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At the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, scholars pursue research relating to basic issues and current developments in the areas of public international law, European Union law, and the constitutional and administrative law of individual states, together with numerous visiting scholars from all over the world. In its fields, our library is the largest in Europe and one of the most comprehensive in the world.


Recent Publications

Peters, Anne: "Füg' dich, meine Schöne": Plädoyer für ein feministisches Foreign Relations Law. In: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht/Heidelberg Journal of International Law 84, 7-22 (2024). Link

Mende, Janne: Liberal–Democratic Norms under Contestation: Norm Relations and their Decoupling in the US Supreme Court’s Decisions on Abortion. In: Global Constitutionalism online first, (2024).

Mazzotti, Paolo: The First Italian Climate Judgment and the Separation of Powers: A Critical Assessment in Light of the ECtHR’s Climate Jurisprudence. Verfassungsblog, 22 April 2024 (with Moritz Vinken). Link

Stosch, Valentin von: Targeting the Assets of the Russian Central Bank: Self-Defense as (Another) Avenue?. Völkerrechtsblog, 22 April 2024. Link

Knauer, Annika: From Archives to Algorithms – How Research Transforms. MPIL100, 12 April 2024. Link

von Bogdandy, Armin: The Emergence of European Society through Public Law. A Hegelian and Anti-Schmittian Approach. University Press, Oxford, 2024, 313 p. Link

Glahé, Philipp: 100 Years of Public Law: International, Transnational, Comparative. An Introduction to MPIL100. In: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 84, 23-25 (2024) (with Alexandra Kemmerer).

Villarreal, Pedro: The World Health Organization was born as a normative agency: Seventy-five years of global health law under WHO governance. In: PLOS Global Public Health 4, 1-16 (2024) (with Lawrence Gostin, Benjamin Mason Meier, et al). Link

Publications 2023 / 2024