Of Foxes Guarding Chickens, and Their Fellow Foxes

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Of Foxes Guarding Chickens, and Their Fellow Foxes

30.04.2021

Isabella Risini Geir Ulfstein Andreas Zimmermann

Ever since the adoption of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the system of inter-State applications has constituted an inherent and indeed important part of its enforcement mechanism, as...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

A Promising Avenue to Explore from a Remedial Perspective

30.04.2021

Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen

Inter-State conflicts that reach the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today are all, with rare exceptions, highly political. They constitute conflicts that are rooted in a long history: the...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Could the Collective Guarantee Mechanism be Detrimental to Individuals’ International Litigation Capacity?

30.04.2021

Hélène Tigroudja

International Human Rights Bodies are familiar with the issue of coexistence of multiple adjudication proceedings. However, the issues currently raised by the increasing number of inter-State applications brought before the...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Enhancing Fact-finding in Inter-State Cases

29.04.2021

Philip Leach

At the April 2021 online conference, European Court of Human Rights President Robert Spano averred that inter-State cases present exceptional challenges for the Court, not least complex issues of jurisdiction...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Less is More

29.04.2021

Thilo Marauhn

Inter-state cases under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) are important but challenging. Ensuring a meaningful role for the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) means to address the...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Fact-Finding or Just Evidence Assessment?

29.04.2021

Alina Miron

The international adjudicatory system has developed few compulsory rules concerning the production, admissibility and weight of evidence. This is particularly true for judicial institutions like the International Tribunal for the...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Rethinking Friendly Settlements under the European Convention on Human Rights

28.04.2021

Nicola Wenzel

The issue of friendly settlements has been remarkably absent from most discussions on inter-State cases under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It is true that friendly settlements in...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Friendly Settlements as the Sleeping Beauty in Inter-State Cases

28.04.2021

Helen Keller Réka Piskóty

With their flexible legal framework, friendly settlements (‘FS’) before the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’) have proved helpful in managing the Court’s ever-growing caseload of individual applications (Keller et...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Towards an ‘Amicable Solution’ in the Universal Human Rights System

28.04.2021

David Keane

The 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is the first of the core UN human rights treaties. It has 182 States parties and...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Inter-State Cases in Disguise under Inter-American Human Rights Law

27.04.2021

Jorge Contesse

Unlike the European human rights system, where the amount of inter-State disputes is significant – and growing— the inter-State disputes mechanism under the inter-American human rights regime has had virtually...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

A Procedure Likely to Remain Rare in the African System

27.04.2021

Frans Viljoen

In the African regional human rights system, very little use has been made of inter-State communications. In this blogpost, I outline this particular kind of communications and analyse the most...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Interim Measures in Inter-State Proceedings

26.04.2021

Peter Tzeng

The views in this contribution are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of any institution with which the author is or has been affiliated....

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

The Way Forward

26.04.2021

Angelika Nußberger

In armed conflicts human righs violations are omnipresent. The victims are not counted one by one, but by the hundreds or thousands. For a court such as the European Court...

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Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

On Current Developments and Reforms

26.04.2021

Justine Batura Isabella Risini

What is the significance of inter-State cases within the European System of Human Rights? And what does their constant increase over the last decade mean for the European Court of...

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Interview
Völkerrechtslunch

Five Questions to Álvaro Nistal

26.04.2021

Lukas Kleinert Matthias C. Kettemann

PLEASE NOTE: there has been a change of date. The event will exceptionally take place on Tuesday (4th of May) instead of Monday, 3rd of May. On the 4th of...

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70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

‘Populate or Perish’ – Zu den Interessen Australiens und Venezuelas in den Verhandlungen der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention

20.04.2021

Sebastian Huhn

Die politische Aushandlung, Formulierung und Verabschiedung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention vor siebzig Jahren ging mit einer rassistisch gefärbten Modernisierungspolitik in Staaten des Globalen Südens einher, die es mitzuberücksichtigen gilt, wenn nach...

