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- Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges
Antarktis und Amazonas als internationale Rechtssubjekte
27.02.2025
Rechte und Rechtssubjektivität von Ökosystemen oder der Natur als Ganzes sind mittlerweile Teil von Rechtsordnungen weltweit. Über das nationale Recht hinaus fordern Rechtswissenschaftler:innen und Aktivist:innen nunmehr auch die Anerkennung von...
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- International Law and the Political
Between War and Peace – On the Logic and Language of Imperial Violence. An Interview with Lauren Benton
13.09.2024
Lauren Benton
Hendrik Simon
The differentiation between war and peace is central to the historiography of international relations and international law. In her new book “They Called it Peace”, Lauren Benton shows how violence...
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- International Law and the Political
Towards Realistic Universalism?, or: Provincializing Realism! An Interview with Matthew Specter
11.09.2024
Matthew G. Specter
Hendrik Simon
In his book The Atlantic Realists, Matthew Specter presents a genealogy of modern realism as a discourse between US-American and German intellectuals. An interview about the origins of the central...
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- Book Review
- The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law
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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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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- International Law and the Political
Relapse into ‘Civilisation’?! A Narrative’s Continuity and Change
01.02.2023
Ntina Tzouvala
Hendrik Simon
Critical International Law has become increasingly influential in academic discourse. However, argues Ntina Tzouvala, there remain important blind spots. An interview on capitalism, racism, and the ongoing impact of ‘civilisation’....
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- Interview
- International Law and the Political
(Merging the) Fragments of Critical International Law
31.01.2023
Ntina Tzouvala
Hendrik Simon
Critical International Law has become increasingly influential in academic discourse. However, argues Ntina Tzouvala, there remain important blind spots. An interview on capitalism, racism, and the ongoing impact of ‘civilisation’....
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- International Law and the Political
Can We Trust Each Other?
15.11.2022
Filipe dos Reis
Hendrik Simon
Interdisciplinarity still seems to be the order of the day. Despite its many advantages, it tends to be a sometimes-ambivalent undertaking: demanded in academia’s bureaucracies (for funding applications, no less),...
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