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A Question of Authority and Risk
24.09.2025
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...
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Flying Too Low?
24.09.2025
Artificial islands have become central flashpoints in maritime disputes, particularly in the South China Sea. Their strategic use by coastal states raises difficult questions under international law, especially regarding the...
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Promise and Peril of Relying on Human Rights in the Customary International Humanitarian Law Study
23.09.2025
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...
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The Encyclopaedic Value of the ICRC’s Customary IHL Study
22.09.2025
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a symposium relating to the ICRC's customary international humanitarian law study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The introductory post is available...
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Revisiting Customary IHL
19.09.2025
Rouven Diekjobst
Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
Paulina Rob
Editors’ note: This post introduces a symposium relating to the ICRC's Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The symposium highlights presentations delivered at the young...
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- Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion
The Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change
06.08.2025
Introduction The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has delivered an Advisory Opinion on Obligations in Respect of Climate Change that meets the moment. That the members of the Court felt...
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Sacred Days, Silent Guns?
19.05.2025
The relationship between religion and international humanitarian law (IHL) has been the subject of academic study for decades: Rules of IHL are reflected in the teachings of most if not...
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India, the Indus Waters Treaty, and the Limits of Good Faith
14.05.2025
Parthiban Babu
Sai Ramani Garimella
The terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on April 22, 2025, reportedly perpetrated by militants operating from Pakistani territory, has reopened a long-familiar fault line in South Asian politics. Yet...
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Editors’ Response
17.11.2023
Panos Merkouris
Jörg Kammerhofer
Noora Arajärvi
We would like to thank the editors of the Völkerrechtsblog for organising this symposium on The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law, and the commentators for thoughtfully and...
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The Evergreen Examination Question
16.11.2023
As ChatGPT-4 and other artificial intelligence machines are all but extinguishing the essay-writing practice, it is high time that we receive the right answer to the ever-green topic of international...
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Reflections on Customary International Law and Interpretation
15.11.2023
It is not often that one reads about Schrödinger's cat, the particle and wave qualities of light, and Latour’s idea that modern discourses are always driven by their foundational contradictions...
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The Practical Question of the Interpretation of Customary International Law
14.11.2023
The featured monograph in this symposium – The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law – offers welcome engagement with the question of whether there can be such a...
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Legal Appropriation or Rechtsnahme through Customary International Law
13.11.2023
Legal Appropriation or, what is the same, Rechtsnahme means in this contribution the space of human interaction that is appropriated by international judges, lawyers and other legal actors when they...
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Introducing the Book Review Symposium on “The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law”
13.11.2023
Jan-Henrik Hinselmann
Sissy Katsoni
Raphael Oidtmann
This summer, Judge Hilary Charlesworth made international lawyers very happy (some of them at least) when her dissenting opinion appended to the judgment of the International Court of Justice in...
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