Collectively enforcing the results of democratic elections in Africa
10.02.2017
“When […] ECOWAS is united and the African Union is united, then it is possible for the Security Council to decide; it is possible for action to be taken, and...
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Collectively enforcing the results of democratic elections in Africa
10.02.2017
This post continues the earlier part I. As the 19 January deadline approached, without Jammeh showing any inclination to resign, the crisis deepened. Troops from Senegal, Nigeria and Ghana –...
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Die Schweiz will den Bruch mit der EU nicht riskieren
08.02.2017
In Zeiten des „Brexit“ und zahlreicher anderer Turbulenzen in Europa geht fast vergessen, dass auch für die Schweiz das Verhältnis zur Europäischen Union seit nunmehr drei Jahren in der Schwebe...
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‘Green Crime’
06.02.2017
Millions of dollars worth of smuggled elephant ivory intercepted by customs officers each year, shipping containers filled with hundreds of tonnes of illegally traded pangolin scales and kiln-dried geckoes, forests...
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Putschists behind bars?
27.01.2017
The Point of Departure Regionalism continues to increasingly develop in various fields of law. Abdoulaye Soma, who acknowledges the birth of an African international criminal law, analyses one of its...
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Rethinking the International Criminal Justice Project in the Global South
20.01.2017
Concerns about the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) continuing relevance in Africa following exit announcements by Burundi, South Africa, and Gambia are widespread. But the picture across the continent is more complex. While...
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Die UNO als Kopie antiker Vorbilder?
18.01.2017
Kommentar zum Beitrag von Jorrik Fulda In seinem aufschlussreichen Beitrag argumentiert Jorrik Fulda, dass die Vereinten Nationen als System kollektiver Sicherheit dem antiken Modell der Koine Eirene (κοινὴ εἰρήνη) oder...
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Globale Koine Eirene?
16.01.2017
Die UN und das Prinzip der kollektiven Sicherheit sind aus der heutigen Weltpolitik nicht mehr wegzudenken. Doch was kaum jemand weiß: ähnliche multilaterale Friedensverträge gab es schon in der griechischen...
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German genocide in Namibia before U.S. Courts
11.01.2017
Since October 2016, the German Historical Museum has been dealing with the past and presence of German colonialism in a special exhibition (see here) – for the first time ever....
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Retter der Menschenrechte weltweit?
09.01.2017
Ob Folter durch Sicherheitskräfte, Gefängnisstrafen ohne faires Gerichtsurteil oder Ausbeutung durch korrupte Beamte: Menschenrechte werden weltweit täglich verletzt, wie auch für das Jahr 2016 dem Jahresbericht von Human Rights Watch...
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Vereint gegen den Terror?
02.01.2017
Der 13. November 2015 begann in Paris wie ein ganz normaler Tag und endete in Blut und Schrecken: sechs Anschläge erschüttern die französische Hauptstadt, 130 Menschen verloren ihr Leben, über...
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Victor’s justice, contested
21.12.2016
In his post, Gabriel Lentner argues that the ICC legitimizes and reproduces “victor’s justice” through its acceptance of Article 13(b) referrals from the Security Council. He takes issue with the...
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Victor’s justice in disguise?
19.12.2016
The UN Security Council has the power to refer situations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the will of the territorial state, even if that state is not a...
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Open Access on the shores of international legal scholarship
16.12.2016
Michael Riegner
Raffaela Kunz
The digital revolution is hitting the shores of academic publishing. Online resources increasingly gain ground, and open access has become the call of the day – and a hotly debated...
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Towards a more radical deterritorialisation of language
28.11.2016
A reply to Ekaterina Yahyahoui It is hard to imagine an ‘intensive usage’ of language being accommodated within international law. How would international treaty-making incorporate use of syntax ‘in order...
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Expression over content
23.11.2016
In this short piece I will argue that international law, in order to gain access to its revolutionary potential, needs to create a new linguistic opening. This linguistic opening needs...
