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Sué González Hauck
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Legal scholar interested in (critiques of) international and European law | Co-editor of first open IL textbook https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003451327/public-international-law-su%C3%A9-gonz%C3%A1lez-hauck-raffaela-kunz-max-milas
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What a pleasure to have @juanauz.bsky.social with us at HSU Hamburg to discuss the IACtHR advisory opinion as it connects to the lives, material realities, and fights of social movements in LatAm, especially of indigenous communities. Thank you so much for the brilliant and thought-provoking talk!
Juan Auz standing next to a slide reading "La OC/33-25: A Socio-Legal Travel of the 'Environment '" A slide showing illegal mining sites in the Amazon region and summarising points on mobilisation of the 'environment' on a neo-extractivist authoritarian planet
October 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Had the pleasure of listening to Ka Lok Yip from Hamad bin Khalifa University and discussing all things existentialism and IHL with her.

What a fantastic start to the new Law in Context Lecture Series at HSU Hamburg, organized by @jtheilen.bsky.social, Sigrid Boysen, and me
A person standing at a desk in front of a slide reading "an existential conception of combatant authenticity in the battlefield"
July 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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My essay on the Hague Academy's centenary is available at EJIL. It's about order in and through law - from the invention of a 'Grotian' international order to the 'rules-based international order' and the hypocrisies that come with it

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The common theme across all sections is the relationship between invoking ‘order’ in and through law and colonial and imperial projects. Since international law’s inception, it has been used to pursue such colonial and imperial projects while hiding these ambitions behind the veil of the purported rationality and objectivity that the ideas of system and order convey. I explore this theme by examining how the Hague Academy has served as a site where notions of order are constructed, legitimized and disseminated. The section on the Hague Academy’s relationship to the invented tradition of a Grotian international legal order looks at the historical context at the time the Hague Academy was founded and at the broader aim pursued by the ‘peace through law’ movement. The section on the transition between the colonial and post-colonial era highlights the political economy of the Hague Academy as a site of knowledge production by focusing on who funded the Hague Academy under which conditions in the 1950s and 1960s. The section on the so-called fragmentation of international law focuses on the core of this knowledge production, the general courses. Finally, the last section, which focuses on the dissemination of ideas of legal order by high-ranking politicians, highlights the continuities between colonial and imperial invocations of the past and present portrayals of the ‘rules-based international order’.
March 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Must-read for anyone considering attending ESIL this year at FU Berlin👇

"International Law is being dismantled before our eyes, [...] Let us put aside, for a moment, the unfinished writings and applications and make sure that Francesca Albanese is allowed to speak in Germany!"
Screenshot with text: "When pressure mounted and Berlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner, intervened, the president of Freie University caved in. President Ziegler cancelled the in-person event and justified this decision with the “present polarization and unpredictable security situation.” Upholding academic freedom only in words, not deeds, he offered the organizers could hold an online event. Where is our outcry? Some of you have expressed regret about the violation of academic freedom that this incident entails. I thank you for that. Yet, I also have some questions. Why do you feel the need for public caveats, or for critique of the title and concept of the event with Francesca Albanese and Eyal Weizman “Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy. Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide” organized by four colleagues – not from international law but from FU’s faculty of philosophy? You “would have preferred a conception of the event which would not have anticipated the outcome of a debate in the title.” I understand that you might have done things differently; but is a statement so urgently needed to defend academic freedom really the right place for quarrels with colleagues about the design of an academic event?" "The mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967 is to “investigate Israel’s violations of the principles and bases of international law, international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967”. This has been the case since the position was created in 1993. Francesca Albanese, in her work, has come to the conclusion that Israel commits genocide against the Palestinians. As international lawyers, we should welcome her to explain her findings. We should listen to her. Then we can ask questions and have a conversation. But we should not try to achieve some “fair balance” by inviting also “the other side.” Do we really want to turn our university debates into yet another mediocre talk show format?" "I would like to invite you to watch the conversation with Albanese that the LMU’s Decolonial Practices Group was not allowed to hold at LMU and therefore livestreamed and recorded from another venue. Throughout the conversation, she reminded listeners of Germans’ and Europeans’ responsibility for the Holocaust and other genocides. This responsibility is what motivates and drives her work. She also reminded her audience of the fact that extermination of Jewish life in Germany was not limited to concentration camps and that Jews, even after the war, continued to face severe discrimination and antisemitism in Germany, but also other parts of Europe and the United States (I highly recommend The Brutalist on that latter point). She clearly denounces all violence against civilians. Seldom have I listened to an international lawyer talking with such intelligence and wit, with such ability to explain complex matters in an accessible way, with nuanced judgment, introspection, a willingness to learn and listen, fearlessness and dedication to justice – not just for Palestinians but for all who are victims of oppression."
February 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM