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Carolyn Moser

PhD, MA, Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2), Alfred Grosser Chair (Sciences Po Paris)

moser@mpil.de

Main Fields of Research:

EU law and governance | Security and defence in Europe | International Law and the Use of force | Peace operations (UN, EU) | Franco-German relations

Academic Career:

Dr. Carolyn Moser conducts research in the field of international and European law and governance, with a special focus on security and defense in Europe. Her independent Max Planck research group ENSURE (European Security Revisited), which deals with the law and governance of European security in the new geopolitical age in an interdisciplinary way (law & political science), also bears witness to this thematic orientation. She furthermore holds the Alfred Grosser Chair at Sciences Po Paris. She is also affiliated with the Institute for European Integration in Hamburg. Dr Moser is furthermore the editor of the comment section of the Heidelberg Journal of International Law (ZaöRV).

Her key peer reviewed publications include a prize-winning monograph on Accountability in EU Security and Defence (Oxford University Press, 2020) and a co-edited book on The Legal Framework of the OSCE (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Her most recent publications feature an in-depth analysis of on the prerogatives of the European Parliament in the field of European Security and Defense Policy and an interdisciplinary article on the (de)constitutionalization by the European Court of Justice with a focus on security policies (ICON, 2022).

Dr Moser received several awards and distinctions for her research, notably the Otto-Hahn-Medal and the European Court of Auditors Award. Moreover, she has successfully obtained prestigious funding for her research, including multi-year project funding from the German government, a Minerva Fast Track Fellowship from the Max Planck Society for outstanding postdocs, and funding for an independent Max Planck Group that is equivalent in scope to an ERC Consolidator Grant.

Her interdisciplinary expertise is solicited also beyond academic circles, for instance by EU and international institutions (eg European Parliament; OSCE; World Bank) and in the media (eg AFP; Deutschlandfunk; Libération; NDR; ORF; SRF).

As regards her academic background, she was trained in both law and political science at Sciences Po Paris and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University, USA), and holds a PhD from Utrecht University on EU civilian crisis management. Moreover, her projects led her to conduct research at the Basel Institute on Governance, the European University Institute in Florence, and the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. From 2019 to 2022, she headed the Borderlines group at the MPIL in Heidelberg.

Latest output (2022):

  • The ECJ and the constitutionalization of EU security policies (article)
  • The war in Ukraine and its repercussions on Europe's "security and defence constitution" (blogpost)
  • The extent of the European Parliament’s competence in Common Security and Defence Policy (study)
  • The EU mutual assistance clause and its applicablity to novel threats (e-Note; English; French)
  • Is Berlin's overdue defence policy adjustment also a "game changer" for Franco-German relations? (blogpost)


Recent Publications

  • Between Coordination, Harmonization and Centralization—Modes of (Inter)Action in the European Security Union. In: EU Security Law, Jan-Hendrik Dietrich, Arne Pilniok (eds.). C.H.Beck, Munich 2024, *-*, forthcoming.
  • The Concept of Accountability. In: Research Handbook on the Accountability for Human Rights Violations: What, Who, What For, How, To What Extent, Michelle Duin & Kristin Henrard (ed.). Edward Elgar, - forthcoming 2024, ---, im Erscheinen.
  • Die Zeitenwende: viel Zeit, wenig Wende? In: ZaöRV 4, 741-768 (2023). open access version
  • Some reflections on anticipatory governance in EU defence. In: Foresight and regulation: anticipatory governance and administrative foresight in times of transition and recovery, Zulima Sánchez Sánchez , Ramón Brais Freire Braña (eds.). Thompson Reuters-Aranzadi, Cizur Menor 2023, 165-190. Preprint version (PDF, 5390.7 KB)
  • The CJEU and EU (de-)constitutionalization—unpacking jurisprudential responses. In: International Journal of Constitutional Law 20(3), 1038-1070 (2022). doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moac061 (with Berthold Rittberger). open access version
  • The extent of the European Parliament’s competence in Common Security and Defence Policy. In-depth analysis requested by the SEDE sub-committee of the European Parliament, 2022 (with Steven Blockmans). open access version Pdf of the study (PDF, 914.2 KB)
  • La clause d’assistance mutuelle du Traité sur l’Union européenne (article 42§7 TUE) permet-elle de répondre adéquatement aux nouvelles menaces ?. E-Note series of the Royal High Institute for Defence (Belgium), 11.05.2022 (with Estelle Hoorickx). e-Note available online
  • Constitutions and Contagion – European Constitutional Systems and the COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Heidelberg Journal of International Law (HJIL) 1, 147-234 (2021). Open access version
  • Loin de l’Union, loin des juges?—Sur les voies de recours juridictionnelles dans le cadre des activités de sécurité et de défense extraterritoriales de l’Union européenne. In: Rechtsweggarantie im vergleichenden Verwaltungsrecht, Layla Kristina Jaber, Stefanie Lüer, Anne-Marie Thévenot-Werner (eds.). Schwarze Reihe. Springer, Heidelberg 2021, 215-240. Springer online
  • Accountability in EU Security and Defence—The Law and Practice of Peacebuilding. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020, 336 p. available on the OUP website
  • Book reviews

    • Luigi Lonardo, Journal of Common Market Studies 6, 1636-1637 (2020)
    • Jed Odermatt, Common Market Law Review 4, 1176-1177 (2023)


    Reading recommendations

     

  • Accountability and added value in EU security and defence activities. In: ECA Journal 3, 184-187 (2020). ECA issue 'Realising European added value'
  • France. In: A Human Rights and Rule of Law Assessment of Legislative and Regulatory Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic across 27 Jurisdictions. Bonavero Report No. 7. Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford 2020, 163-176. Open access version
  • Hard Power Europe? In: Heidelberg Journal of International Law (HJIL) 1, 1-12 (2020). Open access version (PDF, 129.6 KB)
  • Accountability in a multi-jurisdictional order. In: Controlling EU Agencies. The Rule of Law in a Multi-jurisdictional Legal Order, Mira Scholten, Alex Brenninkmeijer (eds.). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2020, 60-79 (with Gijs Jan Brandsma). available on the EE website
  • Frieden durch Recht aus französischer Perspektive. In: Frieden durch Recht. Rechtstraditionen und Verortungen, Sarah Jäger, Wolfgang S. Heinz (eds.). Springer, Wiesbaden 2020, 92-120. SpringerLink
  • The Legal Framework of the OSCE. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019, 374 p. (editor with Mateja Steinbrück Platise, Anne Peters). available on CUP the website
  • Conceptualising accountability in the legal and institutional framework of the OSCE. In: The Legal Framework of the OSCE, Mateja Steinbrück Platise, Carolyn Moser, Anne Peters (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019, 273-293.
  • Legal uncertainty and indeterminacy—immutable characteristics of the OSCE?. In: The Legal Framework of the OSCE, Mateja Steinbrück Platise, Carolyn Moser, Anne Peters (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019, 3-25 (with Anne Peters).
  • The legal framework of the OSCE—an interdisciplinary inquiry. In: MPS Research report 2018. Max Planck Society, Munich 2019 (with Anne Peters, Mateja Steinbrück Platise). Open access version (German)
  • Bring claims if you can—On the intricate arrangements for claims arising from extraterritorial EU security and defence activities. In: ZaöRV 3, 575-579 (2018). Open access version
  • EU Civilian Crisis Management—Law and Practice of Accountability. -, Utrecht/Heidelberg, 2018, 336 p. Open access version
  • ¿Union de droit, Union de sécurité? Sobre la interacción entre actuación interior y exterior respecto a los valores y normas de la UE. In: La jurisdicción constitucional en la tutela de los Derechos Funda-mentales de la Unión Europea, J.I. Ugartemendia/ A. Saiz Arnaiz/ M. Morales Antoniazzi (ed.). Instituto Vasco de Administración Pública; MPIL, Oñati 2017, 91-130.
  • Peace—Europe's Polyphonic Promise. In: MaxPlanckResearch 2, 10-15 (2015). Open access version
  • Revisiting the Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy: novel approaches and complementary insights. In: Public Administration 93 (1), 255-261 (2015). doi: 10.1111/padm.12150. available on the Wiley website
  • Conflict of interests of government members and the risk of corruption: An assessment of pre-revolutionary Tunisia and Egypt. In: Corruption and Conflict of Interests; A Comparative Law Approach, J.-B. Auby/ E. Breen/ T. Perroud (ed.). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2014, 124-138. available on the EE website

