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You founded Diritti Comparati in 2010. What motivated you to start a blog on comparative law in Italy? We started publishing the first posts in March 2010. Diritti comparati was a group project, a...
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Wenn sich an diesem Donnerstag die Koalitionspartner zum nächsten Akt im Drama um die Bewältigung des Flüchtlingsstroms treffen, dann wird vor allem ein Schlagwort, das die letzten Tage die...
View ArticleWarum ein Opt-out aus der EMRK für britische Streitkräfte eher...
„Ausstieg aus europäischen Menschenrechtsverpflichtungen für britische Truppen“ – so oder so ähnlich titelten verschiedene britische Blätter in der letzten Woche (zB hier, hier und hier). Und...
View ArticleFreiheit der (Auslands-)Wahl: Musste Deutschland der Türkei die Durchführung...
Seit Montag dieser Woche sind rund 1,4 Millionen in Deutschland lebende türkische Staatsangehörige aufgerufen, in dem umstrittenen Verfassungsreferendum abzustimmen. Die Bundesregierung hatte die...
View ArticleClosing Roundtable
Head back to programme. In closing, we aim to take stock of the two-day conference and our attempt to bring into conversation scholars from different backgrounds to understand the implications of...
View ArticleImages of Multiplicity: Spaces, Entanglement, Hybridity
Head back to programme. Next session: 15:45-17:00 CET/9:45-11:00 EST Multiple Legalities in International Law (plenary) When attempting to analyse multiple legalities, various conceptualizations have...
View ArticleOverlapping Spheres of Authority and Interface Conflicts in the Global Order
Head back to programme. Next session: 15:45-17:00 CET/9:45-11:00 EST Multiplicity and Law’s Foundations (plenary) The Conference on Multiple Legalities is organized as part of the interdisciplinary...
View ArticleTransnational Law’s Multiple Legalities
Head back to programme. Next sessions tomorrow (parallel): 12:00-13:30 CET/6:00-7:30 EST Panel 1: Cyberlegalities Panel 2: Competing Visions, Intersecting Legalities Panel 3: Networks Almost seventy...
View ArticleNavigating Multiplicity in Law
Head back to programme. Next sessions (parallel): 16:00-17:30 CET/10-11:30 EST Panel 1: Colliding Systems or Legal Tapestry? Panel 2: (Post)Colonial Legal Encounters Panel 3: Weaving the Law How do...
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Multiple Legalities: Conflict and Entanglement in the Global Legal Order
Whether a bureaucrat in an environmental ministry tries to keep track of the various reporting duties she needs to comply with, or an investor seeks to understand the law of international financial...
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Conference Programme
Multiple Legalities Conflict and Entanglement in the Global Legal Order Virtual Conference, 13 to 15 January 2021 In memoriam Sally E. Merry Conveners: Hannah Birkenkötter, Humboldt University,...
View ArticleOn the Side of International Law
This Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly resumed its Emergency Special Session on Ukraine, amidst a turbulent week that witnessed US President Biden’s surprise trip to Kyiv, Russian...
View ArticleWhy Today’s UN Security Council Resolution Demanding an Immediate Ceasefire...
Today, the Security Council adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan as a first step to a “lasting sustainable ceasefire”. This comes after a months-long impasse...
View ArticleThe Rule of Law and the United Nations Summit of the Future
Within the United Nations (UN), the commitment to the “rule of law” is agreed language with regular resolutions in the General Assembly and in the Human Rights Council. This was not always the case:...
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