A Question of Authority and Risk

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Revisiting Customary IHL: The ICRC Study at 20

A Question of Authority and Risk

24.09.2025

Linus Mührel

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...

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Revisiting Customary IHL: The ICRC Study at 20

Promise and Peril of Relying on Human Rights in the Customary International Humanitarian Law Study

23.09.2025

Ilya Ivanov

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...

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Revisiting Customary IHL: The ICRC Study at 20

The Encyclopaedic Value of the ICRC’s Customary IHL Study

22.09.2025

Nadia Kornioti

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...

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Revisiting Customary IHL: The ICRC Study at 20

Beyond Headcounts

19.09.2025

Stanislau Lashkevich

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...

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Revisiting Customary IHL: The ICRC Study at 20

Revisiting Customary IHL

19.09.2025

Rouven Diekjobst Rosa-Lena Lauterbach Paulina Rob

Editors’ note: This post introduces a symposium relating to the ICRC's Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The symposium highlights presentations delivered at the young...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Learning From Oppressed Groups How to Resist Silently

17.09.2025

Jean d’Aspremont Anna Sophia Tiedeke

Dear Jean, Thank you very much for taking the time for a concluding interview with us! Though, the word “concluding” may indeed give the wrong impression, as you have pointed...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Dear Anna, Khaled and Sissy,

17.09.2025

Marina Veličković

thank you so much for your invitation (& for reading the CLT piece). I have a complicated relationship to the idea of academic freedom (on the one hand I think...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

What’s in a Name? Genocide, the Universal and the Common in International Law

17.09.2025

Isabel Feichtner Anna Sophia Tiedeke Khaled El Mahmoud Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

The following text was prompted by a discontent with the way international lawyers in Germany have addressed the question of genocide in Gaza, if they have done so at all....

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Building Critical Spaces: The Palestine Project and the Future of Legal Education

16.09.2025

Souheir Edelbi Khaled El Mahmoud

I am honoured to be speaking with Dr. Souheir Edelbi, one of the founders of the Palestine Project and a legal academic whose work sits at the intersection of pedagogy, international criminal...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

The Gaza War Reconsidered

16.09.2025

Seyla Benhabib

Future historians looking back upon the Israel-Gaza conflict may see that it stands at the nodal point of three major developments which have reshaped the coordinates of international institutions established in...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Editorial Decision-Making in Times of Controversy at EJIL:Talk! and the Leiden Journal of International Law

15.09.2025

Stewart Manley

Does an editorial decision to publish legitimise the piece’s author, the author’s affiliated institution or the piece’s content? How should we think about an editorial decision to publish an article...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Say My Name: Legal Silence That Speaks on the Ongoing Nakba in Palestine

15.09.2025

Sabrina Seikh

International law (IL) remains complicit in its omissions, not only through what it permits, but through what it refuses to name. Nowhere is this more evident than in its persistent...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Who Gets to Speak in the Israeli University?

13.09.2025

Itamar Mann

Universities often claim to be bastions of free inquiry, including in research and in the classroom. But in Israel today, that claim rings increasingly hollow. While pockets of academic freedom...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Academic Freedom on Trial

13.09.2025

Vasuki Nesiah

The previous academic year closed out in May to much drama and dissension on many American campuses. University administrators continued their assault against expressions of solidarity with Palestine or criticisms...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Testimonial Oppression in Palestine

12.09.2025

M. Harb

How is silence rendered a tool of violence? Kristie Dotson’s work on Epistemic Violence provides critical insights into the practices of testimonial oppression, particularly silencing and smothering, that produce epistemic...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Defining Away Palestine

12.09.2025

Ntina Tzouvala

It is not hard to explain to international lawyers why definitions matter: from the seeming impossibility of reaching a universally accepted definition of terrorism in international law to John Yoo’s...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Isn’t it Ironic?

