Colonialism

• Article

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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• Article

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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• Article

EU Deforestation-Free Regulations

13.03.2025

Samriddhi Guha

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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• Interview

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

Jens T. Theilen

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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• Article

The Last World: 150 Years of Franz Josef Land

14.07.2023

Miloš Vec

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

Miloš Vec

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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• Bofaxe

New Ways to Deal With Old Crimes?

15.03.2023

Mara Ebbers Anna Müller

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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• Article

Litigating Reparations

25.01.2023

Karina Theurer

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

Anna Hankings-Evans

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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