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

This article outlines the global importance of the failed proposal for a new Chilean constitution. It shows the potential of constitutional processes to deescalate heightened social confrontation as well as the need of consensus building. In...

International law on the use of force has become increasingly contested. Such contestation also happens in the form of technologically-mediated state practices, for example via designing and using drones or weapon systems integrating autonomous or...

The present contribution proposes to analyse the evolution of the meaning of ‘peaceful’ in space law as an example of how international norms can be emptied of their substance without putting their legality into question. By highlighting...

Telling stories is intrinsic to legal practice. Clients, lawyers, and courts constantly tell stories about the facts and the law to make sense of the world around them. Legal narration is thus a familiar feature at the domestic as well as at the...

According to a widely shared perception, international peace and security law is in crisis. Yet it often remains unclear what the constitutive features of this crisis are, how novel it really is, and what its sources, forms, and effects are. In the...

There has been a renewed interest in the debates on the use of force. This resurgence in academic and policy circles can be attributed to the new wave of military interventions after the initial hiatus of the Global War on Terror period. The recent...

The prohibition of threats of force, although included in Article 2 of the United Nations (UN) Charter, among the principles upon which the United Nations is built, often plays a secondary role in the maintenance of international peace and security....