The “liberal international legal order” is over. The age of universalist pretence is fading.
Onur Uraz and Aytekin Kaan Kurtul contend that international law survives regardless, but not as a universally shared project. It persists as a fragmented order shaped by multipolarity.
In this Editorial, Khaled El Mahmoud writes about crisis and how the language of crisis shapes our understanding of legality, authority, and political possibility.
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Anasruta Roy analyses two climate advisory opinions. One deeper shift. By reading the ICJ and Inter-American Court of Human Rights together, this post argues that prevention, equity and intergenerational responsibility may be crystallising into general principles of international climate law.
✨In honor of International Women's Day, we invite you to the 5th annual Women In International Law Symposium✨ The focus is on the impact of international law on the protection of (non)motherhood & the impact of motherhood on the shaping of international law.
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In their post, Shima Esmailian and Sharifzad argue that internationally, protests in Iran have been subjected to polarised ideological framings that often marginalise the voices of protesters, and that such framings also operate within international law.
Have you noticed that paragraph 456 is missing from the table of contents of the ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion? Shifting from normative content to legal form Laura Miano and Irene Miano explore this omission as an absence-presence and discuss what it reveals about international (climate) law.
Today's post by Nieto Hernandez examines the persistent causation puzzle in human-rights-based climate litigation. While causation is challenging across legal fields—especially in climate cases—courts must engage with it to assess potential violations.
To conclude: Tania Ixchel Atilano, Michelle Staggs Kelsall, and Joyce De Coninck reflected on the relationship between motherhood, the development of one’s academic career and how international legal academia could become a better place for women in academics.
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Marianne Crielle V. argues that for women from the Global South pursuing careers in international law, structural inequalities render the choice of motherhood deeply constrained rather than freely made.
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Aurélia Gervasoni on how political or ‘progressive’ children’s books translate legal norms/structure of power to child-accessible language, and how motherhood/caregiving can become spaces of critical knowledge production challenging dominant legal narratives.
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Tania Ixchel Atilano argues that openly discussing pregnancy and motherhood in legal academia is essential to exposing the structural and cultural barriers behind the ‘maternal wall’ and explains how to close the persistent gender gap.
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Marianne Crielle V. argues that for women from the Global South pursuing careers in international law, structural inequalities render the choice of motherhood deeply constrained rather than freely made.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/womanhood-in...
Aurélia Gervasoni on how political or ‘progressive’ children’s books translate legal norms/structure of power to child-accessible language, and how motherhood/caregiving can become spaces of critical knowledge production challenging dominant legal narratives.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/p-is-for-par...
Tania Ixchel Atilano argues that openly discussing pregnancy and motherhood in legal academia is essential to exposing the structural and cultural barriers behind the ‘maternal wall’ and explains how to close the persistent gender gap.
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In her post Sabaa Khan examines how mothers shape international environmental law through care-based knowledge: from Brundtland’s sustainable development to Inuit mothers driving persistent organic pollutants treaties.
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Carolina Lozano Martínez and Xilene Margarita Díaz Palacio discuss the struggle of the ‘Mothers of Acari’ within the broader fight against enforced disappearance in Latin America and their maternal activism before the Inter-American human rights system.
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In her post Sabaa Khan examines how mothers shape international environmental law through care-based knowledge: from Brundtland’s sustainable development to Inuit mothers driving persistent organic pollutants treaties.
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Carolina Lozano Martínez and Xilene Margarita Díaz Palacio discuss the struggle of the ‘Mothers of Acari’ within the broader fight against enforced disappearance in Latin America and their maternal activism before the Inter-American human rights system.
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In her post Selin Altay demonstrates, through key ECtHR Article 8 judgments, how the Court has handled queer family-making through assisted reproduction and argue that its focus on a wide margin of appreciation often blocks legal recognition of these families.
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In her post Selin Altay demonstrates, through key ECtHR Article 8 judgments, how the Court has handled queer family-making through assisted reproduction and argue that its focus on a wide margin of appreciation often blocks legal recognition of these families.
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Miriam Bak McKenna and Maj Grasten arguing that although international legal frameworks largely refrain from defining ‘the mother’, the law nonetheless exercises various models of legitimate motherhood.
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Miriam Bak McKenna and Maj Grasten arguing that although international legal frameworks largely refrain from defining ‘the mother’, the law nonetheless exercises various models of legitimate motherhood.
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Dilara Karmen Yaman on motherhood constituting essential yet devalued reproductive labour sustaining capitalist accumulation and international law’s maintenance of the public/private divide structurally reinforces mothers’ economic dependency and double burden.
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Dilara Karmen Yaman on motherhood constituting essential yet devalued reproductive labour sustaining capitalist accumulation and international law’s maintenance of the public/private divide structurally reinforces mothers’ economic dependency and double burden.
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Devran Gulel, Sanja Djajic and Ruth Dineen demonstrating how the Hague Abduction Convention harms mothers fleeing domestic violence, and argue for national courts and the ECtHR to adopt a domestic abuse-informed interpretation of the Convention.
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Devran Gulel, Sanja Djajic and Ruth Dineen demonstrating how the Hague Abduction Convention harms mothers fleeing domestic violence, and argue for national courts and the ECtHR to adopt a domestic abuse-informed interpretation of the Convention.
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In her post Verónica García de Cortázar focuses on obstetric violence and highlights that childbirth is a physiological, social, experiential, and political event shaped by power dynamics and medicalisation.
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In her post Verónica García de Cortázar focuses on obstetric violence and highlights that childbirth is a physiological, social, experiential, and political event shaped by power dynamics and medicalisation.
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Dr. Avv. Arianna Vettorel and Mariagiulia Masiero underline how international criminal law has struggled to name and prosecute reproductive violence coherently, and argue for recognition of reproductive autonomy as a distinct and stand-alone legal interest.
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