Occupied Jerusalem is often narrated through maps, military operations, diplomatic failures, or religious contestation (Qadir and Smith, 2025). We are told stories of borders, security, sovereignty, and conflict.
” by Kabir Kumar published on 2 February 2026, Völkerrechtsblog conducted a review of the publication and contacted the author for an explanation. The review found that parts of the article reproduce or closely follow previously published material without adequate attribution. ” by Greta Berardi published on the Groningen Journal of International Law blog on 23 September 2025 was concerned.
College of Policing held over a dozen trainings for police from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, designated by the Foreign Office as countries of concern
On 26 May 2026, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) delivered its judgment in J.B. v. Greece (no. 54796/16). The case concerns the potential removal of a Syrian national from Greece to Türkiye under the EU-Türkiye Statement of 18 March 2016, following the rejection of his asylum claim on safe third country grounds.
Nothing inherent in children’s development explains why their right to education should be more or less accessible depending on whether they are 4, 8, or 16. Yet international law treats financial barriers to education as more or less problematic depending on their stage of childhood.
Mid-August: some lazy thoughts from my sofa. “What if, in Siena, it didn’t stop raining until Christmas Eve? Would the Palio be run on Christmas Day? ” my partner asked me on the second day of watching the green flag hanging from Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico. “I don’t know, I guess we just have to wait and see”.
Emotional surveillance via AI claims access to humanly invisible and pre/unconscious data. This post proposes the recognition of the right to opacity to ensure that our humanly illegible and pre/unconscious selves be unreadable by law enforcement.
Introduction The Israeli genocide in Gaza has laid bare the extent to which the world remains structured by racial colonial hierarchies and exposed the limits of an international legal order that emerged alongside Western imperial expansion.
A global campaign proves that ordinary people can free political prisoners through the simple act of standing witness. But the work is far from finished.
In early 2026,WITNESS, in collaboration withAirwars, initiated five workshop sessions, led by Clive Vella (Data Manager, Airwars) to train a core team within theBangladesh Protest Archive (BPA)in the designing of their datasets.
“Anyone who violates people’s rights should face the consequences.”
The UN Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) will meet laterthis monthfor its final session under thecurrent mandateto consider and formulate a set of elements of an instrument to address issues raised by LAWS.
In recent years, Professor Monica Hakimi of Columbia University has been a leading voice in tackling the role of theory and philosophy of international law. This stream of thinking aims not only at elucidating the role, function, and authority of international law, but also at bolstering constructive thinking about its proper place in today’s world.
A specter is haunting international legal theory, and according to Monica Hakimi, it is the specter of Thomas Hobbes. It is not that there is widespread demand for a global leviathan to replace the many domestic ones.
Geo-Materializing the Legal Imaginary: The Cycle of Produced and Producing Geography examines how land once rendered ‘null’ was later claimed as ‘full’, and how these transformations continue to shape our imaginaries on political authority, identity, societal organization, governing systems, and the ways we conceive of land.
Ob nach der ersten Cannabisfahrt eine MPU angeordnet wird, hängt nicht nur vom THC-Grenzwert, sondern auch von Umständen ab, deren Bedeutung derzeit vor allem die Gerichte bestimmen. Gunnar Hoyer über eine unbefriedigende Rechtslage.
Die Verteidiger unterstützen sich bisher gegenseitig, um das jeweils Beste für ihre Mandanten herauszuholen. Vor der Prozesspause bekriegen sie sich aber untereinander und blasen zum Großangriff auf Blocks Verteidigungslinie – doch die hält.
In mehreren Bundesländern arbeitet die Polizei bereits mit automatisierter Datenanalyse. Das soll nun auch für das BKA und die Bundespolizei möglich werden. Der Gefahr, dass Beamt*innen auf der Suche nach der Nadel im Heuhaufen gleich den ganzen Heuboden durchleuchten, begegnen die Gesetzentwürfe nicht.
Over the past decade, the rise in community-filmed evidence, OSI (open-source information) and visual investigations has brought methodologies and models that have profoundly reshaped human rights investigations, yet the most visible investigative labs, methodological standards and verification infrastructures are still embedded in Global North newsrooms, universities and NGOs.
