Jannika Jahn
Dr. iur. (LL.B. London),
Senior Research Fellow
jahn@mpil.de
Tel. +49 (6221) 482-265
Main Fields of Research:
European and international human rights law; business and human rights law; international environmental law; comparative constitutional law and theory; interdisciplinary analysis of law
Academic Career:
2021-2023: Advising expert for the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) of the Council of Europe regarding Opinion No. 25 (2022) on the topic of "Freedom of Expression of Judges and the Duty of Judicial Independence" (2021-2022); Presentation of the opinion and discussion with the Ukrainian judiciary (2023)
2021-present: Associate Fellow at Maastricht University (Globalization and Law Network https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/faculties/faculty-law/research/research-groups/globalization-law-network/glaw-net-community)
2020-present: Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and Public International Law
2019-present: Associate editor at the Verfassungsblog for International Law and Human Rights Protection https://verfassungsblog.de/author/jannika-jahn/
2019-2020: Lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Berlin in public commercial law (with Prof. Dr. Kaufmann)
2016-2018: Legal clerkship (Kammergericht Berlin), with stations at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (unit: Legal representation of Germany before the European Courts) and the European Court of Justice (cabinet: Judge Prof. Dr. von Danwitz)
2011-2016: Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and Public International Law with Prof. Anja Seibert-Fohr in the Research Group of "Judicial Independence in Multi-Level Governance" (June 2011 - June 2013), subsequently with Prof. Anne Peters, with a dissertation project on "The media publicity of the judiciary and its limits" (summa cum laude).
2008 - 2011: Student Research Fellow at the Institute of Comparative Public Law and Public International Law at the University of Cologne
2008 - 2011: Law studies at the University of Cologne (completed with first state's exam)
2004 - 2008: LL.B. English and German Law at University College London (UCL) and University of Cologne (Bachelor thesis: A comparative analysis of specific counter-terrorism measures in England and Germany)
Recent Publications
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BeckOK LkSG (Commentary to the German Human Rights Due Diligence Law).
1. Aufl.. Beck Verlag,
München, 2023. (with
Elisabeth Henn)
https://beck-online.beck.de/Dokument?vpa...
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Guest editor for special issue on "Globale Lieferketten im Recht (Global Value Chains in Law)".
In: Rechtswissenschaft 4, 455-652 (2022).
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/18...
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Einführung (Introduction) to the Special Issue on "Global Value Chains in Law".
In: Rechtswissenschaft 4, 456-462 (2022).
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/18...
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Vom korporativen Individualismus zum Gesellschaftsbezug multinationaler Unternehmen in einer internationalen Wirtschaftsordnung (From Corporate Individualism to Societal Embeddedness of Multinational Enterprises in an International Economic Order).
In: Rechtswissenschaft 4, 518-551 (2022).
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/18...
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Domestic courts as guarantors of international cooperation for global climate protection - Insights from the German Constitutional Court's recent decision. ICON (accepted/to be published), 2022.
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Rafforzare la tutela dell’ambiente grazie alle corti costituzionali nazionali? Commento alla sentenza sul clima del BVerfG.
In: Corti supreme e salute 1, 47-68 (2022).
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Internationaler Klimaschutz mithilfe nationaler Verfassungsgerichte? Erkenntnisse aus dem Klimabeschluss des BVerfG.
In: Heidelberg Journal of International Law 82/1, 47-72 (2022).
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Rechtsschutz in der GASP - Urteilsanmerkung zu EuGH, C-134/19 P (Rs. Refah Kargaran).
In: Europarecht (EUR) Heft 4, 511-519 (2021).
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Die Medienöffentlichkeit der Rechtsprechung und ihre Grenzen.
Nomos,
Baden-Baden, 2021, 481 p.
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Social Media Communication by Judges: Assessing Guidelines and New Challenges for Free Speech and Judicial Duties in the Light of the Convention. In: Rule of Law in Europe - Recent Challenges and Judicial Responses. Springer International, Berlin 2021,
137-153.
