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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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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...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Machiko Kanetake

13.09.2024

Machiko Kanetake Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

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

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International Law and the Political

Towards Realistic Universalism?, or: Provincializing Realism! An Interview with Matthew Specter

11.09.2024

Matthew G. Specter Hendrik Simon

In his book The Atlantic Realists, Matthew Specter presents a genealogy of modern realism as a discourse between US-American and German intellectuals. An interview about the origins of the central...

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

Contrapuntal Readings of/in/through International Law

02.08.2024

Michelle Staggs Kelsall

Fugue Liberal Legal Order Re:dux, Re:boot, Re:turn. “The liberal international legal order is dead. Long live the liberal international legal order!” This, it seems, remains the paradox of our contemporary...

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

Is “Dis/ordering International Law” the Panacea to the Many Frustrations Found in Critical International Legal Scholarship?

01.08.2024

Amaka Vanni

re:sources Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Sabanoh Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (mehr …)

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

‘To Do Away with All Mediation’

01.08.2024

Umut Özsu

re:sources Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Sabanoh Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (mehr …)

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

‘Re/de/composing’ International Law

31.07.2024

Marie Petersmann

juris:generative Maya Youssef, Breakthrough Classic FM session Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (mehr …)

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

Palestine, Israel and the (Dis)ordering of International Law

31.07.2024

Michelle Burgis-Kasthala

juris:generative Maya Youssef, Breakthrough Classic FM session Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (mehr …)

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

Dreaming of ‘Disorder’ and Imagining Reimagination

30.07.2024

Gamze Erdem Türkelli

response:ability Anna Tijoux, Niñx Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (mehr …)

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

Governmentalities of Disorder

30.07.2024

Dimitri Van Den Meerssche

response:ability Anna Tijoux, Niñx Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (mehr …)

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

Organising International Law

30.07.2024

Fleur Johns

response:ability Anna Tijoux, Niñx Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (mehr …)

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

(Dis)ordering Anthropocentric Hierarchies

29.07.2024

Adithi Rajesh

state:hood Nitin Sawnhey, Homelands Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (mehr …)

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

Reflections in Art

29.07.2024

Rose Sydney Parfitt Michelle Staggs Kelsall

state:hood Nitin Sawnhey, Homelands Michelle Staggs Kelsall on Dis:Order (mehr …)

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

Embracing ‘Pataphysics of International Law

29.07.2024

Sué González Hauck Anna Sophia Tiedeke

When walking down Hobrechtstraße in Berlin-Neukölln, Germany on the last weekend of June 2024, it was hard not to contemplate questions of order and disorder. Two persons dressed in what...

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Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space

Know Your Enemy and Know Yourself

13.06.2024

Johannes Socher

Five years into the submission of my doctoral thesis and three years after the publication of “Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space”, Polina Kulish’s and Tero...

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Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space

Zombie Self-Determination?

12.06.2024

Bill Bowring

As part of our mission to foster OA, we regularly collaborate with publishers and journals. For this review symposium, Bill Bowring’s review ‘Zombie Self-Determination?’ of Johannes Socher’s monograph ‘Russia and...

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Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space

A Journey for Understanding (Part II)

12.06.2024

Polina Kulish Tero Lundstedt

This is Part II of the Book Review on Johannes Socher’s “Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space” (Oxford University Press, 2021). You can read Part I...

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Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space

A Journey for Understanding (Part I)

11.06.2024

Polina Kulish Tero Lundstedt

This is Part I of the Book Review on Johannes Socher’s “Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space” (Oxford University Press, 2021). You can read Part II...

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Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space

Lingering at the Borders of an Argument

11.06.2024

Christian Pogies Anna Sophia Tiedeke

Any claim to the Right to Self-Determination is an exercise in reconsidering “belonging” under international law. Akin to a prism, it draws our attention to the contact zones between international...

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International Law and the Political

Global Histories of International Law’s Practice in Wartime

04.06.2024

Boyd van Dijk Hendrik Simon

While we talked about the making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions in Part I of our interview with Boyd van Dijk, the second part is about more global histories of...

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International Law and the Political

Ordering the Power to Protect and Destroy Civilian Lives

03.06.2024

Boyd van Dijk Hendrik Simon

The four 1949 Geneva Conventions – the most important rules ever formulated for regulating warfare – were shaped by liberal humanitarianism and the idea of progress through international law. In...

