The new wave of law and development

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Plurality of Law and Development

The new wave of law and development

15.10.2019

Koen de Feyter

This short note was inspired by the 2019 Law and Development Research Network Conference in Berlin. The Conference was organised by the Chair for Public Law and Comparative Law at...

Social justice – a vehicle for transformative constitutionalism

10.10.2019

Watch here the recording of the Keynote of Justice Madan Lokur (Supreme Court of India) who explains the challenges and opportunities of transformative constitutionalism as a vehicle for social justice,...

Reflections on the history and future of Law and Development

10.10.2019

Watch here the recording of the Keynote Lecture of David Trubek (University of Wisconsin-Madison) who reflects upon the history and future of Law and Development and its main current challenges,...

Towards comparative legal institutionalism

09.10.2019

Watch here the Keynote Lecture of Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School) reflecting on questions of method and theory through her approach of "comparative legal institutionalism", opening the LDRN Conference at...

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Plurality of Law and Development

Alternatives to development in the Andes

04.10.2019

Jessika Eichler

The concept of “development” has become a buzzword for social change, economic redistribution and ultimately socio-economic rights. This concerns both economic relations maintained in the international community built on the...

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Plurality of Law and Development

Scholars in mutual estrangement?

01.10.2019

Michael Riegner

There is a curious estrangement between two scholarly communities that ought to have a lot in common: The first studies “transformative constitutionalism”, the second “law and development”. There is considerable...

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Plurality of Law and Development

Empowerment of indigenous and ethnic groups

30.09.2019

Cornelia Klocker

Ten years ago, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided on the admissibility of the case Handölsdalen Sami Village and Others v Sweden dealing with the land use of...

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A slow revolution to protect the poor and vulnerable?

27.09.2019

Viljam Engström

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the "single most influential international actor not only in relation to fiscal policy but also to social protection". This is how the Special Rapporteur...

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Plurality of Law and Development

Increasing the benefits, reducing the costs

26.09.2019

Jonathan Klaaren

With an increase in the spread and impact of independent regulatory agencies, Africa now has a nascent but significant network of competition authorities and other economic regulators. This growth in...

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Plurality of Law and Development

The plurality of law and development

25.09.2019

Michael Riegner Philipp Dann Thomas Dollmaier

As a legal field, law and development is often traced back to the movement of US-American scholars and practitioners in the 1960s and 1970s, both epitomized and criticized by David...

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Cynical International Law

Back in time to Roman Law

06.09.2019

Andrea Faraci Luigi Lonardo

The prohibition of abuse of right calls into question that branch of legal positivism that sees law as a ‘pure’ discipline with necessarily no connection with morality (the so-called exclusive...

How to be cynical: some suggestions

06.09.2019

Watch here the livestream of Prof. Gerry Simpson's Keynote Lecture, opening the Working Group of Young Scholars in Public International Law's (Arbeitskreis junger Völkerrechtswissenschaftler*innen – AjV) and the German Society...

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Cynical International Law

A rule to catch them all

06.09.2019

Helene Hayden

One of the legal regimes where cynicism is most prevalent in the eye of the public is tax law. After the so-called ‘Panama Papers’ and ‘Paradise Papers’ public debate on...

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Cynical International Law

Cynicism? Yes, please!

05.09.2019

Elisabeth Baier

Debates surrounding cynicism in international law have an inherently negative focus. But why not try to take something positive-constructive out of the cynicism an institution is experiencing? Since there are...

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Cynical International Law

All’s fair in the law of war?

05.09.2019

Shiri Krebs

On June 1, 2018, Razan Al-Najjar, a twenty-one-year-old Palestinian paramedic, was killed by Israeli fire during demonstrations along the Israel–Gaza border. Her death triggered intense debates concerning the facts and...

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Cynical International Law

In international law we (do not) trust

04.09.2019

Caroline Lichuma

Economic and Social Rights (ESRs) are the unloved and unwanted last born child of the human rights family. Despite a promising start in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the...

