Beyond Symbolic Recognition
28.05.2026
Sophie Girardini
Veronika Stockinger
Franziska Michel
Today, for the second year, Namibia commemorates 28 May as “Genocide Remembrance Day”. On this day in 1908, the last concentration camps that were part of Germany’s extermination policy in...
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Remembering Abel Nathan Willing (1856-1925)
01.04.2025
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
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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EU Deforestation-Free Regulations
13.03.2025
On the island of Borneo, Malaysia, palm trees stretch as far as the eye can see. Malaysia is the world’s second largest palm oil producer after Indonesia. However, the European...
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Historical Revisionism or Selective Memory? Black History Month and Germany’s Colonial Past
28.02.2025
Elisabeth Kaneza
Khaled El Mahmoud
Elisabeth, thank you very much for agreeing to this interview. We are delighted to have the opportunity to engage with you on this significant topic. Black History Month is an...
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- Symposium
- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Locating Progress in the European Convention on Human Rights
19.09.2023
Progress may seem to be a temporal concept. That is certainly how it is usually understood in the literature on progress and international law. Statements of progress are said, for...
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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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New Ways to Deal With Old Crimes?
15.03.2023
Do countries take responsibility for grave violations of current international law committed in the past? This question has once again been raised in the negotiations between Germany and Namibia over...
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Litigating Reparations
25.01.2023
Throughout the world, indigenous populations are in a renewed push, demanding reparations from former colonial powers. On 19 January 2023, the Namibian lawyer Patrick Kauta filed an application to the...
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- Symposium
- Racial Profiling in Germany
Race and Empire in International Law
14.12.2022
The prohibition of racial discrimination has played a marginal role within the global human rights agenda. This corresponds to the subordination and neglect of ‘race’ in how international legal scholars...
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