Watch the space below for the next two weeks. Thank you @voelkerrechtsblog.org, @verfassungsblog.de & everyone involved for standing firm and making this possible. This symposium, and the lessons we take from the subject it tackles, are of critical importance. voelkerrechtsblog.org/de/symposium...

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...

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...

📣 Our new symposium, #KnowledgeUnderOccupation: Academic Freedom and #Palestine on the Global Stage, is finally online! Throughout this week and the next, #Ö brings together diverse voices reflecting on how #AcademicFreedom is increasingly restricted: voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...

Ai Weiwei was invited to contribute short reflections on “What I would have liked to know about Germany earlier" for an upcoming issue of Zeit Magazin. His submission was first shortened and edited, then immediately cancelled after a review by the Executive Editor. Ai shared his reflections anyway:

Das BVerfG hat eine Verantwortlichkeit Deutschlands für die Drohneneinsätze von der US-Air-Base Ramstein verneint. SUÉ GONZÁLEZ HAUCK und JENS THEILEN sagen: Trotz Lücken in der Maßstabsbildung ist das Urteil auch für die umstrittenen Waffenlieferungen an Israel von hoher Bedeutung.

@jtheilen.bsky.social und ich haben für @verfassungsblog.de das Ramstein-Urteil analysiert. Trotz der sehr hohen Hürden, die das Gericht für staatliche Schutzpflichten aufstellt, wird klar: Bei Waffenlieferungen an Israel muss eine solche Pflicht greifen.

We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues. Food prices have increased 40 fold. UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza. Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.

Had the pleasure of listening to Ka Lok Yip from Hamad bin Khalifa University and discussing all things existentialism and IHL with her. What a fantastic start to the new Law in Context Lecture Series at HSU Hamburg, organized by @jtheilen.bsky.social, Sigrid Boysen, and me

🎙️ PODCAST: @erik.d-64.social und ich sprechen in der neuesten Folge des Völkerrechtspodcasts (@voelkerrechtsblog.org ) über Völkerrechtsgeschichte(n) Unsere Gäst:innen sind Prof. Dr. Miloš Vec (Wien) sowie @gonzalezhauck.bsky.social (Hamburg). voelkerrechtsblog.org/de/48-geschi...

Rassismus hat so viele Gesichter.

CfP: Popular International Law Workshop, docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A groundbreaking report by Israeli journalist Itay Mashiach exposes how Germany’s antisemitism monitoring mechanisms are being exploited to stigmatize migrant communities, minimize the threat of the far-right, & delegitimize human rights activism. Now in English. diasporaalliance.co/wp-content/u...

Now published open access in the current issue of @ejiltalk.bsky.social — in wonderful company including @kalokyip.bsky.social on the right to life during hostilities and @gonzalezhauck.bsky.social on systematicity in the liberal internationalist ethos 🔗 academic.oup.com/ejil/issue/3...

The new issue of @ejiltalk.bsky.social is out and in it, you will find articles by my wonderful colleagues @jtheilen.bsky.social & @gonzalezhauck.bsky.social. Have a look!

Call for abstracts for a collective book project and workshop in Cambridge in Oct 2025 focused on non-dominant feminisms in global governance. Co-designed and edited by Juliana Santos de Carvalho, Dena Kirpalani, Lucia Kula & Bérénice K. Schramm. More details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1RPb3...

Genocide being talked about in terms of bad PR is peak whatever-the-fuck-our-moment-is

"We will look at our children and grandchildren in shame and we will not be able to explain to them why we could not stop this horror."

📄 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...

Cessation is not limited by proportionality; wrongdoing on the part of Palestine or Hamas does not relieve Israel of its own obligation to cease unlawful conduct

What must Israel do, having breached its obligations? Stop, basically. Cessation and non-repetition.

The facts as submitted tend to suggest .... not

I think partly we are hearing a lot of facts about how truly fucking awful it is in Gaza because there isn't a huge amount to be said about the law - it's pretty straightforward and the issue is whether Israel is complying or not

There's a lot going on here

In Oldenburg, Germany, a young Black man was shot by the police as week. It isn't the first shooting nor will it be the last. www.dw.com/en/germany-t...

