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:
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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. 🦋🌊
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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'
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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“.
Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. Her research concerns the role of law and morality in war. She develops legal and philosophical theories about how international law can be an instrument of morality in war, albeit an imperfect one.
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.