Stuck on a train? Join our event on 75 years of the European Convention of Human Rights via livestream from anywhere! www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/V... #ECHR75 #HumanRights

In this latest issue, we are also excited to announce our new Legal Sightseeing section! More details can be found at: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

@silviasteininger.bsky.social launches the new standing Legal Sightseeing section at the @ljil-leiden.bsky.social with a snap from Berlin, a visual commentary on German memory culture in the heart of Empire. Are you legal sightseeing too? We welcome your visuals! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🇮🇱🇪🇺⚖️🇵🇸 I am somewhat disappointed - but perhaps not surprised - that what one of the brightest minds in European public law can conjure in response to what is happening in Gaza amounts to a blog post that's simply an excerpt from the Bible with some bolded parts and one sentence from the author.

Tax the Poor! Together with my colleague Alan Desmond (University of Leicester), we highlight the international legal regulation of migrant remittances - and why the new Trump tax on remittances will have disastrous consequences in @ejiltalk.bsky.social www.ejiltalk.org/tax-the-poor...

🇵🇱⚖️Adam Bodnar is out as the Polish Minister of Justice/Prosecutor General, why? First, being a good academic/human rights defender doesn't necessarily make you a good politician; second, you can't please everyone who wants to be pleased; third, timid people aren't suited for savage times. 1/

🖤 With Christian Joerges’ passing, we have lost an intellectual giant, who has left a deep mark on the Hertie School. Our thoughts go out to his family.

25 nations demand end to war on Gaza; slam Israel killing aid seekers Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK

Die Menschenwürde spielt in der Debatte um Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf eine zentrale Rolle. Das ist kein Zufall, meint VICTOR LOXEN (@victorloxen.bsky.social) – denn das deutsche Verständnis der Menschenwürde als „Wert“ könne enthemmte Diskurse geradezu begünstigen. verfassungsblog.de/die-sache-mi...

Wie fühlt es sich an, in der derzeitigen Lage Völkerrecht zu lehren? Für unser Editorial haben wir Dutzende deutsche Völkerrechtsprofessor*innen befragt. Ihre Antworten schwanken zwischen Hoffnung und Verzweiflung. verfassungsblog.de/zwischen-hof... Ein erster Einblick ⬇️

when tiktok said y2k is back i thought it meant frilly tops and low rise jeans not the west invading countries and pretending it’s all about WMDs

„die implizite Billigung der Angriffe, lässt sich hingegen nur als grundlegendes Versagen deutscher Außenpolitik bezeichnen … In Fragen des Völkerrechts darf nicht mit zweierlei Maß gemessen werden.“ Mehrdad Payandeh must read im @verfassungsblog.de t.co/AiT11OgCTR

Germany seemingly endorsing a broad preemptive self-defence, something Germany opposed explicitly in the days of George W Bush. Is this cleared with your legal adviser?

The Fall and Rise of German Arms Exports to Israel: Questions for the International Court of Justice By Professor @adhaque.bsky.social #Germany #Israel #GazaWar #ICJ

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it does not breach the ECHR if EU Member States tax cross-border transactions within the EU (on the basis of EU law) more favourably than comparable domestic transactions. Analysis by Dr Samira Allioui: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/firs...

"𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿, 𝗶𝗳 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿?" @silviasteininger.bsky.social unpacks in a timely post @verfassungsblog.de, how nine member states are challenging the ECtHR's migration and asylum standards. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2s3yppj9

I am trying to put some academia things now also on Linkedin in case you want to follow. Today it is on the research publication planner, in my experience a severely overlooked element for ECRs and PhD candidates. In case you want to learn more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Have finished quick reading of 30k AG Ćapeta Opinion. Lots to unpack. Something which struck me was repeated use of "negation of" values (about 16 times) and "deviation from" (6 times) values / model of a constitutional democracy / model of good society. Use of "red lines" (6 times) also striking.

Some thoughts on the case Lithuania vs Belarus before the ICJ and how it will not solve the problem of migrant "instrumentalization": verfassungsblog.de/migrant-inst... @verfassungsblog.de With many thanks to @anjabossow.bsky.social for her incisive comments and edits.

one research workshop (the first one on remittance regulation!), one five pound second hand find, one project sneak peek 🩵

Paradox auch die affirmative Bezugnahme auf eine "rule-based international order" bei gleichzeitiger Absage an zentrale Prinzipien wie non-refoulement: Was denn nun? Lesenswerte Einordnung von Silvia Steininger👇

‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Thanks @silviasteininger.bsky.social for this post which uphelds the universalist idea of human rights against recent attacks against the ECtHR

“What are human rights for, if not to protect the rights of foreign criminals?” A highly recommended read by @silviasteininger.bsky.social.

Nine member states have launched a direct attack on the ECtHR and its migration and asylum standards. SILVA STEININGER (@silviasteininger.bsky.social‬) asks: What are human rights for, if not to protect the rights of foreign criminals? verfassungsblog.de/letter-human...

Many thanks to @verfassungsblog.de for asking me to comment on the Danish-Italian public letter to the ECtHR. 1. I argue that this is neither new nor unprecedented but 2. it is deeply troubling as it aims to strip away human rights protections from migrants ➡️ verfassungsblog.de/letter-human...

