Chatting with Stewart Manley

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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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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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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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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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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...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

Reversing Disability Discrimination in Armed Conflict

05.03.2024

Erin Lyons

An estimated 1.3 billion people, approximately 16 per cent of the world population, live with some form of disability, with substantially higher rates in conflict-affected populations. In armed conflict, the...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

A Much-Needed Queer Look at International Humanitarian Law

04.03.2024

Hannah Nieratzky

People with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities (SOGI) are particularly vulnerable in times of conflict. However, due to the gender binary it is based on, international humanitarian law (IHL)...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

Introducing the Third Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium

04.03.2024

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog celebrates women in international law with the annual ‘Women in International Law’ symposium. The...

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities in International Law and Technology

8th Episode: Closing Conversation

01.03.2024

Daniela Gandorfer Mireille Hildebrandt Gregor Noll Andrea Leiter Delphine Dogot

In this final session of our first season Andrea Leiter and Delphine Dogot are joined by Daniela Gandorfer, lecturer at the University of Westminster, Mireille Hildebrandt, Professor for Interfacing Law...

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities in International Law and Technology

7th Episode: International Trade Law and Global Data Governance

29.02.2024

Neha Mishra Andrea Leiter Delphine Dogot

Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, discusses her work on Trade Law and Global Data Governance together with Andrea Leiter and Delphine Dogot. (mehr …)

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities in International Law and Technology

6th Episode: Sovereignty and the Law of Surveillance

29.02.2024

Beatriz Botero Arcila Andrea Leiter Delphine Dogot

Beatriz Botero Arcila, Assistant Professor at Sciences Po Law School, introduces her thoughts on Sovereignty and the Law of Surveillance and discusses them with Andrea Leiter and Delphine Dogot. (mehr …)

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities in International Law and Technology

5th Episode: Terrorism through the Eyes of the Algorithm

28.02.2024

Tasniem Anwar Andrea Leiter Delphine Dogot

Tasniem Anwar, Assistant Professor at the Vrije University Amsterdam, discusses terrorism in the eyes of the algorithm together with Andrea Leiter and Delphine Dogot. (mehr …)

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities in International Law and Technology

4th Episode: International Law Becomes a Cyborg Science

28.02.2024

John Haskell Andrea Leiter Delphine Dogot

John Haskell, Professor of Law at the University of Manchester, describes how international law is or is not becoming a cyborg science and discusses his ideas with Andrea Leiter and...

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities in International Law and Technology

3rd Episode: Emerging Technologies and International Governance

27.02.2024

Outi Korhonen Andrea Leiter Delphine Dogot

Outi Korhonen, Professor of Law at the University of Turku, discusses emerging technologies and international governance with Andrea Leiter and Delphine Dogot. (mehr …)

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities in International Law and Technology

2nd Episode: New Modes of Law-Making and Resistance in the Digital Age

27.02.2024

Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi Andrea Leiter Delphine Dogot

Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Delphine Dogot and Andrea Leiter discuss new modes of law making and resistance in Artificial Intelligence. (mehr …)

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities in International Law and Technology

1st Episode: Opening Conversation

26.02.2024

Matilda Arvidsson Fleur Johns Dimitri Van Den Meerssche Andrea Leiter Delphine Dogot

Andrea Leiter, Delphine Dogot, Matilda Arvidsson, Fleur Johns and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche explore different ways of how they came to engage with international law and technology. (mehr …)

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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities in International Law and Technology

Introducing Digital Echoes

26.02.2024

Delphine Dogot Andrea Leiter Anna Sophia Tiedeke Noah Boerhave Daniela Rau

The first season of “Digital Echoes” brings together leading scholars in international law, international relations and legal theory to present their work and discuss the implications of an ever-increasing digitisation...

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International Law and the Political

On Struggle and Contextualised History

13.02.2024

Steven L.B. Jensen Hendrik Simon

While we talked about new histories of social rights in Part I of our interview, the second part of the interview with Steven Jensen is about political history and the...

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International Law and the Political

Against the Historiographical Hierarchization of Human Rights

12.02.2024

Steven L.B. Jensen Hendrik Simon

Social and economic rights have often been considered part of so-called ‘second-generation rights’ – falsely, as Steven L. B. Jensen argues. Instead, he calls for a new historiography of social...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Hilary Charlesworth

09.02.2024

Hilary Charlesworth Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

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

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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Dimitry Kochenov

02.02.2024

Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Welcome to the latest interview of the Völkerrechtsblog’s symposium ‘The Person behind the Academic’, the first one for 2024! With us we have Prof. Dimitry Kochenov, and through the following...

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International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability

The Positive Complementarity Turn

25.01.2024

Patryk I. Labuda

I would like to thank the seven contributors for their generous and though-provoking analyses of my book. For a first-time author, it is humbling and rewarding to read how others...

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International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability

In the Court’s Shadow

25.01.2024

Kalika Mehta

The practice of international criminal law is essentially a series of compromises. Despite the purported universalist goals of international criminal law and its institutions, its exercise inevitably remains trapped by...

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International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability

Complementarity at the Regional Level

24.01.2024

Stephen J. Rapp

Patryk Labuda has written an excellent book about the challenges and limitations of complementarity in achieving “genuine” investigations and prosecutions at the national level. He compares the experience of the...

