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- Teaching International Law Vol. 1
Teaching International Law as World-Making
16.09.2026
In the spring of 2024, I participated in a series of teach-outs on international law and Palestine at the student encampments that spread across university campuses in the United Kingdom...
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- Teaching International Law Vol. 1
The Human Rights Clinic as Contested Ground
15.09.2026
Recently, while leading a seminar class on the fundamentals of International Human Rights Law, I was lamenting before my students on the US government’s latest flagrant dismissal of human rights...
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- Teaching International Law Vol. 1
Beyond the Formalist Illusion
15.09.2026
To teach international law, including international human rights law, from a critical perspective is to confront a foundational paradox immediately. The discipline routinely presents itself as a universal framework of...
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- Teaching International Law Vol. 1
Decolonial Feminist Pedagogy Beyond the Master’s House
14.09.2026
Every semester, at the conclusion of my lectures on various themes under public international law, I return to Audre Lorde's well-known observation that "the master's tools will never dismantle the...
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- Teaching International Law Vol. 1
Introducing the First Annual “Teaching International Law” Symposium
14.09.2026
Sissy Katsoni
Btissam Boulakhrif
On the occasion of the new academic year, which starts in most countries in late summer/beginning of fall, Völkerrechtsblog introduces the establishment of the annual “Teaching International Law” symposium. The...
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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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- 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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