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

The European Court of Human Rights has largely developed its interpretation of human rights in environmental cases addressing actual harm from close-by sources and linear chains of causation. In the KlimaSeniorinnen and Duarte Agostinho cases, the...

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...