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America-First Alternatives to International Law (AFAIL)

In international law, the development of legal theories has always been a political weapon. The developments in recent months have further intensified the drama of the debates within the field of international law. A recent closed-door conference held in the United States offered a wealth of insights

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America-First Alternatives to International Law (AFAIL)

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America-First Alternatives to International Law (AFAIL)

Theoriebildung war im Völkerrecht schon immer ein politisches Kampfinstrument. Die Entwicklungen der vergangenen Monate haben die Dramatik der Auseinandersetzungen innerhalb der Völkerrechtswissenschaft nochmals verschärft. Eine jüngst in den USA stattgefundene, nichtöffentliche Konferenz geizte nicht m

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America-First Alternatives to International Law (AFAIL)

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Editorial #50: De-Fetishizing Crisis through an Affective Approach to International Law

In conversations with colleagues and friends, one word returns with striking regularity: crisis. From democratic backsliding and authoritarian governance to annexation, war, genocide, and humanitarian catastrophe,

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https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/editorial-50-de-fetishizing-crisis-through-an-affective-approach-to-international-law/

Editorial #50: De-Fetishizing Crisis through an Affective Approach to International Law

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A Kantian Critique of SS and Others v Italy

Last month, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously dismissed an application by survivors of a Mediterranean ‘pullback’ operation. Although Italian coast guard officials were the first to receive the applicants’ distress signal, they ‘outsourced’ their rescue obligation

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https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/a-kantian-critique-of-ss-and-others-v-italy/

A Kantian Critique of SS and Others v Italy

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#48: Geschichten des Völkerrechts: Von Grotius zu kritischen Ansätzen

 

1625, also vor exakt 400 Jahren, veröffentlichte Hugo Grotius sein wichtigstes Werk, De Iure Belli ac Pacis libri tres, zu Deutsch: Drei Bücher über das Recht des Krieges und des Friedens. Das Buch gilt bis heute als Meisterwerk der Völkerre

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#48: Geschichten des Völkerrechts: Von Grotius zu kritischen Ansätzen

On European Human Rights, Frames, and Critique

Contrapuntal Readings of/in/through International Law

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Is “Dis/ordering International Law” the Panacea to the Many Frustrations Found in Critical International Legal Scholarship?

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Is “Dis/ordering International Law” the Panacea to the Many Frustrations Found in Critical International Legal Scholarship?

‘To Do Away with All Mediation’

‘Re/de/composing’ International Law