Haben die internationalen Menschenrechte ein PR-Problem?
03.11.2014
Die internationalen Menschenrechtsübereinkommen tragen wie keine anderen Rechtsakte das Versprechen einer Weltgesellschaft, einer Selbstentfaltung als Weltbürgerin und eines aufgeklärten, toleranten und friedlichen Neben- und Miteinanders in sich. In den internationalen...
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Justa piratica – or rather Hobbes State of Nature on the High Seas?
30.10.2014
A response to the post by James Pattison James Pattison’s argument points at the heart of the debate of the international fight against Somali piracy: Have Somali pirates acted on...
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On the Ethics of Piracy
28.10.2014
The use of force against pirates is politically uncontroversial. As I outline in more detail in my recently published article in the Review of International Studies (on which this blog...
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Transnational Science-Based Standards on Radiation: A Japanese Experience
22.10.2014
The readers of this blog might have heard of “millisieverts” or “becquerel”. These are the units of radiation dose and emission. While these notions are primarily the commodities of scientific...
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International organizations soon blocked by EU’s external powers?
21.10.2014
A comment on ECJ Grand chamber judgment of 7 October 2014, C-399/12, Germany v. Council On October 7th, in a Grand Chamber judgment, the European Court of Justice has dramatically...
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Pebble in the shoe or elephant in the room?
17.10.2014
A Response to the post by Adrian Di Giovanni In his post, Adrian Di Giovanni drew our attention to the notion of Do No Harm, focusing on the context of...
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A Pebble in the shoe
15.10.2014
My paper published in the last edition of ‘Law and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America’ (VRU) is the product of bureaucratic wanderings. Over a number of years, in...
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Practitioner’s Corner: Working for Peace in Afghanistan
06.10.2014
Magdalena G. Aguilar Pulido
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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Whom to Obey?
01.10.2014
A reply to Theresa Züger Theresa Züger argues compellingly for using political philosophy to understand civil disobedience in the context of international law. She identifies two key types of civil...
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Civil disobedience
29.09.2014
Even though this is a blog for international law, I was invited to provide my perspective from political philosophy and media studies on the issue of civil disobedience. My article...
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Defining and identifying threats
24.09.2014
A reply to Jens Kremer Jens Kremer raises a problem that is well known in the theory of security and emergency law. Since issues of security are so complex, and...
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Security mindsets and international law
22.09.2014
Security is a curious term and it comes in many different forms and shapes, and each field of research, every security institution and even more, every security professional has an...
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The limits of emergency mechanisms
01.09.2014
A Response to Tine Hanrieder and Christian Kreuder-Sonnen Emergency mechanisms are essential in addressing and containing crisis situations such as the recent Ebola outbreak. Tine and Christian have drawn our...
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The WHO’s new emergency powers
22.08.2014
Tine Hanrieder
Christian Kreuder-Sonnen
The Ebola outbreak is only the third Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) ever declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO’s emergency authority is based on the...
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Wer hat Angst vor dem Völkerrecht?
11.08.2014
Eine Replik auf Evelyne Schmid Evelyne Schmid plädiert in ihrem Beitrag dafür, dass sich Völkerrechtler*innen stärker mit den Unterlassungen durch nationale Gesetzgeber befassen sollten. Sie weist dabei zu Recht auf...
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Völkerrecht und die Legislative
06.08.2014
In diesem Beitrag plädiere ich dafür, dass sich Völkerrechtler*innen mit Unterlassungen von nationalen Gesetzgebern befassen sollten. Zweck des kurzen Textes ist die Begründung für eine rechtsdogmatische, -theoretische und -soziologische Auseinandersetzung...
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Judicial appointments and the right kind of politics
21.07.2014
A response to Bilyana Petkova Judicial appointments matter, but it is difficult to pinpoint why exactly. One possibility – mentioned by Bilyana – is that there is a connection between representation...
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Selecting Europe’s Judges: on the Evolving Legitimacy of Appointments in Luxembourg and Strasbourg
16.07.2014
The concept of legitimacy is a favorite debate among many political philosophers and lawyers. Since our perceptions of what is legitimate change over time, we look at legitimacy not as...
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Will the BRICS Bank really change the development world?
04.07.2014
A response to Mariana Mota Prado Mariana Prado makes an excellent contribution to the growing debate about the BRICS Development Bank, which is expected to start operating in 2016. What...
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Will the BRICS Bank change the development world as we know it?
02.07.2014
This post inaugurates a new cooperation of Völkerrechtsblog with the journal “Verfassung und Recht in Übersee”/ “Law and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America”, the only law journal based...
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Letting Go of Territorial Integrity
16.06.2014
In my previous two posts (here and here), I looked at the problems of declaring Russia’s actions in Ukraine illegal – the dark side of law’s polycentrism. In this post,...
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International law’s rule of five
06.06.2014
In my previous post, I looked at the obvious illegality of Russia’s actions in Ukraine – and the problems with that obviousness in the pluralistic cacophony of international law. In...
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Polycentrism’s Playground
03.06.2014
In this post, the first in a series on the Ukrainian crisis, I look at the obvious illegality of Russia’s actions in Ukraine – and the problems with that obviousness...
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