Sophie Schuberth

Thanks Rouven! 😊

My warmest thanks go to my supervisor, Professor @heikekrieger.bsky.social; to my (former) colleagues at the Berlin–Potsdam Research Group and @jurafuberlin.bsky.social; and, of course, to my wonderful friends and family for their support throughout the years of writing this thesis. 🙏 🌸 🌱 /2

Happy to share that I submitted my doctoral thesis 'The Duty to Cooperate in the Law of State Responsibility: Bringing Serious Breaches of Peremptory Norms to an End During Occupation' in December! 📖 ✏️ /1

Yes, it did. www.simplelaw.blog/p/3-ways-bad...

The End of an Era?

The End of an Era?
On US Intervention in Venezuela and Its Consequences
by Helmut Aust, Claus Kreß and myself

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Unseren Beitrag gibt es jetzt auch Online (allerdings hinter Paywall)

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Gemeinsam mit Helmut Aust und Claus Kreß haben wir unsere Überlegungen zu den Folgen der US Außenpolitik für den Umgang mit dem Völkerrecht in der heutigen FAZ veröffentlicht.

The vote in the UN 3rd Committee on Nov. 20, on a recurring resolution to reaffirm the jus cogens prohibition against torture, which has been typically adopted by consensus. This year a vote was required, and 3 states voted no...

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system' Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...

This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.

The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.

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If you are in Berlin, please join me for my talk, "War Unbound," on Monday evening at the Freie Universität Berlin! Details here:

www.jura.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/...

You can find the written version of my talk here: 👇
www.ismllw.org/wp-content/u...
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... on a fascinating panel discussing 'The Law of Occupation and State Practice'.

In my presentation, “The (Il)Legality of Occupation: An Integrated Jus Ad Bellum Approach", I explored the relationship between occupation, general international law, and jus cogens norms. /2

Grateful to the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War for the opportunity to speak at the VIII “Silent leges inter arma?” Conference in beautiful Bruges last month. 🙏

I had the pleasure of joining Hanne Cuyckens, Prof. Dr. Natia Kalandarishvili-Mueller, and Nele Verlinden .. /1

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.”

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Just published in ICLQ via @cambup-law.cambridge.org, an excellent article by Marko Milanovic @unirdg-law.bsky.social analysing the notion of an illegal occupation in the recent #ICJ Advisory Opinion on Palestine.

#InternationalLaw #IHL #Occupation #AdvisoryOpinion

New publication👇

@heikekrieger.bsky.social writing about 'Third Party Obligations and World Ordering in the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory' in the German Yearbook of International Law

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The 8th ‘Silent leges inter arma?’ conference will be organised in the city of Bruges from 16-19 September 2025 by the 🇧🇪 Group of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War.

Check out this year’s topics and other information at: ismllw.org

Only 3 weeks left to register for this event hosted in Bruges from 16 to 19 September 2025!

Check out the detailed programme at www.ismllw.org.

The Supporting Partners of this event

👉 Netherlands Defence Academy

👉the Centre for International Humanitarian and Operational Law, Palacky University

Quote: “Small island States have contributed the least to climate change, yet now face an existential threat.”

Do statehood and sovereignty persist when a state sinks?

AURELIO CORNEO and JUDITH SCHERER examine what the ICJ says on this question in its climate advisory opinion and explore the issues of territory, population, and government in times of climate crisis.

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A State consent dilemma in the current work of the International Law Commission on the theory of sources The International Law Commission (ILC) has published its advance report on the work completed during its 76th session this May. This post focuses on progress in two topics related to the theory of sou...

A State consent dilemma in the current work of the International Law Commission on the theory of sources | by Dmytro Soldatenko

The ICJ "for the first time explicitly acknowledged the legal standing of all States in relation to obligations erga omnes (in the sense of Article 48(1)(b) ASR). Until now, the Court’s decisions on collective obligations had been confined to obligations erga omnes partes arising under treaties." 👇

The duty to cooperate under customary international law is fundamental to the response to climate change, and is intrinsically linked to the duty to prevent harm, requiring good faith, continuous and sustained forms of collective action, applying to all states (subject only to CBDR);...10/17

ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change:

Israels Angriff auf Iran: Selbstverteidigung oder ein Bruch des Völkerrechts? Obwohl Israel einer existenziellen Gefahr ausgesetzt war, sehen Experten den Militärschlag gegen Irans Atomprogramm als völkerrechtswidrig an. Die Professorin Heike Krieger erklärt, warum das so ist u...

Ein Gespräch zum Iran und zum Völkerrecht mit der NZZ (hinter paywall)

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The Illegal Israeli-American Use of Force Against Iran: A Follow-Up Yesterday, the United States joined Israel in its use of force against Iran by conducting a precision bombing operation targeting Iranian nuclear sites. Like Israel’s use of force before it, this use ...

The Illegal Israeli-American Use of Force Against Iran: A Follow-Up | by Marko Milanovic

Instrumentalized Migration and Jurisdictional Challenges: Lithuania v. Belarus at the ICJ On 19 May 2025, Lithuania instituted proceedings against Belarus before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), alleging violations of the 2000 Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Se...

Instrumentalized Migration and Jurisdictional Challenges: Lithuania v. Belarus at the ICJ | by Niccolò Ridi and Matina Papadaki

A Humanitarian Action by the UN General Assembly in Gaza? The atrocious situation in the Gaza Strip demands action by the international community to end serious and massive violations of human rights and humanitarian law. As reported by impartial observers, ...

A Humanitarian Action by the UN General Assembly in Gaza? | by Enzo Cannizzaro

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

World Health Assembly adopts historic Pandemic Agreement to make the world more equitable and safer from future pandemics Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) today formally adopted by consensus the world's first Pandemic Agreement. The landmark decision by the 78th World Health Assembly culminates more t...

Historic decision at #WHA78:

Member States of WHO today formally adopted by consensus the world's first #PandemicAgreement to make the world more equitable and safer from future pandemics.

🔗 bit.ly/43p0DsH

The newly announced tribunal to try the crime of aggression in Ukraine is a good step forward, if not what many of us hoped was possible. For the deep background, take a look at this @justsecurity.org series that started with this post in September 2022: www.justsecurity.org/83117/the-ca...