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

Latin America has shown an increment in litigation before the international Court of Justice (ICJ) in cases related to territorial and maritime delimitation disputes. The ICJ has been their ‘natural’ jurisdiction thanks to broad competence...

This article explores how advanced military technologies and data practices reshape and reassert a particular, Western-centric, narrative of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). Analysing the dissemination of this narrative through popular culture,...

How do international economic adjudicators approach the question of systemic integration? Systemic integration could be a powerful tool in the defragmentation of the international legal order. Yet, it is a complex tool, coalescing between a legal...

For decades, public and private international law scholars have debated whether the customary international law on the jurisdiction of States applies to private law. In this article, I argue that it does. Subsequently, I analyse the content of the...

This paper examines whether (and if so, on what basis) the events taking place in Nagorno-Karabakh after the signature of a trilateral ceasefire agreement in November 2020 would fall within the jurisdiction under the European Convention on Human...

International borders are mechanisms of racialised exclusion and inclusion. Building on my prior work on liberal racial borders, in this essay based on my keynote speech at the AjV-DGIR conference on ‘Jurisdiction – Who speaks international...

The principle of non-refoulement is often described as the cornerstone of refugee law. It prohibits States from expelling people from their territories to States where their life or freedom would be threatened. The principle of non- refoulement is,...

This article examines Germany’s exercise of universal criminal jurisdiction (UCJ) from a hospitality perspective. It derives this perspective from recent theoretical writings, in particular Frédéric Mégret’s work on the role of victim...