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we are throwing to a guy I didn't know was on the team! did we pick him up tonight? lol. #Eagles #GoBirds
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New on our blog! From East West Street to the Anthropocene: Philippe Sands in conversation with Hendrik Simon On the occasion of Philippe Sands receiving the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade on 11 October 2026, Hendrik Simon spoke with him about international law as a modicum of hope, his new book on ecoci #Ecocide #Genocide #HistoryOfInternationalLaw https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/from-east-west-street-to-the-anthropocene-defending-law-against-mass-violence-and-destruction/
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New on our blog! Protecting States, Not People Like all “landmark” pieces of international jurisprudence, the closer one reads the International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change of July 2025, the more one finds things the Court might have done better. Among the areas that have attracted dissatisf #ClimateChange #Displacement #InternationalCourtOfJustice https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/protecting-states-not-people/
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New on our blog! The Last Knight of International Law Don Quixote's first mistake is not to attack a windmill. It is to believe that the world still speaks the language of the books from which he learned how a knight should act. He rides into La Mancha carrying an elaborate normative order: duties towards the distressed, rules o #ApplicationOfInternationalLaw #ArtAndLaw #GlobalJustice #SourcesOfInternationalLaw https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-last-knight-of-international-law/
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New on our blog! Against the Suspicion of Machines Fifteen years ago, on EJIL:Talk!, I mulled over what was then an emerging but hugely growing practice: academic expert blogging. I called it, only half-ironically, a “hazardous tool”. The hazard, at the time, was that blogging seemed to threaten the slow, deliberative, peer-reviewed economy of scholarship. Blogging was then said to be too fast, too casual, too pu https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/against-the-suspicion-of-machines/
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New on our blog! Editorial #55: The International Criminal Court Between Strength and Strangulation I had finished the manuscript for this editorial and was quite looking forward to the weekend. It was to be a rather philosophical piece on whether international criminal law is genuinely international, or rather a supranational expression of #InternationalCriminalCourt https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/editorial-55-the-international-criminal-court-between-strength-and-strangulation/
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New on our blog! Self-Determination and Judicial Silence The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has long recognised self-determination, including in its Western Sahara opinion of 1975 (para. 162) and Chagos opinion of 2019 (paras. 144–160). Recent decisions build on this jurisprudence while applying the right to further quest #CourtOfJusticeOfTheEuropeanUnion #InternationalCourtOfJustice #SelfDetermination https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/self-determination-and-judicial-silence/
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New on our blog! Reparations by Another Name On June 17, 2026, the United States (U.S.) and Iran signed a fourteen-point Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that formally ends military operations and establishes a sixty-day framework for negotiating a final deal. Although framed as a “reconstruction and economic development plan for Iran worth at least $300 billion,” #Reparations #StateResponsibility #TreatyInterpretation https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/reparations-by-another-name/
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New on our blog! Against the Suspicion of Machines Fifteen years ago, on EJIL:Talk!, I mulled over what was then an emerging but hugely growing practice: academic expert blogging. I called it, only half-ironically, a “hazardous tool”. The hazard, at the time, was that blogging seemed to threaten the slow, deliberative, peer-reviewed economy of scholarship. Blogging was then said to be too fast, too casual, too pu https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/against-the-suspicion-of-machines/
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New on our blog! Against the Suspicion of Machines Fifteen years ago, on EJIL:Talk!, I mulled over what was then an emerging but hugely growing practice: academic expert blogging. I called it, only half-ironically, a “hazardous tool”. The hazard, at the time, was that blogging seemed to threaten the slow, deliberative, peer-reviewed economy of scholarship. Blogging was then said to be too fast, too casual, too pu https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/against-the-suspicion-of-machines/
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New on our blog! Call for Contributions: GenAI and the Future of (International) Legal Scholarship Generative AI is rapidly reshaping how legal scholarship is researched, written, reviewed, and taught. In this context, universities, journals, and research institutions are developing new rules and policies on the permissible use and disclosure of AI. Such developments c https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/call-for-contributions-genai-and-the-future-of-international-legal-scholarship/
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New on our blog! Islands Held in Trust On 1 September 2026, Vanuatu asked the International Court of Justice to settle a dispute with France “concerning Vanuatu’s sovereignty over Umaenupne (Matthew) and Umaeneg/Leka (Hunter) Islands” and to draw a single maritime boundary between Vanuatu and France “(with respect to New Caledonia)”. Neither State accepts co #Chagos #InternationalCourtOfJustice #SelfDetermination #Sovereignty https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/islands-held-in-trust/