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70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

Eurozentrismus und strategische Interessen in der Wissensproduktion über Migration in den 1940er und 1950er Jahren

13.04.2021

Sebastian Huhn

Die politische Aushandlung, Formulierung und Verabschiedung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention von siebzig Jahren ging mit einem Wissen über Migration als einem global zu lösenden Problem einher, das es kritisch zu hinterfragen...

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Völkerrechtslunch

Fünf Fragen an PD Dr. Roman Schmidt-Radefeldt

12.04.2021

Lukas Kleinert Matthias C. Kettemann

Am 19. April 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Herr PD Dr. Roman Schmidt-Radefeldt der zehnte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Er ist Regierungsdirektor bei den Wissenschaftlichen Diensten des Deutschen Bundestages....

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70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

Before 1951, Outside Europe

06.04.2021

Jochen Lingelbach

The 1951 Refugee Convention and the UNHCR had a longer pre-history drawing on experiences influencing its further developments. A critical predecessor in this regard was the UN’s International Refugee Organization...

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Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

The Case for the Right to Defend Human Rights in Colombia

01.04.2021

Natalia Urzola Gutiérrez

The work of environmental and human rights defenders (EHRD) is pivotal in promoting human rights protection and strengthening democracies. It has been particularly important during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, EHRD...

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Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

When Two Wrongs Make a “Right”

31.03.2021

Achinthi Vithanage Robert Habermann

History has shown us that global crises have prompted strong human rights responses. The atrocities of the world wars led to a re-evaluation of the human condition that demanded the...

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70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

Colonial Effects on the Founding of the 1951 Refugee Convention

30.03.2021

Ulrike Krause

Whether internationally or nationally, law does not simply exist but is made by political actors; those involved thus have the power to set standards. Exactly this politicization of international refugee...

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70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

Koloniale Einflüsse auf die Gründung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention

30.03.2021

Ulrike Krause

Ob international oder national, Recht existiert nicht einfach, sondern wird stets von politischen Akteur*innen geschaffen. Die Beteiligten haben also die Macht, Standards zu setzen. Genau diese Politisierung des internationalen Flüchtlingsrechts...

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Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

The COVID-19 Response and the Right to a Healthy Environment in India

30.03.2021

Sathiabama. S Vedavalli. S

With the plight of the worldwide pandemic the need for humanity to protect the environment and maintain ecological balance became more apparent. While India’s lockdown led to reduced anthropogenic interference...

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Völkerrechtslunch

Fünf Fragen an Prof. Dr. Jörg Polakiewicz

29.03.2021

Lukas Kleinert Matthias C. Kettemann

Am 5. April 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Herr Prof. Dr. Jörg Polakiewicz der neunte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Er ist Direktor der Rechts- und Völkerrechtsabteilung des Europarates....

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Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

Awakening from “Sleeping Beauty’s” Slumber

29.03.2021

Monika Plozza

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the already fragile situation of vulnerable groups is in a downward spiral. The infringements of the human rights of vulnerable groups stirred by the current crisis are...

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Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

A Glimmer of Hope for All?

26.03.2021

Miguel Calmon Dantas

The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic causes serious risks for human beings and, therefore, challenges the human rights system and the capacity of governments to adopt quick and adequate measures....

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Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

Time to Counter “Vaccine Nationalism”?

26.03.2021

Claire-Marie Richter

To this date, states with access to vaccines against the new coronavirus are focusing exclusively on inoculating people under their jurisdiction. This process has been accurately described as “vaccine nationalism”....

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Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

Grow Together or Perish Alone

25.03.2021

Daniel Noroña

The COVID-19 health crisis has shown that public institutions can tackle major crises with a collaborative approach. During the Aspen Security Forum in 2020, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated:...

