When Does the Obligation to Comply with Provisional Measures End?
28.10.2024
In the pending case of Allegations of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation) before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the question arises as to the effect of the ICJ’s partial...
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- ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine in an Age of Anti-Interventionism
13.05.2024
How have the premises and ambiguities of the Monroe Doctrine been reflected in American debates about military intervention abroad, and how did they re-appear (if at all) in current debates...
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- Blögiversary: Celebrating Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog
In the Tenth Year of the War
02.05.2024
In 2014, I was invited to write a post on Ukraine. Everyone understood Ukraine’s crisis mattered, and wouldn’t be short, so I wrote three. Instead of discussing doctrinal unniceties, I...
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How to Undermine a Fundamental Norm: The Prohibition of the Use of Force in Light of the 2023 G20 Summit Outcome Document
29.01.2024
In this episode of the Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen, the speaker, Alexander Grimmig, takes a look at the 2023’s G20 summit outcome document and comparing it to the previous year. The speaker...
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Taking Care of Other People’s History?
08.11.2023
Eric Rücker
Kai Budelmann
In October 2022, Russian military vehicles pulled up in Kherson, then occupied by the Russian armed forces to surround and secure two buildings. This raid was not a counter-resistance operation...
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A ‘Clear’ War Crime Against the Environment?
28.07.2023
On the morning of June 6, 2023, the first news agencies reported that the Nova Kakhovka dam in the Russian-controlled area in southern Ukraine was destroyed. The spilling water masses...
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- International Law and the Political
Beyond Black and White: Normative Ambiguities and the Delivery of Cluster Bombs
12.07.2023
Elvira Rosert
Frank Sauer
Hendrik Simon
Following the decision by the United States of America to provide cluster bombs to Ukraine, a contentious public and academic discourse has emerged, centering on the legality and legitimacy of...
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Should Third States Follow Ukraine’s Lead and Confiscate Russian State Assets?
19.06.2023
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale attack against Ukraine. Reconstruction and recovery needs are estimated at over 400 billion USD. A potential source for rapid compensation is the...
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Heads of States Before the ICC
05.04.2023
On the 17th of March 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC, Court) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children's Rights, for...
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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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Military Success > Global Food Security
20.02.2023
"The right to food is not the right to be nourished, but first and foremost the right to nourish oneself in dignity from one's own resources", Jean Ziegler However, the...
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The Necessity of a Structural Investigation into the Cultural Genocide in Ukraine
15.02.2023
Since the Russian invasion, both the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Germany have started an investigation into events in Ukraine that...
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Questions of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia
27.01.2023
On 25 January 2023, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its decision on the admissibility of the interstate complaints lodged by Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia in relation...
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The Violation of Ukrainian Refugees’ Right to Reproductive Self-Determination in Poland
28.11.2022
Nicola Dannenbring
Chiara Rimkus
Rape and sexualized violence have been employed throughout history as weapons in armed conflicts. The ongoing Russian war against Ukraine is no exception to a long tradition of sexualized violence,...
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The Sham “Referenda” at Gunpoint
20.10.2022
Despite ongoing fighting in the four partly occupied Ukrainian regions Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, “referenda” were held between 23 and 27 September 2022 under farcical modalities. Ballots were collected...
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Less a Wave Than a Tsunami
11.10.2022
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) faces an unprecedented procedural situation in the Ukraine v. Russia case, as a result of the never-before-seen number of states intervening in the case...
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The ICJ’s Only Friend in Ukraine v. Russia
07.10.2022
On 18 August 2022, the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’ or ‘the Court’) issued a press statement announcing that the European Union (‘EU’ or the ‘Union’) had furnished the Court...
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Between Accuracy and Dignity
30.09.2022
Jan-Phillip Graf
Jannik Neumann
According to several news organizations, the Ukrainian forces use the facial recognition software Clearview AI to identify deceased Russian combatants in order to inform families about their kin’s death (here,...
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Zwischen normativem Anspruch und prozessualer Wirklichkeit – Teil II
21.09.2022
Nicolai Bülte
Franziska Gruber
Stefan Vasovic
Der erste Teil dieses Beitrags ist hier erschienen. Die prozessuale Hürde: Immunitäten Größter Vorteil – und größter Streitpunkt – einer internationalisierten Strafverfolgung ist die potentielle Umgehung von Immunitäten. Während...
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Zwischen normativem Anspruch und prozessualer Wirklichkeit – Teil I
21.09.2022
Nicolai Bülte
Franziska Gruber
Stefan Vasovic
Seit am 24.02.2022 russische Truppen in die Ukraine einmarschiert sind, scheint das Völkerstrafrecht eine Renaissance zu erleben. Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof (IStGH) nahm bereits wenige Tage nach Kriegsbeginn Ermittlungen auf, eine...
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Imploding Protection Through Exploding Norms?
12.08.2022
On August 4th 2022, Amnesty International published a report criticising the tactics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) for endangering civilians by launching attacks and placing military targets in populated...
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No Purchase, No Requisition, No Seizure
27.07.2022
Grain plays a crucial role in the war in Ukraine. Not only is Russia blocking Ukrainian grain exports and thereby causing a risk of a world-wide food crisis. In addition,...
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Wofür kämpfen?
25.07.2022
Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine ist zu einem Zermürbungskrieg im Osten des Landes geworden. Seine Fortdauer kostet jeden Tag unzählige Menschenleben. Dennoch zeigt sich gerade in Hinblick auf die...
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#16 Krieg in der Ukraine
01.04.2022
Erik Tuchtfeld
Sophie Schuberth
Isabel Lischewski
Philipp Eschenhagen
Russland hat die Ukraine angegriffen. Wir besprechen in dieser Folge, was das für das Völkerrecht bedeutet. Isabel Lischewski erklärt im Grundlagenteil, wann der Internationale Gerichtshof für Streitigkeiten zwischen Staaten...
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