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

Material approaches to international law have emerged as a new way to understand how international law structures our world. One particular object of international law serves as the basis of examination in this paper – the souvenirs that are sold...

This paper explores the international legal dimension of parliamentary visits to places of armed conflict and disputed territories. The analysis takes place against the backdrop of controversial visits by MPs of several states to the occupied...

The article explores the responses by certain States to the introduction and application of the National Security Law in Hong Kong in 2020, on the assumption that it breaches the Sino-British Joint Declaration and fundamental human rights of the...

In recent years, security and defence have emerged as prominent fields of European Union (EU) integration, notably after the Russian aggression against Ukraine. However, the formal role of the European Parliament (EP) has not adapted to this...

In the absence of a universal human rights court, the individual communications before the United Nations (UN) treaty bodies allow for a low-threshold ‘court-like’ and, therefore, indispensable complaint mechanism for individuals. Notably...

Despite its aspirational name, our discipline has slowly come to understand that ‘international’ law is anything but international. Increasingly, new waves of scholarship have dissected the famous image of the ‘invisible college’, revealing...

The display of Prisoners of War on social media has become an everpresent feature of international armed conflicts. Still, the limits of digital exposure have not yet been adequately defined under international law. The article analyses the legal...

Bei extraterritorialem Handeln stellen sich Fragen nach der Geltung grundrechtlicher Schutzpflichten. Wenn Projekte im Rahmen der Entwicklungsarbeit die Verwirklichung sexueller und reproduktiver Gesundheit und Rechte fördern, ist der deutschen...

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...