Articles written by Sué González Hauck on Völkerrechtsblog

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reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law

Embracing ‘Pataphysics of International Law

29.07.2024

Sué González Hauck Anna Sophia Tiedeke

When walking down Hobrechtstraße in Berlin-Neukölln, Germany on the last weekend of June 2024, it was hard not to contemplate questions of order and disorder. Two persons dressed in what...

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Closing Channels

26.07.2024

Sué González Hauck Isabel Lischewski

In this piece, we offer some reflections on our time as Editors-in-Chief at Völkerrechtsblog. In doing so, we do not speak for the blog as a whole, but also not...

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Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog

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

29.04.2024

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...

Interview

Opening the World of International Law Education

28.03.2024

Raffaela Kunz Max Milas Sué González Hauck Yota Negishi Miharu Hirano

Earlier this month, the book Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach was published. It is the first-ever openly accessible and collectively written textbook from different perspectives with digital pedagogical materials....

#Ö: Our own News

Call for reflectiÖns on “Ordering and Disordering”

27.03.2024

Sué González Hauck Anna Sophia Tiedeke

„For me now, what I’m realizing is I’m done trying to treat people as if they’re finished beings. Because we’re all unfinished basically, we’re all unravelling. So it's very unfair...

#Ö: Our own News

Call for reflectiÖns on “Ordering and Disordering”

09.11.2023

Sué González Hauck Anna Sophia Tiedeke

"For me now, what I’m realizing is I’m done trying to treat people as if they’re finished beings. Because we’re all unfinished basically, we’re all unravelling. So it's very unfair...

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Racial Profiling in Germany

Racial Profiling in Germany

13.12.2022

Sué González Hauck

In Basu v. Germany, an international body reminded Germany once again of its less-than-perfect human rights record regarding racial discrimination. In this case, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...

#Ö: Our own News

Editorial #19: Taking Time

05.08.2022

Sué González Hauck

As in the months before, Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine has continued to play a central role in the contributions to Völkerrechtsblog. The interview with Alain Pellet, in which...

Media

Rassifizierte Grenzregime und die Grenzen des menschenrechtlichen Schutzes vor Rassismus

08.07.2022

Sué González Hauck

In den vergangenen Monaten zeigten sich vermehrt Hierarchien der Solidarität bei der Aufnahmebereitschaft gegenüber ukrainischen Geflüchteten im Vergleich zu der Aufnahmebereitschaft gegenüber Menschen, die beispielsweise aus Afghanistan, Syrien oder aus...

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Interview
International Law and the Political

On History, Responsibility and Critique

25.05.2022

Anne Orford Sué González Hauck Hendrik Simon

While in the first part of our conversation with Anne Orford we talked about the politics of "turning to history" in international legal scholarship, the second part is about possible...

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International Law and the Political

Turning to History – A Political Project?

24.05.2022

Anne Orford Sué González Hauck Hendrik Simon

In the last 30 years, a considerable part of international legal scholarship has discovered a renewed interest in the history of international law. But is this 'turn to history' perhaps...

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Who Speaks International Law?

Who Speaks International Law?

30.08.2021

Sué González Hauck Julian A. Hettihewa

The legal concept of jurisdiction refers to an actor’s competence to provide binding answers to legal questions. Questions of legal validity cannot be answered without examining the notion of jurisdiction....

Book Review
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The Justification of War and International Order

War! What Is It Good For?

31.05.2021

Sué González Hauck Sebastian M. Spitra Nesa Zimmermann

‘The history of war is also a history of its justification’ (p. 3) – this is the momentous starting point of the volume on The Justification of War and International...

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The role of the ILC

The outside keeps creeping in: On the impossibility of engaging in purely doctrinal scholarship

23.02.2021

Sué González Hauck

Danae Azaria’s article is a perfect example of a specific genre of international law scholarship: an ‘orthodox’ account that wishes to stay neatly within the lines that legal doctrine draws...

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The role of the ILC

The International Law Commission as an interpreter of international law?

22.02.2021

Justine Batura Sué González Hauck Sophie Schuberth

The role of the International Law Commission (ILC), as the subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly charged with the promotion and codification of progressive development of international law, has...

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The Battle for International Law

It’s the system, stupid!

29.12.2020

Sué González Hauck

The title of The Battle for International Law evokes Rudolf von Jhering’s (“The Struggle / Battle for Law”). In this work, Jhering describes law as the product of struggle between...

Book Review

Summer Reading List of the #Ö

21.08.2020

Dana Schmalz Sué González Hauck Sebastian M. Spitra

In today’s second part of our Summer Reading List, Sué Gonzáles Hauck introduces Lea David’s ‘The Past Can’t Heal Us’, Dana Schmalz reviews Étienne Balibar’s ‘Secularism and Cosmopolitanism’, and Sebastian...

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Book Review
Feminist Engagement with International Law

Crisis and hypocrisy?

20.01.2020

Sué González Hauck Isabel Lischewski

The Book Review Symposium on Feminist Engagement with International Law has been taking place against the backdrop of multiple crises. The crisis that has been dominating the news worldwide is...

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Feminist Engagement with International Law

Intersectional feminist engagements with international law (Part II)

15.01.2020

Sué González Hauck

In this second part of our interview with CIJ founder and executive director Emilia Roig, we move from general questions on intersectionality and the category ‘women’ to more specific questions...

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Feminist Engagement with International Law

Intersectional feminist engagements with international law (Part I)

14.01.2020

Sué González Hauck

Most contributions to our online review symposium argue in favor of an intersectional approach. Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term ‘intersectionality’ in 1989. Crenshaw is also the president of...

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Book Review
Feminist Engagement with International Law

Book Symposium on “Feminist Engagement with International Law”

08.01.2020

Sué González Hauck Isabel Lischewski

“Feminist analysis is like friendship: an ongoing process of deepening complexity, interactive, contradictory, insightful, emotional, enlightening, challenging, conflicting”, Nancy O. Dowd wrote in her introduction to Feminist Legal Theory: An...

Article

The proportionality critique still stands

12.08.2015

Sué González Hauck

A Rejoinder to Johann Ruben Leiss Johann Ruben Leiss critically remarks that the perception underlying my original post “overburdens proportionality balancing with assumptions and expectations that do not reflect its...

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A critique of proportionality balancing as a harmonization technique in international law

05.08.2015

Sué González Hauck

Since the publication of the Fragmentation Report by the International Law Commission, international legal scholars and practitioners alike seem to be less concerned about the theoretical questions raised by the...