The surveillance you have paid for

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Digital Surveillance and cyber espionage

The surveillance you have paid for

05.12.2016

Christian Djeffal

Have you ever paid for surveillance measures? Not indirectly through taxes, rather directly? And have you ever installed the measures in your home? If you think that this is an...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

The dark side of digitalization

30.11.2016

Cristina Verones

It is difficult to imagine today’s world without digitalization. We are shopping online, write messages to our friends on WhatsApp, let the world know what we think about a newly...

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Movement of People

Latin-America and refugees: a panoramic view

21.11.2016

Liliana Lyra Jubilut

Latin America is a peculiar region in relation to protection through asylum. On the one hand, it has a long-lasting and still operating tradition of political asylum that coexists with...

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Movement of People

Flexible solidarity – effective solidarity?

16.11.2016

Markus Kotzur

While the Member States of the European Union are still divided about both their migration policies and politics, in particular about taking in (which number and which kind of) refugees,...

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Movement of People

The Arab Refugee Paradox

14.11.2016

Laura El Chemali

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan host some of the largest numbers of refugees in the world. However, among the Arab...

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Movement of People

Refugees at our backyard

10.11.2016

Deborah Anker Maggie Morgan

Since the 1970s, the southern border of the United States – spanning 1989 miles of international border between the United States and Mexico – has been the site of significant...

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Movement of People

It is all about being happy in search of security

07.11.2016

Ibrahim Sirkeci

Migration recently has been discussed in a very negative context. As Europe and the US moved towards right, we have to rethink human mobility and push for informed debates. Terminology...

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Land Governance

The human right to land

02.11.2016

Robin Ramsahye

"Land rights are not typically perceived to be a human rights issue“, as legal scholar Jeremie Gilbert observes. This is surprising, given the vital importance of land, a finite resource,...

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Land Governance

This post opens our symposium on “Land governance”, which accompanies an international conference at the Law and Society Institute of Humboldt University Berlin. Lawyers and political scientists from Germany, India...

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Strenghtening the Legal Framework of the OSCE

OSCE: Do we really need an international legal personality and why?

15.08.2016

Gleb Bogush

As part of this symposium, the Völkerrechtsblog has published excellent contributions of Christian Tomuschat, Cedric Ryngaert and Isabelle Ley. All the three distinguished authors have looked at the multifaceted problem...

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Strenghtening the Legal Framework of the OSCE

Legal personality for the OSCE?

08.08.2016

Isabelle Ley

Should the OSCE finally be endowed with legal personality? I have a hard time positioning myself in the debate. Obviously, I understand the argument – brought forward at the conference...

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Strenghtening the Legal Framework of the OSCE

Basing the legal status of the OSCE on participating states’ duty of loyalty

03.08.2016

Cedric Ryngaert

The dispatching of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine in 2014 has (again) brought to the fore the importance of appropriate legal status for the OSCE and its...

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Strenghtening the Legal Framework of the OSCE

Between aspirations and realities

01.08.2016

Raffaela Kunz

The deployment of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in the wake of the Ukraine crisis illustrated once more the difficulties related to the legal status of the Organization for...

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70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

Legalization of the OSCE?

01.08.2016

Christian Tomuschat

Since its inception, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), originally born as Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), was kept apart from the realm of...

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Alternative Dispute Resolution

From curse to opportunity: Mediation of natural resource conflicts

13.07.2016

David Jensen Amanda Kron

Since 1946, at least 40 % of intrastate conflicts have been linked to natural resources. Furthermore, conflicts associated with natural resources are more likely to relapse into violence within the...

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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Navigating international norms in peace mediation

11.07.2016

Julia Palmiano Federer

The Promise of Peace Mediation Navigating norms in peace mediation is possible through understanding what mediation can or cannot achieve. This means determining whether it is indeed the best option...

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The Justification of War and International Order

Investor-state arbitration: rationale and legitimacy

06.07.2016

John Doe*

A reply to Christian Tietje Attempts to conceptualize the foundations of and crucial questions around investment arbitration are most welcome, as the field gains not only public attention, but also...

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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Investor-State arbitration as part of the international rule of law

04.07.2016

Christian Tietje

Investor-state arbitration is not only the most heated topic discussed in international economic law, but it also has become an important political issue more generally. Indeed, it is amazing to...