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This is about globalization, and there is work to do for international legal scholarship
11.11.2016
The last two days have been filled with consternation, anger, and the attempt to situate what the election of Donald Trump means. What it means in terms of causes, and in terms of...
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Von der komplizierten Freiheit, die eigene Muttersprache zu sprechen
11.10.2016
Sprachenrechte gehören, wie der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR) in entsprechenden Urteilen regelmäßig betont, als solche nicht zu den von der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention (EMRK) geregelten Rechten und Freiheiten. Dass es...
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The ICC’s Al Mahdi verdict on the destruction of cultural heritage: two steps forward, one step back?
03.10.2016
On 27 October 2016, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi of war crimes related to the destruction of protected cultural heritage in Mali under article...
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Is there a positive obligation on Russia to legalise same-sex unions under the European Convention on Human Rights?
21.09.2016
On 2 May 2016, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the case of Irina Borisovna Fedotova and Irina Vladimironova Shipitko v. Russia (no. 40792/10). The complaints lodged by three...
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Innovations in pharmaceutical industry
15.09.2016
Intellectual Property Laws across the world is intended to provide incentives to creators, authors, innovators and businesses by granting them monopoly rights usually for a limited period. Those rights would...
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Responsibility-sharing for refugees (2)
09.09.2016
I have argued in the previous post, how states’ regulation of borders and the global question of responsibility sharing relate: Not only does the securization of borders in one place...
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Responsibility-sharing for refugees (1)
07.09.2016
When the German Minister of the Interior a few weeks ago announced that “the refugee crisis has not been resolved, but its solution is on a very good way”, he...
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Die EU-Türkei-Beziehungen und die Flüchtlingsvereinbarung
05.09.2016
Nach der Krise ist vor der Krise. Auf die Finanzkrise folgte die Flüchtlingskrise und stellte die Europäische Union erneut vor die Zerreißprobe. Aufgrund der intern nicht überwindbaren Meinungsverschiedenheiten hat die...
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The role of human rights in the realm of arms transfers
27.07.2016
Elif Askin picked a current, important, and yet rarely discussed issue for her insightful post and offered a compelling perspective on human rights law and arms transfers. By transferring arms...
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Blackmarketing “Bundeswehr” weapons in Northern Iraq
25.07.2016
In September 2014, the German army started shipping weapons from its own stocks to the security forces of the Kurdish autonomous region in Northern Iraq (Peshmerga) to support the fight...
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Understanding the impact of different concepts of surrogate mother for the regulation of international surrogacy arrangements
22.07.2016
In her post to this blog, Sharon Bassan advances the argument for a duty on consumers’ states to regulate cross-border surrogacy transactions. The factual background is as follows: intended parents...
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Cross-border surrogacy transactions (CBST):
20.07.2016
Whether surrogacy is ethical or not is subject to lively debate. But so far, it is the prerogative of each sovereign state to decide whether to allow or forbid in...
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From curse to opportunity: Mediation of natural resource conflicts
13.07.2016
Since 1946, at least 40 % of intrastate conflicts have been linked to natural resources. Furthermore, conflicts associated with natural resources are more likely to relapse into violence within the...
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A response to “A financial crisis or something more?”
22.06.2016
In a post of 13 June to this blog, the authors addressed the financial crisis of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, characterized it as a result of state dissatisfaction,...
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A financial crisis or something more?
12.06.2016
Fabia Fernandes Carvalho Veçoso
Carlos Arturo Villagrán Sandoval
On May 23, 2016, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published a press release giving notice of an immediate financial crisis leading to the “suspension of hearings and imminent...
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Is the Islamic State a state?
10.06.2016
The so-called Islamic State has triggered a wave of commentary ever since it emerged as one of the leading military groups in Syria and further captured vast parts of Iraqi...
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A response to “Is the Islamic State a state?”
10.06.2016
Ralph asks “Is the Islamic State a State?” and his answer has three strings: First, he presents what he calls the advocatus diaboli opinion that all statehood requirements (territory, population,...