Blogposts

  • The war in Ukraine and its repercussions on Europe’s 'security and defence constitution'. ConstitutionNet, 22.09.2022. constitutionnet
  • Is Berlin’s overdue defence policy adjustment also a 'game changer' for Franco-German relations?. Verfassungsblog, 07 April 2022. verfassungsblog
  • Eine kurze Einführung in Frontex. Newsroom of the Max Planck Society, focus section '25 years Schengen area'; updated, enlarged and translated version of the Verfassungsblog post dated 3 February 2020, 20.03.2020. Website of the Max Planck Society
  • Frontex goes Africa: On Pre-emptive Border Control and Migration Management. Verfassunsgblog, symposium 'Frontex—A Rising Star of Declining Europe?', 06.02.2020 (with Rabia Ferahkaya, Lukas Märtin). verfassungsblog
  • A very short introduction to Frontex—unravelling the trajectory of one of the EU’s key actors. Verfassungsblog, symposium 'Frontex—A Rising Star of Declining Europe?', 03.02.2020. verfassungsblog
  • Integrating Contrasting Approaches: Civil–Military Cooperation in CSDP. PeaceLab, 07.01.2020. peacelab.blog
  • Two Become One? On the Civil–Military Amalgamation of the CSDP. Verfassungsblog, 30.03.2019. verfassungsblog
  • Curtailing (informal) power—accountability lessons from the civilian dimension of EU security and defence. EU Law Enforcement, 31.03.2018. eulawenforcement
  • Awakening dormant law—or the invocation of the European mutual assistance clause after the Paris attacks. Verfassungsblog, 18.11.2015, also published on www.voelkerrechtsblog.com. verfassungsblog
  • French Constitutional Council puts an end to the plurality of offices. Verfassungsblog, 12.3.2014. verfassungsblog

Working Papers

  • Some Reflections on Anticipatory Governance in EU Defence. MPIL Research Paper Series, 2023. MPIL Research Paper No. 2023-14
  • The CJEU and EU (De)constitutionalization—Unpacking Jurisprudential Strategies. MPIL Research Paper Series, 2021 (with Berthold Rittberger). MPIL Research Paper No. 2021-09
  • Constitutions and Contagion. European Constitutional Systems and the COVID-19 Pandemic. MPIL Research Paper Series, 2020 (with Angelo Golia, Laura Hering, Tom Sparks). MPIL Research Paper No. 2020-42
  • Loin de l’Union, loin des juges? Sur les voies de recours juridictionnelles dans le cadre des activités de sécurité et de défense extraterritoriales de l’Union européenne (Out of the EU, Out of Judicial Reach? On the Means of Recourse in the Context of the Union’s Extraterritorial Security and Defence Activities). MPIL Research Paper Series, 2020. MPIL Research Paper No. 2020-12
  • Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflict: Impulses from the Max Planck Trialogues. MPIL Research Paper Series, 2018 (with Christian Marxsen, Anne Peters, et alii). MPIL Research Paper No. 2018-19
  • Conceptualising accountability in the legal and institutional framework of the OSCE. MPIL Research Paper Series, 2018. MPIL Research Paper No. 2018-17
  • Legal uncertainty and indeterminacy—immutable characteristics of the OSCE?. MPIL Research Paper Series, 2018. MPIL Research Paper No. 2018-16

Media

    Course aux armements : les États-Unis raflent la mise.

    Carolyn Moser provides expert insights to Karina Chabour in the TV programme 'La semaine de l'éco', broadcasted by France 24 on 17th November 2023. A video recording is available here (in French language).

    Un avis d'extradition envoyé par courrier aux ressortissants ukrainiens en Irlande ? C'est faux.

    Carolyn Moser provides expert input on the potential extradition of Ukrainian citizens by Ireland to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Published in an online article on 18th September 2023.

    La guerre en Ukraine a-t-elle fait exploser l'Europe de la Défense ?

    Carolyn Moser gives an expert interview to Bastien Boname for the French online magazine C'actus.