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Alternative Dispute Resolution

The history and development of “A” DR

01.07.2016

Carrie Menkel-Meadow

What is “A” DR? In its modern incarnation, the “A” stands for “alternative” dispute resolution, meaning “alternative” to formal court hearings, trials and formal legal proceedings. But the name is...

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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Strengthening the means of (international) law enforcement

30.06.2016

Cristina Verones

Today, a vast array of treaties exists, both multilateral and bilateral. They regulate almost every aspect of human interaction and cover such diverse fields as the environment, trade, outer-space, human...

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Mulitregionals and the Others

Megaregionals and the others — A rejoinder

29.06.2016

Thomas Streinz Paul Mertenskötter

We thank the Völkerrechtsblog for hosting this symposium and are immensely grateful to Abhimanyu George Jain and Azwi Langalanga for offering their insightful views. We take this opportunity to reply...

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Mulitregionals and the Others

Africa’s absence in the megaregionals

20.06.2016

Azwimpheleli Langalanga

Global international economic relations have been constantly evolving since the 1994 institutionalization of the GATT. The majority of African countries signed into the World Trade Organization in 1994, whether because...

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The Justification of War and International Order

An Indian perspective on megaregionals and concomitant trends

17.06.2016

Abhimanyu George Jain

I am grateful for the opportunity to participate in this symposium and would like to congratulate the MegaReg team on their efforts to draw attention to a fascinating series of...

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Mulitregionals and the Others

Megaregionals and the others

17.06.2016

Michael Riegner Thomas Streinz Paul Mertenskötter

This weekend, public and international lawyers gather at Humboldt University in Berlin for the third conference of the International Society of Public Law, entitled "Borders, Otherness, and Public Law". Völkerrechtsblog takes up one particularly salient...

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International Health Governance

The WHO’s institutional and legal role in communicable disease epidemics

25.04.2016

Pedro Villarreal

On 1 February, 2016, the World Health Organization´s (WHO) Director-General declared that the Zika virus epidemic in the Americas is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The illness...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

Infectious diseases as a new threat to international peace and security

22.04.2016

Ilja Richard Pavone

The last quarter of century registered the resurgence of infectious diseases, that the medical community deemed to have defeated with the global vaccination campaign. Global health challenges, represented by pandemics...

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International Health Governance

The human right to health in Africa

20.04.2016

Giuseppe Pascale

Thirty years after the entry into force of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), the protection of human rights still encounters many difficulties in the majority of...

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International Health Governance

Creating legal effects for the WHO’s International Health Regulations (2005)

13.04.2016

Robert Frau

During the Ebola-crisis 2014, states have widely ignored the measures recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and have interfered in the fight against the disease. This blogpost suggests ways...

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The Justification of War and International Order

Ebola Epidemic 2014-2015

11.04.2016

Michael Marx

After the first appearances of the Ebola epidemic in December 2013, the disease spread wide and fast, exceeding any previous Ebola epidemic with regard to incidence and prevalence and was...

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International Health Governance

International health governance of disease outbreaks

11.04.2016

Raffaela Kunz

The recent Ebola crisis that shook West Arica, exceeded any previous Ebola epidemic and later was declared a pandemic by the WHO not only stretched local health care systems, but...

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Ranganathan Book Symposium

Ranganathan Book Symposium: Part 5

08.04.2016

Surabhi Ranganathan

I am grateful to all participants of this symposium for their thoughtful and generous commentaries. The strange truth about book-writing, which I suppose all experienced hands know (and I discovered...

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Ranganathan Book Symposium

Ranganathan Book Symposium: Part 4

06.04.2016

Lea Wisken

Surabhi Ranganathan’s book on strategically created treaty conflicts is a must-read for international lawyers and International Relations scholars interested in fragmentation and regulatory overlap. The choice of the subject-matter alone...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

Ranganathan Book Symposium: Part 3

04.04.2016

Jan Klabbers

Some years ago, I published a slender book on the topic of treaty conflict. Zooming in on the treaty relations of member states of the EU, I found that international...