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Die OECD-Leitsätze als Instrument für den Klimaschutz.
In: Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht (ZUR) Heft 10, 526-535 (2020).
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The Use of Social Media by Judges in Germany, Impartiality of Judges and Social Media Cadenabbia, Italien. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin, 2020,
40-49 p.
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Anmerkung zu BGH, Urteil vom 19.09.2019, I ZR 91/18.
In: Zeitschrift für das gesamte Lebensmittelrecht (ZLR) 1, 52-57 (2020).
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Die Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der EU unter der Kontrolle des EuGH.
In: EuZW 13, 506-511 (2017).
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Die Dritte Gewalt in der Medienöffentlichkeit. In: Richterliche Abhängigkeit – Rechtsfindung im Öffentlichen Recht, 58. Assistententagung Öffentliches Recht.
Nomos,
Baden-Baden, 2018, 267-296 p.
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Normative Guidance from Strasbourg Through Advisory Opinions.
In: Heidelberg Journal of International Law 4, 821-846 (2014).
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El potencial des Protocolo 16 al Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos. Hacia un diálogo institucionalizado que conduzca a la justicia constitucional. In: La garantía jurisdiccional de los Derechos Humanos.
In: European Inklings 1, 122-155 (2015).
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Ruling (In)directly through Individual Measures? Effect and Legitimacy of the ECtHR’s New Remedial Power.
In: Heidelberg Journal of International Law 74, 1-40 (2014).
http://www.zaoerv.de/74_2014/vol74.cfm...
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Freedom of Assembly in the UK - Part of a Venice Commission Study (prepared by Anne Peters/Isabelle Ley), 2014.
Blogposts
Working Papers
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Commentary on Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU (Art. 18, 23-29, 41 EUV). Grabitz/Hilf/Nettesheim, Das Recht der Europäischen Union, Publication in 2023.
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Commentary on Art. 2 ECHR. European Convention on Human Rights in International context: Judicial Perspectives, Publication in 2022.
Media
Further Publications
Presentations
30 Mar 2023
The Judiciary and the Media
Presentation of phd-thesis at Sciences Po (Paris) in the HeiParisMax-Forum
Paris
16 Feb 2023
Comment on Prof. Spießhofer's presentation on unilateral regulation of entrepreneurial responsibility abroad
Workshop on Unilateral Environmental Law in the European Union
20 Jun 2022
Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains: A Public Law Perspective
Colloquium on Public International Law at the University of Heidelberg
19 May 2022
Comment on Prof. Ruiz Fabri's presentation on ethics in international arbitration
Part of the Masterclass 2022 with Prof. Ruiz Fabri held at the Max-Planck-Institute
28 Sep 2021
Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention - a public international law analysis
Organized by the Da-Migra network and the German Association of Women Lawyers
Berlin / Zoom
08 Sep 2021
The Climate Decision of the Federal Constitutional Court
University of Maastricht - Legal Colloquium
Maastricht / Zoom
21 Jun 2021
Discussion of FCC, decision of 24.03.2021 - 1 BvR 2656/18 (climate decision)
Monday Meeting
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and Public International Law, Heidelberg
27 May 2021
An interdisciplinary debate on current challenges to the freedom of science
Festival of Philosophy 2021 with Prof. Dr. Wilholt (University of Hannover)
Hannover / Zoom
22 Apr 2021
Jurisdiction as Potential Objection to the Extraterritorial Reach of Environmental Due Diligence Legislation?
