Eine neue Folge vom Völkerrechtspodcast @voelkerrechtsblog.org, mit O-Tönen von der ESIL- Konferenz @esil-sedi.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/2jAS...

The @voelkerrechtsblog.org is now recruiting volunteer members for the editorial team. Do apply! Feel free to DM with any specific questions. More information here: voelkerrechtsblog.org/call-for-new...

📢 Our Call for New Editors is out! ✨ We look forward to receiving your applications and to welcoming you to our team! ⏰ Expressions of interest shall be sent by 31.10.2025. You can find further information here: voelkerrechtsblog.org/call-for-new...

Second, and particularly important, part of the SWAIL interview is out ⬇️

The "double exclusion" of CEE - here in scholarly research, but applicable elsewhere as well (too eastern for the West, too western for the Third World) is never not a fascinating topic.

Interesting interview on Second World Approaches to International Law (including a nice shout out to our Socialism and International Law volume)!

What is SWAIL's relationship to #TWAIL? Part II discusses intersections and divergences between the two approaches. @pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński reflect on the discomforts SWAIL may provoke and on what SWAIL can offer scholars and practitioners. voelkerrechtsblog.org/researching-...

Part I of the interview discusses SWAIL’s origins, revisits its 1st scholarly meeting in Vienna, and addresses the “dual exclusion” of Eastern & Central Europe from Western and non-Western traditions in international law. voelkerrechtsblog.org/researching-... #SWAIL #Decolonization #LegalTheory

Read our interview on SWAIL – a new project rethinking international law from the “Second World" ⬇️

How does the “Second World” invite us to rethink international law? Read the interview with @pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński on how SWAIL emerges from Eastern & Central Europe’s liminal position. By @polinakulish.bsky.social & @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social voelkerrechtsblog.org/researching-...

Vanessa Vohs explains why military drones are a threat/use of force and NATO Article 4 consultations aren’t enough. Collective countermeasures are needed now, otherwise the prohibition of the use of force risks becoming meaningless. voelkerrechtsblog.org/testing-nato...

“It is imperative for the international community to critically evaluate and fortify the mechanisms that support the autonomy of international organization, ensuring they can effectively fulfil their mandates without compromising their multilateral values.” voelkerrechtsblog.org/balancing-act/

Linus Mührel explains why publishing a new edition of the Study risks the potential danger of undermining its authority, as it “could trigger intense criticism, invite states to challenge even long-accepted rules...” Read his contribution to the #Symposium here✨️ voelkerrechtsblog.org/a-question-o...

Artificial islands blur the line between rock, reef, and base. What does international law say about flying above them? Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga takes a look at the unresolved skies of the South China Sea 🌊. Read the full article here: voelkerrechtsblog.org/flying-too-l...

📣The ICRC's Customary IHL Study relied on international human rights law – but with varying success. Why? Ilya Ivanov explains in his contribution to our #Symposium why the issue may be structural, but not intractable. Read the article here⚖️: voelkerrechtsblog.org/promise-and-...

“The Court’s paralysis in the Kony case stems not from interpretive gaps in the Statute about the pre-trial stage, but from the persistent failure of States to execute arrest warrants.” - @kyrawigard.bsky.social on the ICC’s first in absentia hearing. Read here: voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-first-in...

📣 Nadia Kornioti examines the Study’s practical value as an interdisciplinary research tool, reflecting on questions of “time, semantics, and legal culture, as well as international humanitarian law more broadly.” Read the full article here ✨️:  voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-encyclop...

Saksham Agrawal analyses how the ECtHR's Semenya v. Switzerland judgment exposes limits in Switzerland's arbitration framework, arguing that it calls for recalibrating PILA and reassessing arbitral autonomy. #Switzerland, #HumanRights, #Arbitration voelkerrechtsblog.org/after-semenya/

In his contribution to the 📣 #Symposium on the #ICRC's Customary IHL Study twenty years on📣, Stanislau Lashkevich sketches a calibrated reading of state practice that aims to complement, rather than displace, the Study’s universalist method.✨️ voelkerrechtsblog.org/beyond-headc...

Rouven Diekjobst (@diekjobst.bsky.social), Rosa-Lena Lauterbach (@rosalauterbach.bsky.social) and Paulina Rob kick off our #Symposium on customary IHL. Find out more about its reflections from scholarship and the exciting articles coming up! 💭✨️ voelkerrechtsblog.org/revisiting-c...

Our workshop may be over, but that doesn‘t mean the conversation is. It has been an incredible two days of reflecting on customary #IHL and the ICRC‘s 2005 study. The series to our event between @articlesofwar.bsky.social and @voelkerrechtsblog.org launched today - follow along!

@diekjobst.bsky.social, @rosalauterbach.bsky.social and Paulina Rob introduce the joint series between #ArticlesofWar and @voelkerrechtsblog.org, which highlights the contested terrain of customary international humanitarian law two decades after the ICRC’s Study was first published.

Since its publication in 2005, #ICRC Study of Customary #IHL has assumed an authoritative position in the identification and application of the law of #armedconflict. lieber.westpoint.edu/revisiting-c...

📣 Our new #Symposium, hosted by #Ö and #ArticlesOfWar (@articlesofwar.bsky.social)! On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the #ICRC's customary IHL study, its authority, methodology, and relevance will be analyzed from various angles. Read more here✨️: voelkerrechtsblog.org/symposium/re...

Truly grateful to the editors sharing this experience. Great piece and such an admirable level of integrity and courage anywhere but specifically in the German context.