11.09.2025

Khaled El Mahmoud Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Anna Sophia Tiedeke

When a group of (early-career) scholars decides to organize a symposium on the alarming global restrictions of academic freedom – set against the backdrop of the “unfolding Genocide“ in Gaza...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Spacio-cide from Palestine to Dutch Academia and Back

10.09.2025

Alessandra Spadaro Fabio Cristiano

The intensification of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 and the ensuing large-scale destruction of Gaza and killings of Palestinians – which are increasingly regarded by...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Protesting and Teaching about Israel-Palestine in The Netherlands, and the Problem of Double Standards

10.09.2025

Otto Spijkers Jeff Handmaker Renee Kolpa

While Dutch academic institutions swiftly and unambiguously condemned Russia’s aggression of Ukraine in February of 2022, soon thereafter accompanied by sweeping institutional sanctions, they have mostly refrained from responding in...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Epistemic Apartheid

09.09.2025

Adi Mansour

Silence! Voices must not infiltrate the rhythmic sounds of war, death, and starvation / yet speak, as loudly as you can! Where your words sync with our massacres, when your...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Raison d’Etat at Work

09.09.2025

Felix Hartmann

Until recently, employment law disputes rarely intersected with international political controversies. The Middle East conflict, however, has acquired global resonance—amplified by social media and polarized discourse after the Hamas attack...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Boycott, Divestment, Sanction as an “Extremist Threat”

08.09.2025

Ben Saul

Since late 2023, some countries have imposed unnecessary, disproportionate and discriminatory restrictions on free expression and peaceful protest critical of Israel’s conduct in the conflict in Gaza and the West...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Introducing the Symposium ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’

08.09.2025

Khaled El Mahmoud Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Anna Sophia Tiedeke

Earlier this year, in the Call for Contributions announcing the arrival of the present symposium, we highlighted numerous measures taken globally evincing an increasing attempt to silence or censor (academic)...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

From Carbon Sovereignty to Trusteeship of the Climate Commons

18.08.2025

Jannika Jahn Nele Suchantke

Treated as a corollary of industrial development, the freedom to emit CO2 and other greenhouse gases within a State’s territory was seen as both a prerequisite of economic progress and...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Both a ‘Global’ and an ‘International’ Court of Justice

15.08.2025

Lillian Robb Vishal Prasad

The ICJ is a State-centric body – it handles disputes between States, and only representatives of States have an audience with the Court. However, the proceedings of the ICJ in...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

The Private Life of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

15.08.2025

Harro van Asselt

As the various contributions to this symposium have made abundantly clear, the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change is a...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Vanishing Yams

14.08.2025

Rashmi Dharia

The nature of a ‘landmark’ decision is that it creates a narrative ‘before’ and ‘after’. This is as true for the Climate Change Advisory Opinion as for any of the...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Strengthening International Climate Obligations beyond Paris

14.08.2025

Phillip Paiement Corina Heri

The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change concludes a 15-month period of rapid developments in the crystallization of international law as it pertains...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

One Climate, Many Courts

13.08.2025

Khaled El Mahmoud

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’) issued its advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change, marking a significant moment in the evolving...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Great Expectations

13.08.2025

Andreas Kulick

While the ink is still fresh, general media as well as experts’ assessment seem to be unanimous that the 23 July 2025 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Timing the Environment in International Law

12.08.2025

David M Scott

In the closing paragraph of its Advisory Opinion on Climate Change (one surely set to be quoted for years to come), the ICJ recalls that ‘it has been suggested that...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

The Advisory Opinion on Climate Protection and the “Global North-South Divide”

12.08.2025

Lovleen Bhullar

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ or Court) gave an Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change. While I share the...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Climate Displacement in the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion

11.08.2025

Malavika Rao

The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion of 23 July 2025 is momentous, affirming that climate change can give rise to breaches of international obligations under both customary and treaty law, including environmental,...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

The Legal Consequences of Climate Harm

08.08.2025

Juan Auz

The advisory opinions recently issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) offer significant legal guidance on states' climate-related obligations and the...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

The ICJ’s Historic Nod to Self-Determination and Climate Change Impacts

07.08.2025

Dave-Inder Comar

This post analyses the July 2025 advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change (Advisory Opinion), with respect to the principle...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Climate Change Law and the Law of the Sea

