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- ABC of OPT
Phantom sovereignty and the imaginary version of international law
16.07.2019
In the ABC of the OPT, Orna Ben-Naftali, Michael Sfard and Hedi Viterbo offer a guidebook for the legal tourist - a narrated cartography to the strange legal planet that...
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- Women in International Law Vol. 4
From “Assigned Residence” to “Zone”
15.07.2019
Alexandra Kemmerer
Anne Peters
Israel’s occupation or “control” (as the book prefers to call it) of Palestinian Territory that began with six days in June 1967, presents a depressing and tragic political and moral...
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Mobilizing the untapped capacity of international law
15.07.2019
It is a particular honour to be asked to contribute to the Book Review Symposium at Verfassungsblog because of the occasion: the arrival of an outstanding work on international law...
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- Irresolvable Norm Conflicts
Dilemmatic Discomfort: Author’s Response
08.07.2019
I am very grateful to Rostam Neuwirth, Surabhi Ranganathan, Wolfgang Thierse and Lea Wisken for taking the time to engage with my book in such a thoughtful and constructive manner....
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“Irresolvable Norm Conflicts”: An Oxymoron?
05.07.2019
Norm conflicts in international law have received surprisingly little attention, given their fundamental relevance for law in general and the present international legal order in particular. Long ago, a few...
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Legal dilemmas: the first step towards a solution is to acknowledge the problem
01.07.2019
Imagine that you are the captain of a ship located halfway between several people drowning. You have a duty towards each of them but are unable to save everyone. In...
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Romancing the State
26.06.2019
Perhaps the first and very pleasant thought that will strike readers of Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law is that the medium is not the message. The book is about...
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Irresolvable Norm Conflicts: The Concept of a Legal Dilemma
24.06.2019
Over the course of the next few days the Völkerrechtsblog is pleased to host an online symposium of Valentin Jeutner's recently published book: Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law: The...
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Heroes and theories
17.04.2019
In his post, Raphael Schäfer provides a considerate, careful and kind re-reading of my dissertation on Hermann Mosler and West German international legal scholarship after 1945. Raphael makes, by and large,...
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Practice as method
16.04.2019
‘International law is what international lawyers do.’ This statement slightly abridged taken from Martti Koskenniemi’s seminal Gentle Civilizer of Nations, points forthright to one of international law’s key characteristics: it...
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Hard times for voices from the Global South
18.02.2019
For a long time, international legal scholars did not devote much attention to protagonists from the Global South as relevant actors in the field. The focus of the discipline -...
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