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A response to “Which rights to enforce in time of public emergency?”
08.06.2016
A response to Cilem Şimşek The interplay between human rights law (HRL) and international humanitarian law (IHL) is one of the most difficult and fascinating topics of international law. The...
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Which rights to enforce in time of public emergency?
06.06.2016
The present post examines the relationship between human rights law (“HRL”) and international humanitarian law (“IHL”). This relationship will be first analysed from a legal-dogmatic angle, and then in the...
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Thinking globally, acting globally
31.05.2016
As stated in Ricarda’s post, the African Union surprised the international community in 2014 with its proposal for the creation of an integrated African Court of Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR)...
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Thinking globally, acting regionally
27.05.2016
In June 2014, the African Union (AU) General Assembly adopted the Malabo Protocol that attempts to change the AU court system as well as international criminal law (ICL) in a...
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Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte
23.05.2016
Der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte hat in seinem jüngsten Urteil İzzettin Doğan und andere gegen die Türkei (Urt. v. 26. April 2016, Beschwerde-Nr. 62649/10) die Finanzierung und Organisation des religiösen...
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Die Besonderheit der Bodenschätze
16.05.2016
Dieser Beitrag erwidert auf den Post von Markus Krajewski im Rahmen unserer Journal-Kooperation mit der "Verfassung und Recht in Übersee". Ich freue mich, dass mir die Redaktion des Völkerrechtsblogs die...
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Menschenrechte als Antwort auf Verteilungsfragen im transnationalen Rohstoffrecht
11.05.2016
Dieser Beitrag setzt unsere Journal-Kooperation mit der "Verfassung und Recht in Übersee" fort und diskutiert einen Aufsatz von Isabel Feichtner zum internationalen Rohstoffrecht, der in der nächsten Ausgabe der VRÜ...
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Climate change and the Arctic as a common concern
09.05.2016
A response to Birgit Peters. In her blog post Birgit Peters reflects on “recent rules and approaches” for protecting the Arctic region in a time of intense climatic changes. Peters...
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When climate change hits the Arctic
04.05.2016
Climate change in the Arctic Climate change, in particular global warming, is an inevitable fact. Nonetheless, it will hit different regions of the world differently. Of all regions, the area...
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The Bemba trial judgment
02.05.2016
Katerina Katsimardou-Miariti
The decision On 21st March 2016 Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Court (ICC) found Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo (Bemba) guilty for murder and rape as a war crime and crime...
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International law – so 90s?
27.04.2016
Alicia Köppen
Julien Berger
The international legal order finds itself in turmoil. The crises in Ukraine and Syria, the questioning of the authority of the ECtHR, the opposition against the ICC by African states...
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The Karadžić Judgment: The ICTY at its Peak
18.04.2016
In theater, the peak of a play in which all strings of the story converge and the intrigue is resolved, is called the climax. With its verdict against Radovan Karadžić,...
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“P” for Partnership or “R” for Regime?
23.03.2016
A response to Maximilian Oehl and Jelena Bäumler In their attentive and stimulating posts, Maximilian Oehl and Jelena Bäumler considered the condition of the WTO and the role of public...
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A new Solange judgment from Germany – or nothing to worry about?
22.03.2016
In its recent decision (in German, press release in English) on Mr R the Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG or the Court) rejected an extradition request pursuant to the European Arrest Warrant (EAW)....
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TTIP and the WTO
29.02.2016
A response to Maximilian Oehl In his thoughtful post, Maximilian Oehl placed TTIP into the wider context of the world trade system and discussed some of the critical questions surrounding...
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Exceptionality and context
26.02.2016
The present Turkish military interventions in Syria and northern Iraq continue to raise the question of when States may use defensive force against armed non- State actors in other States....
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The regulatory dimension of TTIP and the global competition of economic systems
24.02.2016
The proposed comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and the US bearing the name ‘Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership’ (or TTIP), continues to inflame passions within significant sections...