07.08.2025

Rozemarijn Roland Holst

From among the rich pickings of the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) unanimous advisory opinion on climate change, this post focusses specifically on the relationship between international climate change law...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

On the Science-Coloured Glasses of the ICJ

06.08.2025

Katalin Sulyok

The ICJ gave a thoroughly science-based reading of State obligations with respect to climate change in its Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. This, in and of itself, is not very...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

The Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change

06.08.2025

Jutta Brunnée

Introduction The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has delivered an Advisory Opinion on Obligations in Respect of Climate Change that meets the moment. That the members of the Court felt...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

A Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment

05.08.2025

Helen Keller

The ICJ's advisory opinion has been subject to high expectations. At first glance, these expectations appear to have been met. However, upon closer examination, it becomes clear that various statements...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Custom, Entrenchment, Interpretation

05.08.2025

Jochen Rauber

The vision of international climate change law is as simple as it is unassailable: Keeping the world a liveable place for humans all over the planet. As modest as this...

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The Person Behind the Practitioner

In Conversation with Wiebke Rückert

05.08.2025

Wiebke Rückert Aurelio Corneo

Dr. Rückert, thank you very much for accepting this invitation from the Völkerrechtsblog, which will form part of a Völkerrechtsblog series: The Person behind the Practitioner. Thank you very much...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Rising to the Occasion

04.08.2025

Andrej Lang Denise Koecke

Climate change litigation has, at last, reached the World Court, with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issuing its highly anticipated Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

The ICJ and the UN Climate Regime

04.08.2025

Christina Voigt

The 2-hour reading of the climate change advisory opinion by ICJ president, judge Yuji Iwasawa, on 23 July 2025 was a historical moment. The court had put forward its legal...

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Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Climate Change at the Forefront of the Structural Transformation of International Law

04.08.2025

Khaled El Mahmoud Jannika Jahn Moritz Vinken

The ICJ’s advisory opinion on climate protection has far-reaching implications – both for climate action and for the entirety of (environmental) international law. The Court was faced with a complex...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Oona Hathaway

31.07.2025

Oona A. Hathaway Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Oona Hathaway, and through the following questions, we will try to...

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Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business – A Multilevel Approach

Call for Papers: Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business

30.07.2025

Rishiti Choudaha Jessica Commins Dani Spizzichino

Our teams invite interested persons to contribute articles in English or German to our online-symposium “Tackling Human Rights, Environmental Protection and Business – A Multilevel Approach”. Who we are The...

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities – Second Season

6th Episode: The Moral Machine

21.07.2025

Anna Sophia Tiedeke Iyad Rahwan

In the sixth episode we explore the interrelations between humans and machines together with Iyad Rahwan who is director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where...

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International Law and the Political

The Politics of Reception

24.06.2025

Edward Jones Corredera Mark Somos Hendrik Simon

400 years ago, Hugo Grotius published his most important work, De iure belli ac pacis (IBP). The work made Grotius famous and earned him the title of father of modern...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Tania Ixchel Atilano

13.06.2025

Tania Ixchel Atilano Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Tania Ixchel Atilano, and through the following questions, we will try...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Alejandro Rodiles

16.05.2025

Polina Kulish

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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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

Disordering the Binaries of International Law

06.05.2025

Jessica Lynn Corsi

Together with Staggs Kelsall and others, I co-lead a transnational feminist project to create gender equality for the judiciary of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). These efforts call for...

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities – Second Season

5th Episode: Community, Commons and Crypto

05.05.2025

Andrea Leiter Erik Bordeleau

In the firth episode, we have the pleasure of speaking to Erik Bordeleau, a philosopher, curator, fugitive planner and media theorist based between Berlin and Lisbon, where he is currently...

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The Person Behind the Practitioner

In Conversation with Judge Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant

30.04.2025

Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant Antonio José Guzmán Mutis

Judge Brant, thank you very much for accepting this invitation from the Völkerrechtsblog, which will constitute part of a Völkerrechtsblog series: The Person behind the Practitioner. I am grateful to...

