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

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...

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,...

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...

The Corona pandemic as never before shows the advantages of Open Science and Open Access (OA), understood as the unrestricted access to research data, software and publications over the internet. It might accelerate the long-predicted “access...

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...

Finally, there are approved vaccines against COVID-19, but they will be certainly scarce at first. As a result, vaccine nationalism is rampant. However, for considerations of self-interest, solidarity as well as of international law, national...

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...