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Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

Using Human Security to Harness Human Rights in the Post-COVID World

24.03.2021

Alexander Gilder

In a global pandemic, it is commonplace to look toward global solutions for global issues. But the pandemic has highlighted how states cannot unilaterally counter complex threats that cross borders...

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70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

“Nowhere to be found”: Three Decades of UNHCR in South Africa

23.03.2021

Franzisca Zanker

Though the UNHCR in South Africa go to great efforts to be neutral and provide the best possible assistance to those seeking refuge, by design they have to work together...

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Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

Queer(ing) Vulnerabilities and Human Rights

23.03.2021

Bérénice K. Schramm

When asked about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on their community, Deniz Deniz, the owner of a famous LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, Queer, Intersex and Asexual) bar in...

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Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

COVID-19 and “New” Human Rights Symposium

22.03.2021

Maria Antonia Tigre Anna-Julia Saiger Nesa Zimmermann

Legal debates on the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the urgently needed containment measures, the distribution of vaccines, and the protection of human rights are flourishing. A year after the WHO declared...

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70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

Parallel Lives: The Geneva Refugee Convention and the Federal Expellee Law

17.03.2021

Jannis Panagiotidis

The Geneva Refugee Convention is not the only piece of postwar refugee law to survive into the present. The 1953 West German Federal Expellee Law is in many ways a...

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70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

Parallele Leben

17.03.2021

Jannis Panagiotidis

Die Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention (GFK) ist nicht das einzige Dokument des Flüchtlingsrechts der Nachkriegszeit, das bis in die Gegenwart überdauert hat. Das 1953 erlassene westdeutsche Bundesvertriebenengesetz (BVFG) ist ein in vielerlei...

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70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

Globale Entwicklungen, Errungenschaften und Herausforderungen

16.03.2021

Ulrike Krause Dana Schmalz

*** for the English version, see below *** Das UN-Flüchtlingshilfswerk (UNHCR) und die Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention stellen die wichtigsten Säulen des internationalen Flüchtlingsschutzregimes dar. Beide gehen auf das Jahr 1951 zurück,...

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70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

70 Jahre UNHCR und Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention: Globale Entwicklungen

16.03.2021

Ulrike Krause Dana Schmalz

*** for the English version, see below *** Für das globale Flüchtlingsregime stellte 1951 ein wegweisendes Jahr dar. UNHCR nahm die Arbeit im Januar 1951 auf und das Abkommen über...

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Völkerrechtslunch

Fünf Fragen an Dr. Katja Göcke

15.03.2021

Lukas Kleinert Matthias C. Kettemann

Am 22. März 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Frau Dr. Katja Göcke der achte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Frau Dr. Katja Göcke ist Rechtsanwältin bei GvW – Graf...

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Investment Law and Human Rights

The space between human rights and the right to regulate

13.03.2021

Tomer Broude Caroline Henckels

We are thankful for the opportunity provided by Völkerrechtsblog and the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) to discuss our recent article on the loss-gain frame of investor rights and human rights...

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Investment Law and Human Rights

Human rights in the hyphen: reframing investor-state arbitration through the duty to regulate

12.03.2021

Oliver Hailes

International investment law is commonly associated with the priority of the global over the local, the private over the public, the economic over the social. A leitmotif of the Leiden...

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Investment Law and Human Rights

Reply: Looking for a saviour in international investment law?

11.03.2021

Moshe Hirsch

I am grateful to Silvia Steininger for her thought-provoking comments ('From the Margins to the Center - Can Social Movements Save International Investment Law?'). From the first time I encountered...

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Investment Law and Human Rights

From the margins to the center – can social movements save international investment law?

10.03.2021

Silvia Steininger

Can social movements save international investment law? There have been few works in international law, which have been as decisive for my research interests than Moshe Hirsch’s rich and interdisciplinary...

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Investment Law and Human Rights

Symposium on international investment law and human rights

09.03.2021

Isabel Daum Fabian Simon Eichberger

International investment law and human rights law share an uneasy relationship. Ever since the problematic interaction between the two areas of law entered mainstream discourse over a decade ago, the...