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Ranganathan Book Symposium

Ranganathan Book Symposium: Part 2

01.04.2016

Jasper Finke

Let me start with a confession: I am a formalist, at least to a certain extent, and a pragmatist, at least when it comes to treaty conflicts in international law...

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Ranganathan Book Symposium

Ranganathan Book Symposium: Part 1

30.03.2016

James Crawford

International legal scholarship tends to address the political substrate of international law in one of two extreme modes: either by not dealing with it at all and engaging only with...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts

30.03.2016

Valentin Jeutner

For the next few days the Völkerrechtsblog is pleased to host an online symposium of Surabhi Ranganthan’s recently published book “Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law”...

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Lehre des internationalen Rechts

Innovative Lehrformate für die Didaktik der Völkerrechtswissenschaft

21.03.2016

Arne Reißmann

„Zero Dark Thirty“ und die Didaktik der Völkerrechtswissenschaft – wie passt das zusammen? Diese Frage zu beantworten und aufzuzeigen, wie durch den Einsatz aktivierender Methoden und Medien in innovativen Lehrformaten...

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Lehre des internationalen Rechts

Vom Internationalen in der Privatrechtslehre

18.03.2016

Susanne Lilian Gössl

Aus Sicht des Kollisionsrechts auf einem völkerrechtlichen Blog zu schreiben, stellt eine gewisse Herausforderung dar, da sich die beiden Materien zwar berühren, aber es doch strukturell große Unterschiede gibt. (mehr …)

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Lehre des internationalen Rechts

Studying in an international environment

16.03.2016

Yusra Suedi Christian Walter

Students who wish to study international law together with international peers and professors for two weeks during summer should consider the Munich Advanced Course in International Law (MACIL) which is introduced...

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Lehre des internationalen Rechts

Völkerrecht im Fokus der Arbeit einer studentischen Redaktion

14.03.2016

Franziska Berg

Das Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) sieht sich nicht nur als wissenschaftliches Journal, sondern auch als studentische Initiative mit dem Ziel, Studierenden das Völkerrecht und das wissenschaftliche Publizieren näherzubringen....

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Lehre des internationalen Rechts

Law Clinics in der juristischen Ausbildung: Ein lohnendes Projekt

11.03.2016

Laura Hilb

Law Clinics kannte man einst nur aus dem US-amerikanischen Rechtskreis. Doch immer mehr Clinics werden auch in Europa und in Deutschland gegründet. Eine der ältesten ist die Gießener Law Clinic....

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Lehre des internationalen Rechts

Völkerrecht verstehen – Wie gewinnen wir die anderen 99%?

09.03.2016

Markus Beham Melanie Fink Ralph Janik

Kein anderes Rechtsgebiet eignet sich so gut wie das Völkerrecht, um Studierende dort abzuholen, wofür sie sich im Alltag und in ihrer Freizeit interessieren und begeistern. Zudem können Analogien und...

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Lehre des internationalen Rechts

Moot Courts in der Lehre des internationalen Rechts – eine kritische Würdigung

07.03.2016

Sebastian Wuschka Isabella Risini

Unser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob sich eine verstärkte Einbindung von Moot Courts in der Lehre des internationalen Rechts lohnt. Praxisnähe und die Steigerung der Reflexionskompetenzen der Teilnehmer sind...

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Lehre des internationalen Rechts

Spielend Völkerrecht verstehen

04.03.2016

Birgit Peters

In Hochschullehre und –didaktik spricht derzeit alles vom so genannten „shift from teaching to learning“. Dieser Ansatz stellt die Erlangung von Kompetenzen durch die Lernenden in das Zentrum der Lehre....

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Lehre des internationalen Rechts

Online-Symposium zur Lehre des internationalen Rechts

02.03.2016

Matthias Lippold

„Die Lehre des internationalen Rechts – zeitgemäß?!“ lautet der Titel einer Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht, welche am 16. März 2016 in Köln stattfinden wird. Die kritische Beschäftigung...

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Prior Consultation in Latin America

Prior informed consent – the case of Peru

04.02.2016

Riccarda Flemmer

In 2011 Peru has adopted a contested legislation on prior consultation that is based on Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization (ILO C 169). In this contribution, I look...

