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What can(’t) international criminal justice deliver for Ukraine?
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One Year On – Remembering the Al-Khatib Syrian Torture Case and Reflecting on the Documentation of International Crimes Cases in German Courts
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Symposium on Classism and the International Legal Profession: The C in Critical Legal Training
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Law and the Challenge of Rehumanization
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Multinational Lafarge Facing Unprecedented Charges for International Crimes: Insights Into the French Court Decisions
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India Trains Its Sights on Dissent in Chhattisgarh
Snooping on Civil Society Through Extralegal Spyware
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Tigers over Tribal Rights
Conservation Induced Displacement in Chhattisgarh
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Landgrabs, Institutional Violence and Shrinking Civic Space
Introducing the Symposium "Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh"
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Rightlessness in Melilla: Pushbacks as violations of the right to recognition before the law
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Northeast Syria - Executioner without judge
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Don’t Stick to a Fossil Treaty – Pull the Plug on the Energy Charter Treaty
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Complementarity Is No Excuse: Why the ICC Investigation in Libya Must Include Crimes Against Migrants and Refugees
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What’s missing in climate lawsuits of the future?
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The German-Namibian “Reconciliation Agreement” in Law and Time
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Is the Auditing and Certification Industry Fit for Human Rights Due Diligence?
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Kunduz Airstrike Before European Court of Human Rights: Future of Jurisdiction and Duty to Investigate
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Universal Jurisdiction — the Most Difficult Path to Achieve Justice for Sri Lanka
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Julian Assange: Pressefreiheit vor Gericht
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Companies have a responsibility to build a better world post-COVID
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Pestizidvergiftungen in Yavatmal: Betroffene wenden sich gegen Agribusiness-Riesen Syngenta
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The ICC, British War Crimes in Iraq and a Very British Tradition
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Navigating new rights and responsibilities in the Colombian Atrato River - An ecocentric approach to human rights
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Holding Transnational Corporations Accountable for International Crimes in Syria: Update on the Developments in the Lafarge Case (Part II)
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Holding Transnational Corporations Accountable for International Crimes in Syria: Update on the Developments in the Lafarge Case (Part I)
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Between utopia and affirmation of the status quo
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The French Loi de Vigilance: Prospects and Limitations of a Pioneer Mandatory Corporate Due Diligence
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Working toward the world we want to live in
Introducing the book symposium on Grietje Baars’ “The Corporation, Law and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy”
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Ein Lieferkettengesetz – wichtiger denn je
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Beauty and the virus: Fashion brands, the UNGPs and (imagined) solidarity in pandemic times
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Was the Brumadinho dam failure caused by a “normalisation of deviance”?
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Tools to violate international law: Armed drones in Germany and the government’s legal position
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First Yazidi Genocide Trial Commences in Germany
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Corona crisis lays bare the need for responsible conduct in dealing with business relationships
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N.D. and N.T. v. Spain: defining Strasbourg’s position on pushbacks at land borders?
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Überwachungstechnologie und menschenrechtliche Sorgfaltspflichten
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Extraterritorial Obligations of Arms Exporting Corporations: New Communication to the ICC
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Will Lafarge be held accountable for alleged links to human rights abuses in Syria?
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The Time is Urgent While the Discrimination Continues: CEDAW As the Last Avenue of Justice for the Malaya Lolas?
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Racist repercussions and transgenerational exclusion
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Colonial repercussions in Germany and Namibia
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Social audits are not human rights due diligence
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Jabir et al vs. KiK: Do EU companies have an extraterritorial duty towards suppliers in global production chains?
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Pushbacks Rejected: D.D. v. Spain and the rights of minors at EU borders
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Gabriel Resources v. Romania: Local Residents as Third Parties in Investor-State Dispute Settlement?
