Watch now -Video shorts on the Special Issue ‘Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations’

We are pleased to share these new short videos highlighting key issues from the German Law Journal Special Issue 21.3 “Border Justice: Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations”

In the inaugural German Law Journal Specials episode, editors Cathryn Costello and Itamar Mann talk to German Law Journal editor Nora Markard about the idea and the challenges behind the Special issue, and where it takes us.

The Special Issue brings together fifteen high-profile experts to examine avenues for accountability for human rights violations in the migration control con...

In the first #GLJShorts, Bașak Çalı, Cathryn Costello, Melanie Fink, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Itamar Mann, Lilian Tsourdi, and Yannis Kalpouzos present some of the main issues tackled in the Special Issue.

GLJ Short: Hard Protection through Soft Courts? Non-Refoulement before the UN Treaty Bodies

The UN treaty bodies are often referred to as "soft courts," because their decisions are neither binding nor enforceable. When interpreting non-refoulement, ...

GLJ Short: Exploring the Potentials of International Criminal Law and the Right to Rescue

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...

GLJ Short: A Topographical Approach to Accountability for Human Rights Violations

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-ey...

GLJ Short: Holding EASO and Frontex Accountable

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 Gr...

For those wanting to know more the full articles are available in open access.