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Debating “Beyond Human Rights”

Part 2: Simple international rights, global constitutionalism, and scholarly methods

02.02.2016

Anne Peters

This post continues Anne Peters rejoinder Roland Portmann’s main point is that national (domestic) law principles and practices matters crucially for the legal status of the individual, and that we...

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Debating “Beyond Human Rights”

Simple international rights, global constitutionalism, and scholarly methods

01.02.2016

Anne Peters

An unexpected, organized, serious, and multiple engagement with arguments put forward in a manuscript which has gained shape, has grown, was written and re-written, was shrunk, cut, re-arranged, and which...

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Debating “Beyond Human Rights”

Beyond individual criminal responsibility?

29.01.2016

Raphael Oidtmann

Anne Peters’ most recent opus ‘Beyond Human Rights: The Legal Status of the Individual in International Law’ constitutes an outstanding and ground-breaking piece of scholarship that radically re-positions the individual...

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Debating “Beyond Human Rights”

De-constitutionalizing individual rights beyond the state?

27.01.2016

Michael Riegner

With its translation into English, Anne Peters’ “Beyond Human Rights” provokes reactions from a wider scholarly community that does not necessarily share her doctrinal methods, theoretical commitments or underlying political...

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Debating “Beyond Human Rights”

Investors’ rights short of human rights in a constitutional perspective

25.01.2016

Evelyne Lagrange

It will come as no surprise for readers familiar with Anne Peters’ reflections on the international legal system to grasp from her Jenseits der Menschenrechte that also foreign investors are...

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Debating “Beyond Human Rights”

Beyond Human Rights – beyond international law?

20.01.2016

Roland Portmann

There is much to admire in Anne Peters’ book, so much that after reading Jenseits der Menschenrechte, it is difficult to imagine what else can be done in this area...

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Debating “Beyond Human Rights”

Beyond Human Rights

18.01.2016

Michael Riegner Raffaela Kunz

With the first symposium after our relaunch, Völkerrechtsblog emphasizes its role as a forum for transnational legal debate - a debate that transcends jurisdictions and that connects scholars from different academic...

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70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

Beyond Human Rights: beyond a convertible vattelian?

18.01.2016

Zoran Oklopcic

Anne Peters’ Beyond Human Rights: The Legal Status of the Individual in International Law is an impressive scholarly intervention, which can be read both as a standalone contribution to the...

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Prior Consultation in Latin America

Symposium: Prior consultation in Latin America – the case of Colombia

04.01.2016

Manuel Góngora-Mera

After a five-decades-old internal conflict that hurts mainly rural areas, Colombia is currently one of the most unequal countries in the world (12º place by Gini index of family income)....

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Möllers-Buchforum

Möllers-Buchforum (5): Replik von Christoph Möllers

21.12.2015

Christoph Möllers

Es ist ein Privileg, über sein eigenes Buch offen und öffentlich mit vier präzisen Lesern zu diskutieren. Die Kommentarewaren wohlwollend, aber sie haben die Finger in einige Wunden gelegt. Ich...

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Möllers-Buchforum

Möllers-Buchforum (4): Die (Un-)Möglichkeit der Normen

14.12.2015

Valentin Jeutner

Die vorherigen Rezensenten haben den außergewöhnlichen und interdisziplinären Ansatz von Christoph Möllers’ neuestem Buch bereits gebührend gewürdigt. Als Jurist wage ich dem noch hinzuzufügen, dass Möllers’ Buch auch gerade deswegen...

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Möllers-Buchforum

Möllers-Buchforum (3): Paradoxie als Erkenntnisform?

07.12.2015

Rainer Schmalz-Bruns

Sucht man nach einer Formel, in der sich die gedanklichen und argumentativen Fäden des jüngsten Buches von Christoph Möllers über Die Möglichkeit der Normen bündeln könnten, dann findet sich diese...

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Klima- und umweltbedingte Flucht

„Bring justice in!“

01.12.2015

Romina Ranke

Nur wenige Tage nach Beginn der Klimakonferenz 2013 in Warschau traf der Taifun Haiyan die Philippinen. Es war einer der stärksten tropischen Stürme seit Beginn der Wetteraufzeichnungen. Schnell verbreitete sich...

