Florian Kriener

Research Fellow

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

Main Fields of Research:

Principle of Non-Intervention; Use of Force in International Law; International Nonviolent Protest Movements; Democracy Promotion

Academic Career:

Starting 01/2020: 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

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

• 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...
  

[more]

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...

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