em. Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Rüdiger Wolfrum

wolfrum@mpil.de

Representative Publications

I. International Law in General

• Solidarity from a Structural Principle to an International Agreement: Progress or Rather Regression?. In: Aus Kiel in die Welt: Kiel's Contribution to International Law, Jost Delbrück, Ursula Heinz, Kerstin Odendahl, Nele Matz-Lück, Andreas von Arnauld (eds.). Duncker Humblot, Berlin 2014, 201-213.
  
• The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public Internation Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, 11.724 p.
  
• General International Law (Principles, Rules and Standards). In: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public Internation Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 344-368.
  
• International Law. In: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public Internation Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 820-836.
  
• Legitimacy in International Law. In: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public Internation Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 808-814.
  
• Sources of International Law. In: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public Internation Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 299-313.
  
• Developments of International Law in Treaty Making. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Bd. 177. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Bd. 177. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2005, 632 p. (editor with V. Röben)
  
• Prosecution of International Crimes by International and National Criminal Courts: Concurring Jurisdiction. In: Studi di Diritto Internazionale in Onore di Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz, Bd. 3. Editoriale scientifica, Napoli 2004, 2199-2209.
  
• Kontrolle der auswärtigen Gewalt. In: Kontrolle der auswärtigen Gewalt - Verwaltung und Verwaltungsrecht zwischen gesellschaftlicher Selbstregulierung und staatlicher Steuerung. Veröffentlichungen der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer, Band 56. De Gruyter, Berlin 1997, 38-66.
  

II. United Nations

• International Administration in Post-Conflict Situations by the United Nations and Other International Actors. In: Max Planck UNYB 9, 649-696 (2005).
  
• United Nations: Law, Policies and Practice. Beck, München, 1995, 1533 p. (with C. Philipp)
  

III. International Dispute Settlement

• Advisory Opinions: Are they a Suitable Alternative for the Settlement of International Disputes?. In: International Dispute Settlement: Room for Innovations?, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Ina Gätzschmann (eds.). Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, 35-67.
  
• International Courts and Tribunals. In: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public Internation Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 552-570.
  
• Interim (Provisional) Measures of Protection. In: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public Internation Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 298-310.
  
• The Settlement of Disputes Before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - A Progressive Development of International Law or Relying on Traditional Mechanisms. In: Japanese Yearbook of International Law. International Law Association of Japan, Tokyo 2008, 140-163.
  

IV. Law of the Sea and Related Issues

• The Freedom of Navigation: Modern Challenges Seen from a Historical Perspective. In: Law of the Sea, From Grotius to the International Tribunal for the Sea - Liber Amicorum Judge Hugo Caminos. Brill Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston 2015, 89-103.
  
• Evolution of the Law of the Sea from an Institutional Perspective. In: German Yearbook of International Law 57/2014, 95-109 (2015).
  
• The contribution of the regulations of the International Seabed Authority to the progressive development of international environmental law. In: Peaceful Order in the World's Oceans. Brill Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston 2014, 241-248.
  
• Fighting Terrorism at Sea: Options and Limitations under International Law. In: Verhandeln für den Frieden. Negotiating for Peace. Liber Amicorum Festschrift zu Ehren von Prof. Tono Eitel. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Band 162. Springer, Berlin u.a. 2003, 649-668.
  
• Intervention in the Proceedings before the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. In: Liber Amicorum Günther Jaenicke. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Band 135. Springer, Berlin u.a. 1998, 427-444.
  
• Law of the Sea at the Crossroads: The Continuing Search for a Universally Accepted Regime. Duncker und Humblot, Berlin, 1991, 542 p.
  
• The Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities. Springer, Berlin u.a., 1991, 205 p.
  
• Die Internationalisierung staatsfreier Räume: Die Entwicklung einer internationalen Verwaltung für Antarktis. Springer, Berlin u.a., 1984, 757 p.
  

V. International Environmental Law

• Ansätze eines allgemeinen Verwaltungsrechts im internationalen Umweltrecht. In: Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht - zur Tragfähigkeit eines Konzepts. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, 665-679.
  
