Reconstructing International Law: 20th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law @esil_sedi at Freie Universität Berlin @FU_Berlin 10 to 13 September 2025. Visit esil2025.de for the Call for Papers and submit your abstract until 31 January 2025

🎙️ In our latest podcast, @pilabuda.bsky.social discusses CEU's upcoming Second World Approaches to International Law project, aimed at establishing a more accurate way of conceptualizing East Central Europe’s position in, and relationship with, international law. 🎧 Listen: 👉 tinyurl.com/2wnrmdk3

Just arrived in the mail! Happy to contribute a chapter on International human rights and constitutional interpretation - PM if interested - edited by Helmut Aust, @heikekrieger.bsky.social and Felix Lange

✨ We are happy to announce that ESIL has officially landed on Bluesky! 🌟 We're thrilled to be here and can't wait to connect, share, and grow with this vibrant community. 🦋🌊 Stay informed with the latest updates, insights, and conversations on international law – follow us! 🌐⚖

ESIL has landed on Bluesky!👇

Mal wieder Radio hören? Meine 2 Cents bei Matthay fragt im rbb: Wie relevant ist das Humanitäre Völkerrecht noch? www.inforadio.de/rubriken/deb...

New publication developed within our research group by our former fellow Liliya Khasanova on 'Shades of authoritarian digital sovereignty: divergences in Russian and Chinese data localisation regimes' 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you to all participants that joined our workshop ‘Reimagining Order in the Planetary Era: Agency, Publics and Power‘ at Humboldt University last week in which we spent three great days discussing ways in which a ‘planetary’ frame interacts with international order, including international law!

At our last Monday Meeting our Senior Fellow Nicolas Lamp gave us a glimpse into his new project on “Trading in (Dis)Order: The Backlash against Globalization and the Future of International Trade Law and Policy”. With this look into the future we then enojyed some 🍕 & 🥂 in the ☀️!

Today we had our very last KFG Lunch Talk at Freie Universität! Ángel R. Oquendo presented his book "Through Thin and Thick - From Human-Rights Principles to Politics Across the Americas and Beyond". Thanks for participating

In yesterday's lunch talk, @janinadill.bsky.social presented her paper project “Breaking or Turning Point? International Law and the War in Gaza“.

How do conscience and values interact in IL? This and other questions were discussed in our Monday Meeting by Janne Nijman in her presentation titled “Desiderius Erasmus versus Francisco de Vitoria: conscience and ‘the care of the self’ as a political project in IL“.

In today’s Thursday Lunch Talk, our new Guest Researcher Prof. David Kretzmer presented about the role of jurisprudence on the West Bank in his talk “Belligerent Occupation - Law and Practice: The West Bank as a Case Study“.

In der neuen Folge unseres Forschungspodcasts „Rechtsfragen“ spricht Prof. Heike Krieger (@heikekrieger.bsky.social) über die Arbeit der @kfgintlaw.bsky.social. Es geht um aktuelle Herausforderungen für das Völkerrecht und um seine Rolle in Zeiten des globalen Wandels: spoti.fi/3R8TgjB (1/2)

Double Standards and International Law, 15-16 July in Berlin, co-sponsored by @kfgintlaw.bsky.social and Harvard Law School's PILAC program; pleased to announce the programme for our workshop www.kfg-intlaw.de/News%20and%2...

What could a legal theory of resilience look like? At today’s lunch meeting, @adienelt.bsky.social presented her exciting research project “Bouncing back, bouncing forward, or bouncing back better? Reflections on notions of resilience and the legal disciplines“.

To what extent can a co-constitution of nuclear and legal doctrine be observed in the US? At yesterday’s Monday meeting, @janinadill.bsky.social presented an insightful research project titled “Lawful Deterrence? How U.S. Nuclear and Legal Doctrine Influence Each Other“.

Where does dispute settlement for international organisations stand today and where might it go in the future? Today our associate fellow Rishi Gulati presented his thoughts on 'Settlement of Disputes to which International Organizations are Parties'.

Thanks to the speakers, hosts and audience at yesterday's book discussion on "The Refugee Convention and its Protocol – What Future Role for International Refugee Law?" !

If you are interested in refugee law and in Berlin this Thursday come to our public book discussion 👇

If you are interested in refugee law and in Berlin this Thursday come to our public book discussion 👇

We were happy to discuss today at our Monday Meeting Leonardo Castilho's draft book chapter titled 'New European democracies embraced the international supervision of human rights and expanded the West'.

At yesterday’s lunch seminar, we had the pleasure of being presented research by two of our Fellows Hansong Li and Artur Simonyan who talked about “Geopolitical Imaginaries of the International Order: Eurasian and Indo-Pacific perspectives“.

We are very pleased to welcome @janinadill.bsky.social who is joining the KFG as a Senior Fellow. Janina Dill is the Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of Trinity College Oxford and...