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The democracy obligation according to international law
22.02.2016
This post is a reaction to a review which appeared in the journal Law and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America (Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, VRÜ). Representative democracy...
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Relaunching Völkerrechtsblog 2016
14.01.2016
Völkerrechtsblog launches into the year 2016 – our third year! – with a new website, design and logo, and with new content and new services for the international law community....
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How many members does the Polish Constitutional Court have?
08.01.2016
The Polish Constitutional Court (the ‘Court’) will soon consider the constitutionality of a new statute that regulates the Court’s procedure (case K 47/15). The statute in question, amending the Act...
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Multi-stakeholder self-regulation mechanisms for PMSCs – good enough for the United Nations?
30.12.2015
Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) are not only hired by states, the UN makes use of PMSCs as well. Recent years have witnessed an increase in the number of...
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Lawfare? We need the states to interpret international humanitarian law
28.12.2015
A response to Raphael Schäfer Raphael Schäfer has thoughtfully worked out the main issues surrounding lawfare and counter-lawfare. I will take up his analysis and develop it further in order...
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Anwendung humanitärvölkerrechtlicher Normen in asymmetrischen Konflikten
23.12.2015
Es ist bei Weitem kein Novum zu behaupten, dass die Konfliktstrukturen des 21. Jahrhunderts mit denen des klassischen humanitären Völkerrechts nur noch schwer vergleichbar sind. Die Zeiten staatlicher Duellkriege sind...
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Bauern vs. Monsanto
16.12.2015
Im Konflikt um das Recht am Geistigen Eigentum und die Lizenzgebühren auf genverändertes Soja in Argentinien seit 1997 waren die widersprüchlichen Rechtsregime des Sortenschutzes und des Patentschutzes für Saatgut ein...
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Practitioner’s Corner: Project management – the missing part in law books
09.12.2015
The “Practitioner’s Corner” gives the floor to practicing international lawyers. Their accounts illustrate the diversity of work within the field of international law and offer personal insights into the practice...
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Research questions arising from practice of law
04.12.2015
Leonie Vierck
Markus Böckenförde
So, how do you actually select what you are researching? Obviously, personal motivation is a key factor in this process (not least because you will need considerable motivation to sustain...
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Awakening dormant law
19.11.2015
The terrorist attacks of 13 November have violently confronted France as much as its European neighbours with exceptional security challenges. By killing more than 120 people in less than 30...
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The ECJ’s first Bitcoin decision
19.11.2015
On 22 October 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its first ever ruling on the digital currency known as Bitcoin. For those who haven’t been following...
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Schrems – towards a high standard of data protection for European citizens
18.11.2015
It has been almost six weeks since the ECJ handed down its groundbreaking Schrems judgment. This post reflects upon the institutional practices and scholarly discussion following the judgment. The Court...
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Yes, redressing past wrongs in the present!
28.10.2015
A rejoinder to Maximilian Pichl and Mieke van der Linden I fully support Mieke van der Linden's thesis that the illegal nature of the colonization in Africa, and indeed everywhere...
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Customary international law identification as constrained law-making
26.10.2015
A response to David Koppe There has been a resurgence of interest in recent years in how customary international law is identified, and this interest will likely intensify as a...
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Internationales Strafrecht in Subsahara-Afrika
25.10.2015
Termin: Montag, 16. November 2015, 11.00 Uhr Podiumsdiskussion, Einlass 10.30 Uhr Ort: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Markgrafenstraße 28, 10117 Berlin Das angespannte Verhältnis zwischen dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof (IStGH) und Afrika...
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Ascertaining customary international law – a relatively straightforward matter?
21.10.2015
This blog post refers to the recent findings of the International Law Commission’s (ILC) topic now entitled “Identification of Customary International Law” and addresses some issues, which still remain unsettled...
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Redressing colonial wrongs?
19.10.2015
A response to Maximilian Pichl On 12 May 1883, the Germans set foot ashore on the coast of South-West Africa – now known as Namibia. The settlement of Germans on...