• Ensuring Compliance with Multilateral Environmental Agreements - A Dialogue between Practitioners and Academia. Band 2. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, 2006, 393 p. (with Ulrich Beyerlin, Peter-Tobias Stoll)
  
• Environmental Liability in International Law: Towards a Coherent Conception. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, 2005, 586 p. (with Christine Langenfeld, Petra Minnerop)
  
• International, Regional and National Environmental Law. Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2000, 976 p. (with Fred L. Morrison)
  

VI. International Protection of Human Rights

• The Freedom of Religion: New, or Not so New, Challenges. In: Der Staat im Recht, Festschrift für Eckart Klein zum 70. Geburtstag. Duncker Humblot, Berlin 2013, 1369-1378.
  
• The Prohibition of Discrimination in International Human Rights Treaties. The Development from an Accessory Norm to an Independent One?. In: Mensch und Recht, Festschrift für Eibe Riedel zum 70. Geburtstag. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, 209-219.
  
• Human Dignity and Human Cloning. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, 2004, 319 p. (with S. Vöneky)
  
• Gleichheit und Nichtdiskriminierung im nationalen und internationalen Menschenrechtsschutz. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Band 165. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Band 165. Springer, Berlin u.a., 2003, 299 p.
  
• The Protection of Indigenous Peoples in International Law. In: ZaöRV 59, 369-382 (1999).
  
• The Emergence of "New Minorities" as a Result of Migration. In: Peoples and Minorities in International Law. Nijhoff, Dordrecht 1993, 153-166.
  

VII. International Humanitarian Law

• Environment, Protection in Armed Conflict. In: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public Internation Law. Oxford Unversity Press, Oxford 2012, 509-519 (with Silja Vöneky).
  
• Iraq - from Belligerent Occupation to Iraqi Exercise of Sovereignity: Foreign Power versus International Community Interference. In: Max Planck United Nations Yearbook 9, 1-45 (2005).
  
• The Attack of September 11, 2001, the Wars Against the Taliban and Iraq: Is There a Need to Reconsider International Law on the Recourse to Force and the Rules in Armed Conflict? In: Max Planck United Nations Yearbook 7, 1-78 (2003).
  

VIII. International Economic Law

• WTO - Trade in Goods. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden/Boston, 2010, 1225 p. (with Peter-Tobias Stoll, Holger P. Hestermeyer)
  
• Trade in Services, Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law. 6. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2008, 784 p. (with Peter-Tobias Stoll, Clemens Feinäugle)
  
• Trade Remedies, Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law. 4. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2008, 980 p. (with Peter-Tobias Stoll, Michael Köbele)
  
• WTO - Technical Barriers and SPS Measures. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden/Boston, 2007, 568 p. (with Peter-Tobias Stoll, Anja Seibert-Fohr)
  
• WTO - Insitutions and Dispute Settlement. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, 2006, 671 p. (with Peter-Tobias Stoll, Karen Kaiser)
  

IX. German and Foreign Public Law

• The Implementation of International Law in Germany and South Africa. Pretoria University Law Press, Pretoria, 2015, 528 p. (with Erika de Wet, Holger Hestermeyer)
  
• The Use of Foreign Law in the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa: Merits and Problems of a Comparative Law Approach. In: L'Afrique et le droit internationa: Variations sur l'organisation international/Africa and International Law: Reflections on the International Organization, Liber Amicorum Raymond Ranjeva. Editions Pedone, Paris 2013, 381-391.
  
• Föderalismus als Beitrag zur Friedenssicherung: Überlegungen zu einer Verfassung für Zypern und den Sudan. In: Der Staat des Grundgesetzes – Kontinuität und Wandel (Festschrift für Peter Badura zum siebzigsten Geburtstag). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, 1245-1263.
  

Recent Publications

• Environmental Liability in International Law. In: Climate Change Litigation: A Handbook, Wolfgang Kahl, Marc-Philippe Weller (eds.). Beck/Hart/Nomos, München/Oxford/Baden-Baden 2021, 149-165.
  
• Hilding Eek Memorial Lecture, Stockholm, 2 October 2019. In: Nordic Journal of International Law 89/2, 155-167 (2020).
  
• Vor Gericht und auf hoher See. Report. In: NJW-aktuell 29, 18-19 (2020).
  
• Realization of Sustainable Management/Development under the Law of the Sea Convention. In: Sustainable Ocean Resource Governance, Markus Kotzur. Brill Nijhoff, Leiden 2018, 101-109.
  
