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Editorial #52: Kindness Comes On Top
Most readers would agree that the international legal order is not doing very well. I cannot gauge whether international lawyers as a professional community are doing well, but I assume that the precarious financial situation of the UN and other international organizations, as well as funding cuts in academia (see e.g. in the US, UK, the Netherl
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/editorial-52-kindness-comes-on-top/
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#54 Publish, Parent, Perish? Making Space for Mothers in Legal Academia
Motherhood sits uneasily within the institutional imagination of international legal academia. Academic career paths are still commonly structured around expectations of uninterrupted productivity, geographic mobility, and “always-on” availability – as
#FeministPerspectives #LegalAcademia
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/54-publish-parent-perish-making-space-for-mothers-in-legal-academia/
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Womanhood, International Law, and the Global South
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler.
Women in their 20s and 30s continue to face the age-old questions of whether and when they should have children. While more and more women are choosing to delay or even opt out of motherhood altogether, the pressure to decide certainly mounts
#FeministPerspectives #GlobalSouth #LegalAcademia
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/womanhood-international-law-and-the-global-south/
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Motherhood as an Amplifier of Inequalities in International Legal Academia
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler.
As Immi Tallgreen in her introduction to the volume Portraits of Women in International Law shows, the international lawyer is assumed as a neutral and impersonal body. Yet the portraits of wo
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Introducing the Fifth Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, celebrated on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog hosts the ‘Women in International Law’ symposium. Held each year during this week, it features blogposts, inte
#EpistemicInjustice #LegalAcademia #WomensRights
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-the-fifth-annual-women-in-international-law-symposium/
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Editorial #48: Transforming the ‘Völkerrechtsblog’ into an Open Science Hub
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 our two principal coopera
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Building Critical Spaces: The Palestine Project and the Future of Legal Education
I am honoured to be speaking with Dr. Souheir Edelbi, one of the founders of the Palestine Project and a legal academic whose work sits at the intersection of pedagogy, international criminal law, decolonial thought, and lived experience.
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Editorial Decision-Making in Times of Controversy at EJIL:Talk! and the Leiden Journal of International Law
Does an editorial decision to publish legitimise the piece’s author, the author’s affiliated institution or the piece’s content? How should we think about an editorial decision to publish an article that c
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Say My Name: Legal Silence That Speaks on the Ongoing Nakba in Palestine
International law (IL) remains complicit in its omissions, not only through what it permits, but through what it refuses to name. Nowhere is this more evident than in its persistent failure to apprehend the Palestinian condition, which can be defined as the “Nakba”(Arabic f
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Call for Contributions: Symposium on Knowledge under Occupation
#LegalAcademia #Palestine #RuleOfLaw
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/call-for-contributions-symposium-on-knowledge-under-occupation/
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