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Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries

Author’s Response to the Reviews

31.05.2024

Vladislava Stoyanova

I would like to thank Elena Abrusci, Maria Louiza Deftou, Vassilis Tzevelekos, Lea Raible, Mariana Ferolla Vallandro do Valle and Rick Lawson who contributed to the blog symposium by engaging...

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Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries

Oasis or Mirage?

30.05.2024

Rick Lawson

Into the Desert Paradoxically, the longest chapter in Vladislava Stoyanova’s book on positive obligations is devoted to the desert: the grim and arid lands extra muros. Where States operate beyond...

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Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries

Positive Obligations, Extraterritoriality, and the Kind of Society We Want

29.05.2024

Mariana Ferolla Vallandro do Valle

As our awareness of social problems evolves and an increasing variety of complex scenarios call for assessment under human rights lenses, it becomes increasingly evident that determining the content of...

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Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries

Climate Change and Positive Obligations in the ECHR

29.05.2024

Lea Raible

Stoyanova’s book, Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries, rigorously analyses positive obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), proposing a characterisation...

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Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries

In Dialogue with Stoyanova

28.05.2024

Vassilis P. Tzevelekos

Vladislava Stoyanova’s recently published monograph on positive human rights obligations within the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) regime consolidates various earlier seminal papers of hers on the same topic...

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Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries

Delineating the Boundaries of Substantive Positive Obligations

28.05.2024

Maria-Louiza Deftou

Given the duality of human rights law, encompassing not only the corpus of human rights proclaimed in treaties but also the necessary specification of the relative obligations of their holders,...

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Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries

Positive Obligations, Deference and Subsidiarity

27.05.2024

Elena Abrusci

International human rights law and its enforcement systems rely on the collaboration of states to respect their obligations and protect rights. It follows that even when regional human rights courts...

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Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries

Introducing the Book Review Symposium on ‘Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries’

27.05.2024

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) has played a prominent role in the development of positive obligations while interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Variable factual...

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Bridging Epistemic Divides in Cultural Heritage Research

Navigating the Complex Interplay of Politics, Conservation, and Community in World Heritage Management

23.05.2024

Tejas Rao Elisa Fallani Roger Negredo Tatiana Rozochkina

Where heritage sites are not just cultural landmarks but also political tools, the question of epistemic authority - who decides things, and how - in heritage management becomes impossible to...

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Bridging Epistemic Divides in Cultural Heritage Research

Private Heritage Management for World Heritage City

22.05.2024

Manvita Baradi Anurag Anthony

This contribution explores the hurdles faced by private heritage building owners in availing the benefits of heritage tradable development rights (HTDR) – a floor space index (FSI)/ floor area ratio...

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Bridging Epistemic Divides in Cultural Heritage Research

A World of Its Own

22.05.2024

Sabrina Ferrazzi

The field of cultural heritage is dominated by numerous heterogeneous interests (see for instance Starrenburg, Baradi and Anthony). When cultural property is at stake, debates may arise if, for instance,...

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Bridging Epistemic Divides in Cultural Heritage Research

Refusal and Loss in Cultural Heritage Law

21.05.2024

Sophie Starrenburg

UNESCO’s heritage lists are one of the greatest success stories of the organisation. Even to those unacquainted with cultural heritage law, many will be familiar with the World Heritage List,...

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Bridging Epistemic Divides in Cultural Heritage Research

When Did Everyone Start Talking About Heritage Restitution? And What Does International Law Have to Do with This?

21.05.2024

Anaïs Mattez

Not that long ago, few questions were asked around museums, the objects they own and the histories of how they landed on display. In popular culture, a scene in the...

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Bridging Epistemic Divides in Cultural Heritage Research

Bridging Epistemic Divides

20.05.2024

Jadé Botha Raghavi Viswanath Jessica Wiseman

This symposium invites readers to think with us and the authors about bridging epistemic divides both in the theory and practice of heritage policy. While the symposium continues the discussions...

