Maxim Bönnemann
editor @verfassungsblog.de
- "What is newly visible to some through Operation Metro Surge has long been lived by others. The elasticity of constitutional standards and the racialized logics that structure immigration enforcement are not new." A Letter from Minneapolis, by Emmanuel Mauleón (@umnlawschool.bsky.social)
- “A kind of mafioso approach.” I spoke with Marko Milanović for this week’s @verfassungsblog.de newsletter about a possible US-annexation of Greenland — and which role (if any) international law would play in such a scenario. verfassungsblog.de/nato-would-b...
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- danke!! 🙏
- If you sometimes wonder where to look for hope in 2026, amid constant news of crisis in democracy and international law, I would suggest this: look to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 My editorial for @verfassungsblog.de on Lviv — and what we can learn from this city: verfassungsblog.de/laboratorium...
- ✨ We have a new book out ✨ The ICJ’s climate advisory opinion is the most important development in international climate law since the Paris Agreement. We brought together leading scholars to explore its doctrinal foundations and normative implications. 🔗 verfassungsblog.de/book/the-icj...
- Edited with Maria Antonia Tigre (@matigre.bsky.social) and Antoine De Spiegeleir (@antoine-despieg.bsky.social), the volume grew out of a joint @verfassungsblog.de-@sabincenter.bsky.social-symposium.
- Across 26 chapters, contributors address state responsibility, customary law, due diligence, migration, climate litigation, fossil fuels, climate justice, and many further issues at the intersection of domestic law and international climate law. ⚖️🌍 Open access now; print edition follows shortly 📘
- fantastic piece
- Another excellent addition (by @mwgehring.bsky.social) to our symposium on the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion, co-edited with @antoine-despieg.bsky.social and @matigre.bsky.social ✨ Access all other contributions here (and stay tuned for more to come): 📖🔗 verfassungsblog.de/category/deb...
- When Custom Binds All States 🌍⚖️ MARKUS GEHRING (@mwgehring.bsky.social) on the International Court of Justice's trailblazing findings on customary international law as it applies to climate change. verfassungsblog.de/customary-la...
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- “Both B’Tselem and PHR said Israel’s western allies were enabling the genocidal campaign, and shared responsibility for suffering in Gaza. 'It couldn’t happen without the support of the western world,' Novak said. 'Any leader that is not doing whatever they can to stop it is part of this horror'.”
- "Increasingly, Americans will be lucky to find people in the federal government, including in the courts, with the wherewithal to find constitutional limits where so many seem willing to look the other way – or, like Bove, to enforce the lawless whims of the sitting president."
- Trump’s second term could see the nomination of hundreds of judges — including Emil Bove — as the New Right advances its long game to capture the courts. LAURA FIELD unpacks how the movement’s intellectual vanguard is quietly laying the groundwork. verfassungsblog.de/trump-newrig...
- "'It's a killing field,' one soldier said." "This thing called killing innocent people – it's been normalized. We were constantly told there are no noncombatants in Gaza, and apparently that message sank in among the troops." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- Companies responsible for large-scale emissions can, at least in principle, be held liable under German civil law for climate-related harms to which they contribute. @matigre.bsky.social and I unpacked some key points from the recent Lliuya v. RWE ruling: blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
- “German Officials Might Be Criminally Liable” I spoke with Kai Ambos for the @verfassungsblog.de newsletter about the crimes in Gaza, Germany’s responsibility under international law, and the possible criminal liability of German officials. Full interview here 👇 verfassungsblog.de/german-offic...
- „Auch deutsche Beamte könnten sich strafbar gemacht haben.“ Ich habe für den @verfassungsblog.de-Newsletter mit Kai Ambos gesprochen. Über die Schrecken in Gaza, die völkerrechtliche Verantwortung Deutschlands und eine mögliche Haftung deutscher Beamt:innen: verfassungsblog.de/auch-deutsch...
- Warum Großemittenten grundsätzlich für Klimaschäden haften können: Herausragend gute Urteilsbesprechung zur Klimaklage gegen RWE ⬇️
- „Anders gesagt, spricht die Dynamik des Konfliktgeschehens in einer Gesamtschau mittlerweile eher für statt gegen einen Genozid.“
- Warum man die Aufnahmezusagen für gefährdete Afghaninnen und Afghanen nicht einfach zurücknehmen kann -- @matthiaslehnert.bsky.social sehr hörenswert über Vertrauensschutz und die dramatische Situation geflüchteter Afghan:innen in Pakistan. www.deutschlandfunk.de/darf-bundesr...
- Climate change litigation is gaining momentum – but does it deliver real change? @matigre.bsky.social and I have organized a small webinar with fantastic speakers on the implementation and impact of landmark climate change cases. 📅 April 24 📝 Do sign up here: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...
- A publicly announced war crime. The legal background of the renewed siege, the cruelty of starving civilians, and possible implications for the ICJ genocide proceedings were just explained by @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social in this @verfassungsblog.de interview: verfassungsblog.de/those-with-t...
- „Jede Form der Zusammenarbeit führt zu einer stärkeren Normalisierung radikal rechter Parteien. Politikwissenschaftliche Forschung zeigt, dass wenn etablierte Parteien legitimierend mit radikal rechten Parteien umgehen, dann auch Bürger:innen diese Parteien als legitimer wahrnehmen.“
- “Those with the Guns Are the Last to Starve” I spoke with Tom Dannenbaum (@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social) about the renewed blockade of Gaza, starvation as a method of warfare, and the coercive nature of deprivation in Gaza. Read the full interview here: verfassungsblog.de/those-with-t...
