A (Twisted) Microcosm Imbued with Secrets?

Symposium
State Responsibility in Crisis

A (Twisted) Microcosm Imbued with Secrets?

12.11.2026

Tamás Molnár

Jean d’Aspremont’s recent mind-expanding book ‘The Epistemology of the Secret: International Law as Revelation’ argues that international law, like any serious epistemological project, proceeds on the assumption that the world is a continuous...

Symposium
State Responsibility in Crisis

Attribution and Sovereign Wealth Funds

11.11.2026

Daisy Peterson

Can the conduct of sovereign wealth funds be attributed to the State? More specifically, can a State be held responsible under international law when a State-owned investment vehicle holds stakes...

Symposium
State Responsibility in Crisis

Who Are the Houthis?

10.11.2026

Elisa Ruozzi

Over the past decade, the Gulf of Aden has become the epicentre of a complex and multifaceted conflict characterised, among other things, by the presence and conduct of a private...

Symposium
State Responsibility in Crisis

Non-State Actors and Collective Action in Global Health

10.11.2026

Scarlett McArdle

‘Responsibility is the corollary of international law’, determining the very existence of international law as a normative framework. Legal responsibility remains highly outdated, however. Its state-centric nature and inability to...

Symposium
State Responsibility in Crisis

The Obligation Within the Obligation

09.11.2026

Enenu Okwori

Under international law, states are to prevent their territories from knowingly being used for acts that are contrary to the rights of other states, and this is universally known as...

Symposium
State Responsibility in Crisis

Introducing the ‘State Responsibility in Crisis’ Symposium

09.11.2026

Kathryn Allinson

On 30 April and 1 May 2026, a group of academics came together at a workshop hosted by the University of Bristol, with the kind support of a BA/Leverhulme Small...

Bofaxe

No Order to Leave

04.11.2026

Jad Houary

In July 2026, two Palestinian households in Jalud left after an outpost appeared nearby, settlers took over a neighbouring house, water and electricity infrastructure was damaged, access to essential services...

Article

Before It’s Too Late

26.10.2026

Nicolas Angelet Margot Angé

In his 1954 study Vollendete Tatsache und Völkerrecht (“Fait accompli and International Law”), the late director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Professor Carl Bilfinger, stated...

Article

Can Nuremberg Survive AI?

22.10.2026

Gurgen Petrossian

Eighty years after the Nuremberg Judgment, artificial intelligence may challenge an assumption of international criminal law that has rarely needed to be questioned, namely that behind an international crime stands...

Article

Reparations by Another Name

15.10.2026

Francois Naaman

On June 17, 2026, the United States (U.S.) and Iran signed a fourteen-point Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that formally ends military operations and establishes a sixty-day framework for negotiating a...

Article

When Restraint Becomes Complicity

20.04.2026

Tjorben Studt

The US-Israeli attacks against Iran, launched on 28 February 2026, have plunged the Middle East into a dangerous and expanding conflict – triggering a broader factual and normative wildfire. What...

Article

Humanitarian Exchange or Legal Normalisation?

13.04.2026

Anubhuti Raje

Since February 2022, the Russian Federation’s military action against Ukraine has been characterised, with unusual clarity, as a violation of one of the most fundamental norms of the international legal...

Article

Judging a Ghost

20.11.2025

Fabian Endemann

For over a decade, European states have externalized migration control to non-European partners such as Libya - often beyond the reach of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). S.S....

Symposium
Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

On the Science-Coloured Glasses of the ICJ

06.08.2025

Katalin Sulyok

The ICJ gave a thoroughly science-based reading of State obligations with respect to climate change in its Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. This, in and of itself, is not very...

Article

Legal Echoes

03.12.2024

Lisa Wiese Adrian Schildheuer

For the second time in twenty years, the ICJ emphasized third states’ obligations arising from Israel’s violation of self-determination and other erga omnes obligations. The July 2024 Advisory Opinion (AO)...

Article

The EU’s ‘My Way or the Highway’ Approach?

09.03.2024

Kartik Sharma

The multilateral trading system continues to be in an uncertain state due to the ongoing Appellate Body crisis. The US has been incessantly blocking new judicial appointments over systemic concerns...

Article

What Have the Recent UN Attempts to Regulate Lethal Autonomous Weapons Brought?

19.09.2022

Lutiana Valadares Fernandes Barbosa Gustavo Macedo

Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) are no longer science fiction. They have already been deployed in real scenarios. According to the Panel of Experts on Libya established pursuant to United...