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

This article explores the potential of Open Educational Resources (OER) as a means to mitigate the prevailing patterns of exclusion in the teaching of public international law. Furthermore, it suggests concrete solutions to overcome some of the...

Open Access, understood as the free accessibility and reusability of academic publications online, is hitting the shores of international law. The aim of this brief introduction is to show how the concept has found its way into international legal...

This article examines the representation of Global South academics in elite international law publications. It first discusses the increasing pressure for Global South legal scholars to publish in a remarkably narrow range of journals and with...

What are the impacts of virtualisation on mothers from the Global South who are international law scholars and practitioners? This article argues that it created both challenges and opportunities. It starts with a general overview of international...

The criminalisation of ecocide as an international crime has been a perennial issue, and some misgivings have been expressed over the idea. It has been contended that criminalising ecocide is antithetical to economic development and that the...

In the Article hereby commented, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann further elaborates on his will-known thesis on the constitutionalisation of UN law and WTO law. Petersmann argues, first, that the EU provides a successful example in the governance of...

The current human disasters – like illegal wars of aggression, violent suppression of human and democratic rights, health pandemics, climate change, ocean pollution, overfishing and other biodiversity losses, non-compliance with United Nations...

This article examines the legal requirements for a listing on the so-called European Union (EU) terror list, an aspect that remains underdeveloped in both legal scholarship and policy debates on counter-terrorism measures. The analysis elucidates...

Annex VI of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (so-called Liability Annex) was adopted in 2005. It establishes the liability of States parties and operators for specific cases of environmental pollution in Antarctica....

The constitutional role of parliament in foreign policy in general and in the further development of international law relevant to Switzerland cannot be reduced to a simple denominator. In the small state of Switzerland, the parliament’s...

This article reviews the prevailing narrative in Switzerland on the relative openness of the Swiss Federal Constitution towards international law. Two aspects of the topic – which are interlinked – are distinguished: entering international legal...

Switzerland is generally considered to be ECHR-friendly. The Convention does play an important role concerning constitutional review in the context of fundamental rights protection. However, challenges to Switzerland’s European Convention on Human...