International Legal Scholarship

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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 New European Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer

13.05.2025

Salim Amin

On March 12, 2025, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe unanimously adopted the European Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer (‘the Convention’). This instrument...

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Remembering Abel Nathan Willing (1856-1925)

01.04.2025

Miloš Vec

Dass der US-amerikanische Völkerrechtler Abel Nathan Willing völlig in Vergessenheit geraten ist, lag nicht nur an den juristisch-politischen Zeitumständen. Auch seine Persönlichkeit, die mit dem Etikett „schwierig“ nur unzureichend gekennzeichnet...

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Remembering Abel Nathan Willing (1856-1925)

01.04.2025

Miloš Vec

The fact that the American international law expert Abel Nathan Willing fell completely in oblivion was not only due to the legal and political circumstances of the time. His personality,...

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(Re-)Discoveries in a ‘Lost’ Text

04.06.2024

Robert Stendel

“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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‘Where is Martti Koskenniemi?’

25.05.2024

Artur Simonyan

To set rather an authentic atmosphere before or while reading the blog post, the author suggests the following artistic pieces to consult (here, here, here). The recommended pieces demonstrate that...

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