Symposium: “Russian Perspectives on International Law”

Symposium
Russian Perspectives on International Law

Symposium: “Russian Perspectives on International Law”

03.01.2018

Dana Schmalz Valentin Jeutner Manuela Niehaus

We are excited to launch the Symposium “Russian Perspectives on International Law”. It has been in planning for a while, and we were enthusiastic about the response to our call...

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Russian Perspectives on International Law

Strasbourg’s effect on Russia – and Russia’s effect on Strasbourg

03.01.2018

Lauri Mälksoo

It has been occasionally asked, in the light of case law that comes out from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), whether Russia actually complies with the ECtHR’s judgments....

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Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

Call for Contributions: Critical Race Perspectives on International Law

13.11.2017

“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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Russian Perspectives on International Law

Call for Contributions: Russian Perspectives on International Law

25.10.2017

The Völkerrechtsblog is happy to announce an online symposium on “International Law Seen from Russia”. This symposium is meant to offer insights from scholars working on international law issues related...

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Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law

Auctoritas non veritas facit Legem

18.10.2017

Antoni Abat i Ninet

This blog post is a response to Roberto Niembro’s post on authoritarian constitutionalism for the Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law. This post will be cross-posted on the Blog of...

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Dialing Into Jessup

Access to justice for socio-economic rights: lessons from the Indian experience

15.09.2017

Surya Deva

This is a cross-post shared with the blog of the International Association of Constitutional Law as part of a collaboration between Voelkerrechtsblog and the IACL Blog. Professor David Bilchitz in a recent blog...

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Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law

Constitutional authoritarianism, not authoritarian constitutionalism!

31.08.2017

Konrad Lachmayer

In these times of re-emerging illiberalism, populism and authoritarianism, there is an increasing need for us to attempt to find new academic concepts to describe the phenomena that are emerging....

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Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law

Interrogating “Constitutionalism of the South” and new pathways for research

07.08.2017

Carlos Arturo Villagrán Sandoval

Latin American constitutional scholarship is on the rise in the Anglophone world. New collaborative works (such as Dixon and Ginsburg’s new comparative constitutional law edition (2017), the Borges et al...

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Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law

Knowledge production in comparative constitutional law

31.07.2017

Florian Hoffmann

The idea and the reality of the Global South represent different types of epistemological challenges to the disciplinary identity of comparative (constitutional) law. As a term, it is no more...

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Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law

Towards a constitutionalism of the wretched

27.07.2017

Vidya Kumar

The field of Global Constitutionalism (also sometimes called “International Constitutionalism”) is a very odd field, one which, with very limited exceptions (Frankenberg, Schwöbel, and Volk), has been neglected by most...

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Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law

Expanding access to justice for socio-economic rights complaints in South Africa

24.07.2017

David Bilchitz

The South African constitution has been lauded for its inclusion of justiciable socio-economic rights. Yet, making claims flowing from these rights remains inaccessible to many people across the country. This...

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Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law

Pushing for transformation

20.07.2017

Anuscheh Farahat

Transformative constitutionalism is a somewhat fuzzy notion. Reflecting about its exact meaning, one wonders what it actually is that distinguishes transformative constitutions of other types of constitutions. On the surface,...

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Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law

Conceptualizing authoritarian constitutionalism

17.07.2017

Roberto Niembro

Authoritarian constitutionalism is a new category used by constitutional law scholars to refer to a distinct type of regime wherein there are faulty practices and a constitution with an authoritarian...

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Dialing Into Jessup

The Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law

14.07.2017

Philipp Dann

While scholarship in comparative constitutional law is booming, this anniversary conference is an unusual event in at least two ways: It is asking particularly about the role of the Global...

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Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law

The 12mm-Winchester-Gun and the Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law

13.07.2017

Michael Riegner

This week, our partner journal Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (VRÜ) / Law and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America celebrates its 50th birthday with an international conference on...

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Feminist Critiques of International Courts

Vive la diversité!

15.05.2017

Josephine J. Dawuni

As of May 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR) appears to be the most gender balanced bench in the world, with women occupying 45% (5 out...

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Feminist Critiques of International Courts

Judgment and diversity

03.05.2017

Dana Schmalz

If the number of female judges in an international tribunal is one out of twenty-one, as in the case of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS),...

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Feminist Critiques of International Courts

Why a woman’s presence on the bench is a human rights issue

27.04.2017

Selen Kazan

In order to avoid the danger of an essentialist approach when talking about women’s representation in international courts, the issue should be framed as of of human rights and not...

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Feminist Critiques of International Courts

Feminist judgments in international law

24.04.2017

Troy Lavers Loveday Hodson

A feminist critique of international courts can confront the lack of representation and inclusion of women as well as women's lack of access to courts and the justice system. However,...

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Feminist Critiques of International Courts

Feminism and the International Criminal Court – still an issue?

19.04.2017

Valérie V. Suhr

While the International Criminal Court (ICC) has always been subject to criticism and is maybe currently facing its biggest crisis with member states withdrawing, the things that are actually going...

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Feminist Critiques of International Courts

Symposium: Feminist Critiques of International Courts

17.04.2017

Dana Schmalz

In the upcoming days, we are very glad to host a symposium on feminist critiques of international courts. Where to begin when introducing this topic? There is much to say...

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Feminist Critiques of International Courts

It’s not about “women’s issues”.