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Völkerrechtslunch

Fünf Fragen an Dr. Christiane Höhn

08.03.2021

Lukas Kleinert Matthias C. Kettemann

Am 15. März 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Frau Dr. Christiane Höhn der siebte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Frau Dr. Christiane Höhn, LL.M. (Harvard) ist die führende Beraterin...

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Dialing into Jessup

Call for contributions: Dialing into Jessup

04.03.2021

Alicia Köppen

The 2021 Jessup season is in full swing with national competitions being carried out these weeks and the International Rounds just around the corner. This year differs significantly from past...

Interview
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Völkerrechtslunch

Fünf Fragen an Dr. Nicola Wenzel

01.03.2021

Lukas Kleinert Matthias C. Kettemann

Am 8. März 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Frau Dr. Nicola Wenzel der sechste Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Frau Dr. Wenzel ist Leiterin des Referats IV C 1...

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The role of the ILC

Experts’ interpretations of treaties

26.02.2021

Richard Gardiner

Danae Azaria’s article makes a very valuable contribution to the understanding of interpretation in international law and of the significant role of the ILC. It prompts further thoughts regarding experts’...

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The role of the ILC

Counsel to sovereign states

25.02.2021

Alejandro Celorio Alcántara

The International Law Commission’s (ILC) invaluable work has been the first stepping-stone for the creation of many treaties. However, its work must not be considered as a source for States’...

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The role of the ILC

The International Law Commission as a sui generis organ?

24.02.2021

Lorenzo Gasbarri

Danae Azaria’s article is set to be an essential reference for the study of the International Law Commission’s (ILC) mandate concerning the codification and progressive development of international law. In...

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The role of the ILC

The outside keeps creeping in: On the impossibility of engaging in purely doctrinal scholarship

23.02.2021

Sué González Hauck

Danae Azaria’s article is a perfect example of a specific genre of international law scholarship: an ‘orthodox’ account that wishes to stay neatly within the lines that legal doctrine draws...

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The role of the ILC

Multiple actors, one task: the joint responsibility of international law making

22.02.2021

Marja Lehto

The 70th anniversary of the International Law Commission (ILC), celebrated in 2018, has provided an opportunity to reflect on the Commission’s role in international law-making and its continued relevance at...

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The role of the ILC

The International Law Commission as an interpreter of international law?

22.02.2021

Justine Batura Sué González Hauck Sophie Schuberth

The role of the International Law Commission (ILC), as the subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly charged with the promotion and codification of progressive development of international law, has...

Interview
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Völkerrechtslunch

Fünf Fragen an Dr. Cristina Verones

15.02.2021

Lukas Kleinert Matthias C. Kettemann

Am 22. Februar 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Frau Dr. Cristina Verones der fünfte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Frau Dr. Cristina Verones ist Diplomatin für die Schweiz. In...

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Interview
Völkerrechtslunch

Fünf Fragen an RA Wolfgang Kaleck

01.02.2021

Lukas Kleinert Matthias C. Kettemann

Am 08. Februar 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Herr Rechtsanwalt Wolfgang Kaleck der vierte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Herr Rechtsanwalt Wolfgang Kaleck ist Fachanwalt für Strafrecht sowie Generalsekretär...

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Völkerrechtslunch

Fünf Fragen an Gyde Jensen

26.01.2021

Lukas Kleinert Matthias C. Kettemann

Am 01. Februar 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Gyde Jensen der dritte Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe “Völkerrechtslunches“. Frau Abgeordnete Jensen ist seit 2017 Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages. Dort leitet...

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Call for Contributions: COVID-19 and “New” Human Rights

19.01.2021

Maria Antonia Tigre Nesa Zimmermann Anna-Julia Saiger

COVID-19 has spread all over the world, unequivocally reaching countries of very different socio-economic development. Yet, COVID-19 has unequally affected different groups and communities around the world and continues to...

