Victims’ Perspective on the Development of Enforced Disappearances by Non-State Actors
17.06.2024
In May 2023, the Committee on Enforced Disappearances addressed the issue of non-state actors in the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances (ICPPED). They aimed...
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- ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine
The Imperial Project of France in Mexico and the “Official” Absence of the Monroe Doctrine
22.03.2024
In 1896 American historian Frederic Bancroft wrote that the “(…) Monroe Doctrine was absolutely superfluous during the French Intervention as it was no part of International Law”. Indeed, the case...
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- Symposium
- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Visions of Progress and International Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
18.09.2023
The concept of progress in international legal scholarship and practice has been explored over time. The narratives of progress in international law are conventionally drawn from the European or North...
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A Circumvention of Refugee Rights?
22.06.2023
On the May 11, 2023, the pandemic US border regulation – Title 42 - ran out. To replace it, the Biden Administration put in place a new rule titled “Circumvention...
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