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Cynical International Law

The Edge of Enlightenment

04.09.2019

Tamas Dezso Ziegler

Recently, Harvard professor Steven Pinker’s book “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress”, which explores the effect of the Enlightenment on contemporary societies worldwide and also anti-Enlightenment...

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Cynical International Law

From speaking truth to power to speaking power’s truth

03.09.2019

Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín

From San José to Karlsruhe, Strasbourg to New Delhi, in both the Global North and South, judges have been at the forefront of the establishment of a new jus gentium...

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Cynical International Law

An ideal at sea

03.09.2019

Christian Pogies

International law is supposed to establish peace and prevent inter-state conflicts. At the same time, it is the central means for states to legitimize and communicate their claims in respect...

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Cynical International Law

Cynical International Law?

02.09.2019

Alicia Köppen

Cynicism and its relation to international law is a question that has so far not comprehensively been studied. Cynicism has been used in a cursory fashion by international lawyers, e.g....

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Cynical International Law

International law beyond cynicism and critique

02.09.2019

Gabriel M. Lentner

Cynics do not have to look far: critical international law has uncovered the ways in which the forces of colonialism and imperialism have been present in the international legal system...

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Book Review
ABC of OPT

Response: Critiquing in the light of The ABC of the OPT

19.07.2019

Orna Ben-Naftali Michael Sfard Hedi Viterbo

We are grateful to Verfassungblog for dedicating a symposium to The ABC of the OPT; to Anne Peters and Alexandra Kemmerer for their generosity of mind, indeed the contextual mindfulness in...

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Book Review
ABC of OPT

“Say my name”: the politics of not naming

18.07.2019

Nadija Samour

At first sight, the “ABC of the OPT” creates the impression that this is yet another book written exclusively by Israeli academics about a situation that has profoundly transformed the...

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Book Review
ABC of OPT

The broken promise of belligerent occupation law

17.07.2019

Yuval Shany

The ABC of the OPT, the award-winning new publication by three outstanding Israeli scholars and jurists - Orna Ben-Naftali, Michael Sfard and Hedi Viterbo –demonstrates, in a masterly fashion, the use...

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Book Review
ABC of OPT

Phantom sovereignty and the imaginary version of international law

16.07.2019

Yael Berda

In the ABC of the OPT, Orna Ben-Naftali, Michael Sfard and Hedi Viterbo offer a guidebook for the legal tourist - a narrated cartography to the strange legal planet that...

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Book Review
Women in International Law Vol. 4

From “Assigned Residence” to “Zone”

15.07.2019

Alexandra Kemmerer Anne Peters

Israel’s occupation or “control” (as the book prefers to call it) of Palestinian Territory that began with six days in June 1967, presents a depressing and tragic political and moral...

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Book Review
ABC of OPT

Mobilizing the untapped capacity of international law

15.07.2019

Michael Lynk

It is a particular honour to be asked to contribute to the Book Review Symposium at Verfassungsblog because of the occasion: the arrival of an outstanding work on international law...

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Book Review
Irresolvable Norm Conflicts

Dilemmatic Discomfort: Author’s Response

08.07.2019

Valentin Jeutner

I am very grateful to Rostam Neuwirth, Surabhi Ranganathan, Wolfgang Thierse and Lea Wisken for taking the time to engage with my book in such a thoughtful and constructive manner....

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Book Review
Irresolvable Norm Conflicts

“Irresolvable Norm Conflicts”: An Oxymoron?

05.07.2019

Rostam J. Neuwirth

Norm conflicts in international law have received surprisingly little attention, given their fundamental relevance for law in general and the present international legal order in particular. Long ago, a few...

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Book Review
Irresolvable Norm Conflicts

Legal dilemmas: the first step towards a solution is to acknowledge the problem

01.07.2019

Lea Wisken

Imagine that you are the captain of a ship located halfway between several people drowning. You have a duty towards each of them but are unable to save everyone. In...