    Les touristes russes n’ont-ils vraiment plus le droit de venir en Europe avec une voiture ou un téléphone ?

    Carolyn Moser shares expert insights into the legal aspects of the recent European sanctions imposed on Russia, particularly regarding the potential impact on Russian citizens travelling to the European Union with the French news service Libération. Published in an online article on 14th September 2023.

    VerfassungsPod #3: Verfassung im Krieg

    Expert interview with Jochen Schlenk and Maximilian Steinbeis on the rules and regulations regarding German (and European) defence, available here.

    Zeitenwende in Europa

    Interview with Julia Weigelt for the NDR Info Podcast "Streitkräfte und Strategien" (armed forces and strategies) about the geopolitical awakening in Europe and the EU in the wake of the war in Ukraine, available online (in German) here

    Global (dis)order and International Law

    Watch the video on the MPIL's Youtube channel
    (own input starting at 29'20)

    Panel discussion (in German language) with Carlo Masala (Bundeswehr University, Munich), Anne Peters (MPIL) and Christian Marxsen (MPIL) about the legal and political parameters of German foreign and security policy, and the challenges in this policy field the German government resulting from the 2021 general elections is likely to face.

    Europe and its migration and border management

    Interview with the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRF) on migration, border control and in particular Frontex, streamed on 3 June 2021 and available as podcast

    The unsettled post-Brexit Legal Status of the EU and its Representatives in the UK

    Watch the video on the MPIL's Youtube channel

    Only three weeks after the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the UK provisionally came into force on 1st January 2021, hence sealing the UK–EU divorce, we could already witness the first post-Brexit diplomatic incident. Indeed, as became public on 21st January 2021 London refused to confer the EU’s delegation to the UK—including its ambassador, João Vale de Almeida—the diplomatic status offered by the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Instead, the UK said it would classify the EU as an international organization, implying that the Union’s representatives would enjoy more restricted privileges and immunities. The EU, in response, posited that the Union was not a typical international organization and should therefore, in line with well-established international practice, receive a distinctive treatment when it comes to diplomatic status questions. In light of these developments, Dr Carolyn Moser, first rehashes the basics of diplomatic privileges and immunities, then sheds light on the Union’s international role and subsequent diplomatic status, and finally discusses the UK’s legal stance on the matter.

    Nota bene: On 5th May 2021 it was announced that the UK had eventually accorded the EU's head of mission a diplomatic status in accordance with the Vienna Convention, that is the one of a state representative.

    COVID-19 and the French Constitutional System

    Watch the video on the MPIL's Youtube channel

    In this video, Dr Carolyn Moser analyses the way in which the French authorities dealt with the pandemic, with a focus on the first wave. Next to sketching out the regulatory and legislative response of the French institutions to COVID-19, in particular the novel state of health emergency, she also discusses matters of democratic accountability and judicial review. She shows how and why the health emergency caused by the coronavirus has reconfirmed some of the Republic’s most central constitutional patterns and legal traditions, namely centralization, executive governance with limited parliamentary involvement, and administrative courts acting as guardians of individual freedoms.

    Unsere fremden Grenzen. Europas Türsteher am Rande der Sahara

    Interviewee, radio feature (in German language) by Christian Jakob, RBB Kultur, 16.12.2020, audio recording

    Das Völkerrecht—Spielregeln gegen die globale Unordnung

    Contributor to a radio programme on the international law and politics edited by Brigitte Voykowitsch [in German], ORF Radiokolleg, 24 – 27 February 2020

Presentations

14 Nov 2023

Der Deutsche Bundestag und vernetzte Auslandseinsätze – Welche Verantwortung und Kontrollmöglichkeiten hat das Parlament?

