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#48: Geschichten des Völkerrechts: Von Grotius zu kritischen Ansätzen
04.07.2025
Hendrik Simon
Erik Tuchtfeld
1625, also vor exakt 400 Jahren, veröffentlichte Hugo Grotius sein wichtigstes Werk, De Iure Belli ac Pacis libri tres, zu Deutsch: Drei Bücher über das Recht des Krieges und...
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- International Law and the Political
The Politics of Reception
24.06.2025
Edward Jones Corredera
Mark Somos
Hendrik Simon
400 years ago, Hugo Grotius published his most important work, De iure belli ac pacis (IBP). The work made Grotius famous and earned him the title of father of modern...
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The Private is Political
30.09.2024
León Castellanos-Jankiewicz
Hendrik Simon
Despite its enormous growth in importance over the last 20 years or so, the History of International Law as an academic sub-discipline has so far widely neglected private international law....
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- International Law and the Political
Between War and Peace – On the Logic and Language of Imperial Violence. An Interview with Lauren Benton
13.09.2024
Lauren Benton
Hendrik Simon
The differentiation between war and peace is central to the historiography of international relations and international law. In her new book “They Called it Peace”, Lauren Benton shows how violence...
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- International Law and the Political
Towards Realistic Universalism?, or: Provincializing Realism! An Interview with Matthew Specter
11.09.2024
Matthew G. Specter
Hendrik Simon
In his book The Atlantic Realists, Matthew Specter presents a genealogy of modern realism as a discourse between US-American and German intellectuals. An interview about the origins of the central...
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(Re-)Discoveries in a ‘Lost’ Text
04.06.2024
“Problems of international law in particular are still all too often discussed within national circles. The contributors and staff of journals normally come from more or less the same State....
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Global Histories of International Law’s Practice in Wartime
04.06.2024
Boyd van Dijk
Hendrik Simon
While we talked about the making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions in Part I of our interview with Boyd van Dijk, the second part is about more global histories of...
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Ordering the Power to Protect and Destroy Civilian Lives
03.06.2024
Boyd van Dijk
Hendrik Simon
The four 1949 Geneva Conventions – the most important rules ever formulated for regulating warfare – were shaped by liberal humanitarianism and the idea of progress through international law. In...
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- Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog
Debating Cosmopolitan Law – 9 Years On
30.04.2024
When this esteemed blog was still in its infancy, I contributed a fictional conversation with two giants of philosophy and international law: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Georg Friedrich von Martens...
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Fetishizing the State: Gentili and the Myth of the Modern Laws of War
21.11.2023
Claire Vergerio
Hendrik Simon
According to international humanitarian law, the answer to the question of who is considered a legitimate actor of force is primarily the following: sovereign states. This state-centred answer is often...
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#MPIL100
14.11.2023
Philipp Glahé
Alexandra Kemmerer
Science often begins with a coincidence. Or more precisely: a moment of serendipity, that happy opportunity that enables and produces knowledge in the seemingly unintentional coincidence of constellation and event....
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- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Visions of Progress and International Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
18.09.2023
The concept of progress in international legal scholarship and practice has been explored over time. The narratives of progress in international law are conventionally drawn from the European or North...
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The Last World: 150 Years of Franz Josef Land
14.07.2023
This is an English version of Vec's original German article, translated by the editorial team with the author's consent. The title of Christoph Ransmayr's novel, "The Last World," fits...
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Die letzte Welt: 150 Jahre Franz-Josef-Land
13.07.2023
Für die Geschichte der Entdeckung des Franz-Josef-Lands vor 150 Jahren würde auch ein anderer Romantitel von Christoph Ransmayr passen: „Die letzte Welt“. Das Franz-Josef-Land, ein Archipel von rund 200 Inseln,...
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Reflections on Learning under Sands’ Tutelage
02.11.2022
Since 1923, scores of doctoral students, diplomats and international legal professionals from different nationalities have attended the Academy’s Courses. This has also included artists who attended, according to Judge Hilary...
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