Nicht nur sind Emiş Gürbüz und Armin Kurtović auch Hanauer*innen, sondern es gibt dort auch genügend andere, die nicht einfach "nach vorne schauen" wollen. Die Wut über die nicht aufgearbeitete Schuld öffentlicher Stellen teilen übrigens auch unzählige migrantisierte Menschen in Deutschland

Wir wissen bisher wenig, aber könnt Ihr mir sagen, wann das letzte Mal einem weißen Mann von einem deutschen Polizisten aus Notwehr von hinten in den Kopf geschossen wurde, als dieser weglief: taz.de/Toedlicher-P...

“If I die, I want a loud death,” ... “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This has to stop. One day everyone will have been against this.

Morgen und übermorgen an der UHH

Im Prozess zum Brandanschlag von #Solingen am 25.03.24 hat sich heute herausgestellt, dass die Polizei Ermittlungsfotos von rechtem Material, das bei Durchsuchungen gefunden wurde, nicht in die Ermittlungsakte gegeben hat. Auch wurden Daten des Täters nicht ausgewertet. #Thread 👇

Another sharp and necessary intervention by @jtheilen.bsky.social. If we’re serious about dismantling violent border regimes, we need to confront the structural conservatism of human rights law, not just celebrate its occasional victories #migsky #openaccess brill.com/view/journal...

Latin American side of my feed right now watching as Canadians and Europeans find out the US might not be a beacon for freedom and democracy abroad

On International Women’s Day, solidarity with the women of Palestine, Sudan, Congo and all others living under bombs, bullets and forced displacement. No feminism without peace, justice and freedom from imperialism and colonialism ✌️✊🇵🇸 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨In honor of #InternationalWomensDay, #Ö invites you to the 4th annual #WomenInInternationalLaw #Symposium✨This year, we focus on the roles, struggles, & agency of #WomenInConflictZones & beyond. Join us for a week of engaging discussions. #WomenInLaw 👉 voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...

wrote a thing about disciplinary crises & politics, CLS vs. marxism, letters & signing things & had lots of fun doing it ❤️‍🔥

The most insightful thing I have read in a while: "On the politics of signing things" criticallegalthinking.com

My essay on the Hague Academy's centenary is available at EJIL. It's about order in and through law - from the invention of a 'Grotian' international order to the 'rules-based international order' and the hypocrisies that come with it academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

In addition to the starvation charges against Netanyahu and Gallant at the ICC, and the genocide case at the ICJ, there is also an advisory proceeding underway at the ICJ on Israel's obligations to facilitate humanitarian assistance. Written submissions were due Friday.

What if Trump's move to end USAID’s mission isn’t ignorance but a symptom of the transition from development imperialism to digital imperialism? Check out @gabiwadlig.bsky.social 's recent piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social

Academic freedom lies at the heart of our profession and we must protect it at all costs. In consultation with colleagues, we have tried to articulate widespread concerns with respect to the upcoming ESIL conference in Berlin, in light of recent events.

👇👇👇 Statement by international lawyers, ESIL members and ESIL IG convenors on the forthcoming ESIL Annual Conference in Berlin in light of the very troubling decision by FU to curtail academic freedom. The letter remains open for signature.

Some of you might have received the ESIL president's email this morning. What you might not know is that a group had been preparing to publish a letter that is open for signatures - most of the points of which are not addressed in this morning's email. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...

"The silence, or worse, the tacit endorsement, of today’s institutions in the face of political coercion suggests that the lessons of the past are being dangerously disregarded." ❗️Timely editorial by Khaled ElMahmoud❗️ @voelkerrechtsblog.org

Khaled El Mahmoud argues that the silence surrounding the suppression of #AcademicFreedom in #Germany raises urgent and fundamental questions. He asks: What responsibilities do academics and institutions bear in times of grave #Humanitarian & #LegalCrises? voelkerrechtsblog.org/special-edit...

“If academic institutions, once considered bastions of free thought and intellectual courage, choose to silence critical voices rather than defend them, then the very essence of democracy is at stake.” — another excellent editorial by Khaled El Mahmoud on @voelkerrechtsblog.org

Dass fünf Cops abgestellt werden, um bei einer universitären Veranstaltung die Vortragende zu überwachen, sollte schon ein paar mehr Akademiker_innen echauffieren. Und dass ein Bürgermeister diktiert, wer an Hochschulen sprechen darf, ebenso.

Must-read for anyone considering attending ESIL this year at FU Berlin👇 "International Law is being dismantled before our eyes, [...] Let us put aside, for a moment, the unfinished writings and applications and make sure that Francesca Albanese is allowed to speak in Germany!"

Statement from Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman: