International Organizations, the Rule of Law, and the Role of the Legal Advisor
23.02.2024
This episode of the Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen series dissects the crucial role of international organizations (IOs), the rule of law, and the significance of legal advisors within them, focusing on examples...
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The Signing Ceremony Begins
04.10.2023
In March 2023, the treaty text of the new Treaty on Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (‘the BBNJ Agreement’) was approved at the United Nations in New York, marking...
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The OSCE Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
03.04.2023
Kirsten Schmalenbach
Melissa Rudigier
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is currently facing unprecedented difficulties created by one of its participating States, namely Russia. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of...
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Immunity of International Organisations Discarded?
12.12.2022
Do international organisations enjoy immunity from jurisdiction under customary international law? In a recent ruling, Austria's Constitutional Court answered that question in the negative. The ruling arose in the context...
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- Book Review
- Symposium
- The World Bank’s Lawyers
In Gratitude
25.11.2022
Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
One of the most challenging parts of writing The World Bank’s Lawyers was coming to terms with its closure – the closure of its cover, its core claims, the changes...
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- Book Review
- Symposium
- The World Bank’s Lawyers
Disentangling Global Governance
25.11.2022
Whatever happened to chaos theory anyway? Its heyday seems to be over within social sciences at least. With a longer history in ‘natural’ or ‘hard’ sciences, the theory became big...
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- Book Review
- Symposium
- The World Bank’s Lawyers
The Firm
24.11.2022
In his ethnographic book on the World Bank, Goldman describes the bank as “a fickle place to experience and comprehend. Mental maps mislead, directional signs baffle, and paths through it...
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- Book Review
- Symposium
- The World Bank’s Lawyers
International Institutional Law “Under the Radar”
23.11.2022
When I arrived at the World Bank in Washington D.C. in 2014, the Bank was in the process of incorporating a new agenda on security, conflict and fragility in its...
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- Book Review
- Symposium
- The World Bank’s Lawyers
A New Map of (International Law’s) Empire?
22.11.2022
In a (very) short story, “On Exactitude in Science”, Jorge Luis Borges tells how, in a certain Empire, “the Art of Cartography” had “attained such Perfection” that eventually “a Map...
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- The World Bank’s Lawyers
Unsettling the Place of Law in International Organizations
21.11.2022
In The World Bank’s Lawyers Dimitri Van Den Meerssche does a great service to legal scholarship on international organizations by insisting that the place of law therein is not guaranteed,...
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- Book Review
- Symposium
- The World Bank’s Lawyers
Ever Shifting, Ever Changing
21.11.2022
As international scholars, we have been trained to accept a certain role law occupies in international and global settings, and have adopted a very peculiar perspective on how to study...
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