Interview
Symposium
Völkerrechtslunch

Fünf Fragen an Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann

18.01.2021

Lukas Kleinert Matthias C. Kettemann

Am 25. Januar 2021 (12 bis 13 Uhr) ist Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann der zweite Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe "Völkerrechtslunches". Er ist Professor für Öffentliches Recht, insb. Europa- und Völkerrecht...

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Völkerrechtslunch

Fünf Fragen an Dr. Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger

05.01.2021

Lukas Kleinert Matthias C. Kettemann

Am 11. Januar 2021 ist Dr. Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger der erste Gast in unserer Gesprächsreihe "Völkerrechtslunches". Sie war 2020 Präsidentin des UN-Menschenrechtsrates und ist Ständige Vertreterin Österreichs bei den Vereinten Nationen in Genf. In insgesamt zwölf Online-Gesprächsterminen...

Book review
Symposium
The Battle for International Law

Decolonization as Dialectic Process in Law and Literature

31.12.2020

Laura Nyantung Beny

The Battle for International Law addresses the South-North contest over the content and structure of international law during the period of decolonization in the global South (1955-1975). Edited volumes are...

Book review
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The Battle for International Law

Worthy of the “increasingly global perspective”?

30.12.2020

Christian Pogies

Considering the debates on current backlashes against international law and the international rule of law, the matter of a peaceful ocean governance has come under pressure. This is due not...

Book review
Symposium
The Battle for International Law

It’s the system, stupid!

29.12.2020

Sué González Hauck

The title of The Battle for International Law evokes Rudolf von Jhering’s (“The Struggle / Battle for Law”). In this work, Jhering describes law as the product of struggle between...

Book review
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The Battle for International Law

Water under the bridge?

28.12.2020

Sujith Xavier

Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann’s ‘The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era’ (Battle for International Law) is an ambitious undertaking. The editors along with their...

Book review
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Interview
The Battle for International Law

“‘The West’ might not exist anymore”

24.12.2020

Christian Pogies Anna-Julia Saiger Sebastian Spitra

This interview is the beginning of a book symposium on Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann´s edited volume on The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era...

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Empty Chairs

Avenues for victims of enforced disappearances in The Gambia

23.12.2020

Eric Bizimana

In Africa, enforced disappearances occur in multiple situations such as during armed conflicts, in the fight against terrorism, in policing migration, or in dictatorial regimes. It has been used for...

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Empty Chairs

99’000 disappeared and counting

23.12.2020

Fadel Abdul Ghany

It is estimated that about 1.2 million Syrian citizens have been arrested and detained at some point since March 2011. During this period, an estimated number of 99 000 persons...

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Empty Chairs

Setting precedents at the UN

22.12.2020

Suzanne Seiller Juan Carlos Gutiérrez

Mexico suffers from an entrenched situation of violence, with gross human rights violations committed daily since 2006, when the “war against organized crime” was started by former President Calderón. The...

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Empty Chairs

An unattainable dream

21.12.2020

Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso

Ten years have passed since the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED or the Convention). It seems to be only yesterday...

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Empty Chairs

New wine in old bottles

21.12.2020

Dilek Kurban

On 16 June 2017, 40-year-old Murat Okumuş was abducted in broad daylight by several plainclothes men in Izmir, Turkey’s third largest metropole. The abductors arrived in two unmarked cars, pushed Mr. Okumuş into one...

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Empty Chairs

Unlocatable Violence

19.12.2020

Christina Varvia

Enforced disappearance is not simply the act of violence of its constituent parts: of detention, torture, inhumane treatment, murder. Enforced disappearance operates on a different political register: it not only...

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Empty Chairs

(Enforced) disappearances – when state and criminal perpetrators blur

18.12.2020

Janice Gallagher

Mexico intellectual and organizer Gustavo Esteva uses “lodo” (lit. mud, Spanish), as an analogy to talk about violence in Mexico. For Esteva, the State and organized crime are no longer separate entities –...

