Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law

The article studies how German lawyers under the swastika justified the German aggression against Poland in 1939 and questioned the support of the United States for Poland and its Allies. It distinguishes three lines of argument: First, they claimed...

This article examines the advisory proceedings in relation to climate change before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights through the lens of the broader...

From climate change to genocide, front page news is increasingly becoming the business of international courts. These cases are typically brought before the International Court of Justice on the basis of common interests in compliance with...

This article analyses which requirements the international climate protection system of the Paris Agreement sets for climate protection measures in animal agriculture. In line with its character as a framework regulation, the Paris Agreement...

During the 2022 preliminary objections proceedings in the case of Gambia v. Myanmar before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Myanmar argued that the state initiating proceedings – the Gambia – was merely a ‘proxy state’, and that the...

Common spaces and interests are taking central stage in international law. In the context of judicial proceedings concerned with such interests and spaces, reparation raises particularly complex legal issues. For one, the common or shared character...

In reaction to the war against Ukraine, the EU has imposed severe sanctions on Russian business elites on the basis of Art. 215, 2nd para. Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), including the freezing of their property. As the...

The Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (ABBNJ) stands for the new generation of agreements implementing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Among...

The Federal Court of Justice (FCJ) identified an exception to functional immunity for certain war crimes under customary international law in 2021 and extended it to all crimes under international law in 2024. The German legislator codified this...