• Identifying Community Interests in International Law: Common Spaces and Beyond. In: Community Interests Across International Law, Eyal Benvenisti. Oxford Press, Oxford 2018, 19-35.
  

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Schutz und Management von Grundwasser aus der Sicht des Völkerrechts. In: Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht 1, 109-114 (2018).


Max Planck Encyclopedia for Comparative Constitutional Law - online edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017, 840 p. (editor with Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann).


Conciliation under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea. In: Conciliation in International Law. The OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, Christian Tomuschat, Ricardo Pisillo Mazzeschi, Daniel Thürer (eds.). Brill/Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston 2017, 171-190.


The Protection of the Environment in Armed Conflict. In: Israel Yearbook on Human Rights 45, 67-86 (2015).


Military Vessel Protection Detachments under National and International Law. In: Contemporary Developments in International Law - Essays in Honour of Budislav Vukas. Brill Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston 2016, 360-368.


Contemporary Developments in International Law - Essays in Honour of Budislav Vukas. Brill Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston, 2016, 916 p. (with Maja Seršić, Trpimir M. Šošić)


Some Reflections on the Making of International Law. In: Polis and Kosmopolis - Festschrift für Daniel Thürer. Dike Verlag/Nomos Verlag, Zürich/St. Gallen, Baden-Baden 2015, 815-826.


Evolution of the Law of the Sea from an Institutional Perspective. In: German Yearbook of International Law 57/2014, 95-109 (2015).


The reception of international law in the German legal order: An introduction. In: The Implementation of International Law in Germany and South Africa. Pretoria University Law Press, Pretoria 2015, 2-22 (with Holger Hestermeyer, Silja Vöneky).


The Implementation of International Law in Germany and South Africa. Pretoria University Law Press, Pretoria, 2015, 528 p. (editor with Erika de Wet, Holger Hestermeyer).


The Freedom of Navigation: Modern Challenges Seen from a Historical Perspective. In: Law of the Sea, From Grotius to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea/Liber Amicorum Judge Hugo Caminos. Brill Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston 2015, 89-103.


The impact of Article 300 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the jurisdiction of international courts and tribunals. In: Herausforderungen an Staat und Verfassung. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, 383-392.


Solidarity from a Structural Principle to an International Agreement: Progress or Rather Regression?. In: Aus Kiel in die Welt: Kiel's Contribution to International Law/ Essays in Honour of the 100th Anniversary of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2014, 201-213.


The contribution of the regulations of the International Seabed Authority to the progressive development of international environmental law. In: Peaceful Order in the World's Oceans. Brill Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston 2014, 241-248.


Solidarity. In: The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law, Dinah Shelton. University Press, Oxford 2013, 401-419.


A Survey of Challenges and Trends in the Context of International Water Law. In: Water Law and Cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris Region 2013, 3-19 (with Adele J. Kirschner).


Water Law and Cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris Region. Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, 2013, 407 p. (with Aysegül Kibaroglu, Adele J. Kirschner, Sigrid Mehring)


Internationale Streitbeilegung als ein Element der Friedenssicherung. In: Juristische Studiengesellschaft Jahresband 2012. C.F. Müller, Heidelberg 2013, 103-121.


Ad Hoc Chambers. In: Governing Ocean Resources: New Challenges and Emerging Regimes - A Tribute to Judge Choon-Ho Park, Jon M. Van Dyke, Sherry P. Broder, Seokwoo Lee, Jin-Hyun Paik (eds.). Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden 2013, 275-283.


The Freedom of Religion: New, or Not so New, Challenges. In: Der Staat im Recht - Festschrift für Eckart Klein zum 70. Geburtstag, Marten Breuer, Astrid Epiney, Andreas Haratsch, Stefanie Schmahl, Norman Weiß (eds.). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, 1370-1378.


The Use of Foreign Law in the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa: Merits and Problems of a Comparative Law Approach. In: Africa and International Law: Reflections on the International Organization - Liber Amicorum Raymond Ranjeva. Editions Pedone, Paris 2013, 381-391.


The Prohibition of Discrimination in International Human Rights Treaties. In: Mensch und Recht - Festschrift für Eibe Riedel zum 70. Geburtstag, Dirk Hanschel, Sebastian Graf Kielmansegg, Uwe Kischel, Christian Koenig, Ralph Alexander Lorz (eds.). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, 209-219.


