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Publications

For a detailed project outline see:
Krieger, Heike & Nolte, Georg "The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline? - Points of Departure"

Monographs and Edited Volumes

2023

Duroy, Sophie, The Regulation of Intelligence Activities under International Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023)

Krieger, Heike and Liese, Andrea (eds.), Tracing Value Change in the International Legal Order – Perspectives from Legal and Political Science (Oxford University Press 2023)

Zimmermann, Andreas, The 1951 Refugee Convention after 70 years: Current Challenges and Possible Future Developments, Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de Droit International de la Haye (2023/2024 forthcoming)

Zimmermann, Andreas / Einarsen, T., The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 New York Protocol – A Commentary (2nd edn, Oxford University Press 2023 forthcoming)

2022

Reiners, Nina, Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights (CUP 2022)

2021

Baade, Björnstjern/Burchardt, Dana/Feihle, Prisca/Köppen, Alicia/Mührel, Linus/Riemer, Lena/Schäfer, Raphael, Cynical International Law? Abuse and Circumvention in Public International and European Law (Springer 2021)

2020

Jorgensen, Malcolm, American Foreign Policy & The International Rule of Law: Contesting Power Through the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press 2020)

2019

Dugard, John/Du Plessis, Max/Maluwa, Tiyanjana/Tladi, Dire, Dugard’s International Law. A South African Perspective (5th edn, Juta 2019)

Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? – Approaching Current Foundational Challenges (Oxford University Press 2019)

O'Connell, Mary Ellen/Tams, Christian J./Tladi, Dire, Self-defence against non-state actors, Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War, Vol. 1 (Cambridge University Press 2019)

Stephen, Matthew D./Zürn, Michael (eds), Contested World Orders: Rising Powers, Non-governmental Organizations and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation State (Oxford University Press 2019)

Werle, Gerhard/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Criminal Court in Turbulent Times (TMC Asser Press 2019)

2018

Benvenisti, Eyal/Nolte, Georg (eds), Community Interests Across International Law (Oxford University Press 2018)

Diggelmann, Oliver, Völkerrecht. Geschichte und Grundlagen (Hier und Jetzt 2018)

Gunnarsson, Logi/Weiß, Norman/Zimmermann, Andreas, Akzeptanz und Wirksamkeit von Menschenrechtsverträgen – Eine Bilanz nach 50 Jahren Menschenrechtspakte (Nomos 2018)

Nolte, Georg, Treaties and their Practice – Symptoms of their Rise or Decline (Brill Nijhoff 2018); also published in (2018) 392 Recueil des Cours de l'Academie de Droit International de la Haye: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 205-397

2017

d’Aspremont, Jean, International Law as a Belief System (Cambridge University Press 2017)

Geiß, Robin/Zimmermann, Andreas/Haumer, Stefanie (eds), Humanizing the Laws of War – The Red Cross and the Development of International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press 2017)

Articles and Book Chapters

2023

Berger, Julien, Die institutionelle Gefährdetheit des BVerfG (forthcoming) Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt

Burchardt, Dana, Does Digitalisation Change International Law Structurally? (2023) 24 German Law Journal 438-460

Burchardt, Dana, Transnationale Verfahrensgarantien – Die Entscheidung des BVerfG v. 22. 11. 2022 – 2 BvR 2480/10 u. a. (Europäisches Patentamt) im Kontext (2023) JuristenZeitung 451-458

Buser, Andreas, Der Menschenrechtsausschuss der Vereinten Nationen und die Klimakrise – Die Entscheidung Billy et al. gegen Australien und ihr Beitrag zur „Begrünung“ des Menschenrechtsschutzes (2023) Menschenrechtsmagazin 74-84

Buser, Andreas, National Climate Litigation and the International Rule of Law (2023) Leiden Journal of International Law 1-23

Duroy, Sophie, Case C-817/19 Ligue des droits humains v. Council of Ministers (C.J.E.U.) (2023) International Legal Materials

Duroy, Sophie, The cost of our fear: Black sites and the erosion of our values, in: M. Straub (Ed), 9/11, Menschenwürde und die liberalen Grundwerte - 9/11, 20 Jahre später: eine verfassungsrechtliche Spurensuche (2023) 43-54

Duroy, Sophie/Khasanova, Liliya, Cyber Espionage and Human Rights: A Disappointing Balance, The Challenges of Global Cybersecurity, in: A. Segura Serrano (Ed.), The Challenge of Global Cybersecurity (Routledge 2023 forthcoming)

Gulati, Rishi, Meta’s Oversight Board and Transnational Hybrid Adjudication—What Consequences for International Law? (2023) German Law Journal 473-493

Khasanova, Liliya / Tai, K., An Authoritarian Approach to Digital Sovereignty: Russian and Chinese Data Localisation Models (2023 forthcoming) Journal of Cyber Policy

Khasanova, Liliya, Conceptual Discrepancies in Western and Russian Approaches to Cyber [Information] Space (2023 forthcoming) ESIL Paper Series and Baltic Yearbook of International Law

Krieger, Heike/Liese, Andrea, Introduction: Value Change in the International Legal Order, in: H. Krieger/A. Liese (eds.), Tracing Value Change in the International Legal Order – Perspectives from Legal and Political Science (Oxford University Press 2023)

Krieger, Heike/Liese, Andrea, Turbulence, Robustness, and Value Change, in: H. Krieger/A. Liese (eds.), Tracing Value Change in the International Legal Order – Perspectives from Legal and Political Science (Oxford University Press 2023)

Reiners, Nina/Lesch, Max, Informal Human Rights Lawmaking: How Treaty Bodies Use General Comments to Develop International Law (2023) Global Constitutionalism

Sandven, Hallvard, Institutional conservatism and the right to exclude (2023) 24 Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 409–433.