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ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine

The Monroe Doctrine in an Age of Anti-Interventionism

13.05.2024

Hubert Zimmermann

How have the premises and ambiguities of the Monroe Doctrine been reflected in American debates about military intervention abroad, and how did they re-appear (if at all) in current debates...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Pierre Thielbörger

10.05.2024

Pierre Thielbörger Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

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

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Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog

Völkerrechtsblog at 10 Years

03.05.2024

Raffaela Kunz Dana Schmalz

Saying that Völkerrechtsblog is a remarkable success story is not an empty phrase we utter on its 10th anniversary. Looking at the blog today, it is hard to believe that...

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Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog

Happy Birthday, Völkerrechtsblog!

03.05.2024

Pierre Thielbörger

I became involved with the blog first in the scientific advisory board eight years ago. In this time, I have realized how much effort, stress resistance, and creativity goes into...

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Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog

Revisiting a Rejoinder on past Wrongs

03.05.2024

Felix Würkert

As the Völkerrechtsblog turns ten, I have the pleasure of revisiting an old blog post, asking myself how it has aged, what has changed since and how the post came...

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Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog

In the Tenth Year of the War

02.05.2024

Timothy William Waters

In 2014, I was invited to write a post on Ukraine. Everyone understood Ukraine’s crisis mattered, and wouldn’t be short, so I wrote three. Instead of discussing doctrinal unniceties, I...

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Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog

Revisiting “The Right to Land”

01.05.2024

Robin Ramsahye

First and foremost, I would like to thank Völkerrechtsblog for allowing me to rediscover and discuss my 2016 blog post. At the time of writing, I felt it was necessary...

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Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog

Debating Cosmopolitan Law – 9 Years On

30.04.2024

Christoph Brendel

When this esteemed blog was still in its infancy, I contributed a fictional conversation with two giants of philosophy and international law: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Georg Friedrich von Martens...

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Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog

“The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same?”

29.04.2024

Sué González Hauck Meike Krakau Isabel Lischewski

At Völkerrechtsblog, we have quite frequently wondered about time, speed, timing, and temporalities. For example, when drafting an editorial for a ten-year anniversary, there is considerable temptation initially to divide...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Vladyslav Lanovoy

29.03.2024

Vladyslav Lanovoy Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

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

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ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine

The Imperial Project of France in Mexico and the “Official” Absence of the Monroe Doctrine

22.03.2024

Tania Atilano

In 1896 American historian Frederic Bancroft wrote that the “(…) Monroe Doctrine was absolutely superfluous during the French Intervention as it was no part of International Law”. Indeed, the case...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with André Nollkaemper

15.03.2024

André Nollkaemper Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

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

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

Supply Chain Laws and Women’s Rights

08.03.2024

Jessical Holl

Supply Chain Laws are at the center of the debate considering business and human rights, especially after the enactment of such laws by France and Germany and the discussions developed...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

Staining International Law

08.03.2024

Lea Barbara Kuhlmann

“Women are born with pain built in. It’s our physical destiny – period pains, sore boobs, childbirth. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives.” Belinda in Fleabag, Series 2,...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

A Call for A Feminist Perspective on Enforced Disappearances

07.03.2024

Ioanna Pervou

The prohibition on enforced disappearances is a rather novel human right, set out in the 2010 International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED). Since then,...

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Bofaxe
Women in International Law Vol. 3

Public Health as a Strategic Instrument

07.03.2024

Selin Altay

Public health as a policy pursuit and a legally prescribed goal has consistently served as a veneer for the implementation of discriminatory policies. Migration laws and policies have also played...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

Forgotten Victims

06.03.2024

María Emilia Lehne Cerrón

From 1980 to 2000 Peru was experiencing one of the bloodiest periods of its recent history. An internal armed conflict and a sterilization program implemented by the government led to...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

Indian Women v. Indian Armed Forces

06.03.2024

Sai Harshini Valluri

Sexual violence and crimes against women are commonplace in India. With judicial remedy running at a painfully slow pace, high-profile politicians condemning rapes is nothing but lip service to women...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

To Participate or Not to Participate?

05.03.2024

Alessia Mandaglio

Survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) are often portrayed as passive and trauma-ridden individuals whose participation in social, political and economic life and community reintegration are hindered by stigma, shame...