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International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability

Going Beyond the ICC

24.01.2024

Daniele Perissi Guy Mushiata

In “International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability. In the Court’s Shadow”, Patryk Labuda offers a very original analytical framework describing the interplay between the functioning of international tribunals and States’...

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International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability

Not All Shadows Are Created Equal

23.01.2024

Elise Keppler

A pronounced turn toward domestic prosecutions of serious crimes committed in violation of international law is highlighted by Patryk I. Labuda in his new book International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic...

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International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability

The Political Realities of Complementarity

23.01.2024

Genevieve Bates

In its 1995 Tadić ruling, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) asserted that international tribunals should have primacy over national courts, in order to ensure that international...

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International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability

Mobilizing International Networks for Domestic Accountability

22.01.2024

Elena Baylis

In these comments, I suggest that we should evaluate international criminal tribunals (“ICTs”) as one aspect of an international criminal law environment that includes numerous, diverse actors with commitments to...

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International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability

Introducing the Book Review Symposium on ‘International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability’

22.01.2024

Raphael Oidtmann

The notion of strengthening and advancing international criminal justice and its respective institutions and mechanisms has been all over the place in recent months and years: amongst others, the Syrian...

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ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine

200 Years of Monsters

20.12.2023

Victor Loxen

This essay argues that the legal implications and geopolitical meaning of the Monroe Doctrine can only be understood in relation to its respective antagonists. The Doctrine’s internal mechanism of hemispheric...

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ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine

ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine

18.12.2023

Juan Pablo Scarfi Hendrik Simon

With this post we start our new, open-ended symposium entitled ‘ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine’. On the 2nd December 1823, U.S. President James Monroe delivered his famous...

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International Law and the Political

Fetishizing the State: Gentili and the Myth of the Modern Laws of War

21.11.2023

Claire Vergerio Hendrik Simon

According to international humanitarian law, the answer to the question of who is considered a legitimate actor of force is primarily the following: sovereign states. This state-centred answer is often...

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The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

Editors’ Response

17.11.2023

Panos Merkouris Jörg Kammerhofer Noora Arajärvi

We would like to thank the editors of the Völkerrechtsblog for organising this symposium on The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law, and the commentators for thoughtfully and...

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The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

The Evergreen Examination Question

16.11.2023

Outi Korhonen

As ChatGPT-4 and other artificial intelligence machines are all but extinguishing the essay-writing practice, it is high time that we receive the right answer to the ever-green topic of international...

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The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

Reflections on Customary International Law and Interpretation

15.11.2023

Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis

It is not often that one reads about Schrödinger's cat, the particle and wave qualities of light, and Latour’s idea that modern discourses are always driven by their foundational contradictions...

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The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

The Practical Question of the Interpretation of Customary International Law

14.11.2023

Eirik Bjorge

The featured monograph in this symposium – The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law – offers welcome engagement with the question of whether there can be such a...

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Book Review
The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

Legal Appropriation or Rechtsnahme through Customary International Law

13.11.2023

Monica Garcia-Salmones

Legal Appropriation or, what is the same, Rechtsnahme means in this contribution the space of human interaction that is appropriated by international judges, lawyers and other legal actors when they...

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Book Review
The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

Introducing the Book Review Symposium on “The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law”

13.11.2023

Jan-Henrik Hinselmann Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Raphael Oidtmann

This summer, Judge Hilary Charlesworth made international lawyers very happy (some of them at least) when her dissenting opinion appended to the judgment of the International Court of Justice in...

Interview
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The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Angelika Nußberger

13.10.2023

Angelika Nußberger Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

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

Interview
Symposium
The Person Behind the Academic

Chatting with Tamsin Phillipa Paige

29.09.2023

Tamsin Phillipa Paige Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

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

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Symposium
Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?

Keynote: Searching for Progress in International Law

23.09.2023

As the conclusion of the online symposium on “Progress and International Law”, we welcome you to the livestream of the keynote speech by Hilary Charlesworth on “Searching for Progress in...

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Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?

The “Responsibility to and for Progress” in International Law

22.09.2023

Martin Schwamborn

How do we achieve a responsible approach to progress and its consequences? This old question of humankind has been given new momentum by recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI): Numerous...

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Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?

Agenda 2030 Between the Ideology of Progress and the Reality of Poverty and Exploitation

21.09.2023

Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis

Adopted in 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development promises to eliminate poverty and promote sustainable development, peace, and prosperity for all by 2030. The Agenda introduced 17 Sustainable Development...

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Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?

Towards a Feminist Interpretation of the ECHR’s Provisions on Access to Abortion

21.09.2023

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

While applications regarding the incompatibility of deadly restrictive abortion policies with the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) are piling up before the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’, ‘Court’),...

Symposium
Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?

Towards an (Im)possible Polis: Legal Imagination and State Continuity

20.09.2023

Alex Green

Thomas Baty once quipped that ‘[i]nternational law, it is generally agreed, has something to do with states’. By opening The Canons of International Law in this manner, Baty draws our...

Symposium
Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?

Border Dialectics: Progress, Regress, and Resistance

20.09.2023

Giulia Raimondo

Received knowledge about the protection of migrants in international law tells a story of progress. A story of expanded refugee definitions, complementary protection, and extraterritorial obligations. Yet a counternarrative has...

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Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?

Locating Progress in the European Convention on Human Rights

19.09.2023

Jens T. Theilen

Progress may seem to be a temporal concept. That is certainly how it is usually understood in the literature on progress and international law. Statements of progress are said, for...