Ullmann, Andreas J./von Staden, Andreas, A Room Full of ‘Views’: Introducing a New Dataset to Explore Compliance with the Decisions of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies’ Individual Complaints Procedures (2023) Journal of Conflict Resolution

Willmer, Lukas, Does Digitalization Reshape the Principle of Non-Intervention? (2023) German Law Journal 508-521

Wuerth, Ingrid, Central Bank Immunity, Sanctions, and Sovereign Wealth Funds (2023 forthcoming) George Washington Law Review

Zimmermann, Andreas, Art. 27, in: B. Simma/D. Khan/G. Nolte/A. Paulus, The Charter of the United Nations – A Commentary (4th edn, Oxford University Press 2023 forthcoming)

Zimmermann, Andreas/Berdefy, C., Internationale Gerichtsbarkeit im Kontext des Krieges gegen die Ukraine (2023) EuGRZ 40

Zimmermann, Andreas/Grohmann, N., Silence of States in the Framework of Human Rights Treaties: the example of the ICCPR, in: D. Azaria (Ed.), Silence in International Law (2023 forthcoming)

Zimmermann, Andreas/Herrmann, F., Art. 1 A (2), in: A. Zimmermann/ T. Einarsen (eds.), Commentary on the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 New York Protocol, (2nd edn, Oxford University Press 2023 forthcoming)

Zimmermann, Andreas/Schabedoth, J., Domestic and international criminal justice: challenges ahead, in: C. Meloni/F. Jeßberger/M. Crippa (eds.), Domesticating International Criminal Justice (Routledge 2023)

2022

Burchardt, Dana, The Concept of Legal Space - A Topological Approach For Addressing Multiple Legalities (2022) 11 Global Constitutionalism 518- 547

Buser, Andreas, Of Carbon Budgets, Factual Uncertainties, and Intergenerational Equity - The German Constitutional Court's Climate Decision (2022) German Law Journal 1409-1422

Krieger, Heike, Verteidigung in Zeiten des geopolitischen Wandels (2022) 77 JuristenZeitung 1013-1021

Krieger, Heike, Review Essay: Of Zombies, Witches and Wizards – Tales of Sovereignty, (2022) 33 European Journal of International Law 275-296

Krieger, Heike, Scholarly Activism on the Rise? German Human Rights Discourses after the End of the Cold War, in: J. Eckel/D. Stahl (eds.), Embattled Visions – Human Rights since 1990 (Wallstein 2022) 253-279

Reiners, Nina/Deloffre, Maryam Z./ Hofferberth, Matthias/Holzscheiter, Anna/ Koch, Martin/ Lambach, Daniel/Ronit, Kasten, Forum The Why and How of Global Governors: Relational Agency in World Politics (2022) 24 International Studies Review

Sandven, Hallvard, The practice and legitimacy of border control (2022) American Journal of Political Science 1-13

Sandven, Hallvard/Scherz, Antoinette, Rescue missions in the Mediterranean and the legitimacy of the EU’s border regime (2022) 28 Res Publica 673–692

Ullmann, Andreas J./ von Staden/ Andreas, ‘Seeking overlap and redundancy in human rights protection: reputation, consistency and the acceptance of the UN human rights treaties’ individual communications procedures (2022) 26 International Journal of Human Rights 1476-1502.

Wuerth, Ingrid/Hakimi, Monica, Russia, Ukraine, and the Future World Order (2022) 116 American Journal of International Law

Zimmermann, Andreas, Internationaler Strafgerichtshof am Scheideweg (2022) 77 JuristenZeitung 261-266

Zimmermann, Andreas, The International Criminal Court‘s Decision on Jurisdiction Concerning Palestine and the Future of the ICC, in: F. Jeßberger et al. (eds.), Strafrecht und Systemunrecht - Festschrift für Gerhard Werle (Mohr Siebeck 2022) 451

2021

Berger, Julien, The End of Intra-EU Investor-State Arbitration (2021) 64 German Yearbook of International law 285-317

Burchardt, Dana, "Digital sovereignty" and Multilevel Constitutionalism: Whose Standards for the Right to Be Forgotten?, in: Federico Fabbrini, Edoardo Celeste and John Quinn (eds), Data Protection Beyond Borders - Transatlantic Perspectives on Extraterritoriality and Sovereignty, Hart (2021), 63-79

Koagne Zouapet, Apollin/Makane Moïse Mbengue, Ending the splendid isolation. Jus cogens and international economic law, in Dire Tladi (ed), jus cogens (Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens): Disquisitions and Disputations), forthcoming

