The dispute about Greenland has been conducted by the US as a zero-sum game. Either ‘ownership’ over Greenland would be handed over to Washington, or else economic…

Introduction  If a week is a long time in politics, then two years is an eternity for the Council of Europe. At the Reykjavik summit in…

The International Court of Justice’s recent Advisory Opinion on Climate Change (AO) has been widely celebrated by many States, non-governmental groups, and…

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I - Introduction George Monbiot – one of Britain’s most prominent public intellectuals and environmental campaigners – once remarked of the Paris Agreement: ‘by comparison…

On 20 March 2023, the European Court of Human Rights published a Practice Direction on the modalities of Third-Party Intervention and announced an amendment of the Rules…

1. International Legal Theory and the Cognitive Turn. The University of Hamburg Law Faculty, Institute of Law and Economics, is hosting a Workshop on International Legal Theory and…

On December 13 2021 the Danish Court of Impeachment (Rigsretten) convicted Inger Støjberg, a former Minister of Immigration, for having unlawfully instructed public authorities to separate migrant…

For nearly 30 years, the international legal regime addressing climate change has kept largely silent about the major driver of the problem it seeks to address: fossil fuels.

The Internet has allowed the dissemination of content across the globe in a matter of seconds. Recommendation algorithms, found in social media platforms and search engines, have also…