"I have been deeply disappointed by the great majority of my tenured peers who have disturbingly remained silent and passive". JEAN D'ASPREMONT in conversation with ANNA SOPHIA TIEDEKE on censorship and learning from oppressed groups how to resist silently verfassungsblog.de/learning-fro...

The 'Knowledge under Occupation' symposium closes its curtains with a conversational epilogue. @jdamh.bsky.social discusses with Anna Sophia Tiedeke how academics can 'say words without saying them' and employ strategies of silent resistance. voelkerrechtsblog.org/learning-fro...

The 'Knowledge under Occupation’ symposium’s illustration is finally revealed! @marinavelickovic.bsky.social inspired us with her solidarity and a very creative way of depicting the suffocating effects of restrictions on academic freedom. voelkerrechtsblog.org/dear-anna-kh...

How does the struggle over the term "genocide" shape international law? @isafei.bsky.social & members of #Ö examine genocide not only as mass killing but as the dismantling of the common - the social, cultural, & ecological relations that sustain communities. voelkerrechtsblog.org/whats-in-a-n...

Souheir Edelbi discusses with Khaled El Mahmoud on the Palestine Project and on how law schools can support students during times of crisis, resist institutional silence, and defend academic freedom. voelkerrechtsblog.org/building-cri...

Seyla Benhabib reflects on how the erosion of multilateral human rights and the rise of sovereigntist impunity narrow the very spaces where critical inquiry can thrive. She warns that as academic freedom is increasingly pressured and delegitimized. voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-gaza-war...

Does an editorial decision to publish legitimise the piece’s author, the author’s affiliated inst. or the piece’s content? @smanley5.bsky.social reflects on this question in light of recent debates around publ. on EJIL:Talk! & in the Leiden Journal of Intl. Law. voelkerrechtsblog.org/editorial-de...

Sabrina Seikh´s contribution reflects on how international law’s silence around Palestine obscures the ongoing Nakba, and calls for legal vocabularies that confront structural violence rather than reduce it to isolated issues. voelkerrechtsblog.org/say-my-name-...

In his contribution to the 'Knowledge under Occupation' symposium, @itamann.bsky.social investigates the involvement of privileges, personal ethics and structural discrimination in determining who gets to speak in Israeli universities. voelkerrechtsblog.org/who-gets-to-...

In this contribution to the "Knowledge under Occupation" symposium, Vasuki Nesiah analyses AAUP v. Rubio, foregrounding the importance of “listening rights” in the struggle over academic freedom and free speech in the university. voelkerrechtsblog.org/academic-fre...

This contribution highlights the silencing of Palestinians in media, law and international institutions through the lens of Dotson's framework of epistemic violence. The author shows the manifold ways, in which Palestinians are denied epistemic agency. voelkerrechtsblog.org/testimonial-...

The 'Knowledge under Occupation' symposium continues with @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social analysis on the chilling effect that the conflation between 'antisemitism' and 'anti-Zionism' has on academic freedom and on the way in which international law is taught. voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...

Aren't silencing attempts against a symposium highlighting academic silencing ironic? Khaled El Mahmoud, Anna Sophia Tiedeke & Sissy Katsoni think so! In their contribution to the symp., the eds. of #Ö share the silencing attempts they faced while organising it. voelkerrechtsblog.org/isnt-it-ironic

In many Western universities, both on-campus solidarity with the Palestinian people and academic engagement with Palestine have been met with repression and censorship. Fabio Cristiano and Alessandra Spadaro focus on the reality in Dutch universities. voelkerrechtsblog.org/spacio-cide-...

Otto Spijkers, @jeffhandmaker.bsky.social and Renee Kolpa explore the selective approach of Dutch universities concerning cooperations with Russian universities on the one hand and Israeli universities on the other. voelkerrechtsblog.org/protesting-a...

Excited to share my article on Israeli Universities' most recent crackdown on speech and its effects on Palestinians' knowledge production. The article was published today as part of the Völkerrechtsblog symposium 'Knowledge Under Occupation'.

„A research institute that adopts a pro-Israeli stance expresses a political, rather than scientific, position. This may be mission-driven, too, but a publicly funded academic institution would likely avoid being perceived as a ‘Tendenzbetrieb’ in this context.“

Read the powerful contribution by @adimansour.bsky.social on how disciplinary procedures against Palestinian students and scholars in Israeli universities have transformed academic institutions into spaces of epistemic policing. voelkerrechtsblog.org/epistemic-ap...

@felixhartmann.bsky.social examines employee free speech in German workplaces after 10/7/23. As courts struggle with balancing rights & raison d’état, his contribution urges clearer guidelines to protect employees' expression while respecting workplace duties. voelkerrechtsblog.org/raison-detat...

The 'Knowledge under Occupation' symposium opens with Professor Ben Saul's reflection on Germany’s recent decision to classify the BDS movement as an “extremist threat”. As the author warns, this classification poses risks for fundamental rights: voelkerrechtsblog.org/boycott-dive...

Organized by Khaled El Mahmoud, Sissy Katsoni, and Anna Sophia Tiedeke. 📃 Find an up-to-date overview of all published contributions here: voelkerrechtsblog.org/symposium/kn...

Our friends at @voelkerrechtsblog.org have launched a symposium on “Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage” today. We are cross-posting the introduction by KHALED EL MAHMOUD, SISSY KATSONI, and ANNA SOPHIA TIEDEKE: verfassungsblog.de/introducing-...