Florian Kriener

Dr. iur., Senior Research Fellow

kriener@mpil.de
Tel. +49 (6221) 482-342

Main Fields of Research:

Prohibition of Intervention; Use of Force in International Law; Nonviolent Protest Movements; Democracy Promotion

Academic Career:

Since 11/2023: Senior Research Fellow 

Since 05/2023: Law Clerk with the Higher Regional Court of Berlin 

01/2020 - 10/2023: Research Fellow at MPIL, Member of the Max Planck Research Group Shades of Illegality in International Peace and Security Law

• Visiting Researcher at King's College London (07-08/2022)

Research Project: Support to Nonviolent Protest Movements and International Law

9/2023: PhD in law (summa cum laude) from the University of Heidelberg

12/2019: First State Exam in Law, with a special focus on Public International Law

2014-2019: Legal Studies at the University of Heidelberg

• Assistant at MPIL 2017-2019 and with the Max Planck Foundation for Rule of Law and International Peace 
• Internships at the German Embassy Santiago de Chile and Noerr LLP's Berlin offices
• Jessup Moot Court 2016

2016-2017: Exchange at Universidad de Chile

• Student Assistant at Heidelberg Center para America Latina
• Research visit with the Chilean Supreme Court

2013: Abitur at the German School, Santiago de Chile

Recent Publications

• Proteste und Intervention - Die staatliche Unterstützung gewaltfreier Protestbewegungen im Völkerrecht. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 2024, ca. 630 p., Dissertation Universität Heidelberg
  
• Quashing protests abroad: The CSTO’s intervention in Kazakhstan. In: Journal on the Use of Force in International Law 10/2, 271-298 (2023). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
  
• The Prohibition of Intervention. In: The Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law, Thomas Cottier, Krista Nadavukaren Schefer (eds.). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2023, forthcoming.
  
• Protest Movements: On the Fringes of International Law. In: Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 117 (2023), forthcoming.
  
• The EU Response to Foreign Interference: Legal Issues and Political Risks. In: ZaöRV 83/2, 197-207 (2023) (with Lukas Harth, Jonas Wolff). https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.17104/0...
  

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Intervention, Prohibition of. In: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Anne Peters (ed.). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2023, forthcoming.


Privatisierte Demokratieförderung - Die völkerrechtliche Zurechnung halbstaatlicher Demokratieförderer am Beispiel der deutschen politischen Stiftungen und des National Endowment for Democracy. In: Archiv des Völkerrechts 4, 439-475 (2021) (with Viktoria Schmidt).


The Rise of Nonviolent Protest Movements and the African Union’s Legal Framework. In: ESIL Reflection 10/4 (2021) (with Elizabeth Wilson). https://esil-sedi.eu/esil-reflection-the...


Non-violent protest movements and the recognition of governments. In: ZaöRV / Heidelberg Journal of International Law 80/4, 881-911 (2020).


Authoritative Decision of the International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, Arbitration. Conflict Barometer 2020, 25-26, 2021.


Invitation - Excluding ab initio a Breach of Art. 2 (4) UNCh or a Preclusion of Wrongfulness? In: ZaöRV 79/3, 643-646 (2019).


Determining an International Watercourse: The Dispute of Chile v. Bolivia concerning the Silala. In: Revista Tribuna Internacional 6/12 (2017).


International Court of Justice; International Criminal Court. In: Conflict Barometer published by the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research 28, 21-22 (2019).

Blogposts

• Responding to Foreign Interference in the EU: Beware of Unintended Consequences. European Democracy Hub, 2022 (with Lukas Harth, Jonas Wolff). https://carnegieeurope.eu/2022/10/12/res...
  
• Ecodefence v Russia: The ECtHR’s stance on Foreign Funding of Civil Society. EJIL:Talk!, 21.06.2022. https://www.ejiltalk.org/ecodefence-v-ru...
  
• Can the United Nations General Assembly Authorize a No-fly-Zone over Ukraine?. OpinioJuris, 15.04.2022. https://opiniojuris.org/2022/04/15/can-t...
  
• Struggling for Democratic Elections: How the OAS Counters Nicaragua's Autocratization. Verfassungsblog, 01.11.2021. https://verfassungsblog.de/struggling-fo...
  
• La garantía interamericana a la protesta pacífica en el contexto de las elecciones nicaragüenses. Agenda Estado de Derecho, 05.11.2021. https://agendaestadodederecho.com/la-gar...
  

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En búsqueda de resiliencia: ¿Cómo controlar el desequilibrio del poder?. Agenda de Estado Derecho, 05.10.2021 (with Alina Ripplinger). https://agendaestadodederecho.com/como-c...


Nicaragua’s Electoral Counter-Reform. Verfassungsblog, 09.06.2021 (with Gabriel Alvarez Argüello, Alina Maria Ripplinger). https://verfassungsblog.de/nicaraguas-el...


Cyber Space, Sovereignty and the Intricacies of International Law-Making. Völkerrechtsblog, 16.04.2021. https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/de/cyber-s...


Nonviolent Movements and the Recognition of Governments: What Implications for International Law?. Minds of the Movement, 2021. https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/blog...


Der Alptraum in Idlib - Die neusten Entwicklungen im syrischen Bürgerkrieg aus der Perspektive des jus contra bellum. Völkerrechtsblog, 12. März 2020. https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/der-alptra...


Rechtsstaatsförderung auf dem internationalen Parkett: Das Beispiel des SDG 16. PeaceLab.Blog, 2019. https://peacelab.blog/2019/04/rechtsstaa...

Working Papers

• Quashing protests abroad: The CSTO’s intervention in Kazakhstan. Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law (MPIL) Research Paper No. 2023-10, 2023 (with Leonie Brassat). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?...
  

Media

https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/de/1-das-interventionsverbot/
Völkerrechtspodcast 01/2020, The Principle of Non-intervention

• Nicaragua vive "impunidad generalizada" dice CIDH. In: La Prensa - Nicaragua, 30.04.2021, p. online. https://www.laprensa.com.ni/2021/04/30/d...
  

Presentations

Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad

Honours

Miscellaneous