+++Eil+++ Jetzt gibt es eine Entscheidung zu den Zurückweisungen, die die Bundesregierung seit Mai durchführen lässt. Das VG Berlin hat in mehreren Fällen heute die Maßnahmen als europarechtswidrig beurteilt. Auch Berufung auf Art. 72 AEUV wurde verworfen. www.berlin.de/gerichte/ver...

Today, I was invited back to the university of the state police in brandenburg to spend a morning teaching human rights, in particular the implementation of ECHR judgments from the perspective of civil society, to young police officers - always a very rewarding experience!

🔥 ⚖️ #ClimateLitigation history happening right now at Higher Court of Hamm🇩🇪: follow with us this precedent-setting ruling in #SaulvsRWE. 🗣️ Today's decision cld be a turning point in efforts to make polluters pay for climate harms. 🧵 thread with context, insights from the Court & legal arguments👇

„Herr Professor, vor wenigen Tagen war der Judenhass noch unter Kontrolle…“

This is such a worrying development on the regional #humanrightslaw front - a huge step back for international human rights accountability for the people of Tunisia

Some might say "too little, too late and too slow" describes the German position on Gaza rather well: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

🇷🇴 Bucharest: Supporters of Nicușor Dan are gathering and celebrating in the city center as he looks set to win Romania’s presidential election. Vote counting is still underway, but the momentum is clearly on his side.

the mayor of warsaw and the mayor of bucharest, all in one day? 🤗

Vielen Dank an @amnesty.de für die Einladung nach Göttingen. Nach der Vorstellung des Amnesty Reports von der grossartigen Katja Müller-Fahlbusch, durfte ich zu rechtlichen und politischen Fragen von Genozidklagen vor internationalen & nationalen Gerichten berichten.

So weit sind wir schon: Holocaust-Überlebende abschieben.....😱 Man soll sich nichts vormachen. Wenn die Geschichte eines lehrt: Die völkischen Geister, die - nicht nur die AfD - rief, wird man nicht mehr los....Sie zerfressen dieses Land, erneut. taz.de/Unsicherer-A...

I might have been a #firstgen student, but I am definitely not the last graduate - happy bachelor thesis submission day to my mom! 🎓🥹💗

Antisemitismus ist ein reales und wachsendes Problem in Deutschland und weltweit. Gleichzeitig wird immer öfter versucht, Kritik an der israelischen Regierung als antisemitisch zu diffamieren.

Es gibt viele Diskussionen innerhalb der Linken (#dieLinke) zur #Antisemitismus-Definition, die meisten Argumente sind bekannt, die Aktualität angesichts des zunehmenden Autoritarismus der auch die Definition instrumentalisiert aber entscheidend - man kann sich schlecht wegducken.

Re #Antisemitismus-Definitionen bei Die Linke: 1. Streit um Definitionen wird das Problem des Umgangs mit dem völkerrechtswidrigen Handeln der israelischen Regierung nicht lösen. 2. Warum unter allen Definitionen die Jerusalem Declaration noch die beste ist: verfassungsblog.de/antisemitism...

Join us in Berlin in September! As part of the Organizing Committee, I am so very proud of this programme and so grateful to everyone who contributes to those discussions (including separate IG programmes): www.esil2025.de/_files/ugd/b...

„Is the rule of law a utopia, or is it given utopic status? If it is, it is dangerously evasive to ignore Europe’s imperial and colonial pasts within the rule of law out of fear that acknowledgement may embolden illiberal and autocratic narratives.“ 💖

Laut BfV ist die AfD also „gesichert rechtsextrem“ – und jetzt? Ist die Zeit reif für ein AfD #Parteiverbot? Das Thema wurde in über 30 Debattenbeiträgen auf dem Verfassungsblog kontrovers diskutiert. Eine kleine Auswahl, als Lektüre zum Feiertag 🧵: 1/10 verfassungsblog.de/tag/parteive...

Three days of „The New Path of EU Law“ with Armin von Bogdandy and Philipp Dann - let‘s go! Heidelberg 🤝 Berlin 💖 @mpil.de

i did years of therapy just to realize recently that the most healing and liberating development for self acceptance was turning 30 and getting a phd. since then, the occurrence of self doubt and external questioning has just reduced drastically. it was pretty much magic 🪄

In #Rumänien hat der rechtsradikale Kandidat George #Simion die erste Runde der Präsidentenwahl mit 40 Prozent gewonnen. Über die Strategie seiner Partei AUR, sich als traditionelle-Werte-Protestpartei der "kleinen Leute" zu inszenieren (von November 2024): www.akweb.de/politik/verg...

i need this as "i want to be the leftist professor"

Happy Labor day comrades! (Despite everything - may your fear transform into resistance) ✊🌹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6RZ...

📄 New article: Colonialism continues to shape the project of European human rights. In this article I trace the continuity of civilizational hierarchies in the ECtHR’s case-law on extraterritoriality and European consensus Available in EJIL @ejiltalk.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

This was by far one of the shittiest days in recent times but this discussion about international law, IHL, and Germany‘s obligations is so packed, I ended up on the floor outside watching the livestream surrounded by the most brilliant female academic IL friends 💖