17.04.2017

Dana Schmalz Nienke Grossman

There is no way to get around Nienke Grossman’s work when reflecting about diversity on the benches of international courts. Her scholarship offers statistics about the numbers of women judges,...

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Gunneflo Book Symposium

Gunneflo Book Symposium: The author’s response

12.04.2017

Markus Gunneflo

I could not be happier that this book symposium turned out to be a forum for such wide-ranging and critical commentary about targeted killing. All contributors offer nuanced readings of...

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Gunneflo Book Symposium

Gunneflo Book Symposium: Part 5

07.04.2017

Jothie Rajah

1. In October 2015, some four and a half years after the Osama bin Laden killing, the New York Times disclosed that weeks before the Abbottabad raid, federal lawyers had...

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Gunneflo Book Symposium

Gunneflo Book Symposium: Part 4

29.03.2017

Karin Loevy

On a clear November morning in 2000, Hussein Abayat, a senior official in the Fatah faction Tanzim, was killed by a hellfire anti-tank missile fired from an Israeli helicopter. When...

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Gunneflo Book Symposium

Gunneflo Book Symposium: Part 3

22.03.2017

Nahed Samour

Markus Gunneflo’s book shows how the normalization of targeted killing emerged through extensive legal work. Offering a meticulous account of history and practice, the book highlights the law and politics...

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Gunneflo Book Symposium

Gunneflo Book Symposium: Part 2

15.03.2017

Ioannis Kalpouzos

It is worth repeating that the suggestion that drone technology constitutes a ‘paradigm change’ and a ‘break with the past’ in the international law of force is of limited heuristic...

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Nuremberg Trials

If you are looking for perfect justice look somewhere else.

13.03.2017

Kim Christian Priemel

It is not very often that a historian’s book, even one about a pivotal moment in the annals of international criminal law, meets with such interest among his legal and...

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Dialing Into Jessup

Targeted killing: a legal and political history

08.03.2017

Valentin Jeutner

Over the coming weeks, the Völkerrechtsblog will host an online symposium on the recently published book Targeted Killing: A Legal and Political History (CUP 2016) by Markus Gunneflo. Markus Gunneflo...

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Gunneflo Book Symposium

Gunneflo Book Symposium: Part 1

08.03.2017

Itamar Mann

1. On 4 January 2017, a military court in Jaffa convicted Israeli soldier Elor Azaria of manslaughter. The case has set Israeli public debate ablaze for almost a year now,...

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Nuremberg Trials

Nuremberg and the contemporary commitment to international criminal justice

22.02.2017

Frédéric Mégret

The Nuremberg trial often stands as a nostalgic memory in the minds of international criminal lawyers. Perhaps it is the particular black and white simplicity of the trial, the mostly...

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Nuremberg Trials

Nuremberg trials a betrayal to history?

20.02.2017

Kerry-Luise Prior Marjana Papa

Kim Priemel’s “The Betrayal” is a very thoroughly researched historical but also philosophical and critical narrative of the Nuremberg Trials. Two principal questions guide the reader through the book: Can...

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Sovereign Debt

Sovereign debt restructuring – in the machine room of legal engineering

13.02.2017

Matthias Goldmann

The authors and editors of the special issue on sovereign debt restructuring are highly grateful to the contributors to this symposium on sovereign debt for their thought-provoking contributions. As I...

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Sovereign Debt

Not only good faith

03.02.2017

Mauro Megliani

Staying of enforcement plays a topical role in sovereign debt litigation as enforcing a debt claim may have a negative impact on the dynamics of restructuring processes and the regular...

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Sovereign Debt

Inter-Creditor equity in corporate and sovereign debt restructuring

01.02.2017

Vassilis Paliouras

Broadly defined, inter-creditor equity represents a normative evaluation of the treatment a debtor accords to a certain creditor (or group of creditors) vis a vis the treatment that the debtor’s...

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Sovereign Debt

Sovereign debt and international law

30.01.2017

Ntina Tzouvala

Events of historic proportions often feel anti-climactic. In March 2012, Greece, a developed capitalist state and a member of the Eurozone, engaged in the biggest debt restructuring venture to date,...

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Sovereign Debt

Setting the scope of and the limits to the incremental approach to sovereign debt restructurings

25.01.2017

Régis Bismuth

Anyone interested in legal issues surrounding sovereign debt should pay careful attention to the last special edition of the Yale Journal of International Law in which a framework is set...

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The Person Behind the Academic

Constant dripping wears away the stone… including sovereign debt

23.01.2017

Matthias Goldmann

The sovereign debt crises in the Eurozone, in Argentina, or in Ukraine have highlighted that the current international legal regime on sovereign debt is ill equipped to resolve the bankruptcy...

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Digital Surveillance and cyber espionage

Unilateralism ahead?

12.12.2016

Milan Tahraoui

Here we are. It could seem a bit obvious to start with this overwhelming event, but it is truly important to stress that the recent results of the US elections...

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Digital Surveillance and cyber espionage

Der Schutz der Menschenrechte im Cyberspace durch die EMRK

07.12.2016

Layla Kristina Jaber

Der EGMR hat im Laufe seiner Rechtsprechung die „offline“ Gewährleistungen aus dem Recht auf Achtung des Privat- und Familienlebens aus Art. 8 EMRK und dem Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung aus...

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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

Grab me if you can?

31.10.2016

Michael Riegner

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...

Symposium
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...

Symposium
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...