Koagne Zouapet, Apollin, Too hard-won to be wasted…Sovereignty, immunities and values: a (Sub-saharan) African perspectives, in: Regis Bismuth et al. (eds), Sovereign immunity under pressure: norms, values and interests, New York, 2021, forthcoming

Krieger, Heike/Püschmann, Jonas, Securing of Resources as a Valid Reason for Using Force? – A Pre-emptive Defence of the Prohibition on the Use of Force, in: M. Fremuth/J. Griebel/R. Heinsch (eds.), Natural Resources and International Law – Developments and Challenges, Baden-Baden (Nomos), 2021, 27-56

Krieger, Heike, Cynicism as an Analytical Lense for International Law? in: B. Baade/D. Burchardt et al. (eds.), Cynical International Law? Abuse and Circumvention in Public International and European Law, Heidelberg, Berlin (Springer), 2021, 347-361

Krieger, Heike, Sentenza 238/2014: A Good Case for Law-Reform? in: V. Volpe/A. Peters/S. Battini (eds.), Remedies against Immunities? - Reconciling International and Domestic Law after the Italian Constitutional Court’s Sentenza 238/201 (Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer 2021) 71-89

Reiners, Nina, Despite or Because of Contestation? How Water became a Human Right (2021) 43(2) Human Rights Quarterly 329-343

Rodiles, Alejandro, The International Law Commission and Change: Not Tracing but Facing It, in: The United Nations (ed), Seventy Years of the International Law Commission – Drawing a Balance for the Future (Brill Nijhoff 2021), available here

Rodiles, Alejandro, ‘The Global South and the Law and Governance of Global Security: Towards a Scholarship on the Global Ecology of Insecurities’, in: Robin Geiss and Nils Melzer (eds), The Oxford Handbook on the International Law of Global Security (OUP 2021)

Rodiles, Alejandro, International Humanitarian Law-Making in Latin America: Between the International Community, Humanity, and Extreme Violence, in: Heike Krieger (ed), Law-Making and Legitimacy in International Humanitarian Law (Edward Elgar, forthcoming)

Zimmermann, Andreas /Herrmann, Franziska, 70 Jahre Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention: Versuch einer Bilanz (2021) 6 Informationsbrief Ausländerrecht 221-264

Zimmermann, Andreas, Would the World Be a Better Place If One Were to Adopt a European Approach to State Immunity? Or, ‘Soll am Europäischen Wesen die Staatenimmunität Genesen’?, in: V. Volpe/A. Peters/S. Battini (eds.), Remedies against Immunities? - Reconciling International and Domestic Law after the Italian Constitutional Court’s Sentenza 238/201 (Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer 2021), 219-233

2020

Burchardt, Dana, Backlash against the Court of Justice of the EU? The Recent Jurisprudence of the German Constitutional Court on EU Fundamental Rights as a Standard of Review (2020) 21 German Law Journal 1–18

Buser, Andreas, Recalibrating Policy Space in Bilateral Investment Treaties: Is There a Common BRICS Approach?, in: Cai, Congyan/Chen, Huiping (eds), The BRICS in the New International Legal Order on Investment: Reformers or Disruptors (BRILL 2020) 163-203

Hurrell, Andrew, Cultural Diversity within Global International Society, in: Phillips, Andrew/Reus-Smit, Chris (eds), Cultural Diversity and International Order (Cambridge University Press 2020) 115-136

Kulaga, Julian, A Renaissance of the Doctrine of Rebus Sic Stantibus? (2020) 69(2) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 477-97, available here

Reiners, Nina, Opposites Attract? The World Bank and the United Nations Human Rights Bodies, in: Thomas Hickmann and Markus Lederer (eds), Augenmaß und Leidenschaft. Festschrift für Harald Fuhr (Nomos 2020) 99-109

Rodiles, Alejandro, What Kind of Rule Law Should Elected Members Promote?, in: Nico Schrijver and Niels Blokker (eds), Elected Members of the Security Council: Lame Ducks or Key Players? (Brill Nijhoff 2020) 183-196

Schmalenbach, Kirsten, Defending Democracy and the Rule of law in the Era of Post-Enlargement (2020) 45 Review of Central and East European Law 409-431

2019

d’Argent, Pierre/Lesaffre, Pauline, Immunities and Jus Cogens, in: Angelet, Nicolas/Ferro, Luca/Ruys, Tom (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Immunities and International Law (Cambridge University Press 2019) 614-633

Brunnée, Jutta, The Rule of International (Environmental) Law and Complex Problems, in: Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? – Approaching Current Foundational Challenges (Oxford University Press 2019) 211-231

Brunnée, Jutta, Multilateralism in Crisis (2019) 112 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting 335-339

Brunnée, Jutta/Toope, Stephen, Norm Robustness and Contestation in International Law: Self-defense against Non-state Actors (2019) 4 Journal of Global Security Studies 73-87

Burchardt, Dana, The Functions of Law and Their Challenges: The Differentiated Functionality of International Law (2019) 20 German Law Journal 409-429; also published in KFG Working Paper Series No. 17, Berlin Potsdam Research Group ‘The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?’, June 2017

