In this interview, Dr Richard Joyce and Professor Sundhya Pahuja are joined by German-Palestinian international legal scholar, Dr Nahed Samour, currently b

Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...

Ein Forum für die Wissenschaft seit 1798.

Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives re...

Abstract. When the European Convention on Human Rights was adopted, several states parties were major colonial powers forcefully engaged in retaining that

The ANZSIL Gender, Sexuality and International Law Interest Group has issued a call for papers for a workshop on "Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism," to take place October 31, 2025, at Melbourne Law School. The call is here.      

You cannot pinkwash genocide: Why the (queer) refugee law studies community should be talking about...

(image source: OUP ) Abstract: When the European Convention on Human Rights was adopted, several states parties were major colonial powers...

‘The whole history of Palestinian struggle has to do with the desire to be visible.’ Edward Said On the evening of March 3rd, 1991, Rodney King, a

Covers rapidly evolving issues of international law through a distinctive combination of theoretical and practical approaches. Provides systematic coverage of the relationship between international la...

[Andrea Maria Pelliconi is a Lecturer in Human Rights Law & Global Justice at the University of Southampton, where she researches demographic engineering, displacement, and inter…

GENEVA – Escalating atrocities in Gaza present an urgent moral crossroads and States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza – an out...

Black German activists in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) confronted false beliefs that they did not belong there, and the national myth that the FRG

PDF | A growing number of Western states currently scandalize the claims to residence and citizenship of people racialized as non-European, non-Western,... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

Political philosophy has long been criticised for its state-centricity. A recent version of this objection asserts that the discipline perpetuates a problematic methodological nationalism. Critics arg...

This event explores the complex and contested role of law in revolutionary politics, asking whether law can prefigure the future we seek - or whether it must be abolished to make it possible. Drawing ...

This event will celebrate and draw out the connections between three recent edited volumes focused on queer approaches to law: Nuno Ferreira, M...

Special Issue: The Racism Debate in Germany: Concepts of Anti-Racism and Matters of Solidarity. Volume 48, Issue 7 of Ethnic and Racial Studies

Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.

Overview of Textbook Contents Part 1 - The System of Human Rights Protection 1. Introduction to International Human Rights Law Stuart Wallace + Nazia Yaqub 2. The History of International Hu...

Since Israel started its military campaigns against Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank after the terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, both academia and the media have intensely debated the Israel Defen...