German Law Journal: GLJ Shorts and GLJ Specials
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago -The German Law Journal has been providing Open Access to Comparative, European, and International Law for over 20 years. Listen to #GLJShorts to find out what our most recent articles are about and to meet the person behind the paper. Listen to #GLJSpecials to dive deeper into selected articles or for an introduction into our most recent Special Issues. Find video versions of our podcasts on our YouTube channel!
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GLJ Special: Environmental Rights Between Constitutional Law and Local Context: Reflections on a Moving Target
September 01, 2023 12:12 - 4 minutes - 3.91 MBIn 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 environmental rights are moving targets that often fail to live up to their promise.
GLJ Special: Lost in Translation? The Promises and Challenges of Integrating Empirical Knowledge on Migrants′ Vulnerabil
September 01, 2023 12:07 - 4 minutes - 4.07 MBLuc 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 on the methodological framework that he and the VULNER consortium developed to study how asylum ...
GLJ Short: Sex Must Be Voluntary: Sexual Communication and the New Definition of Rape in Sweden (GLJ 22:5)
August 24, 2021 08:10 - 6 minutes - 6.01 MB“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 just about a failure of communication? What about power and patriarchy? And what about the grey ...
GLJ Special: Sexual Violence and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century (GLJ 22:5)
August 24, 2021 07:50 - 14 minutes - 12.4 MBOver 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 social movements, and the limits of criminal law, both at the national and the international level...
GLJ Short – Extra: Highlights from the GLJ's 2020 volume
April 06, 2021 07:00 - 11 minutes - 9.82 MBThis 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 Stiller.
GLJ Special: Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and Methods (GLJ 21:7)
October 18, 2020 09:00 - 22 minutes - 18.3 MBGermany 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 academic contexts? Meet one of our editors-in-chief, Jen Hendry, as she and Naomi Creutzfeldt a...
GLJ Short: Exploring the Potentials of International Criminal Law and the Right to Rescue (GLJ 21:3)
October 04, 2020 15:39 - 10 minutes - 8.52 MBStates 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 litigation, while activists exercising their sincerely held beliefs by performing Search and Rescue ma...
GLJ Short: Holding EASO and Frontex Accountable (GLJ 21:3)
October 04, 2020 15:38 - 6 minutes - 5.33 MBEU 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, such as the European Ombudsman, or mechanisms not designed for human rights claims, such as the ac...
GLJ Short: Hard Protection through Soft Courts? Non-Refoulement before the United Nations Treaty Bodies
October 04, 2020 15:38 - 6 minutes - 5.07 MBThe 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 international interpreters present risks for evasion of accountability, enabling domestic author...
GLJ Short: A Topographical Approach to Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Migration Control (GLJ 21:3)
October 04, 2020 15:38 - 6 minutes - 5.14 MBWhat 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 mechanisms. In this GLJ Shorts episode, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen presents his and Nikolas Feith Tan'...
GLJ Special: Border Justice: Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations – Full version (GLJ 21:3)
October 04, 2020 15:38 - 40 minutes - 33 MBIn 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 rights violations in the migration control context. The articles explore the promise and limits o...
GLJ Special: Border Justice: Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations – Short version (GLJ 21:3)
October 04, 2020 15:37 - 15 minutes - 12.8 MBIn 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 to examine avenues for accountability for human rights violations in the migration control conte...