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

This article deals with the conditions for prosecuting the Russian President Putin for the crime of aggression. The focus is on the question of whether a regional tribunal under the auspices of the Council of Europe could proceed without regard to...

The decision from 2022, discussed in the article, has led to heated debates. It made and will continue to make abortions very difficult in several US-states. It also goes against a trend in most of the world’s countries to liberalise abortion...

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...