- Großkanzleien als Werkzeuge des autoritären Umbaus -- nicht wenige dieser Kanzleien sind auch in Deutschland tätig, werben in Ausbildungszeitschriften und an Universitäten. It's time to call them out.
- "The French justice system chose courage over surrender. The law was clear, and so was the court in its sentencing: no special treatment for Marine Le Pen, no deference to the powerful, no using a candidacy for office as an excuse to break the law with impunity." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- "The seeds of our ongoing disintegration long precede Trump’s rise to power. They were planted decades ago by strategic politicians who dressed rightwing ideologies in conservative garments" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- „What do these events have in common? They reflect a multipronged attack, heedless of academic or press freedoms and the rule of law, against institutions of knowledge and of law.“ From this week‘s @verfassungsblog.de editorial by the brillant Vicki C. Jackson: verfassungsblog.de/education-de...
- "Russia has made it essentially transparent that the way they understand any ceasefire or any paper agreement is: we want the Ukrainian army to demobilize (...) so we can invade again". @timothysnyder.bsky.social youtu.be/Vea2fTYYypM?...
- Wer nur Zeit für einen Text zur Debatte rund um Sondervermögen und Schuldenbremse hat: Dieser Text von @meinel.bsky.social über den Versuch, den alten bundesrepublikanischen Industriekapitalismus zu konstitutionalisieren und die Schuldenbremse als gespenstisches Verfassungsrecht ist augenöffnend.
- this is a brilliant explainer of what’s currently happening in the US
- "Wartime elections are neither a legal obligation nor a democratic necessity when they cannot be free, fair, or secure. Historical precedents confirm that elections are only feasible when security conditions allow, which is not the case in Ukraine’s current war." verfassungsblog.de/ukraines-con...
- „Even Orbán might be taken aback – and somewhat envious – of the alacrity that Trump has shown since returning to power, attacking the foundations of democracy not with a chisel but a sledgehammer.“ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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- see also this scary piece www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...
- "Wer internationale Rechtspflichten ignoriert, wird auch nicht davor zurückschrecken, innerstaatliches Verfassungsrecht zu demontieren. Wer Völker- und Europarecht nicht achtet, dem wird früher oder später auch das Verfassungsrecht kein Maßstab mehr sein."
- „Jede Form der Zusammenarbeit führt zu einer stärkeren Normalisierung radikal rechter Parteien. Politikwissenschaftliche Forschung zeigt, dass wenn etablierte Parteien legitimierend mit radikal rechten Parteien umgehen, dann auch Bürger:innen diese Parteien als legitimer wahrnehmen.“
- Nun ist es passiert: Union und FDP haben billigend in Kauf genommen, mit der AfD Mehrheiten zu bilden. TARIK ABOU-CHADI (@tabouchadi.bsky.social) erinnert daran, wie viele Beispiele beweisen, dass solche Prozesse radikal rechte Parteien normalisieren. verfassungsblog.de/aus-dem-abse...
- „The UNFCCC Secretariat, thus, would be well advised to include on the agenda of the next COPs an item calling on states to recognise that the net zero target of 2050 requires not only transitioning away from fossil fuels but also overconsumption of meat (…)“ www.ejiltalk.org/the-other-tr...
- "Amnesty chose to hold itself to the highest standard of proof known to public international law. This choice likely reflects Amnesty’s confidence in its evidence and legal analysis, as well as its understanding of the gravity of its accusation."
- I had the pleasure of speaking with @mwgehring.bsky.social, @tejasrao.bsky.social & Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger about the climate hearings at the ICJ 🌐🌱 If you're looking for an in-depth explainer of what's at stake, you can find the interview here (open access) verfassungsblog.de/the-advisory...
- This is excellent - and particularly important for a German audience when it comes to the question of who is contributing to international law's crisis ⬇️
- Interesting! The #ICJ met today with members of the @ipcc.bsky.social to discuss key scientific findings before it is holding hearings next week on the #climatechange #advisoryopinion: www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul... #icjao
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View full threadFrom how I read the Rules of the Court, this is not envisaged and unprecedented.
- There is also an interesting thread from Mike Becker on this (cc @antjewiener.bsky.social) bsky.app/profile/mike...
- "We see European legal history in the making." My fantastic colleague Jakob interviewed @jmorijn.bsky.social and @dimitrispieker.bsky.social about the Commission v Hungary hearing. Do give it a read - I learnt a lot from John's and Dimitri's observations 📝 verfassungsblog.de/the-silent-m...
- Another excellent analysis of the Hague Court of Appeal’s Milieudefensie et al. v. Shell decision, by Jolene Lin: cil.nus.edu.sg/blogs/milieu...
- Why Gaza is (again) on the brink of famine -- crucial and devastating analysis here by @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social on the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and the war crime of starvation: www.justsecurity.org/104867/gaza-... @justsecurity.org
- "Aus alledem ergibt sich das Bild einer Parteiführung, die akribisch den Bruch der Regierung vorbereitet, während sie öffentlich beteuert, für deren Erfolg zu arbeiten." Was für eine grandiose Recherche: www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
- "Whichever post you look at, you have to scroll past two dozen blue tick Nazis shouting about race hygiene before you get to the normal contributors. That's not a usable model. No-one's got the time for that shit. No-one's got the emotional space for it." iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...