Burchardt, Dana, The Relationship between Legality and Legitimacy: A Double-Edged Sword – A Comment on Thilo Marauhn, in: Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? – Approaching Current Foundational Challenges (Oxford University Press 2019) 302-310

Desierto, Diane, Shifting Sands in the International Economic System: ‘Arbitrage’ (2018) 49 International Economic Law and International Human Rights, Georgetown Journal of International Law 1019-1115

Hurrell, Andrew, International Law within a Global International Society: Comment on Felix Lange, in: Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? – Approaching Current Foundational Challenges (Oxford University Press 2019) 90-101

Jachtenfuchs, Markus, Is There a Compliance Trilemma in International Law? Comment on Jeffrey L. Dunoff, in: Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? – Approaching Current Foundational Challenges (Oxford University Press 2019) 204-210

Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg, The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? Points of Departure, in: Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? – Approaching Current Foundational Challenges (Oxford University Press 2019) 3-30

Krieger, Heike, Populist Governments and International Law (2019) 30 European Journal of International Law 971-996

Kulaga, Julian, The Legitimacy of Rules of Customary International Law and the Right to Justification (2019) 79 Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (ZaöRV)/Heidelberg Journal of International Law (HJIL) 785-813

Lange, Felix, Coercion, Internalization, Decolonization – A Contextual Reading of the Rise of European International Law Since the 17th Century, in: Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? – Approaching Current Foundational Challenges (Oxford University Press 2019) 66-89

Liese, Andrea/Reiners, Nina, The Eye of the Beholder? The Contestation of Values and International Law, in: Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? – Approaching Current Foundational Challenges (Oxford University Press 2019) 335-343

Maluwa, Tiyanjana, The Contestation of Value-Based Norms: Confirmation or Erosion of International Law?, in: Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? – Approaching Current Foundational Challenges (Oxford University Press 2019) 311-334

McLachlan, Campbell, Five conceptions of the function of foreign relations law, in: Bradley, Curtis (ed), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Foreign Relations Law (Oxford University Press 2019) 21-44

Müller, Harald/Tokhi, Alexandros, The Contestation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, in: Stephen, Matthew D./Zürn, Michael (eds), Contested World Orders: Rising Powers, Non-State Actors and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-state (Oxford University Press 2019) 202-242

Nolte, Georg, Gerechtigkeit und die Achtung vor den Verpflichtungen des Völkerrechts – Globalisierungskrisen als Herausforderung für politische Philosophie und Völkerrecht, in: Bratu, Christiane/von Daniels, Detlef/Nida-Rümelin, Julian (eds), Internationale Gerechtigkeit und demokratische Legitimation, 10 Deutsches Jahrbuch Philosophie (Felix Meiner Verlag 2019) 113-131; short version published as ‘Ist die Welt gerecht?’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 24 May 2018, 7

Nolte, Georg, How to Identify Customary International Law? – On the Outcome of the Work of the International Law Commission (2019) 62 Japanese Yearbook of International Law 251-273

Nolte, Georg, International Organizations in the Recent Work of the International Law Commission (2019) 2 AIIB Yearbook of International Law 225-242

Palchetti, Paolo, The Last Decades of Italian doctrine, in: Bartolini, Giulio (ed), A History of International Law in Italy (Oxford University Press 2019) 468-482

Rajput, Aniruddha, BRICS as ‘Rising Powers’ and the Future of International Law, in: Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? – Approaching Current Foundational Challenges (Oxford University Press 2019) 105-124

Tams, Christian J., The International Community, in: d'Aspremont, Jean/Singh, Sahib (eds), Concepts for International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought (Edward Elgar 2019) 505-523

Tams, Christian J., The Role of Treaties in pursuing the Objectives of the UN Charter: the Text and the Practice, in: Chesterman, Simon/Malone, David M./Villalpando, Santiago (eds), Oxford Handbook on United Nations Treaties (Oxford University Press 2019) 69-86

Tokhi, Alexandros, The Contestation of the IMF, in: Stephen, Matthew D./Zürn, Michael (eds), Contested World Orders: Rising Powers, Non-State Actors and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-state (Oxford University Press 2019) 82-123

Zimmermann, Andreas/Weiss, Norman, International Law in Times of Anti-Globalism and Populism – Challenges Ahead, in: Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? – Approaching Current Foundational Challenges (Oxford University Press 2019) 265-173

Živković, Velimir, Fair and Equitable Treatment between International and National Rule of Law (2019) 20 Journal of World Investment and Trade 513-552

Živković, Velimir, Pursuing and Reimagining the International Rule of Law through International Investment Law (2019) 11 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, available here

Zürn, Michael, Liberal or not? A Commentary on Jean d'Aspremont: Do Non-State Actors Strengthen or Weaken International Law? The Story of a Liberal Symbiosis, in: Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Georg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? – Approaching Current Foundational Challenges (Oxford University Press 2019) 144-149

2018

Brunnée, Jutta, Völkerrechtskritik: Gestern und Heute (Critiques of International Law: Then and Now), in: Dethloff, Nina/Nolte, Georg/Reinisch, August (eds), Rückblick nach 100 Jahren und Ausblick – Migrationsbewegungen, 49 Berichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht (49 Proceedings of the German Society of International Law) (C. F. Müller Verlag 2018) 167-195