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Systematische Abwehr
14.10.2015
"Der Vernichtungskrieg in Namibia von 1904 bis 1908 war ein Kriegsverbrechen und Völkermord." Dieser Satz aus dem Auswärtigen Amt wird als Kehrtwende der deutschen Erinnerungspolitik gewertet. Zum ersten Mal spricht eine...
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Das Internetgrundrecht zwischen Völkerrecht, Staatsrecht und Europarecht (III)
12.10.2015
In Teil I habe ich gezeigt, dass das Völkerrecht den Zugang zum Internet in seinen beiden Dimensionen als Vorbedingung zur Ausübung kommunikativer Rechte schützt. In Teil II habe ich nachgewiesen,...
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Das Internetgrundrecht zwischen Völkerrecht, Staatsrecht und Europarecht (II)
09.10.2015
In Teil I habe ich gezeigt, dass das Völkerrecht den Internetzugang in beiden Dimensionen – Zugang zum Internet (Infrastrukturdimension) und Zugang zu Internetinhalten (Inhaltsdimension) – schützt. Ein Recht auf Internetzugang...
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Das Internetgrundrecht zwischen Völkerrecht, Staatsrecht und Europarecht (I)
07.10.2015
Die aktuellen Entwicklungen um die wachsende Anzahl von Flüchtlingen in Europa führen Debatten in nicht erwartete Richtungen. So dynamisiert die Frage, inwieweit Flüchtlingsunterkünfte mit WLAN, womöglich ‚Freifunk‘, ausgestattet werden können,...
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Dense struggle (III): the modern uncanny
28.09.2015
This post appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking. In the last two posts I have argued that the longue durée of capitalist modernity has implied an expansion of a material and social global ordering,...
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Dense struggle (II): oh yes, that, our world
23.09.2015
This post appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking. In the preamble of the Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels made the famous dictum: "A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All...
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Dense struggle (I): violence and the otherworldly
21.09.2015
This post appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking. How can we make sense of popular struggles in this period of late capitalist modernity? What do the experiences, voices, and visions...
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Von sichtbarer und unsichtbarer Gewalt.
18.09.2015
Am 2. September 2015 ertrank Aylan Kurdi bei dem Versuch, in Europa Schutz zu finden, nachdem er mit seiner Familie aus Kobane, Syrien, geflohen war. Sein Bruder und seine Mutter...
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AjV-Workshop: International Law and Domestic Law-Making Processes
04.09.2015
Conference Report When do domestic legislators legislate because of international law? When do national parliaments act as opposition in international law? More generally, how can the complex interplay between domestic...
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The pandemic dilemma
31.08.2015
A reply to Pedro Villarreal Pedro Villareal wonders whether and how global health security can be enhanced through international law. He raises two interrelated questions: First, should an expert body...
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Reforms of the World Health Organization in light of the Ebola crisis in West Africa
26.08.2015
The 68th World Health Assembly took place from 18 to 26 May, 2015. The Assembly is the maximum decision-making organ of the World Health Organization (WHO). In this forum, there...
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Practitioner’s Corner: MONUSCO – an inside view into a peacekeeping mission
24.08.2015
The “Practitioner’s Corner” gives the floor to practicing international lawyers. Their accounts illustrate the diversity of work within the field of international law and offer personal insights into the practice of...
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The proportionality critique still stands
12.08.2015
A Rejoinder to Johann Ruben Leiss Johann Ruben Leiss critically remarks that the perception underlying my original post “overburdens proportionality balancing with assumptions and expectations that do not reflect its...
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Towards an integrated, predictable and coherent international legal system
10.08.2015
A response to Sué González Hauck In her post Sué González Hauck provides a thoughtful and critical perspective on proportionality balancing as a means to overcome fragmentation in international law. In...
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A critique of proportionality balancing as a harmonization technique in international law
05.08.2015
Since the publication of the Fragmentation Report by the International Law Commission, international legal scholars and practitioners alike seem to be less concerned about the theoretical questions raised by the...
