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@voelkerrechtsblog.orgFrom East West Street to Anthropocene. On the occasion of the presentation of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade on 11/10, Hendrik Simon spoke with Philippe Sands about his work, international law as a modicum of hope, his new book on ecocide, and the relationship between law and literature.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgCan peace be durable when justice is deferred? This post examines the Islamabad Memorandum through the lens of international criminal law, focusing on accountability, aggression, victims’ rights, reparations, truth and evidence preservation.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgCan trademark protection go too far when a commercial sign overlaps with shared cultural forms? Doudou Huang examines Louis Vuitton v. Molly Tea and asks how international trademark law should account for cultural rights and the public’s right to participate in cultural life.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgOn today’s post, Stanislau Lashkevich explores the reasoning behind the ICC’s decision that terminated the proceedings against Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain.
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@voelkerrechtsblog.orgDespite missing records, fading memories & witnesses who had died, the Springhill/Westrock inquest found that British soldiers shot dead 5 people in Northern Ireland in 1972 without justification. @dooleydooley.bsky.social and @suchitauppal.bsky.social write about finding the truth 54 years later.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgIs International Law capable of forming its own general principles? Read Merlin Weinem's post in which he analyzes and defends the ILC's newly formulated approach on how to identify general principles of law.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgOn 2 July 2026, the ECtHR decided two near-identical cases on Poland’s refusal to transcribe birth certificates naming two mothers with two different outcomes. Read more about it in a blog post written by @isilkurnaz.bsky.social.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgItaly’s proposed hunting law raises questions under EU and international law. Shalom Caruso explores potential breaches of Italy’s legal obligations and the challenges of international responsibility under mixed EU–Member State agreements.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgRead Andrea Farrés Jiménez's post on how new technologies are reshaping warfare, while also raising difficult questions about human dignity. She examines the legality of posting drone footage showing soldiers being killed.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgPACE rejected the draft Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention. Read Julia Heuwing's post on why the vote does not resolve the clash between the CRPD's abolitionist and the ECHR's regulatory approach to coercive psychiatric measures.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgThe ICJ recognised a right to strike under ILO Convention No. 87. Sumedha Pradhan and Sourabh Bohraargues argue the Court’s reasoning raises important questions about treaty interpretation, state consent, and the limits of evolutive interpretation.
@voelkerrechtsblog.org🎙️ Our new podcast episode is up! Völkerrechtspodcast has partnered with the Mal nach den Rechten schauen podcast to examine the continuities of National Socialism in public international law.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgIn the last post of the symposium "The Rooms We Wanted", Matilde Masetti-Placci, Bhavinee Singh and Siddharth de Souza express their concluding reflections on the decolonisation seminar series held at the University of Edinburgh.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgOn today's post in the framework of the symposium "The Rooms We Wanted", Matilde Masetti-Placci, Bhavinee Singh, Hilda Tizeba and Kağan Sürücü discuss decoloniality and the digital era, and writing as a form of decolonial praxis.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgIn another post of "The Rooms We Wanted" Symposium, Matilde Masetti-Placci and Bhavinee Singh are in conversation this time with Dr. Morshed Manan and Dr. Rebecca Tapscott about the requirement of the signed consent form in empirical research.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgOn our latest post in the framework of the symposium "The Rooms We Wanted", Matilde Masetti-Placci, Bhavinee Singh and Chloe Young reflect on decolonising ethics and the coloniality of ethics review.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgOn this post under the “The Rooms We Wanted” symposium, Matilde Masetti-Placci and Bhavinee Singh speak with Dr Rohini Sen about finding a scholarly voice within the dominant frameworks of international law and working across disciplines.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgContinuing with our symposium "The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School", Matilde Masetti-Placci and Bhavinee Singh conversate with Ahmed Raza Memon and explore different questions relating to Decolonial Method in International Law.
@voelkerrechtsblog.orgIn the framework of out symposium "The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School" Matilde Masseti Placi, Bhavinee Singh and Alexandrine Lamarre reflect on neutrality in legal academia.