Brunnée, Jutta/Toope, Stephen J., Self-Defence against Non-State Actors: Are Powerful States Willing but Unable to Change the Law? (2018) 67 International & Comparative Law Quarterly 263-286

Brunnée, Jutta, Community Obligations in International Environmental Law: Procedural Aspects, in: Benvenisti, Eyal/Nolte, Georg (eds), Community Interests Across International Law (Oxford University Press 2018) 151-175

Burchardt, Dana, The Twilight of Legal Order? On the Current Challenges Faced by the Concept of a Legal System (2018) Transnational Legal Theory 110-146

Burchardt, Dana/Gulati, Rishi, International Counter-Terrorism Regulation and Citizenship Stripping Laws (2018) 23 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 203-228

Cai, Congyan, The Leaving and Return of States and the Future of International Law (2018) 4 International Law Journal 3-15 (in Chinese)

Cai, Congyan, The Rise of China, Foreign Relations Law, and the Re-construction of Functions of Chinese Courts (2018) 71 Wuhan University Journal 130-143 (in Chinese)

Diggelmann, Oliver, The Internationalists as a Grand Narrative. Key Elements and Dilemmata (2018) 7 Global Constitutionalism 297-314

Genschel, Philipp/Jachtenfuchs, Markus, From Market Integration to Core State Powers. The Eurozone Crisis, the Refugee Crisis and Integration Theory (2018) 56 Journal of Common Market Studies 178-196

Hurrell, Andrew, Beyond the BRICS: Power, Pluralism, and the Future of Global Order (2018) 32 Ethics and International Affairs 1

Kahombo, Balingene, The African Attitude Towards the International Criminal Court: From States’ Euphoria to Regional Justice Counter-Initiative, in: Mingashang, Yvon (ed), La Responsabilité du Juriste Face aux Manifestations de la Crise Dans la Société Contemporaine – Hommage au Professeur Auguste Mampuya (Bruylant 2018) 413-463

Kahombo, Balingene, Towards Coordination of the Global System of International Criminal Justice with the Criminal Court of the African Union, in: Van Der Merwe, Beitel/Kemp, Gerhard (eds), International Criminal Justice in Africa, 2017 (Strathmore University Press/Konrad Adenauer Stiftung 2018) 1-32

Krieger, Heike, Rights and Duties of Third Parties in Armed Conflict, in: Benvenisti, Eyal/Nolte, Georg (eds), Community Obligations across International Law (Oxford University Press 2018) 448-467

Lange, Felix, The Multifaceted Emergence of the Ius Cogens-Doctrine – A Multicausal Historical Account (2018) 31 Leiden Journal of International Law 821-839

McLachlan, Campbell, Foreword: The Dynamic Evolution of International Law – Rise or Decline? (2018) 49 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 419-427

Nolte, Georg, The International Law Commission and Community Interests, in: Benvenisti, Eyal/Nolte, Georg (eds), Community Interests across International Law (Oxford University Press 2018) 101-120

Nolte, Georg, Recht in Kriegen – Herfried Münkler als Herausforderung, in: Kaube, Jürgen/Münkler, Herfried/Schäuble, Wolfgang et al. (eds), Staatserzählungen – Die Deutschen und ihre politische Ordnung (Rowohlt Berlin Verlag 2018) 110-126

Nolte, Georg, The International Law Commission and Community Interests, in: Benvenisti, Eyal/Nolte, Georg (eds), Community Interests Across International Law (Oxford University Press 2018) 101-117; also published in KFG Working Paper Series No. 7, Berlin Potsdam Research Group ‘The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?’, March 2017

Palchetti, Paolo, Outlawry but with Teeth: The Problem of Enforcing Peace through International Institutions (2018) 7 Global Constitutionalism 358-367

Palchetti, Paolo, Unique, Special, or Simply a Primus Inter Pares? The European Union in International Law (2018) 29 European Journal of International Law 1409-1426

Rajput, Aniruddha, Bay of Bengal Maritime Delimitation cases: Upholding the Rule of Law in International Relations (2018) Maritime Affairs: Journal of National Maritime Foundation 1-12

Stephen, Matthew D., Legitimacy in Time: Institutional Design, Legitimacy Drift and Decoupling at the UN Security Council (2018) 31 Cambridge Review of International Affairs 96-121, available here

Ulfstein, Geir/Zimmermann, Andreas, Certiorari through the Back Door? The Judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in Burmych and Others v. Ukraine in Perspective (2018) 17 The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 289-308; also published in KFG Working Paper Series No. 13, Berlin Potsdam Research Group ‘The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?’, April 2018

Zimmermann, Andreas, A Victory for the International Rule of Law? Or: All's Well that Ends Well?: The 2017 ASP Decision to Amend the Kampala Amendment on the Crime of Aggression (2018) 16 Journal of International Criminal Justice 19-29, available here

Zimmermann, Andreas/Boos, Felix, Bringing States to Justice for Crimes against Humanity: The Compromissory Clause in the International Law Commission Draft Convention on Crimes against Humanity (2018) 16 Journal of International Criminal Justice 835–855

