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

A Permanent Seat for the European Union in the UN Security Council The article develops constructive standards to implement a permanent seat for the European Union in the UN Security Council in contrast to regular rejections in legal scholarship....

“Human Rights With Chinese Characteristics” – China’s Contribution to the Development of International Human Rights This paper analyses China’s voting behaviour, draft resolutions, and statements regarding human rights issues at the United...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Zealand and Austrian governments both imposed lockdowns in early 2020. This paper compares how these two responses were effected, communicated, and challenged. In both New Zealand and Austria, government...

This article engages with the most recent jurisprudential developments in Poland and discusses them against the backdrop of the doctrinal concept of ‘principled resistance’. It is submitted that the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, alongside with...

This is the age of reform in the world of international investment law. Most particularly through the reform process at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), states are seeking to remake the procedural infrastructure...

The paper starts from the assumption that there is a body of case-law on the German, the European Union (EU) level, and on the international level that is characterised by strategies of judicial avoidance. Courts for various reasons sometimes avoid...