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

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...