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New on our blog! Interpreting Treaties in Domestic Courts Conflicting Rulings The application of public international law in domestic courts is a theme that causes much trepidation in litigants yet has been a treasure trove for academics. This is no less true for treaty interpretation, which domestic courts, like other actors, are supposed to approach usin #Jurisdiction #LawOfTheSea #TreatyInterpretation https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/interpreting-treaties-in-domestic-courts/
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New on our blog! Solving the Wrong Problem? On January 1, 2025, the Basel Convention’s amendments on e-waste took effect, extending the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure to non-hazardous e-waste for the first time. Yet, they regulate e-waste only after it has become waste and leave untouched the design and production decisions that determine how much of it is generated. T #BaselConvention #TreatyInterpretation #Waste https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/solving-the-wrong-problem/
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New on our blog! Buying Out a Toll, or Paying One The maritime powers have met a toll on a natural strait once before. They neither litigated it nor regularised it. They bought it out, and they framed the purchase so that no one could read the money as recognition of any right to charge. This post makes three claims. First, Iran’s charges for passage through the Strait of Hormuz have no fo #Iran #LawOfTheSea #UNCLOS https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/buying-out-a-toll-or-paying-one/
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New on our blog! Towards a Fourth Digital Empire? On 6 and 7 July 2026, representatives of UN Member States met in Geneva with civil society, academia, business and the technical community for the first United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance. The meeting was intended to broaden a discussion in which countries with less AI capacity have had limited ability to #AfricanUnion #ArtificialIntelligence #Governance https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/towards-a-fourth-digital-empire/
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New on our blog! Can Nuremberg Survive AI? Eighty years after the Nuremberg Judgment, artificial intelligence may challenge an assumption of international criminal law that has rarely needed to be questioned, namely that behind an international crime stands a human being. This post revisits the Nurem #ArtificialIntelligence #AutonomousWeaponsSystems #InternationalCriminalCourt #InternationalCriminalLaw #StateResponsibility https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/can-nuremberg-survive-ai/
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New on our blog! Recognition Without Release Four states have set out to hold Afghanistan to account under CEDAW for the Taliban’s systematic discrimination against women and girls. The initiative now appears stalled, perhaps partly over fears that engaging the Taliban would amount to recognising them and could enable them to take Afghanistan out of the Convention. This post arg #Afghanistan #GenderJustice #WomensRights https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/recognition-without-release/
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New on our blog! Before It’s Too Late In his 1954 study Vollendete Tatsache und Völkerrecht (“Fait accompli and International Law”), the late director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Professor Carl Bilfinger, stated that fait accompli “undermines faith in the law”. Fifty years later, #AdvisoryOpinion #InternationalCourtOfJustice #InternationalRelations #Israel #StateResponsibility https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/before-its-too-late/
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New on our blog! Kindred Spirits? Between 18 and 24 June 2026, Niger, then Mali and Burkina Faso, deposited their formal instruments of withdrawal from the Rome Statute with the UN Secretary-General. With this act, the intention stated in the joint declaration issued by the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in September 2025 turned from wor #Africa #Decolonisation #Geopolitics #InternationalCriminalCourt #InternationalCriminalLaw #USA https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/kindred-spirits/
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New on our blog! The World Behind the Map Cartography has long been central to how the United Nations positions itself on the global stage. This is evident in everything from the maps attached to Security Council documents, to the official emblem and flag of the UN, which famously depicts a map centred on the North Pole, surrounded by a pair of olive bran #GlobalSouth #PostColonialism #Sovereignty #Statehood #UnitedNations https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-world-behind-the-map/
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From WMUN: Monday Night with the Red and White, 10/26/26 Join Kurt Darling talking Ball State Football with head coach Mike Uremovich and the upcoming Basketball Season with head coach Chris Capko! 🔗 https://www.wmunmuncie.com/e/monday-night-with-the-red-and-white-102626/ #HoosierNews
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Weather for Muncie, Indiana 🌕 - 10/26/2026 23:10 EDTAt a glance:• 54.3°F · Clear sky 🌕 | Min 47.5°F / Max 70.9°F | Precipitation probability 1%Forecast for today:• Min 47.5°F, Max 70.9°F (Cloudy) ☁️, Precipitation probability 1%, Wind speed: 6.5 mph (2.9 m/s), direction: ↖ 153°Hourly forecast for the next 12 hours:• 00:00: 53.1°F (Partly cloudy) ☁️, Precipitation probability 1%, 🧭 989.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 🔗 https://us.fedimeteo.com/muncie__indiana/p/1793070601.165479 #munseeweather
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Weather for Muncie, Indiana 🌕 - 10/27/2026 05:09 EDTAt a glance:• 47.8°F · Clear sky 🌕 | Min 46.0°F / Max 69.3°F | Precipitation probability 1%Forecast for today:• Min 46.0°F, Max 69.3°F (Cloudy) ☁️, Precipitation probability 1%, 🧭 989.8 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/24h, Wind speed: 7.3 mph (3.3 m/s), direction: ↖ 155°Hourly forecast for the next 12 hours:• 06:00: 46.6°F (Clear sky) 🌕, 🧭 989.9 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/ 🔗 https://us.fedimeteo.com/muncie__indiana/p/1793092196.574945 #munseeweather