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Book Review
Irresolvable Norm Conflicts

Romancing the State

26.06.2019

Surabhi Ranganathan

Perhaps the first and very pleasant thought that will strike readers of Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law is that the medium is not the message. The book is about...

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Interview
Irresolvable Norm Conflicts

„Wer entscheidet, macht sich schuldig“

24.06.2019

Valentin Jeutner

Wolfgang Thierse (SPD) war von 1998 – 2005 Präsident und von 2005 – 2013 Vizepräsident des Deutschen Bundestages. Von 1991 – 2013 war Thierse Vorsitzender der Grundwertekommission der SPD. Das...

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Book Review
Irresolvable Norm Conflicts

Irresolvable Norm Conflicts: The Concept of a Legal Dilemma

24.06.2019

Sebastian M. Spitra

Over the course of the next few days the Völkerrechtsblog is pleased to host an online symposium of Valentin Jeutner's recently published book: Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law: The...

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Interview
Irresolvable Norm Conflicts

“The one who decides is guilty”

24.06.2019

Valentin Jeutner

Wolfgang Thierse (SPD) was the President of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2005 and its Vice-President from 2005 to 2013. From 1991 to 2013, Thierse was chairman of the...

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GDPR as Global Standard Setter

The charm of jurisdictions: a modern version of Solomon’s judgment?

05.06.2019

Stephan Koloßa

From a perspective of international law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) pioneers particularly in terms of its (extraterritorial) application. Whereas in international law, which is based on the Westphalian...

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GDPR as Global Standard Setter

The GDPR and algorithmic decision-making

03.06.2019

Stephan Dreyer Wolfgang Schulz

In algorithmic decision-making systems (ADM systems) machines evaluate and assess human beings and, on this basis, make a decision or provide a forecast or a recommendation for action. Thus, it...

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GDPR as Global Standard Setter

The internet on its way back to a future of human dignity?

29.05.2019

Oskar Josef Gstrein

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has come a long way since it was first tabled as proposal by the European Commission on 25 January 2012. Probably, it will be...

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GDPR as Global Standard Setter

Designed to serve mankind?

27.05.2019

Roxana Vatanparast

The collection and processing of our personal data is changing sense-making of the world and ourselves, as are projects of governance surrounding it. In the year since it has become...

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GDPR as Global Standard Setter

Promise and Peril: The GDPR as a global standard-setter for data protection

25.04.2019

The Völkerrechtsblog is happy to announce a forthcoming online symposium on the impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on international law. The GDPR is not the only...

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Customary International Law

Religious freedom and customary international law

08.03.2019

Mark Weston Janis

The struggle for religious freedom is the oldest of all movements for international human rights. Nonetheless, religious freedom remains the most problematic of all human rights. Despite treaty protections for...

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Customary International Law

The principle of responsibility-sharing in refugee protection

06.03.2019

Dana Schmalz

In December 2018, the Global Compact on Refugees was adopted. Especially over the last year, its drafting and negotiations could appear in odd contrast to the surrounding world, in which...

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Customary International Law

Corporate liability under customary international law

27.02.2019

Alan Franklin

Human rights and business issues are far more complex than is often considered in most scholarly writings on the topic. The following is an example of the complexity, taken from...

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Customary International Law

Why customary international law matters in protecting human rights

25.02.2019

Brian D. Lepard

Does customary international law really matter in protecting human rights, and if so how? This was the theme of a panel at International Law Weekend in New York on October 20,...

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Semi-Colonialism

Semi-colonialism and international legal history: the view from Bhutan

28.01.2019

Michael Peil

As simply a matter of history, the Kingdom of Bhutan’s experience with Occidental powers could not be more different than that of the colonial experience of Bhutan’s neighbor and closest...

