Meike Krakau

Meike Krakau is a doctoral candidate and a research assistant at the Chair of Public International Law and Public Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians University (Munich). Her research interests include international environmental law with a special focus on climate change litigation, human rights law and international adjudication. She is a Co-Editor-in-Chief at Völkerrechtsblog.

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Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog

“The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same?”

Sué González Hauck Meike Krakau Isabel Lischewski

At Völkerrechtsblog, we have quite frequently wondered about time, speed, timing, and temporalities. For example, when drafting an editorial for a ten-year anniversary, there is considerable temptation initially to divide...

#Ö: Our own News

Editorial #27: On Spring Fever and the Return of Colour

As the temperatures here in the mid-latitudes start to get milder, the days grow longer and the first spring flowers cautiously poke their heads out of the ground, our colourful...

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Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh

Landgrabs, Institutional Violence and Shrinking Civic Space

Alev Erhan Allison West Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Meike Krakau

India is often referred to as the “world’s largest democracy,” yet minority protection has always been a field of fierce contestation in post-independence India. Adivasis (the indigenous peoples of India)...

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Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective

Introducing the Symposium on Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective

Maxim Bönnemann Meike Krakau Anna-Julia Saiger

“We are dealing with core, indeed, high policy-making”. Last week, in overturning the ground-breaking Sharma decision, Justice Allsop of the Australian Federal Court made this crucial statement. This decision has...

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A Critical Christmas Week

Introducing the Critical Christmas Week

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Meike Krakau Cathérine Van de Graaf

For many of us, the current days lead into a bit of a winter break. In the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter solstice today - the days will be getting...

#Ö: Our own News

Editorial #11: Here is to Blogposts, Editors and Authors! Cheers!

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Meike Krakau Cathérine Van de Graaf

Journal articles are okay but blogposts go all the way! The road to publication of journal articles (let’s not even dwell on the process for books) is often paved with...