Carolyn Moser inputs her expertise as a pannelist in the public debate and expert hearing organized by the 1st Committee of Inquiry (Afghanistan) in the 20th electoral term of the German Bundestag

Paul-Löbe-Haus Berlin

video recording; 01:29:10

06 Jun 2023

Hackbacks – eine europarechtliche Perspektive

Präsentation im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe Trierer Gespräche zu Recht und Digitalisierung – Cyberwarfare an der juristischen Fakultät in Trier zum Thema „Hackbacks – eine europarechtliche Perspektive”

Trier / digital

15 May 2023

EU Security and Defence after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: A Legal-Institutional Perspective

Keynote Speech at the workshop "European Security and Defence after Russia's War on Ukraine" organized by the Academy of International Affairs NRW

Bonn

03 May 2023

The European security architecture in the light of new geopolitical realities: Rude Awakening and Necessary Changes

As part of the Lecture Series Ukraine!?, presentation (in German language) at the Württembergische Landesbibliothek (WLB)

Stuttgart/Hybrid

video recording

30 Mar 2023 - 31 März 2023

The EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy. Status quo and challenges in view of the war in Ukraine

Presentation at The XXII Walter Hallstein-Symposium “The Common Security and Defence Policy of the EU – Perspectives from Member States” at the Goethe University

Frankfurt

23 Mar 2023

Accountability in EU Security and Defence

Presentation given at the Award ceremony for the 2020 and 2022 ECA Awards for research on public-sector auditing

Luxemburg

21 Mar 2023

The Common Security and Defence Policy after the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Experts insights at the webinar on EU Law and Politics after the Russian Invasion organized by UKAEL and the Finnish branch of FIDE

Digital

12 Feb 2023

Militärmacht Europa? [Europa as military power?]

Panel discussion in the context of the 'Europa Quartett' hosted by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Bremen), panellist, together with Dr. Helga Trüpel, Dr. Emanuel Herold and Madita Standke-Erdmann

Bremen/digital

18 Nov 2022

The EU and the war in Ukraine. Legal stocktaking of measures taken

Presentation given at the annual meeting of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Internationales Recht (DVIR), German branch of the International Law Association (ILA)

Frankfurt a.M.

27 Jun 2022

Some reflections on anticipatory governance in EU defence

Presentation of a draft chapter for the PROFUTURE project led by Zulima Sanchéz (author workshop)

Salamanca

21 Jun 2022

EU–NATO institutional interaction and integration in the wake of the war in Ukraine—opportunities, challenges and limits from an EU perspective

Impulse-giver at the 3rd workshop of Working Group on Strategic Autonomy in Defence, organized by the CEPS (Brussels)

30 May 2022

Ready for war? Some lessons we can draw from the case law of the CJEU for dealing with the EU’s governance challenges regarding security and defence

Presentation given at the Law School of Sciences Po Paris

Paris

26 Apr 2022

Beyond Borders. Franco-German experiences during the pandemic

Brief comparative legal input to the panel discussion 'Beyond Borders. Deutsch-französische Grenzerfahrungen in der Pandemie' organized by the Stiftung Forum Recht

Karlsruhe

29 Nov 2021

The possible use of the EU's Mutual Assistance Clause in the face of new threats—legal background and implications under international and European law

Expert input at a Public Hearing of the European Parliament (subcommittee on defence matters, SEDE)

Brussels

21 Sep 2021

Global (dis)order and International Law

Panellist, together with Carlo Masala (Bundeswehr Uni, Munich), Anne Peters (MPIL) and Christian Marxsen (MPIL)

Digital

09 Sep 2021

Unpacking the significance of the Solidraity Clause for EU disaster relief

Keynote speaker on the panel "Capability Development for the EU’s Civil Protection and the Solidarity Clause: Integrating the Military" at the Interparliamentary Conference for the CFSP/CSDP

Online

A video recording of the talk available here (at 2:20)

07 Apr 2021

Shifting Borders in the Time of COVID-19

Panel discussion with Ayelet Shachar, Kamal Sadiq, Derek Denman and Willem Maas on the phenomenon of mobile and functional borders at the 2021 ISA Annual Convention

Online

09 Dec 2020

Grenzenlos? Vom Recht und Kontext der EU-Sicherheitspolitik

Talk (in German language) given in the context of a lecture cycle on migration and refugee law of the Refugee Law Clinic Würzburg e.V., University of Würzburg (D)

Online format

27 Nov 2020

Constitutional repercussions of COVID-19. Some insights from Europe

Discussion of the paper "Constitutions and Contagion. European Constitutional Systems and the COVID-19 Pandemic" (Golia, Hering, Moser & Sparks) in the Working Group "Constitutionalism and Politics", European University Institute

Online seminar

19 Jun 2020

Has EU constitutionalization run its course?