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Semi-Colonialism

The a-historicity of Preah Vihear and the space for inter-disciplinarity in international law

25.01.2019

Abhimanyu George Jain

Of International Law, Semi-colonial Thailand, and Imperial Ghosts is wide-ranging in research, nuanced in analysis, and replete with archival nuggets and food for thought. Prabhakar makes a number of important and...

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Semi-Colonialism

The gods and demons of the Preah Vihear Temple

23.01.2019

Prabhakar Singh

The Churning I finally visited the Temple of Preah Vihear on 22 December 2018. Strikingly, the makers of the ancient temples of Cambodia appear infatuated with a particular Indian mythic...

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South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law

Multiperspectivism in and on international law

15.01.2019

Anne Peters

The symposium on “South and East Asian perspectives on international law” postulates that perspectives matter for the understanding, interpretation, and application of international law. I agree, but would like to...

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South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law

Backlash against international law by the East?

11.01.2019

Maiko Meguro

The symbolic metaphor of ‘Eastphalia’ that has been referred to in the opening post of this symposium, which is a wordplay around ‘Westphalia’, is very loaded in its curious terminological choice....

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South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law

Are we living in an Eastphalian moment?

08.01.2019

Lys Kulamadayil Sulekha Agarwal

It is indisputable that economic and geopolitical power has shifted east and that the core-semi periphery-periphery symbolism, a common reference for liberal, socialist and postcolonial states, increasingly mischaracterizes the complexities...

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South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law

From liberal and equal to fraternal international legal order?

02.01.2019

Yota Negishi

A quarter half of a century has passed since Francis Fukuyama declared in The End of History the ultimate triumph of Western liberal democracy. Contrary to this prophecy, we are...

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Dialing Into Jessup

A Japanese approach to international law

21.12.2018

Takao Suami

In Japan, only a few academic scholars are aware of the plurality of academic scholarly perspectives. Most others do not think that their methods are different from the Western methods....

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South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law

The ecological atlas of international law

17.12.2018

Yuwen Fan

In an effort to “identify, analyze, and explain similarities and differencesin how international law is understood, interpreted, applied, and approached by different national and international actors”, comparative international law as...

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South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law

The ‘Standard of Civilization’ in international law

12.12.2018

Mohammad Shahabuddin

Any history of international law in Japan and the discourse on Japan’s semi-civilized status begin with nineteenth-century European encounters. Although there is thick literature on the ‘pre-modern’ international order in...

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South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law

Are we living in the “Eastphalian” moment?

10.12.2018

Raffaela Kunz Sebastian M. Spitra

Diverging views and perspectives on international law are unavoidable. The global span of this body of law and the different geographical, cultural, religious and educational backgrounds of those who work...

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Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World

Zwischen Recht und Politik

28.09.2018

Richard Dören

Bisher „ungedachte juristische Konstruktionen“ wünscht sich Bénédicte Savoy, wenn sie in ihrem jüngsten Werk über die Zukunft des (kolonialen) Kulturerbes nachdenkt. Doch wie ist eigentlich die Rechtslage an kolonialen Kulturobjekten? Bestehen...

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Cynical International Law

Conference Announcement and CfP: Cynical International Law?

25.09.2018

Völkerrechtsblog is proud to announce its support of a joint conference of the Working Group of Young Scholars in Public International Law (Arbeitskreis junger Völkerrechtswissenschaftler*innen – AjV) and the German...

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Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World

Artefact or heritage?

24.09.2018

Evelien Campfens

“One of the most noble incarnations of a people’s genius is its cultural heritage. The vicissitudes of history have nevertheless robbed many peoples of this inheritance. They .. have not...

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Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World

Ambivalent futures

21.09.2018

Sven Schütze

The legacies of colonialism and imperialism are keeping the European museum scene busy. At first glance, it seems that colonial amnesia is overcome and museums are paving the way for...

