Alicja Polakiewicz

Alicja Polakiewicz is a PhD candidate and research associate at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. She studied social sciences in France and Singapore, and criminal law in Scotland. Her research interests include international criminal law enforcement, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the politics of human rights. She is an editor at Völkerrechtsblog.

Symposium
Post-Hegemonic International Law?

Post-Hegemonic International Law?

Tania Ixchel Atilano Paulette Baeriswyl Banciella Sabrina Ferrazzi Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo Alicja Polakiewicz Camilo Ramírez Gutiérrez Garima Tiwari Kebene Wodajo Felix Würkert Raffaela Kunz

It has become a cliché to say we live in a globalized world. This conference is itself evidence of the world’s interconnectedness, as we all come from and are based...

Article

Historical Responsibility at Hammelsgasse 1

Alicja Polakiewicz

Whenever Germany applies universal jurisdiction, abstract allusions to the country’s historical responsibility abound. Responsibility is a state of being; but eight decades after the end of the Second World War,...

#Ö: Our own News

What #Ö Read during the Mid-Year Break (Part II)

Hendrik Simon Alicja Polakiewicz Khaled El Mahmoud

Welcome to Part II of What #Ö Read during the Mid-Year Break (read Part I here). Reading KafKant at the End of “the End of History” (or Summer) Immanuel...

#Ö: Our own News

Editorial #35: Eastern European Summer Time

Alicja Polakiewicz

At the risk of sounding as if I am fetishising the European East by likening it to the Berlin of the 1990s, let me say that visiting Vilnius earlier this...