German Law Journal: GLJ Shorts and GLJ Specials

In this GLJ Shorts episode, Stefano Bertea presents his article "Searching for Law in Its Own Right: A Fresh Look at the Demarcation Problem" , which appeared as First View in December 2024. Interview by German Law Journal editor in chief Clara Rigoni, editing by Benjamin Veit Weck.

In this GLJ Shorts episode, Carlotta Rigotti presents her, Clare McGlynn's and Franziska Benning's article "Image-Based Sexual Abuse and EU Law: A Critical Analysis" , which appeared as First View in December 2024. Interview by German Law Journal editor in chief Clara Rigoni, editing by Benjamin Veit Weck.

This GLJ Shorts episode accompagnies the Special Issue ‘Strategic Litigation in EU Law’, published in December 2024 and curated by guest editors Pola Cebulak, Marta Morvillo, and Stefan Salomon. In this podcast, guest editor Marta Morvillo engages with Marta Pardavi and Gruzsa Matevcic of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a Budapest-based NGO that provides help to refugees, detainees and victims o...

In this GLJ Shorts episode, Sofiya Kartalova presents her article "Trust and the Exchange of EU Classified Information: The Example of Absolute Originator Control Impeding Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny at Europol", which appeared in the GLJ vol. 25:1 in April 2024. Interview by German Law Journal editor in chief Clara Rigoni, editing by Benjamin Veit Weck.

In this GLJ Shorts episode, Otava Piha presents her article "My Body is my Temple? Comparing Sexual Crimes and Property Crimes in a Human Rights Tradition" , which appeared in the GLJ vol. 25:1 in February 2024. Interview by German Law Journal editor in chief Clara Rigoni, editing by Benjamin Veit Weck.

In this GLJ Shorts episode, Shubham Jain presents his article "Resistance and Reform as Responses to Human Rights Criticism: Relativism at FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022", which appeared in the Special Section "The FIFA World Cup 2022 and the struggle for human rights in Qatar" in GLJ vol. 24:9 in December 2023. Interview by German Law Journal editor in chief Clara Rigoni, editing by Benjamin Veit Weck...

In this video, Abduletif Idris explains how the members of the Environmental Rights in Cultural Context research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology combine legal studies and anthropology to tackle the concept of environmental rights. Drawing on empirical evidence from case studies in Ethiopia, Mongolia, and Ecuador, the researchers see how constitutionally enshrined environm...

Luc Leboeuf is the coordinator of the EU-funded VULNER project, which examines the application of the concept of vulnerability in the adjudication of asylum cases. There is still no common legal understanding of “vulnerability”; it takes on different meanings in different contexts, and is becoming a tool of selection and exclusion as it evolves as a legal instrument. In this short, Leboeuf focuses...

“Sex must be voluntary; if it’s not, it’s a crime,” reads the Swedish government’s ad campaign. The new Swedish rape law is all about communicating consent – “listen, ask, and tune in so that you’re sure what others really want,” the ad continues. Feminists have long campaigned against rape laws that require active resistance from the victim, even where lack of consent is clear. But is rape really...

Over the last years, mass protests against sexualized violence against women have led to law reform in many countries. They were sparked by shocking rape cases as well as #MeToo and similar campaigns. The Istanbul Convention provides an international framework for what is sometimes called "carceral feminism." Time to take stock and to evaluate the impact of the consent paradigm, the influence of s...

This episode offers a hand-picked selection of highlights from the German Law Journal’s 2020 volume. It presents articles that may not (yet) have the download numbers they deserve – some algorithm detox, brought to you by GLJ Co-editor-in-chief Matthias Goldmann. All articles are vailable Open Access via our website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/german-law-journal. Editing by Marlene St...

Germany and the UK are marked by quite different legal cultures, institutional contexts, and scholarly traditions. But how does this shape socio-legal scholarship situated in those contexts? And how does this play out when studying labor law, contracts, transnational law, or urban law? What are the key contemporary trends, theoretical applications, and methodological approaches in both socio-legal...

States in the global north have been seeking to create a distance between them and migrants drowning or being abused, in an effort to avoid jurisdiction. Can international criminal law or the civil rights of Search and Rescue NGOs create a bridge for accountability? ICL's ability to also address "banal crimes against humanity" and to express their injustice makes it interesting for strategic litig...

EU agencies have an ever increasing role in the EU asylum system – raising the question how they can be held accountable. EASO is supposed to only support Greek authorities in the asylum procedure, but in fact determines the decision. Meanwhile, Frontex is charge of highly human-rights sensitive border operations. For both agencies, accountability gaps are notorious. Do extrajudicial mechanisms, s...

The UN treaty bodies are often referred to as "soft courts," because their decisions are neither binding nor enforceable. When interpreting non-refoulement, does this make them more progressive than the European Court of Human Rights, a "hard court"? An analysis of over 500 decisions shows that this is not always the case. Rather, variations in the interpretation of this norm in a crowded field of...

What can the "spatial turn" in international law offer in pursuit of accountability in migration control? Perceiving the site of a violation from a bird's-eye view and mapping different accountability structures across different legal regimes and regions can identify blind spots, and it can help to critically assess existing trajectories and explore the wider grid of potential accountability mecha...

In this uncut version of their GLJ Special, Cathryn Costello and Itamar Mann present their Special Issue "Border Justice: Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations," which appeared in April 2020 in GLJ 21:3. GLJ editor Nora Markard is the host, editing by Marlene Stiller. The Special Issue brings together fifteen high-profile experts to examine avenues for accountability for human r...

In this GLJ Special, Cathryn Costello and Itamar Mann present their Special Issue "Border Justice: Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations" which appeared in April 2020 in GLJ 21:3. GLJ editor Nora Markard is the host, editing by Marlene Stiller. An uncut version of this conversation is also available on this podcast. The Special Issue brings together fifteen high-profile experts...