Samuel Pufendorfs Blick auf die EU. In: Heidelberger Thesen zu Recht und Gerechtigkeit, Christian Baldus, Herbert Kronke, Ute Mager (eds.). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2013, 27-38.


Interventions in Proceedings Before International Courts and Tribunals: To What Extent May Interventions Serve the Pursuance of the Community Interests?. In: International Courts and the Development of International Law – Essays in Honour of Tullio Treves, Tullio Scovazzi^Cesare Pitea^Chiara Ragni Nerina Boschiero (ed.). Asser Press/Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin 2013, 219-230.


Friedenssysteme. In: Leitgedanken des Rechts (Paul Kirchhof zum 70. Geburtstag). C.F.Müller, Heidelberg 2013, 447-455.


§ 221 Deutschland in Verteidigungsbündnissen. In: Handbuch des Staatsrechts, Josef Isensee und Paul Kirchhof (ed.). C. F. Müller, Heidelberg 2012, 619-638.


§ 219 Deutschland in den Vereinten Nationen. In: Handbuch des Staatsrechts, Josef Isensee und Paul Kirchhof (ed.). Band X. C. F. Müller, Heidelberg 2012, 555-582.


Die Freiheit des Menschen in Kommune, Staat und Europa. In: Die Freiheit des Menschen Festschrift für Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig. C. F. Müller, Heidelberg 2011, 679-691.


Enforcing Community Interests Through International Dispute Settlement: Reality or Utopia?. In: From Bilaterism to Community Interest, Essays in Honour of Judge Bruno Simma, Rudolf Geiger^Daniel-Erasmus Khan^Andreas Paulus^Sabine von Schorlemer^Christoph Vedder Ulrich Fastenrath (ed.). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, 1132-1145.


Common Interests in the Ocean. In: Science Diplomacy. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington 2011, 281-285.


Freedom of Scientific Research and Human Rights. In: Nova Acta Leopoldina 113/387, 35-38 (2011).


Das Volk hat gesprochen. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 27.01.2011, p. 6.


Obligation of Result Versus Obligation of Conduct: Some Thoughts About the Implementation of International Obligations. In: Looking to the Future - Essays on International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston 2011, 363-383.


Hydrographische Dienste als Akteure des internationalen Rechts. In: Nutzung und Ordnung der Meere - Festgabe für Peter Ehlers zum 65. Geburtstag. LIT Verlag, Berlin 2010, 39-44.


Article XX - General Exceptions. In: WTO - Trade in Goods. Koninklijke Brill NV, Netherlands 2010, 544-559.


Article XI - General Elimination of Quantitative Restrictions. In: WTO - Trade in Goods. Koninklijke Brill NV, Netherlands 2010, 281-295.


Berlin - Heidelberg: Das Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht. In: Denkorte - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft und Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft - Brüche und Kontinuitäten 1911-2011. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2010, 340-347.


Kulturelle Rechte und Minderheitenschutz. In: Handbuch der Grundrechte in Deutschland und Europa. C. F. Müller Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, 255-277.


WTO - Trade in Goods. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden/Niederlande, 2010, 1225 p. (with P.-T. Stoll und H. B. Hestermeyer)


Klimaschutz im Völkerrecht. In: Blickpunkt Klimawandel - Gefahren und Chancen, A. Fuchs (ed.). Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, 195-211.


Common Heritage of Mankind, in: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (online-Version), Oxford University Press, London, 2010.


Piraterie: Effizienter Einsatz des Weltrechtsprinzips oder internationale Gerichtsbarkeit. In: Recht - Wirtschaft - Strafe Festschrift für Erich Samson zum 70. Geburtstag, Heribert Ostendorf^Thomas Rönnau^Thomas Rotsch^Roland Schmitz Wolfgang Joecks (ed.). C.F. Müller, Heidelberg 2010, 219-229.


The Arctic in the Context of International Law. In: New Chances and New Responsibilities in the Arctic Region. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2010, 37-47 (with G. Witschel, I. Winkelmann, K. Tiroch).


New Chances and New Responsibilities in the Arctic Region. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, 2010, 384 p. (editor with G. Witschel, I. Winkelmann, K. Tiroch).


Solidarity: A Structural Principle of International Law. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht. Springer, Heidelberg, 2010, 238 p. .

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