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities – Second Season

4th Episode: Digital Currency

21.04.2025

Andrea Leiter Laura Lotti

In the fourth episode we speak to Dr. Laura Lotti, a researcher analyst and writer with 10-year experience investigating digital assets and networked organisations, currently exploring regenerative technocultures. She is...

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities – Second Season

3rd Episode: Territory

07.04.2025

Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi Gail Lythgoe

In our third episode, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Gail Lythgoe, a Lecturer in Global Law at the University of Edinburgh, for an engaging discussion on the intersections of...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

Rechte Ohne Rechtssubjektivität?

26.03.2025

René Kuppe

Die Rechte der Natur finden weltweit zunehmend Eingang in Gerichtsverfahren. So kommt es, dass am 15. März 2024 auch erstmals vor einem peruanischen Gericht die Rechte eines Flusses und die...

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities – Second Season

2nd Episode: AI-Enabled Decision-Support Systems

24.03.2025

Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi Klaudia Klonowska

In the second episode, we welcome Klaudia Klonowska for an exploration of her research on the AI-enabled decision-support systems and their intra-actions with human judgement and international legal rules and...

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities – Second Season

1st Episode: New Digital Technologies and Global Security Governance

10.03.2025

Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi Dimitri Van Den Meerssche

In the first episode, we are pleased to welcome Dr Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, a Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS)...

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities – Second Season

Introducing the Second Seasons of Digital Echoes

10.03.2025

Delphine Dogot Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi Andrea Leiter Anna Sophia Tiedeke

With this second season of Digital Echoes, we expand the focus of our exploration for new normativities, lingering with ways of thinking, methodologies that may not immediately offer much in...

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Women in International Law Vol. 4

#44 Feminist Resistance in Armed Conflicts: Beyond Victimhood, Toward Justice

07.03.2025

Polina Kulish Rishiti Choudaha Céline Chausse Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Women play diverse and complex roles in armed conflicts – whether as combatants, peacebuilders, community organizers, or as those directly impacted by war, including through gender-based violence. Yet, international law...

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Women in International Law Vol. 4

Safety, Privacy, Self-ID

06.03.2025

Selin Altay

Germany’s Self Determination Act (Selbstbestimmungsgesetz or SBGG), which came fully into force on the 1st of November 2024 is welcomed both by hope and concern globally. The new law has...

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Women in International Law Vol. 4

Towards FIEL-ine (Feminist International Economic Law) Legalities

06.03.2025

Siobhán Airey

From Femina Economica … Recently, several measures in international economic law emerged with the aim of promoting women’s economic empowerment (examples here, here and here). Though broadly welcomed by both...

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Women in International Law Vol. 4

Gender, Climate, and the Illusion of Neutrality

05.03.2025

Dilruba Begüm Kartepe Mariia Zheltukha

This blog post examines the stance of the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’, ‘the Court’) in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland through a gender lens, questioning whether...

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Women in International Law Vol. 4

Though They Be But Little, They Are Fierce!

05.03.2025

Alana Malinde S.N. Lancaster

As a wicked problem (Rittel and Webber, 1973; Conradie, 2020), climate change is confirmed as the most pernicious of the triad of planetary crises experienced in the Anthropocene. An emergency...

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Women in International Law Vol. 4

Is Gender Apartheid the New Forced Marriage?

04.03.2025

Anjana Leena Sathy

Equality between men and women is inherent to the international human rights law framework. However, discrimination against women remains real, widespread, and in some cases institutionalized as gender apartheid –...

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Women in International Law Vol. 4

Gender Justice Denied at the ICC

04.03.2025

Melanie O'Brien Kathleen M. Maloney

The International Criminal Court's (ICC) June 2024 judgment in Al Hassan exemplifies the long-entrenched patriarchal biases endemic to international criminal law that ignores or minimizes systematic discrimination and violent crimes...

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Women in International Law Vol. 4

Filling the Gap

03.03.2025

Natali Gbele Hanna Welte

Wars are never gender-neutral. Gaza serves as a stark reminder of this reality, with nearly one million women and girls bearing "the worst brunt" of nine months of conflict, according...