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Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World

Property and possession

18.09.2018

Bénédicte Savoy

In his preface to the German dictionary Deutsches Wörterbuch, Jacob Grimm calls the German legal language of his time “unhealthy and feeble, much overloaded with Roman terminology” (Dt. WBVorrede, XXXI)....

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Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World

Eigentum und Besitz

17.09.2018

Bénédicte Savoy

In der Vorrede zum Deutschen Wörterbuch nennt Jacob Grimm die deutsche Rechtssprache seiner Zeit „ungesund und saftlos, mit römischer terminologie hart überladen“ (Dt. WBVorrede, XXXI). Er lobt dagegen die griffige...

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Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World

Dekoloniale Perspektiven zu Berlins Humboldt Forum

14.09.2018

Felicitas Qualmann

Jährlich demonstrieren Afrikaner*innen aus ehemaligen (deutschen) Kolonien sowie People of Colour (PoC) und Schwarze diasporische bzw. migrantische Communities für die Anerkennung kolonialen Unrechts und die Rückgabe von Gebeinen und Kultursubjekten,[1]...

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Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World

Wozu internationaler Kulturgüterschutz?

10.09.2018

Ruwen Fritsche

Was ist Kultur? Die Frage nach der Bestimmung des, prima facie, hoffnungslos unbestimmbaren Begriffs ist in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften aktueller denn je. Leidenschaftlich wird darum gefochten, ob Kultur offen...

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Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World

Cultural heritage protection: a truly “global” legal problem?

05.09.2018

Sophie Starrenburg

In the course of recent years, international legal efforts to safeguard cultural heritage have undergone two seemingly contrasting developments: on the one hand, the general public has expressed an increasing...

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Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World

The politics of cultural heritage protection in international law

03.09.2018

Sebastian M. Spitra

Every legal field has its own history and every history has its own master narrative, in the case of international law protecting cultural heritage it is a plain success story....

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Business and Human Rights

Extraterritoriale Regulierung als Staatenpflicht

03.08.2018

Daniel Augenstein

Kontext Zwei Aspekte des von der zwischenstaatlichen Arbeitsgruppe im September 2017 vorgelegten Diskussionspapiers, das die Grundlage des gegenwärtigen Tauziehens um eine verbindliche internationale Regelung der Unternehmensverantwortung für Menschenrechte bildet, sind...

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Business and Human Rights

Which business?

30.07.2018

Janne Mende

The United Nations treaty process, the current endeavor in the open-ended working group to draft a legally binding instrument to “regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational...

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Business and Human Rights

Giving human rights a future

27.07.2018

Nina Reiners

The future of human rights, as scholars and practitioners alike emphasize, depends on its ability to address economic inequality. For this aim, human rights lawmaking needs to listen to more...

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Business and Human Rights

Human rights due diligence

25.07.2018

Clarissa Valli Buttow

In its recently released General Comment (GC) No 24 the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) makes a crucial point: It establishes that regulation imposing Human Rights Due...

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Business and Human Rights

Das Verhältnis von Handels- und Investitionsabkommen zu einem Abkommen zu Unternehmen und Menschenrechten

23.07.2018

Karsten Nowrot

I. Der Ausgangsbefund: Wirtschaftsabkommen und Menschenrechte 1. Angesichts der vor allem seit den 1990er Jahren zu verzeichnenden Effektivierung und Erweiterung des Anwendungsbereichs des völkervertragsrechtlichen Handels- und Investitionsrechts sind vermehrt Fallkonstellationen...

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Business and Human Rights

A future treaty on business and human rights – its main functions

20.07.2018

Isabel Daum

The state-based paradigm of international human rights law poses a significant challenge to modern day human rights problems as traditional mechanisms largely fail to adequately address corporate conduct and to...

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Business and Human Rights

Germany’s moral responsibility to support a treaty on business and human rights

18.07.2018

David Bilchitz

As a Jewish academic currently writing a book in Berlin, I am moved by the significant efforts in evidence across the city to remember the victims of the Holocaust. From...

