Volume 82 (2022), Edition 1

Human Rights and Majorities The paper is the written version of the 2nd Doehring Lecture given at the Max Planck Institute in October 2021. The author argues that claims of secular truth return to liberal democracy via a judicially supported...

Domestic Courts as Guarantors of International Climate Protection? Insights from the Climate Decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court The international climate protection regime depends on a willingness of states to cooperate that it...

International Investment Protection Made in Germany? On the Genesis and Shape of the First BIT between Germany and Pakistan (1959) The investment protection treaty concluded between Germany and Pakistan in 1959 is generally regarded as a milestone...

In the context of treaty interpretation, new insights from research on language meaning (semantics and pragmatics) offer possibilities for categorising meaning with increased precision. Based on a typology of pragmatic interpretations, the present...

In 2020, COVID-19 emerged and spread rapidly across the globe. Soon thereafter, the World Health Assembly (WHA) proclaimed the immunisation against COVID-19 a Global Public Good in its Resolution WHA 73.1. What the concept of Global Public Good...

Under Art. 92 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), ships sailing the high seas are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of their flag State. Despite being considered a pivotal rule in the international law of the sea,...

After 12 years of the governance of the national-conservative Fidesz in Hungary, from 2020 on, there seemed to be a real chance that the united opposition would win the election in Spring 2022. But even if the current opposition governs, either from...