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Women in International Law Vol. 4

Introducing the Fourth Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium

03.03.2025

Céline Chausse Rishiti Choudaha Polina Kulish Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog hosts the 'Women in International Law' symposium. Held each year during this week, it features...

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The Person Behind the Practitioner

In Conversation with Mario Oyarzábal

03.03.2025

Mario Oyarzábal Antonio José Guzmán Mutis

Ambassador Oyarzábal, thank you very much for accepting this invitation from the Völkerrechtsblog, which will constitute part of our new series: The Person Behind the Practitioner. I thank the Völkerrechtsblog...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

Antarktis und Amazonas als internationale Rechtssubjekte

27.02.2025

Helen Arling

Rechte und Rechtssubjektivität von Ökosystemen oder der Natur als Ganzes sind mittlerweile Teil von Rechtsordnungen weltweit. Über das nationale Recht hinaus fordern Rechtswissenschaftler:innen und Aktivist:innen nunmehr auch die Anerkennung von...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

Rights of Nature Through the History of Problematizations

26.02.2025

Nils Richterich

In 2022, the Spanish saltwater lagoon Mar Menor became the first ecosystem in Europe to be granted rights of nature. This widely celebrated success, which allows this ecosystem the “right...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

A Ring of Hope

25.02.2025

Daniela Bañuelos Hinojos

The text examines the current environmental challenges threatening the cenotes within the ‘Ring of Cenotes’ natural reserve in Yucatán State, Mexico. It briefly analyzes a case involving a large-scale pig...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

“Nature […] is Always Right”

25.02.2025

Camilla S. Haake

In recent years, the notion of “human interconnectedness” with the “non-human world” led to several legislative initiatives and court decisions granting legal subjectivity to nature and/or recognizing inherent “Rights of...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

Revolution of Rights, Rethinking of Freedom

24.02.2025

Franca Emilia Lorber

The debate on inherent rights of nature (RoN) is no longer uncharted domain. What initially emerged as a theoretical concept in the 1970s through the work of Christopher Stone, who...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

The Struggles of Rights of Nature

24.02.2025

Elena Ewering Andreas Gutmann Janina Reimann Tore Vetter

Social movements have always played a crucial role in determining the trajectory of world history. Today, all over the world, various actors of civil society demand for RoN). Ecuador’s pioneering...

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Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management: Data Protection and Fundamental Rights Concerns

The Processing of Health-Related Data in the Incoming European Travel Information and Authorisation System

11.02.2025

Francesca Tassinari

The European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) requires visa-exempt third-country nationals (TCNs) to complete an online application form to enter the Schengen Area for a short-stay visit. While applicants...

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Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management: Data Protection and Fundamental Rights Concerns

Under EUROSUR’s Watchful Eye

11.02.2025

Irene Baceiredo-Macho

The processing of migrants’ personal data by FRONTEX has raised many concerns over the past years, prompting the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) to investigate the matter on several occasions....

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Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management: Data Protection and Fundamental Rights Concerns

AI and Asylum in the EU Legal Framework

10.02.2025

Agnese Palazzi

In recent years, the European Union’s asylum system has seen the gradual integration of AI tools aimed at streamlining certain processes optimizing workflows. Since the stakes in asylum cases are...

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Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management: Data Protection and Fundamental Rights Concerns

Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management

10.02.2025

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Daniela Vitiello Giulia Raimondo Sara Arapiles

As migration management systems across the globe increasingly adopt advanced digital technologies, new challenges emerge at the intersection of technological innovations, human rights, and data protection. From artificial intelligence (dataAI)...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Ramona Vijeyarasa

07.02.2025

Ramona Vijeyarasa Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Ramona Vijeyarasa, and through the following questions, we will try to...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Dire Tladi

10.01.2025

Dire Tladi Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Judge Dire Tladi, and through the following questions, we will try to...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Philippa Webb

20.12.2024

Philippa Webb Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Philippa Webb, and through the following questions, we will try to...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Danish Sheikh

02.12.2024

Danish Sheikh Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Danish Sheikh, and through the following questions, we will try to...