Zürn, Michael, International Courts. Command v. Reflexive Authority, in: Alter, Karen J./ Helfer, Laurence R./Madsen, Mikael Rask (eds), International Court Authority (Oxford University Press 2018) 383-390

2017

Arajärvi, Noora, The Rule of Law in the 2030 Agenda (2017) Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 1–31

Arajärvi, Noora, The Requisite Rigour in the Identification of Customary International Law: A Look at the Reports of the Special Rapporteur of the International Law Commission (2017) 19(1) International Community Law Review 9-46, available here

Arajärvi, Noora, From the ‘Demands of Humanity’: The Formulation of Opinio Juris in Decisions of International Criminal Tribunals and the Need for a Renewed Emphasis on State Practice, in: Lepard, Brian D. (ed), Re-examining Customary International Law (Cambridge University Press 2017) 189-230

Berger, Julien, Intra-EU Investor State Arbitration: The Uncertainty Continues – Unpacking the Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-284/16 (Achmea) (2017) German Arbitration Journal (SchiedsVZ) 282-291

Braun, Harald/Häßler, Conrad, Entre la Spree et l’East River: l’Allemagne au sein des Nations unies, in: Kunz, Barbara/Martens, Stephan/Stark, Hans (eds), L'Allemagne sur la scène internationale (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion 2017) 77-98

Brunnée, Jutta, Chapter 2: Climate Change and International Law, Chapter 3: Treaty-Based Lawmaking: Rules, Tools and Techniques, and Chapter 9: Interactions between International Climate Change Law and other Areas of International Law, in: Bodansky, Daniel/Brunnée, Jutta/Rajamani, Lavanya (eds), International Climate Change Law (OUP 2017) 35-95

Brunnée, Jutta/Rajamani, Lavanya, The Legality of Downgrading Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement: Lessons from the US Disengagement (2017) 29 Journal of Environmental Law 537-551

Busch, Per-Olof/Liese Andrea, The Authority of International Public Administrations, in: Bauer, Michael W./Eckhardt, Steffen/Knill, Christoph (eds), International Bureaucracy. Challenges and Lessons for Public Administration Research (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) 97-122

Cai, Congyan, Enforcing a New National Security? China’s National Security Law and International Law (2017) 10 Journal of East Asia and International Law 65-89

Dunoff, Jeffrey/Pollack, Mark A., Experimenting with International Law? (2017) 28 European Journal of International Law 1317-1340

Hurrell, Andrew, Can the Study of Global Governance be De-Centred?, in: Triandafyllidou, Anna (ed), Global Governance from Regional Perspectives (OUP 2017) 25-44

Kamto, Maurice, The Status of Municipal Law before the World Court in the Light of Recent Cases, in: Maluwa, Tiyanjana/du Plessis, Max/Tladi, Dire (eds), The Pursuit of a Brave New World in International Law: Essays in Honour of John Dugard (Brill 2017) 212-233, available here

Krieger, Heike, The Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations of the Council of Europe, in: Breuer, Marten/Schmahl, Stefanie (eds), The Council of Europe: Its Law and Policies (Oxford University Press 2017) 314-344

Krieger, Heike, The Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations of the Council of Europe, in: Schmahl, Stefanie/Breuer, Marten (eds), The Council of Europe: Its Law and Policies (OUP 2017) 314-344

Lange, Felix, Between Systematization and Expertise for Foreign Policy – The Practice-Oriented Approach in Germany’s International Legal Scholarship (1920-1980) (2017) 28 European Journal of International Law 535-558

Lange, Felix, Art. 59 Abs. 2 S. 1 GG im Lichte von Brexit und IStGH-Austritt – Zur Parlamentarisierung der Kündigung völkerrechtlicher Verträge (2017) 142 Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts 442-470

Nolte, Georg, Treaties and their Practice – Symptoms of their Rise or Decline (2017) 392 Recueil des Cours de l'Academie de Droit International de la Haye: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 205-397

Stephen, Matthew D., Emerging Powers and Emerging Trends in Global Governance (2017) 23 Global Governance 483-502

2016

Hurrell, Andrew, Towards the Global Study of International Relations (2016) 59(2) Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional 1-18

Krieger, Heike, Verfassung im Völkerrecht – Konstitutionelle Elemente jenseits des Staates?, in: 75 Veröffentlichungen der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer (VVDStRL) (de Gruyter 2016) 439-472, available here

Yee, Sienho, A Reply to Sir Michael Wood’s Response to AALCOIEG’s Work and My Report on the ILC Project on Identification of Customary International Law (2016) 15 Chinese JIL 33-40

Yee, Sienho, Article 38 of the ICJ Statute and Applicable Law: Selected Issues in Recent Cases (2016) 7 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 472-498

Zimmermann, Andreas, Finally … Or Would Rather Less Have Been More?: The Recent Amendment on the Deletion of Article 124 of the Rome Statute and the Continued Quest for the Universality of the International Criminal Court (2016) 14 Journal of International Criminal Justice 505-517