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Respect and protection of international law beyond the borders (of human rights)
24.06.2015
A response to Heta Heiskanen & Juka Viljanen Heta-Elena Heiskanen and Jukka Viljanen kindly invited me to comment on their blog note discussing certain points stemming from their recent paper...
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Extraterritoriality and lowering the exceptional circumstances threshold
22.06.2015
Heta Heiskanen
Jukka Viljanen
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) provides in Article 1 that “the High Contracting Parties shall secure to everyone within their jurisdiction the rights and freedoms defined in Section...
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Die schwierige Aufgabe der Humanisierung des humanitären Völkerrechts:
17.06.2015
Der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR) steht vor schwierigen Entscheidungen hinsichtlich der Anwendung der Konventionsrechte im bewaffneten Konflikt (vgl. Georgien gg. Russland (II) und Ukraine gg. Russland (I-III)). Für die...
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Why proportionality struggles when it comes to power
10.06.2015
Testing proportionality appears to be a thoroughly theorized method for legal problems of all kinds. It pervades domestic, European and international law, and the Treaty of the EU even extended...
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The struggle for legislative powers
04.06.2015
A power struggle is ongoing in the East African Community – a struggle for legislative power. In the most recent edition of “Law and Politics in Asia, Africa, and Latin...
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Identifying even more common ground:
01.06.2015
Felix Boor
Karsten Nowrot
A response to Sebastian Wuschka and Rebecca Crootof In order to avoid the undesirable consequence of becoming outmoded by newly invented methods and means of combat, the normative regime of the ius in...
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Autonomous weapon systems and proportionality
27.05.2015
A response to Sebastian Wuschka and Rebecca Crootof Recently, two statements on autonomous weapon systems have been published on this blog. In his post, Sebastian Wuschka argues that, because they...
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‘Who may now speak’?
20.05.2015
A response to Ioana Cismas What is and what should be the role of faith-based actors in transitional justice (TJ)? Ioana Cismas enquires whether the engagement of TJ with religious...
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Religious actors and transitional justice
13.05.2015
A teary-eyed Desmond Tutu during a public hearing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is emblematic for the South African transitional justice (TJ) process to the extent that examining the...
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Owada and the whale: a Rejoinder
08.05.2015
The arguments provided by James Harrison as to why the ICJ conducted an inversion of the burden of proof in the Whaling Case appear sound and conclusive; but they are...
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Onus probandi in the Whaling Case – a comment
06.05.2015
It is perhaps no surprise that Japan has decided to resume its scientific whaling following the judgment of the International Court of Justice in March 2014. After all, the Court...
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Owada and the whale
04.05.2015
Japan is out whaling again. One year after the ICJ decision that found that Japan’s whaling program in the Antarctic was not in accordance with the International Convention for the...
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Individual compensation reloaded
30.04.2015
On 30 April, the Appeals Court of Cologne will rule on whether Germany has to pay compensation to victims of an airstrike in Afghanistan. Its judgment is likely to consolidate...
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“And now for something completely different” – Greece vs. Germany
29.04.2015
A response to Ioannis Kalpouzos After sticking fingers – fake, real or fake fake – the latest chapter in the story between Germany and Greece recently has seen Greece requesting the...
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The law and politics of Greece’s claims for German war reparations
27.04.2015
“The historical roots of the European Union lie in the Second World War”, according to the EU’s official website. It is then perhaps not surprising that in the current tumult...
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Autonomous weapon systems and proportionality
15.04.2015
A response to Sebastian Wuschka An autonomous weapon system is “a weapon system that, based on conclusions derived from gathered information and preprogrammed constraints, is capable of independently selecting and engaging targets.”...
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Proportionality assessments under IHL – A human thing?
13.04.2015
The employment of drones for targeted killings has triggered a debate on the use of lethal force without direct human presence at the battlefield. Regarding the legal framework for today's...
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