Workshop on International Corporate Liability for Environmental Harm at the Federal Environment Agency
Berlin / Zoom
29 Mar 2021
Discussion of ECtHR, 31.01.2019, Az.: 13255/07 (Georgia v. Russia II)
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and Public International Law, Heidelberg
07 Dec 2020
Discussion of ECJ, 06.10.2020 - C 134/19 P (Refah Kargaran)
Monday Meeting
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and Public International Law, Heidelberg
25 Nov 2020
Menschenrechtsschutz in globalen Lieferketten
ELSA-Day Evening Lecture
Heidelberg / Zoom
28 Sep 2020
Das geplante Lieferkettengesetz zur Einhaltung sozialer und ökologischer Mindeststandards in der globalen Lieferkette
Monday Meeting
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and Public International Law, Heidelberg
21 Sep 2020
Environmental duties of diligence for multinational companies in a German supply chain law
Conference on the German Supply Chain Law (organized by Verdi)
21 Jul 2020
Presenting a Legal opinion to the Federal Ministry of Environment
Concerning the inclusion of an environmental duty of diligence for multinational companies in a German supply chain law
27 Apr 2019
Freedom of expression of judges under the European Convention on Human Rights
Conference at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg
09 Apr 2019
The use of social media by judges in Germany
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Rule of Law Programme
Cadenabbia (Italien)
15 May 2015
The Media as a Vehicle for the Judiciary to Influence Social Transformations?
Conference on Law and Social Transformations
Stanford Law School
14 Nov 2014
From Hercules to Hermes: Antithesis to the Rule of Law or Symbol of a Modern Judicial Role in Society?
Presentation of my dissertation project at the Doctoral Scholarship Conference at Yale Law School
Yale University
25 Nov 2013
Judicial Independence of Constitutional Court Judges of Germany
Seminar "Constitutional Review and Techniques of Constitutional Interpretation and Adjudication"
Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg
19 Dec 2012
State Responsibility in Public International Law
Part of the NIPPON-ITLOS Fellows Programms
Heidelberg
Teaching
Summer Semester
Challenges for European Human Rights: Climate Change, Migration, Digitalisation
Summer term 2022
Comparative Constitutional Law
Winter term 2021/2022
Preparing and discussing a mock exam in German public law and European Law
Winter term 2021/2022
Public International Law I
Winter term 2020/2021
Public International Law I
Summer and Winter Term 2013/2014
Preparation tutorial for the first state's exam in public law, University of Heidelberg
Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad
2nd Doehring-Lecture with Prof. Schorkopf on the topic of "Human Rights and the Majority", Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and Public International Law, Heidelberg, 22.10.2021
OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains, Paris / Zoom, 27.04.2021 - 28.04.2021
Expert discussion on the UN-Treaty for Business and Human Rights, Berlin, 20.10.2020
Masterclass with Prof. Weiler - How to Read Decisions of the European Court of Justice, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and Public International Law, Heidelberg, 15.05.2017 - 18.05.2017
54th Conference of German Research Fellows in Public Law , Graz
Colloque: Le cosmopolitisme juridique, Paris - Université Panthéon-Assas
Conference: Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights – Effects and Implementation, Göttingen
2nd Masterclass in International Law concerning "Law and Democracy in the postnational Framework" with Jürgen Habermas, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and International Law
Inaugural Masterclass in Public International Law, "The Political Economy of International Law", with Prof. Eyal Benvenisti , Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and International Law
Luhmann Seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and International Law
Workshop on "Transnational Corporations and NGOs in Public International Law", University of Erlangen
Honours
Scholarship for the doctoral thesis by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Scholarship for the law studies by Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Scholarship for the LL.B. studies by the Alexander-Lüderitz-Stiftung
Memberships
German Association of Women Lawyers (Commission for Public International Law)
Former Member of the Association of Young Researchers in Public International Law
Miscellaneous
Forschungsaufenthalte
June-July 2014 Research stay at the University of Paris Assas with Prof. O. de Frouville
April-May 2014 Research stay at the University of Cambridge with Prof. J. Bell
August 2013 Research stay at the George Washington University Law School with Prof. S. Karamanian
28.1.2013 - 03.02.2013 Research stay in Straßburg at the European Court of Human Rights for the purpose of conducting interviews with Court Judges