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Möllers-Buchforum

Möllers-Buchforum (2): Zwischen Beschreibung und Rechtfertigung

30.11.2015

Jakob Huber

Mit beeindruckendem Scharfsinn und scheinbar mühelos über disziplinäre Grenzen hinweg diskutiert Christoph Möllers in Die Möglichkeit der Normen die Vielfalt und Komplexität normativer Praktiken. Wie bereits aus dem Untertitel des...

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Klima- und umweltbedingte Flucht

„Das kommt jetzt aber ungelegen.“

26.11.2015

Dana Schmalz Ulrike Krause

Im Juli 2015 veranstalteten der FlüchtlingsforschungsBlog und der Völkerrechtsblog gemeinsam eine Beitragsserie zur klimabedingten Flucht. In sechs Beiträgen diskutierten WissenschaftlerInnen und PraktikerInnen die Zusammenhänge von Klimawandel und Zwangsmigration. Ausgangspunkt der...

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Prior Consultation in Latin America

Symposium: Prior consultation in Latin America – the case of Brazil

25.11.2015

Charlotte Schumann

Adopted in 1989, Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization is the only internationally binding legal document that defines indigenous and tribal people’s rights, with a special focus on the...

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Möllers-Buchforum

Möllers-Buchforum (1): Die Möglichkeit der Normen

23.11.2015

Wolfgang Knöbl

Wahrscheinlich wird nicht gerade der Titel von Christoph Möllers‘ neuem Buch das Interesse der Soziologinnen wecken. Soziologische Analysen zu Normen gab und gibt es schließlich zuhauf, sodass viele skeptisch sein...

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Labour Standards in a Globalised Economy

How can customers promote labour standards?

16.11.2015

Nazli Aghazadeh

Among the most important forms of private initiatives for the protection and promotion of labour standards are social labelling schemes implemented by NGOs. These are for example Goodweave (formerly known...

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Labour Standards in a Globalised Economy

Individual labour complaint procedures in future free trade agreements?

13.11.2015

Henner Gött

In their posts, Tonia Novitz and Patrick Abel mention the idea of enhancing the procedural role for individuals in labour disputes as a means to foster the enforcement of labour...

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Labour Standards in a Globalised Economy

Systemic deficiencies of US FTAs’ arbitral labour dispute settlement procedures

11.11.2015

Patrick Abel

Deciding international disputes solely on the basis of law while excluding economic and political aspects of power, at least to a large extent, is a concept which can suit arguments...

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Labour Standards in a Globalised Economy

Transcending the ‘buddy vs bully’ debate in light of the TTIP negotiations

09.11.2015

Lore van den Putte

Although the debate on linking labour rights and trade has a long history, the topic has become more prominent than ever in the last couple of years. Concerns expressed about...

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Labour Standards in a Globalised Economy

What’s in a name?

06.11.2015

Tonia Novitz

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; ... What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;’ William Shakespeare, Romeo and...

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Labour Standards in a Globalised Economy

The ILO, its standards and their supervision: difficult times?

04.11.2015

Claire La Hovary

The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) mandate to pursue social justice through the improvement of the conditions of workers worldwide is clearly as relevant now as it was when the Organisation...

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Labour Standards in a Globalised Economy

Symposium: Labour Standards in a Globalised Economy

02.11.2015

Henner Gött

From 19-23 October 2015, EU and US negotiators met in Florida for the 11th round of bilateral negotiations on the envisaged Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). What is often...

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Prior Consultation in Latin America

Symposium: Prior consultation in Latin America – the case of Bolivia

05.10.2015

Jessika Eichler

Contemporary manifestations of neo-colonialism in the form of liberal market fundamentalism have facilitated the expansion of multinational corporations and foreign investment. As a consequence of influential farming and forestry industries...

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The Promises of International Law and Society

Towards post-Western investment law?

14.09.2015

Maxim Bönnemann

International Investment Law (IIL) has always been a battleground of competing paradigms and imaginations of economic world order. While it carries the promise of welfare through global competition for some,...

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The Promises of International Law and Society

Juridification of the right to development in India

09.09.2015

Anna-Lena Wolf

In my paper for the legal sociology conference in Berlin, I argue that the right to development, though a non-legally binding declaration, is indirectly implemented in the Indian legal system...

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The Promises of International Law and Society

Should we call a lawyer?

