New: Dr Lucia Leontiev looks at the UN human rights protection procedures available to people living in territorial non-state entities following Russia’s exit from the ECHR. internationallaw.blog/2024/06/13/whe… via @InternationalLawBlog

Beside the currently pending Advisory Opinion related to climate change in front of the ICJ, there is another one pending in front of the IACtHR. Recommended background knowledge in this regard just got published open access!🤗 nomos-shop.de/isbn/978-3-756…

My first thematic report to #HRC56 is now available (only in English) at tinyurl.com/bdc7z8u2 Interactive Dialogue w/ States, civil society, NHRIs: 1st July 12.00-15.00h. Focus: #intersectionality in climate change mitigation, adaption, just transition, finance, loss & damage

My take on the ITLOS advisory opinion and the human rights implications of climate change in the context of UNCLOS ⬇️ ejiltalk.org/the-itlos-advi…

Several new papers have been published in #ExternalizingAsylum, a compendium of scientific knowledge co-edited with Christiane Fröhlich. A 🧵 of the recent papers. externalizingasylum.info

A quest for transparency in arms exports: The Berlin administrative court’s stance on exports of arms to Israel | by Lea Köhne (she/her) & Vincent Widdig ejiltalk.org/a-quest-for-tr…

Grateful for our workshop on Double standards and international law in Berlin last week. Great conversations, much agreement & sometimes divergent (but respectful) perspectives; hosted generously by Heike Krieger KFG "International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?" Dustin Lewis Naz Modirzadeh HLS Program on Int’l Law & Armed Conflict More soon...

Excited to announce: How and Why do Double Standards Matter for International Law?, organized by Geneva Graduate Institute and HLS Program on Int’l Law & Armed Conflict; Geneva, 15-17 May 2025. Send your abstracts by 15 October. Details here: pilac.law.harvard.edu/events//how-an… With thanks Nico Krisch Naz Modirzadeh Dustin Lewis

Great to see this special issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly out now on 'Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Lived Experience', with a number of articles currently free to read academic.oup.com/rsq/issue/43/2

Everything must come to an end: Join us for our last KFG "International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?" event: “International Law Beyond the Current Crises” 26/9/24, 6pm, HU Berlin, Unter den Linden 9, room 213 with Pierre d'Argent, Jutta Brunnée, Alejandro Rodiles Bretón and Andrew Hurrell

Upcoming Public Event: We take great pleasure in inviting you to our last public event, a Panel Discussion on “International Law Beyond the Current Crises” Thursday, 26 Sep 2024, 6pm Humboldt University Berlin, law faculty (Unter den Linden 9), room 213

A huge thank you for everyone who made the KFG "International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?" an academic home. It was great to see so many colleagues and friends again at the final conference. I am particularly grateful for the exchange of ideas, methods and motivation. I learned so much!

#ECJ: The designation of a third country as a safe country of origin must cover its entire territory #asylum 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…

The ECHR CEDH rules, again and again, that Greece is violating the rights of asylum seekers by placing them under unacceptable conditions in camps. Another three judgments on that matter were handed down on 3 October:🧵

Join the discussion tonight on refoulement at German borders 👇

Wie wichtig und relevant das Dublin-System und eine europäische Solidarität sind und dass eine Berufung auf eine etwaige Notlage nach Art. 72 AEUV aktuell nicht ersichtlich ist, hat Professor Zimmermann in einem Interview mit dem Dlf klargestellt. 👇 deutschlandfunk.de/rechtsstaat-un…

The European Committee of the Regions calls for a humane and rights-based implementation of the #CEASreform and the need to focus on local and regional workability cor.europa.eu/en/news/landma… Happy to have been able to contribute as an expert to this opinion

EGMR urteilt: Deutsche “paper pushbacks” an der Grenze nach dem Seehofer-Deal waren rechtswidrig. Schutzsuchende haben ein Recht auf Zugang zu effektivem Rechtsschutz. Der Versuch, Europarecht zu umgehen und Menschen im Hauruckverfahren zurückzuweisen, bekommt eine klare Absage!

Important ruling by ECHR CEDH: Germany violated Article 3 of the Convention when returning a Syrian asylum-seeker to Greece in 2018 under an administrative arrangement between the two states. hudoc.echr.coe.int/%7B%22language…

I am happy to share the publication of my article 'Parliamentary Visits to Places of Armed Conflict and Disputed Territories', published in the latest volume of ZaöRV | Heidelberg Journal of International Law. 🔗 You can read the paper here (open access): nomos-elibrary.de/10.17104/0044-…