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Law and Development

Between (re-)empowerment and (hyper-)conditionality

17.07.2018

Florian Hoffmann

Ever since David Trubek and Mark Galanter’s seminal ‘Scholars in Self-Estrangement’, which Philip Dann, during the seminar that gave rise to this post, aptly termed the ‘law and development movement’s...

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Law and Development

Beyond the ‘moments’ of law and development

16.07.2018

Celine Tan

An integral aspect of law and development (L&D) studies have been its intimate relationship with the global economy and the regulatory framework which governs it. A rapidly emerging arena of...

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Law and Development

Agenda 2030 – Time to Revisit Rule of Law programming

13.07.2018

Elizabeth Bakibinga-Gaswaga

As the development community re-focuses on how the rule of law agenda enables sustainable development as expected in fulfilment of Agenda 2030, questions will continue to arise concerning the mixed...

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Law and Development

Law and Development: Theory and Practice

12.07.2018

Thomas Dollmaier

The field of Law and Development studies positions itself at a highly interesting, yet academically challenging juncture: What is the relationship between law and social and economic development? For most...

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Law and Development

Beyond a fourth moment in law and development

12.07.2018

Wouter Vandenhole

In the wake of the decolonization wave after World War II, a law and development (L&D) practice and academic strand emerged. So far, scholarship on law and development that self-identifies...

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Cultural Heritage in a Post-Colonial World

CfP: Cultural Heritage in a Post-colonial World – New Framings of a Global Legal Problem

18.06.2018

Völkerrechtsblog

The Voelkerrechtsblog is happy to announce an interdisciplinary online symposium on “Cultural Heritage in a Post-colonial World – New Framings of a Global Legal Problem”. Cultural and anthropological objects from...

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Business and Human Rights

Symposium on Business and Human Rights: Call for Contributions

01.06.2018

On June 24, 2016 the United Nations’ Council on Human Rights established an intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations. The working group is tasked with the elaboration of an international...

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Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

Intersectionality in Europe: a depoliticized concept?

06.03.2018

Emilia Roig

The reach of intersectionality in Germany has been such that as many disciplinary fields as sociology, cultural studies, ethnology, history, law, philosophy, psychology, migration studies, public policy and of course,...

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Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

Whiteness as international citizenship in European Union law

02.03.2018

Adam Weiss

The European Union admits that its Romani citizens – the continent’s largest ethnic minority – are excluded and denigrated. And the EU seems to be trying to do something about...

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Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

“There is still a lot of work to be done.”

28.02.2018

Dana Schmalz

Patricia Tuitt is a UK based legal academic with a sustained track record of teaching, research and strategic management within the field of critical legal studies. She has written extensively...

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Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

Framing race and law in Europe

26.02.2018

Cengiz Barskanmaz

To frame “Race and Law in Europe” involves a set of basic questions: 1) What is Race? 2) What is Law? and 3) What is Europe? The real challenge is...

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Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

The framing of the African Union in international criminal law: A racialized logic

21.02.2018

Souheir Edelbi

The International Criminal Court (ICC) 'has been put in place only for African countries, only for poor countries...Every year that passes, I am proved right.… Rwanda cannot be part of...

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Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

Learning from anthropology

19.02.2018

Ricarda Rösch

Despite anthropology’s troublesome contribution to the colonial project, the discipline as it is today has much to offer to critical race theory (CRT) and postcolonial approaches to international law. Already...

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Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

Building Islam as a race in French colonial law

16.02.2018

Mouhamadou Ndiaye

The conquest of Algeria introduced in French law new chapters pertaining to the treatment of indigenous people. In fact, the French Algeria gained the status of department in 1848 and...

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Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

Sind Juden weiß?

14.02.2018

Doris Liebscher

Das umstrittene Urteil des Landgerichts Frankfurt zum Flugverbot für israelische Staatsbürger bei Kuwait Airways ist auch in antidiskriminierungsrechtlicher Hinsicht interessant. Es zeigt, wie schwer es Gerichten fällt Antisemitismus unter die...

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Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

We need to talk about ‘race’

12.02.2018

Dana Schmalz Mareike Riedel Valérie V. Suhr

“Race is the child of racism, not the father,” writes Ta-Nehisi Coates in “Between the World and Me”. Such understanding of race, not as an empirical category but as a...

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Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

The concept of race in international criminal law

12.02.2018

Carola Lingaas

The Nazis defined the Jews as a race inferior to the Aryan race, the Khmer Rouge identified the ‘new people’ as enemies with a biologically dissimilar essence, and in Darfur...

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Russian Perspectives on International Law

Cleavages in international law and the danger of a pull towards non-compliance

31.01.2018

Christian Marxsen

International law faces difficult times, with cleavages running deep between what is often labelled “the West” on the one hand, and Russia on the other hand. With the annexation of...

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Russian Perspectives on International Law

Who holds Russia’s judges and public prosecutors to account?

29.01.2018

Stefanie Lemke

This piece is about the growing number of politically-motivated charges and convictions against human rights defenders in Russia and the absence of credible monitoring or audit procedures to hold judges...

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Russian Perspectives on International Law

Is Russia the guardian of humanitarian intervention?

26.01.2018

Selen Kazan

In the UN Security Council, the Russian Federation has repeatedly put forward in no uncertain terms its stance regarding humanitarian intervention and its concern that this fairly recent concept may...

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Russian Perspectives on International Law

Das EU-Russland Zivilgesellschaftsforum

24.01.2018

Polina Baigarova

Spricht man über die Rolle Russlands in der zeitgenössischen internationalen Rechtsdebatte, so ist es hilfreich, sich nicht nur auf die konkreten Themen und Fragen zu fokussieren, sondern – wie bei...

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Russian Perspectives on International Law

The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum

24.01.2018

Polina Baigarova

When speaking of the role of Russia in the contemporary international legal debate, it is helpful not only to focus on particular topics and questions, but – as with all...

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Russian Perspectives on International Law

‘Peaceful’ and ‘remedial’ annexations of Crimea

19.01.2018

Tero Lundstedt

This post analyzes the ‘two annexations’ of Crimea in the Russian narrative of ‘reclaiming its historical rights’ over the peninsula in 2014. As many aspects surrounding the occupation of Crimea...

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Russian Perspectives on International Law

Ukraine v. Russia: Passage through Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov

15.01.2018

Valentin J. Schatz Dmytro Koval

In our first and second post, we have considered the status of the Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait and, on that basis, identified passage rights of Ukraine that could...

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Russian Perspectives on International Law

Ukraine v. Russia: Passage through Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov

12.01.2018

Valentin J. Schatz Dmytro Koval

In our previous post, we have taken a look at the legal status of the Sea of Azov and concluded that there are two possible Scenarios involving either a shared...

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Russian Perspectives on International Law

Ukraine v. Russia: Passage through Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov

10.01.2018

Valentin J. Schatz Dmytro Koval

On 16 September 2016, Ukraine instituted arbitral proceedings against Russia under Part XV and Annex VII of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in...

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Russian Perspectives on International Law

Les évolutions de la primauté de la souveraineté dans l’approche russe du droit international

08.01.2018

Robin Caballero

« Du passé faisons table rase » : à l’heure de fêter le centième anniversaire de la Révolution d’Octobre, ces paroles de l’Internationale ont résonné dans beaucoup de têtes. Ainsi en est-il de...

Symposium
Russian Perspectives on International Law

A nationalized approach to international law: the case of Russia

05.01.2018

Maria Issaeva

When a new edition of one of the most authoritative Soviet international law textbooks co-authored by professor Tunkin was published in 1999, most of its chapters repeated the previous 1981...