07.09.2015

Lea Wisken

In this post, I argue that traditional legal conceptualisations of norm conflicts do not capture the phenomenon that International Relations (IR) scholars are interested in. I propose an alternative definition,...

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The Promises of International Law and Society

“What’s law got to do with it?”

06.09.2015

Michael Riegner

Symposium “The Promises of International Law and Society” When Richard Schwartz, co-founder of the Law and Society Association in the US, was invited to submit a part of his PhD on social...

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Klima- und umweltbedingte Flucht

Klimabedingte Zwangsmigration

27.07.2015

Sophia Wirsching

Klimawandel und Wetterextreme sind wichtige Triebkräfte für Migration und Flucht. Während sich Risikogruppen bestimmen lassen, sind verlässliche Aussagen darüber, wie viele Menschen tatsächlich aus diesen Gründen derzeit und in Zukunft...

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Klima- und umweltbedingte Flucht

Real Risk or Overrated?

22.07.2015

Christiane Fröhlich Michael Brzoska

“Climate change threatens to cause the largest refugee crisis in human history” – headlines like this are commonplace in today’s media landscape. It is a short way from such assumptions...

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Klima- und umweltbedingte Flucht

Conceivable legal responses to environmental displacement

20.07.2015

Hélène Ragheboom

Natural disasters have always in human history triggered population movements. Mobility is indeed a traditional coping mechanism for populations confronted with changes in their living environment. Scientific evidence and projections...

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Interview
Klima- und umweltbedingte Flucht

There is no point in waiting

15.07.2015

Dana Schmalz

To better understand how climate change affects migration and displacement, we were inevitably led to interview Walter Kälin. Professor Kälin holds a chair at the University Bern, with a research...

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Interview
Klima- und umweltbedingte Flucht

Es hat keinen Sinn zu warten.

15.07.2015

Dana Schmalz

Wenn es um Klimawandel als Ursache von Migration und Flucht geht, dann bietet sich ein Gespräch mit Walter Kälin an. Seit dreißig Jahren forscht und lehrt Professor Kälin an der...

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Klima- und umweltbedingte Flucht

Symposium: Klima- und umweltbedingte Flucht

13.07.2015

Dana Schmalz Ulrike Krause

Stehen Klima- und Umweltveränderungen mit Zwangsmigration im Zusammenhang? Können diese Veränderungen die Flucht und Vertreibung von Menschen verursachen und wenn ja, wieso? Wie werden diese Menschen, die ihre Heimat verlassen...

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Rule of Law Goes Global

Does the African Union truly defy the United Nations peace and security regime?

09.07.2015

Hannah Birkenkötter

A response to Theresa Reinold In her recent post, Theresa Reinold critically examines the efforts by the African Union to further democracy on the African continent. She pertinently notes that these...

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Rule of Law Goes Global

No unalloyed good

06.07.2015

Theresa Reinold

Democracy and Africa are two words that rarely appear in the same sentence. If they do, the sentences are usually framed in exhortatory or aspirational terms rather than as statements...

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Rule of Law Goes Global

Revolution or Regression?

03.07.2015

Florian Hoffmann

‘Law and development’ is all over the place! Indeed, law as development has become a mantra of development discourse deeply entrechened in the programming of the multilateral financial institutions, international...

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Rule of Law Goes Global

“You can’t be neutral on a moving train”

01.07.2015

Michael Riegner

Conference symposium "Rule of law goes global" “The rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice,...

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Trademocracy

Online-Debatte: Freihandel versus Demokratie

24.04.2015

Elisabeth V. Henn

Nach dem gemeinsamen Symposium Tradedemocracy mit dem Juwiss Blog findet heute, am 24. April, die Tagung Freihandel versus Demokratie in Berlin statt. Kommentare und Fragen können gerne über den Juwiss...

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Trademocracy

Can international trade law promote democratic legitimacy?

23.04.2015

Michael Ioannidis

In the Berlin workshop Freihandel versus Demokratie I would like to discuss an argument that to some extent seems to challenge the title of the meeting. My thesis is that...

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Trademocracy

Der materielle Investorenschutz im CETA-Entwurf – Fortschritt, Rückschritt, Gefahr?