Paper given together with Berthold Rittberger at the workshop 'Emergency politics' (WZB Berlin)

Web-Conference

11 Jun 2020

Armed drones and international law

'Heidelberger Salon' with political representatives, legal scholars, and members of civil society organizations [in German]

Webinar

Video recording (in German)

25 Oct 2019

What Legal Framework for the OSCE? A Book Launch Conversation

Panel discussion with Nils Blokker, Cornelius von Friesendorf, Jan Klabbers and Carolyn Moser

Berlin

27 Jun 2019

Lifting Pooling and Sharing to a Higher Level: The European Air Transport Command

Presentation given at the 3rd Annual Conference of the European Initiative on Security Studies (EISS)

Sciences Po, Paris

17 Jun 2019

The External Dimension of EU Migration Control—A Security Perspective

Invited talk at a conference of the Research Initiative on Migration of the Max Planck Society 'The Challenges of Migration and Integration'

Munich

25 Apr 2019

Feinde, Freunde, Familie? Der Vertrag von Aachen und der Stand der deutsch-französischen Beziehungen

Invited talk (in German language) on Franco-German relations, Heidelberger Kreis

Heidelberg

18 Jan 2019

From safe distance to de facto convergence—Revisiting the civil-military nexus in EU security and defence

Presentation at the workshop 'The European Union’s "New Defence Policy": European Military Integration in an Interdisciplinary Perspective', Justus Liebig University

Gießen

14 Sep 2018

Ist Krieg ein Weg zum Frieden?

Panelist in a discussion round organized on the occasion of the Open Day of the MPIL

Heidelberg

08 Sep 2018

Loin de l’Union, loin des juges ?—Sur les voies de recours juridictionnelles dans le cadre d’activités de sécurité et de défense extraterritoriales de l’UE

Presentation at the Franco-German colloquium ‘Le droit à un recours effectif – regards croisés’, Université Paris 2

Paris

01 Feb 2018

EU security and defence activities off the Libyan coast and the question of international responsibility

Talk at the Odysseus Annual Conference 'Conflict and Compromise—Between Law and Politics in EU Migration and Asylum Policies'

Brussels

Video recording of the talk

09 Nov 2016

EU civilian crisis management: a realm of executive governance and hidden agencification

Paper presented at the 'Young Researchers Master Class on Agencification of EU executive governance'

Fiesole

13 Jul 2016

The accountability imperative for the OSCE—a legal-institutional perspective

Paper given at the conference 'Between Aspirations and Realities: Strengthening the Legal Framework of the OSCE'

Berlin

07 Sep 2015

Practice what you preach? A critical assessment of EU civilian crisis management

Paper given at the UACES 45th Annual Conference

Bilbao

01 Jun 2015

Securitization of immigration

Presentation (together with Anuscheh Farahat) at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Heidelberg

13 Feb 2015

Public international law—a guarantor of peace, security and justice?

Talk (in German language) given in the context of the 2014/15 Theme Concert series jointly organized by the Bayrische Staatsoper and the Max Planck Society

Munich

MOSER_Vortrag_Themenkonzert_13.2.2015_dt.pdf (144.3 KB)

01 Dec 2014

Good cop, bad press? Shedding light on recent corruption allegations surrounding the European Union's rule of law mission EULEX to Kosovo

Presentation at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Heidelberg

10 Nov 2014

EU civilian crisis management and accountability—some preliminary findings

Paper given at the 'NewGen Accountability Workshop' held by the Utrecht University School of Governance

Utrecht

01 May 2014

Grotius and the European Action at the Horn of Africa

Presentation at the Masterclass 'Critical Studies of International Law' with Professor Martti Koskenniemi

Heidelberg

13 Dec 2013

'Accountability' as a conceptual framework for interdisciplinary research with a view on civilian CSDP

Paper given at the 'Accountability Workshop' held by the Utrecht University School of Governance

Utrecht

Teaching

Summer Term 2023

International Law Colloquium

Weekly seminar on current developments in International Law, MPIL | Law Faculty, University of Heidelberg, convener (together with Dr Isabelle Ley)