At last week's lunch talk we were happy to have our fellow Leonardo Castilho present his book project titled 'We the peoples: how new democracies changed sovereignty'

Looking back on forgotten pasts of international legal discourse Akbar Rasulov presented his paper on 'The International Law of Development: A Forgotten (French) Future of International Law from the 1970s' at our Monday Meeting provoking an interesting discussion.

How do states react to mounting numbers of individual complaints before the UN human rights treaty bodies? At yesterday’s lunch talk, @ajullmann.bsky.social presented his research on this question followed by a fruitful discussion on the implications for IL more generally.

Last week, Senior Fellow Nicolas Lamp and Postdoc Fellow Sophia Paulini, together with Anthea Roberts, organized a workshop on “"Integrative Approaches to International Economic Law and Policy". The workshop brought together academics, officials from governments…

Upcoming Public Event: Book Discussion “The Refugee Convention and its Protocol – What Future Role for International Refugee Law?” Thursday, 16 May 2024, 6 pm More info here www.kfg-intlaw.de/News%20and%2...

Is international law not supposed to operate in way that is challenging to the interests of powerful actors? In yesterday’s research meeting, Prof. Fuad Zarbiyev discussed with the KFG group the question “The End of International Law as We Know It?”.

How do various emerging litigation strategies affect the International Court of Justice? At yesterday’s lunch seminar, Alfredo Crosato Neumann shared reflections on this question in his presentation on “New litigation trends and the role of the International Court of Justice”.

Interested in degrowth and human rights? See my new paper in HRLR where I translate @kateraworth.bsky.social Doughnut Economics into Doughnut Jurisprudence From Doughnut Economics to Doughnut Jurisprudence: A Human Rights Perspective | Human Rights Law Review | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

At today's lunch talk our fellow Nicolas Lamp presented his intriguing draft paper 'Arrested Norm Development: The Failure of Legislative-Judicial Dialogue in the WTO' shadowing light also on the role of WTO member states.

What impact have shocks had on the interplay between global & regional data governance? At our Monday Meeting our fellow Liliya Khasanova presentated some tentative ideas on 'Global Digital (Dis)Order: Regional Responses in Data Governance' followed by a fruitful discussion.

We're partnering with Harvard Law School PILAC for the 'Double Standards and International Law' workshop in July 👇 Here is the link again www.kfg-intlaw.de/News%20and%2...

Double Standards and International Law - See here for a Call for Papers by Patryk Labuda and David Hughes and the Berlin Potsdam Research Group www.kfg-intlaw.de/News%20and%2...

What is the future of the rules-based international order? At today’s lunch seminar, our practitioner in residence Ambassador ret. Peter Wittig gave an insightful presentation on “The „Rules-Based International Order“ under attack? Challenges for the UN System & International Governance”.

Excited to co-organize this workshop on double standards in international law, 15-16 July in Berlin with @kfgintlaw.bsky.social. Please send us your abstracts or be in touch if interested in this project more generally www.kfg-intlaw.de/News%20and%2...

Here is part 1 of a long interview with me about Ukraine, the Global South's response to Russia's invasion, multipolarity and global solidarity, and how all this relates to demands for international (criminal) justice commons.com.ua/en/internati...

Part 2 of my long interview with Commons, breaking down accountability pathways for Ukraine; the International Criminal Court, a Special Aggression Tribunal, domestic courts and more commons.com.ua/en/internati...

Great conversations with KfG fellows in Berlin - this topic raises many difficult questions 👇

"But what about.....?" At yesterday's lunch talk we discussed a thought-provoking paper by our fellow @pilabuda.bsky.social on “The Russo-Ukraine War and Whataboutism in Global (Legal) Debate: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”.

At today’s lunch meeting, Professor Saira Mohammed of Berkeley Law presented her important research project “Cannon Fodder: What a State Owes its Soldiers” in which she maps the legal treatment of soldiers and asks why are legal regimes reluctant to treat soldiers as rights-holders.

KFG members Rishi Gulati and Hansong Li have recorded an insightful podcast episode about the intellectual history of the Indo-Pacific 👉 soundcloud.com/law-office-8...

For our German speakers: Our co-chair @heikekrieger.bsky.social will speak tomorrow at this webinar on the ICJ case South Africa vs. Israel. You can still register online👇

Watch the video of Dr. Julia Duchrow's Thomas Franck Lecture on "International Law and Human Rights Activism – The Case of Amnesty International" here 👇 kfg-intlaw.de/News%20and%2... P

Yesterday we had the pleasure to listen to our fellow @simonian.bsky.social present his paper on "Desovietizing international law: local expertise, living empire and uti possidetis" which is forthcoming in the Baltic Yearbook of International Law!

Thank you to speaker @juliaduchrow.bsky.social and everybody who joined us last week!

Happening this evening at FU 👇