22.04.2015

Thomas Trentinaglia

In letzter Zeit ist es in Mode gekommen, den völkerrechtlichen Investorenschutz als Mittel ausländischer Konzerne zur Unterwanderung unserer Demokratie zu begreifen. Die Zivilgesellschaft, und – von ihr angestachelt – Teile...

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Trademocracy

Zulässigkeitsgrenzen von Investor-Staat-Schiedsvereinbarungen nach EU-Recht

21.04.2015

Roland Hoffmann

In der Debatte um TTIP und andere derzeit von der Europäischen Union verhandelte Freihandelsabkommen wird am kontroversesten über das Thema Investor-Staat-Schiedsvereinbarungen (ISDS) gestritten. Auch unter den Mitgliedstaaten bestehen zu dieser...

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Trademocracy

Investitionsschiedsverfahren: Individualrechtsschutz oder „anti-demokratische Konzernherrschaft”?

20.04.2015

Sebastian Wuschka

Einst lösten Schiedsverfahren die Kanonenbootpolitik der Industrienationen ab. Heute gerät die Investitionsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit unter Beschuss. Charakteristika des Systems wie Verhandlungen unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit, Übertragung von Entscheidungsgewalt auf drei Einzelpersonen als...

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Trademocracy

Freihandel vs. Demokratie 2.0

19.04.2015

Michael Riegner

Auftakt zum Online-Symposium Trademocracy Heute beginnt in New York die neunte Verhandlungsrunde über „TTIP“, das Freihandels- und Investitionsabkommen zwischen den USA und der EU. Am Wochenende gingen wieder tausende TTIP-Gegner...

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Verfassungs- und Völkerrecht im Spannungsverhältnis

At a crossroads

30.01.2015

Ilya Levin Michael Schwarz

As part of Verfassungsblog’s topical focus on the prevailing tensions between international and national constitutional law, we go east and take a look at Russia and its unsteady relationship with...

Histories on EJIL Talk!

11.01.2015

The first three contributions from our series "Histories of International Law" are now available in English on EJIL Talk!: "Völkerrechtsgeschichten" by Alexandra Kemmerer, "German International Law Scholarship and the Postcolonial...

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Histories of International Law

Was ist Wahrheit?

09.01.2015

Alexandra Kemmerer

„Wir müssen sprechen! Als Historikerin geht es Ihnen um die Wahrheit, und da sollten Sie meine Version der Geschichte hören!” – „Sehr gern. Aber Sie sollten wissen: Ich arbeite zwar...

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Histories of International Law

Die Interdependenz von Völkerrechtswissenschaft und Historiographie

07.01.2015

Christian Richter

Eine Replik auf die Beiträge von Alexandra Kemmerer, Jochen von Bernstorff und Markus M. Payk Die vorzüglichen Beiträge zur Völkerrechtshistorie sind zu begrüßen, folgende ergänzende Anmerkungen können jedoch hilfreich sein....

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Histories of International Law

Historicizing a Classic

05.01.2015

Matthew G. Specter

Response to Marcus Payk and Alexandra Kemmerer For several years, I have been researching the intellectual biographies of two major figures in 20th century German political and legal thought: Hans...

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Verfassungs- und Völkerrecht im Spannungsverhältnis

Let Not Triepel Triumph

23.12.2014

Anne Peters

(This article has previously been published on EJIL: talk!) The Italian Constiutional Court’s decision no. 238 of 22 Oct. 2014 (unofficial translation into English) already inspired a flurry of comments in the blogosphere (see...

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Hört erst beim Geld die Freundschaft auf?

18.12.2014

Robert Frau

Die Einbeziehung von Völkervertragsrecht in die deutsche Rechtsordnung läuft seit Jahren routiniert. Ein völkerrechtlicher Vertrag wird durch ein Bundesgesetz, das so genannte Vertragsgesetz, in die deutsche Rechtsordnung geholt und gilt...

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Verfassungs- und Völkerrecht im Spannungsverhältnis

The UK’s Potential Withdrawal from the ECHR

17.12.2014

Jannika Jahn

The ruling Conservative party of Prime Minister David Cameron published a paper this year, called “Protecting Human Rights in the UK”. The party suggests to replace the Human Rights Act...

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