochen A. Frowein

Der EGMR hat in einem für Deutschland sehr wichtigen Verfahren eine Verletzung von Art. 3 der Konvention festgestellt. Das ist bisher noch nicht häufig geschehen. Art. 3 schützt gegen unmenschliche...

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La situation en Catalogne

27.11.2017

Geoffrey Juchs

La déclaration d’indépendance de la Catalogne constitue à n’en pas douter l’expression la plus forte de la crise institutionnelle qu’a connu la Catalogne ces dernières années. Si la question du...

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Wind of change in New York?

24.11.2017

Richard Dören

Am Ende ging es ganz schnell. Nach einem tagelangen Machtpoker um den verbleibenden freien Platz am IGH zog Großbritannien seinen Kandidaten, den amtierenden Richter Sir Christopher Greenwood, zurück. Der Weg...

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Who may see the Acropolis? Global patterns of inequality and the right to tourism

16.11.2017

Lena Laube

In her contribution on the newly created right to tourism, Sabrina Tremblay-Huet convincingly states, that the social and economic phenomenon of tourism has been widely disregarded by the social sciences,...

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A right to tourism – and the duty of hosting the leisure class

06.11.2017

Sabrina Tremblay-Huet

The movement of bodies across borders attracts significant media and academic interest. This interest is often directed at specific forms of movement, such as refugees and economic migration. Another form...

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Rethinking containment through the EU-Libya Migration Deal

23.10.2017

Martina Tazzioli

This blogpost responds to last week's post by Stefan Salomon. In response to Nils Muiznieks, Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe who asked Italy to clarify its relationships with...

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The identification of individuals

16.10.2017

Dana Schmalz

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in its judgment in the case and N.T. v. Spain found that push-backs to Morocco in the border zone of the Spanish enclave...

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Brother, where art thou?

11.10.2017

Stefan Salomon

The key political question in recent months has been how to reduce the number of unauthorized migrants that arrive to Europe’s shores in rickety vessels from politically unstable countries in...

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Combatting the legal side effects of privatized war

09.10.2017

Mirko Sossai

This contribution continues our journal cooperation with the journal "Swiss Review of International & European Law". Over the past twenty years a lively debate on the regulation of private military...

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Returns without examinations

04.10.2017

Lena Riemer

On September 22, 2017, Greece’s highest administrative court – the Council of State – proclaimed that two Syrian asylum seekers can be deported to Turkey as a so-called safe third...

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The referendum on Catalan self-determination: long shots and legal flair

27.09.2017

Miriam Bak McKenna

The image conjured by the first subtitle of Zoran Oklopcic’s post on the referendum on Catalan self-determination, that of a zombie self-determination resurrected from its post-Kosovan resting place and back...

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The referendum on Catalan self-determination (Part II)

25.09.2017

Zoran Oklopcic

What encouraged the Catalans to place their bets on the persuasive power of remedial self-determination were two constitutional, not international legal texts: the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1998 Reference re...

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The referendum on Catalan self-determination (Part I)

22.09.2017

Zoran Oklopcic

Scheduled to take place on 1 October 2017, the referendum on the independence of Catalonia looks to be a turning point in the history of the Iberian peninsula; if not...

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Is a bird in the hand always worth two in the bush?

13.09.2017

Iris Canor

This post inaugurates a new cooperation of Völkerrechtsblog with the “Leiden Journal of International Law“. Firmly established as one of the leading journals in the field, the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) provides...

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Messing with the mess we are in

08.09.2017

Thomas Dollmaier

German legal scholarship has a reputation for being quite orthodox. Amid doctrinal sophistication and positivist assumptions, however, lie hidden treasure islands of heterodoxy. One such island was the Transregional Academy...