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Empty Chairs

Excluding enforced disappearances from military jurisdiction

18.12.2020

Catherine Kent

Enforced disappearances often result in impunity, which is a “distinctive trait” of such crimes (UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, 2020 Annual Report, paras. 1, 93). A range of factors can contribute...

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Empty Chairs

Bringing home the remains of forcibly disappeared persons

17.12.2020

Grażyna Baranowska

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it impossible for millions of people around the globe to say goodbye to their loved ones or to bury them according to their beliefs. This situation...

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Empty Chairs

The vicious cycle of impunity

16.12.2020

Ana Srovin Coralli Pamela Favre

Despite being a country where disappearances have been committed for decades, El Salvador’s approach towards the search for disappeared persons and prosecution of these crimes remains under-explored by the international community....

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Empty Chairs

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances

16.12.2020

Albane Prophette-Pallasco Anna Batalla Trilla

With the ratification of the 2006 International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED), States officially confirm their commitment to fight against enforced disappearances and to prevent their...

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Empty Chairs

Non-judicial search for disappeared persons

15.12.2020

Luciano Hazan

In view of the failure of the criminal justice systems, which have been unable to make effective progress in the investigation and search for disappeared persons, a new model of...

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Empty Chairs

Disappeared migrants and refugees

15.12.2020

Barbara Lochbihler Silke Voß-Kyeck Grażyna Baranowska

Every year thousands of migrants and refugees disappear en route to reach their destination country or in the host country itself. While this phenomenon has been articulated recently in the...

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Empty Chairs

A precursor to comprehensive perspectives on Enforced Disappearances

14.12.2020

Antonia Urrejola Noguera

Enforced disappearance is one of the most atrocious criminal behaviours: its intention is to erase a person from his or her environment, to hide his or her whereabouts and thus...

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Empty Chairs

A decade of victim-centred approaches

12.12.2020

Carmen Rosa Villa Quintana

“¿Dónde están? Vivos se los llevaron, vivos los queremos!” (lit. Where are they? Alive they were taken, alive we want them!) is the cry of the relatives of disappeared persons....

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Empty Chairs

My story: a case of enforced disappearance

11.12.2020

Raza Mahmood Khan

My name is Raza Mahmood Khan and I have been disappeared for seven months. I am a peace educator and have worked actively with children across the border of India...

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Empty Chairs

Empty chairs

10.12.2020

Justine Batura Nesa Zimmermann

“Enforced disappearance is a particularly heinous crime”. This phrase has been repeated time and again by civil society organisations and UN experts, and states have condemned this crime countless times....

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Empty Chairs

Call for Contributions: Symposium on Enforced Disappearances

03.11.2020

Justine Batura Nesa Zimmermann

The year 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED) and the 40th anniversary...

Book review
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Crimes Against Humanity

Transnational biographies and “legal flows”

02.10.2020

Kerstin von Lingen

I feel honoured by the inspiring comments my book has received from so many eminent colleagues, and I would like to thank everybody, and also the Völkerrechtsblog for the opportunity...

Book review
Symposium
Crimes Against Humanity

A melody for legal reform?

01.10.2020

Elena Kempf

In Crimes Against Humanity, Kerstin von Lingen proposes a twofold argument about the history of the eponymous concept. First, von Lingen emphasizes the longue-durée history of crimes against humanity as...

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Symposium
Crimes Against Humanity

A (time) travelling concept

28.09.2020

Annette Weinke

In May 2001, the French National Assembly passed the so-called Lois Taubina which retroactively decreed the colonial slave trade as a "crime against humanity". In 2019, Pope Francis publicly called...

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Crimes Against Humanity

Civilizing wartime violence?