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Co-Opting Universal Jurisdiction? A Gendered Critique of the Prosecutorial Strategy of the German Federal Public Prosecutor in Response to the Return of Female ISIL Members: Part I
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Co-Opting Universal Jurisdiction? A Gendered Critique of the Prosecutorial Strategy of the German Federal Public Prosecutor in Response to the Return of Female ISIL Members: Part II
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Op-ed: The Rights of Minors – UN Condemns Spain's Push-Backs and Demands Legal Amendments
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Seizing opportunies and broad strategy both essential in human rights litigation
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A supply chain of complicity: Labour exploitation in Qatar and migrant workers' access to justice
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Social audits in the textile industry: How to control the controllers?
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Liability of an Assisting Army for Detainee Abuse by Local Forces: The Danish High Court Judgment in Green Desert
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Menschenrechtsverbrechen in Syrien: Wie Gerechtigkeit möglich ist
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The Road Less Traveled: How Corporate Directors Could be Held Individually Liable in Sweden for Corporate Atrocity Crimes Abroad
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Colonia Dignidad, ein deutscher Justizskandal
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The OECD Complaint Mechanism: Remedy or Complicity?
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Can the Lafarge case be a game changer?
French multinational company indicted for international crimes in Syria
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Commentary: Lost Property – Law and Distribution
One Hundred Years of Expropriation without Compensation
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"Without Education They Lose Their Future"
Denial of Education to Child Asylum Seekers on the Greek Islands
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Kaum Hilfe für die Snowdens von morgen
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Die heimlichen Komplizen
EGMR-Urteile zu CIA-Geheimgefängnissen in Litauen und Rumänien
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Certified safety or reckless reports?
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"Anyone can make claims" – Is the KiK case proof of access to remedy against corporate human rights violations?
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Why a binding treaty is necessary: the UN complaint mechanism's lack of teeth on pesticides management
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Summary Land Border Expulsions in Front of the ECtHR: ND and NT v Spain
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Greece: No School for Many Asylum-Seeking Kids
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Following the Money: Lack of Transparency in Donor Funding for Syrian Refugee Education
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Die Haftung der Zertifizierer – Überlegungen zur Übertragbarkeit des EuGH-Urteils zu mangelhaften Brustimplantaten
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Next Challenge for Universal Jurisdiction: Overcoming Double Standards
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Turkey: Education Barriers for Asylum Seekers
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Human Rights, the Environment and Mining: Holding Transnational Corporations Accountable
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Frauenarmut und Kinder zweiter Klasse: Das Ehegattensplitting
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Literatur und juristische Aufarbeitung – anlässlich des Symposiums Gedächtnis und Gerechtigkeit
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Werden europäische Unternehmen zur Verantwortung gezogen wegen ihrer Beteiligung am Syrienkrieg?
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Umweltrecht und Menschenrechte im Bergbau
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Justice for Syria?
Opportunities and Limitations of Universal Jurisdiction Trials in Germany
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Germany should take a lead on the prosecution of grave crimes in Syria
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The Implementation of the EU-Turkey Deal Betrays European Values
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The Iraq invasion is a crime
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Combating the root causes of refugee movement ad absurdum
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Textile factory catastrophes in South Asia: who pays the price?
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Three years after Edward Snowden's surveillance disclosures: Why we need to protect whistleblowers
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Justice for crimes in Chad after 25 years
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The EU levers out refugee rights
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"A law student was pushed down, a radical rose up" – on the death of Michael Ratner
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Fighting the legal mainstream
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Going after journalists but not arms dealers
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Not just against the weak
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The German Foreign Ministry and the Dictatorships
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Truthful, if not yet the whole truth – the NSU trilogy
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Sexualized Violence in Colombia: how women are helped – and hindered
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No need for Avatar imagination
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Out of sight, out of mind
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Argentine dictatorship 40 years on
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The call for criminal sentencing reaches a crescendo
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When the rule of law no longer rules
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The dangers of trade deals with the Sri Lankan military
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Colonia Dignidad – justice long overdue for victims in this German scandal
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The detention of Julian Assange is inhumane
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A breath of fresh air for law faculties
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Obama's tentative steps against torture
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Argentina: New government, new direction for dictatorship trials?
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Glyphosate: Organized Blindness on Pesticide Risks
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Jumping on the bandwagon of terror
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Peter Weiss: Tackling the powerful lawbreakers
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How Europe can blaze a trail
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Violence at Europe's borders: We need more anger!
