Editorial #48: Transforming the ‘Völkerrechtsblog’ into an Open Science Hub
29.11.2025
Hannah Kiel
Sissy Katsoni
We are overly excited to share with you the kick-off of the new DFG-funded ‘Infrastructures for Scientific Publishing’ programme on the Völkerrechtsblog! Through this funding line, which was awarded to...
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- Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage
Defining Away Palestine
12.09.2025
It is not hard to explain to international lawyers why definitions matter: from the seeming impossibility of reaching a universally accepted definition of terrorism in international law to John Yoo’s...
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- Symposium
- Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage
Protesting and Teaching about Israel-Palestine in The Netherlands, and the Problem of Double Standards
10.09.2025
Otto Spijkers
Jeff Handmaker
Renee Kolpa
While Dutch academic institutions swiftly and unambiguously condemned Russia’s aggression of Ukraine in February of 2022, soon thereafter accompanied by sweeping institutional sanctions, they have mostly refrained from responding in...
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Opening the World of International Law Education
28.03.2024
Raffaela Kunz
Max Milas
Sué González Hauck
Yota Negishi
Miharu Hirano
Earlier this month, the book Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach was published. It is the first-ever openly accessible and collectively written textbook from different perspectives with digital pedagogical materials....
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Teaching International Law in the Middle East
20.11.2023
The first day of this semester happens to be October 8th – a difficult day to start a course on international law, I think to myself, fearing Israel’s response as...
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Joining the Conversation
13.06.2023
“And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?” — Lewis Carroll, ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.’ In ‘The Outside Keeps Creeping In,’ Sué González...
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In The Eyes of the Organizers
28.02.2023
Isabel Lischewski
Pierre Thielbörger
The 2023 German National Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court are upon us, and in the last few months, not only the competing teams have been...
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