24.09.2020

Daniel Marc Segesser

For many years, legal concepts were a domain of legal analysis in which the historical context was hardly addressed. This has slowly changed since the beginning of the 21st century,...

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Crimes Against Humanity

A matter of evolution, not invention

23.09.2020

Philippe Sands

On the morning of Sunday July 29th 1945, Robert Jackson, recently named as Chief Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal to be established in Nuremberg, was driven from his hotel...

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Crimes Against Humanity

Symposium introduction: crimes against humanity

22.09.2020

Sebastian Spitra Anna Sophia Tiedeke

This post is the opening of a symposium on Kerstin von Lingen’s award-winning book Crimes Against Humanity. Eine Ideengeschichte der Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt 1864–1945. The book looks at the intellectual...

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Interview
Book review
Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity

Indigenous peoples and biodiversity law in Ecuador

08.07.2020

Alexandra Tomaselli Daqui Lema Maldonado

The book symposium on Federica Cittadino’s attempt to incorporate indigenous rights in international biodiversity law raised various theoretical and practical issues for international legal scholarship. But how is the link...

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Book review
Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity

Incorporating indigenous rights in the CBD

30.06.2020

Federica Cittadino

Let me start by thanking the symposium’s editors and the three researchers that have accepted to review my work for their thoughtful comments and for sparking a lively discussion. In...

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Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity

Two opposing commitments?

29.06.2020

Mauro Barelli

Federica Cittadino’s book examines the tension that underpins the relationship between two key commitments undertaken by the international community, namely the commitment to protect indigenous people’s rights and the commitment...

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Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity

Indigenous power beyond human rights

26.06.2020

Lucas Lixinski

Indigenous power in international law has long been subsumed under the language of international human rights, and we have turned ourselves blind to other possibilities in international law that Indigenous...

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Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity

Traditional knowledge and customary law

25.06.2020

Giada Giacomini

While the world’s 370 million of persons belonging to an Indigenous people account for less than five percent of the total human population, they hold tenure over 25 percent of...

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Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity

Incorporating indigenous rights in the international regime on biodiversity protection

24.06.2020

Sebastian Spitra Anna-Julia Saiger

This post is the first of a series of four that will discuss Federica Cittadino’s book Incorporating Indigenous Rights in the International Regime on Biodiversity Protection. Access, Benefit-sharing and Conservation...

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The Corporation, Law and Capitalism

Perfect pandemic reading

21.06.2020

Grietje Baars

I am very excited about my book being discussed in the Völkerrechtsblog and grateful to Michael Bader for organising it, and for the six readers taking their time to dip...

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The Corporation, Law and Capitalism

Between utopia and affirmation of the status quo

20.06.2020

Miriam Saage-Maaß

For someone who has been working in the field of so-called strategic litigation against multinational corporations in international (criminal) law and other fields of national law for more than a...

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The Corporation, Law and Capitalism

International law and capitalist logic of exploitation

19.06.2020

Hannah Franzki

The Corporation, Law and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy is a loud book. The author promises to "radically" change our view...

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The Corporation, Law and Capitalism

Internationales Recht und kapitalistische Verwertungslogik

19.06.2020

Hannah Franzki

The Corporation, Law and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy ist ein lautes Buch. Die Autor*in verspricht, auf “radikale” Weise unseren Blick...

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The Corporation, Law and Capitalism

Of law(s) and capitalism(s)

18.06.2020

Klaas Eller

The thrive for corporate accountability has given rise to some of the most vivid legal developments since the post-war era. In a liberal logic and from the vantage point of...

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The Corporation, Law and Capitalism

Rechtsform(en) jenseits des Kapitalismus?

17.06.2020

Johan Horst

The Corporation, Law and Capitalism ist ein wichtiges Buch. Mit einem historisch-materialistischen Fokus auf die rechtliche Konfigurierung des Unternehmens als Rechtsperson zeigt Grietje Baars exemplarisch die Rolle des Rechts für...