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When the USA behaves like a dictatorship
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Taking on Goliath
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Silence on Indonesia's mass murders
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Why war crimes trials are worth the effort
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Ein kleiner Anfang ist gemacht: Kriegsverbrechen vor deutschen Gerichten
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Kriegsverbrecherprozess am OLG Stuttgart: Lange Haftstrafen für FDLR-Milizenführer
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Terror zones: Fact and fiction in the war on drugs
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Women of the Be Just Initiative
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Bahrain: Prosecuting the prosecutor
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Nestlé and the death of a trade unionist in Colombia
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Non-binding morals? Working conditions in the globalized textile industry
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August nights of shame
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Fighting for the right to have rights
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The return of secret trials
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Journalistic successes and failures: the German treason affair
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A Paraguayan Coup
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Africa's Pinochet
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War criminals still feel safe from prosecution in Sri Lanka
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A mere salve for the conscience
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The Congo Tribunal – from Bukavu to Berlin
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The Mansour case: not a one-off
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Power doesn't always trump law
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SS massacre: Distomo survivors fight for justice
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Dubious confessions in Iguala
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No end to US drone strikes via Germany
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Forging New Legal Ground: Why Families & Survivors of the Karachi Factory Fire Could Spell the End of Voluntary Corporate Responsibility
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Hope for Mexico
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The genocide judgement and its aftermath in Guatemala
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Nationalism cannot be the answer to unfettered spy agencies
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Sexual violence in war: still ubiquitous, still going unpunished
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The U.S. at first and second glance
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Satellite Imagery as Evidence for International Crimes
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Accountability for US torture: the long road to justice
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Prison life: Thomas Middelhoff is not the only one suffering
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To not forget: Stolpersteine and other tributes
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The Expressive Value of Corporate Prosecutions
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Little more than 50 years ago...
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Defending tolerance and diversity
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Failing to protect its own citizens: Germany and the CIA
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Death of a prosecutor: election battles rage on
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Women. Radical. Lawyers: A Film
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Criminal complaint against ex CIA director Tenet is just the beginning
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Germany's secret role in repressive state spying 12 December
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The Vietnam War revisited
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Swapping Self-Righteousness for Solidarity
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Arrest Kissinger!
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From Mexico to Philippines – Human Rights Defenders under Pressure
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Naïve?
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The European Arrest Warrant – Fraught with Problems
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My terrorists, your terrorists.
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The deadly droning overhead
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A prize that aims to protect
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Burbach is not Guantánamo
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Bahraini Human Rights Activist at Risk
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Lone wolves, one-off attacks and a recurring litany of failures
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Globalization from below
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen
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Law and politics in the digital age
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A little victory
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Abominable lawyers
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The Tom Cruise Moment
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Two Years in the Ecuador Embassy: Assange and Wikileaks Continue Their Work
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Straddling the Divide
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How ruthless drug companies carry out clinical trials in India
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Forced labor – not just in the GDR
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Following the trail of cheap clothes
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Obstacles at every turn: justice for victims of sexualized violence
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Humanitarian Bombs
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So free
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Why we need the principle of universal jurisdiction
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Double standards in international criminal law – an end in sight?
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Apartheid: Twenty Years On
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Half hour hearing for a life ruined
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Emerging Issues: Facing the Use of Remote Sensing Evidence for International Criminal Justice
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Vor der Sommerpause: Zweimal kein Rechtsschutz gegen Vereinte Nationen
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LuxLeaks – public interest on trial
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Taking the G20 at its Word: Suggestions for Immediate & Effective Measures to Eliminate Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking
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Of Slaves and Slave Masters: Strategic Litigation to Address Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains
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Supply Chain Liability: The Lawsuit by Karachi Claimants Against Retailer KiK in Historic Perspective
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Towards Genuine Transnational Collaboration between Human Rights Activists from the Global North and the Global South
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Was the Brumadinho dam failure caused by a "normalisation of deviance"?
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O rompimento da barragem de Brumadinho foi causada por uma "normalização das divergências"?