Winter Term 2022

Architecture juridique du système international

Lecture (24h) for master students, Faculté de droit, Université Catholique de Lille

Summer Term 2022

International Law Colloquium

Weekly seminar on current developments in International Law, MPIL | Law Faculty, University of Heidelberg, convener (together with Dr Isabelle Ley)

Summer Term 2021

International Law Colloquium

Weekly seminar on current developments in International Law, MPIL | Law Faculty, University of Heidelberg, convener (together with Dr Isabelle Ley and Dr Erin Pobjie)

Summer Term 2021

European Union Law

Lecture (24h) for graduate students, Law Faculty | Political Science Faculty, University of Trier

Winter Term 2020

Architecture juridique du système international

Lecture (24h) for master students, Faculté de droit, Université Catholique de Lille

Summer Term 2020

European Union Law

Lecture (24h) for graduate students, Law Faculty | Political Science Faculty, University of Trier

Winter Term 2019

Architecture juridique du système international

Lecture (24h) for master students, Faculté de droit, Université Catholique de Lille

Summer Term 2019

Von Elysée bis Aachen—eine völkerrechtliche Perspektive auf die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen seit dem 2. Weltkrieg

Colloquium 'Current Developments of International Law', Law Faculty, University of Heidelberg, 13.05.2019

Winter Term 2018

Architecture juridique du système international

Lecture (24h) for master students, Faculté de droit, Université Catholique de Lille

Summer Term 2018

Der VN-Sicherheitsrat als Friedenswächter

Together with Dr. Christian Marxsen, Colloquium 'Current Developments in International Law', Law Faculty, University of Heidelberg, 07.05.2018

Spring 2018

The UN Security Council as a Guarantor of Peace

Together with Dr. Raffaela Kunz and Dr. Christian Marxsen, German-Chinese Seminar on International Law, German Foreign Office, Berlin, 19.03.2018

Winter Term 2017

Fighting corruption, improving public governance—an international law perspective

ITLOS-programme, Heidelberg, 23.11.2017

Summer Term 2017

International Anti-Corruption Law: Theory and Practice

Colloquium 'Current Developments of International Law', Law Faculty, University of Heidelberg, 10.07.2017

Summer Term 2017

Security and defence—from laggard to frontrunner of European integration?

Elsa spring conference, Law Faculty, University of Freiburg (D), 27.5.2017

Winter Term 2016

Peace-keeping operations. Past trajectory and future challenges

ITLOS-programme, Heidelberg, 13.12.2016

Summer Term 2015

Peace keeping quo vadis?

Colloquium 'Current Developments of International Law', Law Faculty, University of Heidelberg, 18.05.2015

Summer Term 2012/ Winter Term 2012-13

Français juridique

Seminar for LL.M.-students, Law Faculty, University of Basel

Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad

PROFUTURE, participant in the author workshop held in the context of the international publication project led by by Zulima Sanchéz, Salamanca, Spain, 27.06.2022 - 29.06.2022

ISA 2021 Annual Convention, Discussant in the panel on 'Shifting Borders in the Time of Covid-19', Online, 07.04.2021 - 07.04.2021

'The transnational politics of emergency', online workshop, speaker, WZB Berlin, 19.06.2020

'What Legal Framework for the OSCE?', a Book Launch Conversation with Nils Blokker, Cornelius von Friesendorf, Jan Klabbers and Carolyn Moser, Panel Chair, Berlin , 25.10.2019

ESIL Annual Conference, participant, Athens, 12.09.2019 - 14.09.2019

European Initiative on Security Studies (EISS), 3rd Annual Conference, speaker, Sciences Po, Paris, 27.06.2019 - 28.06.2019

'Areas of Exclusion'-conference of the Research Initiative on Migration (WiMi) of the Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich, 17.06.2019

Workshop 'The European Union’s "New Defence Policy": European Military Integration in an Interdisciplinary Perspective', speaker, Justus Liebig University, Gießen, 17.01.2019 - 18.01.2019

'Max Planck Trialogue Workshop on the Law of Peace and War – Vol. IV: Intervention by Invitation', participant, Heidelberg, 08.11.2018 - 09.11.2018