2015

Tladi, Dire, The Duty on South Africa to Arrest and Surrender President Al Bashir under South Africa and International Law (2015) 13 Journal of International Criminal Justice 1027-1047

Tladi, Dire, The Proposed Implementing Agreement: Options for Coherence and Consistency in the Establishment of Protected Areas beyond Areas of National Jurisdiction (2015) The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 654-673

Other Publications

2023

Khasanova, Liliya, Multilateral Cyber Negotiations and Gender Mainstreaming: a Complicated Relationship, Women in International Security (WIIS) (April 2023)

2022

Duroy, Sophie, The Cost of our Fear: Black Sites and the Erosion of our Values, Verfassungsblog (8 March 2022)

2021

Duroy, Sophie, Pragmatism and Power at the ICC: US crimes not a priority, EUIdeas (11 October 2021)

Krieger, Heike, Let’s Speak Law! – A Call for a Legally Embedded Multilateralism (2021) 2 Global Trends. Analysis, sef: Development and Peace Foundation, available here

Schuberth, Sophie, The International Law Commission as an interpreter of international law?: An introduction, Völkerrechtsblog, 22.02.2021, available here (with Justine Batura and Sué González Hauck).

Schuberth, Sophie, #1 Das Interventionsverbot: Von Nicaragua bis Belarus, Völkerrechtsblog, 08.01.2021, available here (with Philipp Eschenhagen, Isabel Lischewski and Erik Tuchtfeld).

2020

Jorgensen, Malcolm, The Afghanistan Investigation and the International Legal Order, Lawfare, 06.04.2020, available here.

Krieger, Heike, Sovereignty – An Empty Vessel?; EJIL Talk! (2020), available here.

Krieger, Heike, Populist Governments and International Law: A Rejoinder to Paul Blokker and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy; EJIL Talk! (2020), available here.

2018

Diggelmann, Oliver, Tektonische Verschiebung im Völkerrecht, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (4 September 2018)

Lange, Felix, Fighting the Backlash – The South African High Court on the Suspension of the SADC Tribunal, Verfassungsblog (30 August 2018), available here.

Diggelmann, Oliver, Übersehene Zeitenwende?, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (29 März 2018) (Zeitungsrezension von ‘The Internationalists’)

Tams, Christian J., Decline and Crisis: a Plea for Better Metaphors and Criteria, EJIL: Talk! (7 March 2018), available here.

2017

Blätgen, Simon, Can we detect paradigmatic shifts when we see them?, Völkerrechtsblog (6 December 2017), available here.

d’Aspremont, Jean/Köppen, Alicia, Global Reform vs Regional Emancipation: The Principles on International Investment for Sustainable Development in Africa (2017) 6(2) ESIL Reflection, available here

Working papers

KFG Working Paper Series No. 61
Michael Wood, “Values in the International Community: Jus cogens in light of the International Law Commission’s 2022 Conclusions”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 60
Dana Burchardt, “Does Digitalisation Change International Law Structurally?”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 59
Dana Burchardt, “Looking Behind the Façade of Monism, Dualism and Pluralism”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 58
Huw Llewellyn, “Populism, Globalisation and International Law”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 57
Andreas Zimmermann and John Schabedoth, “Domestic and International Criminal Justice: Challenges Ahead”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 56
Wojciech Burek, “Time to Wake Up: Reservations to the Istanbul Convention and the Role of GREVIO”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 55
Dominik Steiger, “Ex Iniuria Ius Oritur? – Norm Change and Norm Erosion of the Prohibition of Torture”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 54
Isabel Walther, ”The Current Work of the International Law Commission on Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction – Comments on the Procedural Safeguards Provisionally Adopted in 2021”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 53
Rishi Gulati, ”Meta’s Oversight Board and Transnational Hybrid Adjudication – What Consequences for International Law?”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 52
Apollin Koagne Zouapet, “Neither Dr Jekyll, nor Mr Hyde, Just a National Judge… National Courts’ Strategies of Resistance to International Law”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 51
Alejandro Rodiles, “Infrastructural Developmentalism and its Many Types of Global Law – A Comparison between the UN Sustainable Development Goals and China’s Belt & Road Initiative”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 50
Helmut Aust and Alejandro Rodiles, “Cities and Local Governments: International Development from Below?”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 49
Malcolm Jorgensen, “The Jurisprudence of the Rules-Based Order: Germany’s Indo-Pacific Guidelines and the South China Sea Code of Conduct”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 48
Andreas Zimmermann and Nora Jauer, “Possible Indirect Legal Effects under International Law of Non-Legally Binding Instruments”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 47
Johanna Aleria Lorenzo, “A Multilateral Track for Sustainable Development Along the Belt and Road: Aligning Country Ownership with International Rule of Law”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 46
Apollin Koagne Zouapet, “Regional Approaches to International Law (RAIL): Rise or Decline of International Law?”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 45
Campbell McLachlan, “Populism, the Pandemic & Prospects for International Law”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 44
Antje Wiener, “Norm(ative) Change in International Relations: A Conceptual Framework”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 43
Malcolm Jorgensen, “The United States and the International Law of Global Security”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 42
Jelena Bäumler, “The WTO’s Crisis: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 41
Rishi Gulati, “Judicial Independence at International Courts and Tribunals: Lessons Drawn From the Experiences of the International Court of Justice and the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation”