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Climate Change Conference COP29

Climate Governance and the Energy Transition: Lessons from COP29

28.11.2024

Christoph Bertram Justine Batura

Dear Christoph, welcome to Völkerrechtsblog! We are delighted to have you join us for this interview. To begin, let’s delve into the realm of international climate governance. In terms of...

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Climate Change Conference COP29

Climate Justice or Market Expansion? Unpacking COP29’s Financing Decisions

28.11.2024

Bertha Iris Argueta Tejeda Justine Batura

Dear Bertha, welcome to Völkerrechtsblog. Thanks for agreeing to take the time to answer our questions so thoroughly. How do you assess the commitment of the states – particularly the...

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Climate Change Conference COP29

Missed Opportunities in a Microcosm of Broader Challenges

27.11.2024

Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh Khaled El Mahmoud

Dear Margaretha, a very warm welcome back! I believe that the overall sentiment among all of us was one of ambitious expectations for the outcomes of COP29, accompanied by a...

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Climate Change Conference COP29

Reversing Emissions

15.11.2024

Tony Cabus

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is an activity that consists in removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere to durably store it in geological, terrestrial, or ocean reservoirs or in products...

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Climate Change Conference COP29

Carbon Capture, Storage and Removal

15.11.2024

Lena Wammer Østgaard

To meet the climate targets of the Paris Agreement, fossil fuel use must be phased out. However, oil, gas, and coal remain primary energy sources for many countries and will...

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Climate Change Conference COP29

Litigating Corporate Responsibility for Climate-Related Loss and Damage

14.11.2024

Theresa Mockel Johannes Wendland

Every time damage occurs, the simple question arises: Who should pay for it? For lawyers, the answer is frequently found in the time-tested principles of tort law. It is widely...

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Climate Change Conference COP29

Addressing Loss and Damage at COP29 and Beyond

13.11.2024

Adrián Martínez Blanco Patrick Toussaint

In recent years, loss and damage (L&D) has shifted from the margins into the spotlight of multilateral negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). A key...

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Climate Change Conference COP29

Reassessing Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities

12.11.2024

Valerie Fajardo Alyssa Huffman Lorena Zenteno Villa

The Principle of ‘Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities’ (CBDR-RC) holds all states responsible for addressing human-driven climate change and environmental destruction but acknowledges that some states have historically...

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Climate Change Conference COP29

Setting the Scene for COP29

11.11.2024

Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh Khaled El Mahmoud

Dear Margaretha, we would like to express our gratitude for accepting our invitation and for agreeing to this interview. We are delighted to have the opportunity to engage in discourse...

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Climate Change Conference COP29

Climate Diplomacy in an Era of Permacrisis

11.11.2024

Justine Batura Khaled El Mahmoud

Humanity is facing in an era marked by turbulence, uncertainty, and instability. Increasingly referred to as a permacrisis, this period is defined by a series of complex and interconnected crises...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Iulia Motoc

08.11.2024

Iulia Motoc Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Judge Iulia Motoc, and through the following questions, we will try to...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Kathryn McNeilly

25.10.2024

Kathryn McNeilly Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Kathryn McNeilly, and through the following questions, we will try to...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Stewart Manley

11.10.2024

Stewart Manley Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Dr. Stewart Manley, and through the following questions, we will try to...

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International Law and the Political

The Private is Political

30.09.2024

León Castellanos-Jankiewicz Hendrik Simon

Despite its enormous growth in importance over the last 20 years or so, the History of International Law as an academic sub-discipline has so far widely neglected private international law....

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Seline Trevisanut

27.09.2024

Seline Trevisanut Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’! With us we have Prof. Seline Trevisanut, and through the following questions, we will try to...

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International Law and the Political

Between War and Peace – On the Logic and Language of Imperial Violence. An Interview with Lauren Benton

13.09.2024

Lauren Benton Hendrik Simon

The differentiation between war and peace is central to the historiography of international relations and international law. In her new book “They Called it Peace”, Lauren Benton shows how violence...