'Le traité de Versailles. Regards franco-allemands en droit international à l'occasion du centenaire', participant, Strasbourg, 28.09.2018 - 29.09.2018

Franco-German colloquium 'Le droit à un recours effectif—regards croisés', presenter, Paris, 07.09.2018 - 08.09.2018

'Warum befolgen wir Recht? Rechtsverbindlichkeit und Rechtsbefolgung in interdisziplinärer Perspektive', participant, Heidelberg, 26.03.2018 - 27.03.2018

RENFORCE guest lecture by Dr. Florin Coman Kund on the new legal framework for Europol's international exchanges of data, commentator , Utrecht, 05.02.2018

'Conflict and Compromise—Between Law and Politics in EU Migration and Asylum Policies', Odysseus Annual Conference, speaker in the panel 'International Responsibility for the Cooperation of the EU and its Members States with the Libyan Coastguards?', Brussels, 01.02.2018

'Max Planck Trialogue Workshop on the Law of Peace and War—Vol. III: Reparations for Victims of Armed Conflict', participant, Berlin, 10.11.2017 - 11.11.2017

'The Politicization of Europe: Transnational Solidarity Conflicts and the Changing Structure of Economic Governance in the EU', Panel discussion with Anuscheh Farahat, Marius Hildebrand and Mark Dawson, participant, Berlin, 09.11.2017

'Constitutionality, powers and legitimacy of EU agencies or agency-like bodies', participant, Fiesole, 10.11.2016 - 11.11.2016

'Between Aspirations and Realities: Strengthening the Legal Framework of the OSCE', convener (together with Anne Peters and Mateja Steinbrück Platise), Berlin, 13.07.2016

PhD@maxlaw Workshop ‘16, 2nd Max Planck Young Legal Scholars’ Meeting, presenter (poster presentation), Hamburg, 12.05.2016 - 13.05.2016

UACES 45th Annual Conference, chair of the panel 'Transparency and Accountability in EU Decision‐making', Bilbao, 07.09.2015 - 09.09.2015

'Apprendre à repenser le droit international'—Masterclass with Professor Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet, discussant, Heidelberg, 04.05.2015 - 06.05.2015

'NewGen Accountability Workshop' held by the Utrecht University School of Governance, presenter, Utrecht, 10.11.2014

'Cricital Studies of International Law'—Masterclass with Professor Martti Koskenniemi, presenter, Heidelberg, 29.04.2014 - 02.05.2014

'Gagner la paix : Approches vers une solution durable au Mali', colloque, participant, Berlin, 31.01.2014

'Rule of Law and Accountability in Peacekeeping'—German Peace Operations Research Workshop 2014, jointly organized by DGVN, FES and ZIF, participant, Berlin, 28.01.2014

'Good Accountability (and Governance) Workshop - New International Perspectives on Accountability at the USG', presenter, Utrecht, 13.12.2013

'Towards A Global History of International Law' (Institute for Advanced Study), workshop, participant, Berlin, 01.02.2013

20th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum—'Promoting Security and Stability through Good Governance', rapporteur, Prague, 12.09.2012 - 14.09.2012

Third Summer Academy Freiburg on the 'Dynamics of institutional change under the EU's toolkit of conditionality—Judicial reform and fighting corruption in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Turkey', panel chair, Freiburg (D), 31.08.2012 - 03.09.2012

Honours

  • 2022–2027 | Max Planck Research Group Leader (associate professor equivalent), nomination and funding by the Max Planck Society
  • 2020 | European Court of Auditors Award for research into public sector auditing with a focus on 'EU added value' for the book Accountability in EU Security and Defence (OUP, 2020)
  • 2019 | Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for an outstanding interdisciplinary PhD thesis defended in 2018
  • 2019–2022 | Minerva Fast Track Fellowship, nomination and funding by the Max Planck Society (Humanities Section)
  • 2019–2022 | Research Fellowship at the Institute for European Integration (Hamburg)

 

Miscellaneous

  • 2018–2021 | Elected representative of the institute's researchers at the level of the Max Planck Society
  • 2014–2020 | Coordinator of the Forum francophone, the French-speaking academic discussion group at the Max Planck Institute