KFG Working Paper Series No. 40
Janina Barkholdt and Nina Reiners, "Pronouncements of Expert Treaty Bodies: From ‘Black Boxes’ to ‘Key Catalysts’ in International Law?"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 39
Hyeran Jo, "Rise and Decline of International Rule of Law: Case of Non-State Armed Actors"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 38
Wayne Sandholtz, "Resurgent Authoritarianism and the International Rule of Law"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 37
Georg Nolte, "How to Identify Customary International Law? – On the Final Outcome of the Work of the International Law Commission (2018)"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 36
Konrad Neugebauer, "Holding Domestic Judges Accountable under International Criminal Law – A Useful Step to Foster the International Rule of Law?"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 35
Wayne Sandholtz, "Human Rights Courts and Global Constitutionalism: Coordination through Judicial Dialogue"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 34
Alain Pellet, "Values and Power Relations – The “Disillusionment” of International Law?"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 33
James Gerard Devaney, "Selecting Investment Arbitrators: Reconciling Party Autonomy and the International Rule of Law"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 32
Julian Kulaga, "A Renaissance of the Doctrine of Rebus Sic Stantibus?"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 31
Heike Krieger and Jonas Püschmann, "Securing of Resources as a Valid Reason for Using Force? – A Pre-Emptive Defence of the Prohibition on the Use of Force"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 30
Campbell McLachlan, "The Double-facing Foreign Relations Function of the Executive and Its Self-enforcing Obligation to Comply with International Law"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 29
Heike Krieger, "Populist Governments and International Law"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 28
Campbell McLachlan, "The Assault on International Adjudication and the Limits of Withdrawal"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 27
Heike Krieger and Andrea Liese, "A Metamorphosis of International Law? Value changes in the international legal order from the perspectives of legal and political science"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 26
Conny Roggeband, "International Women’s Rights: Progress Under Attack?"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 25
Erika de Wet, "Entrenching International Values Through Positive Law: The (Limited) Effect of Peremptory Norms"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 24
Thomas Kleinlein, "Matters of Interpretation: How to Conceptualize and Evaluate Change of Norms and Values in the International Legal Order"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 23
Balingene Kahombo, "The Peace and Security Council of the African Union: Rise or Decline of Collective Security in Africa?"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 22
Sir Franklin Berman, "Authority in International Law"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 21
Malcolm Jorgensen, "Equilibrium & Fragmentation in the International Rule of Law: The Rising Chinese Geolegal Order"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 20
Paolo Palchetti, " International Law and National Perspective in a Time of Globalization: The Persistence of a National Identity in Italian Scholarship of International Law"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 19
Felix Lange, "Challenging the Paris Peace Treaties, State Sovereignty, and Western-Dominated International Law – The Multifaceted Genesis of the Jus Cogens Doctrine"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 18
Björnstjern Baade, "Fake News and International Law"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 17
Dana Burchardt, "The Functions of Law and Their Challenges: The Differentiated Functionality of International Law"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 16
Velimir Zivkovic, "International Rule of Law Through International Investment Law - Strengths, Challenges and Opportunities"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 15
Heike Krieger and Andreas Zimmermann, "Sentenza 238/2014 of the Italian Constitutional Court and the International Rule of Law"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 14
Janina Barkholdt and Julian Kulaga, "Analytical Presentation of the Comments and Observations by States on Draft Article 7, paragraph 1, of the ILC Draft Articles on Immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction, United Nations General Assembly, Sixth Committee, 2017"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 13
Geir Ulfstein and Andreas Zimmermann, "Certiorari Through the Backdoor? - The Judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in Burmych and Others V. Ukraine in Perspective"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 12
Andreas Zimmermann and Felix Boos, "Bringing States to Justice for Crimes against Humanity – The Compromissory Clause in the ILC Draft Convention on Crimes against Humanity"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 11
Harald Braun, "Berlin – New York: A few observations on Germany in the United Nations"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 10
Aniruddha Rajput, "Protection of Foreign Investment in India and International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 9
Noora Arajärvi, "The Rule of Law in the 2030 Agenda"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 8
Felix Lange, "Between Systematization and Expertise for Foreign Policy: The Practice-Oriented Approach in Germany’s International Legal Scholarship (1920–1980)"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 7
Georg Nolte, "The International Law Commission and Community Interests"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 6
Noora Arajärvi, "The Requisite Rigour in the Identification of Customary International Law: A Look at the Reports of the Special Rapporteur of the International Law Commission"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 5
Heike Krieger, "Rights and Obligations of Third Parties in Armed Conflicts"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 4
Andreas Buser, "Colonial Injustices and the Law of State Responsibility: The CARICOM Claim for Reparations"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 3
Angela Kane, "Abrüstungsverträge in der UNO: Chancen und Erwartungen"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 2
Balingene Kahombo, "Africa within the Justice System of the International Criminal Court: the Need for a Reform"

KFG Working Paper Series No. 1
Heike Krieger and Georg Nolte, "The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline? - Points of Departure"