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, esp. climate 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)
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 (habilitation project and business and human rights project)
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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Aspekte prozeduraler Gerechtigkeit in der Unternehmenssteuerung durch unilaterales Umweltrecht [Aspects of procedural justice in unilateral environmental business regulation]. In: Zukunftsfähiges Umweltrecht III: Unilaterale Beiträge zur globalen Nachhaltigkeitsordnung [Sustainable environmental law III]. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2023,
161-170.
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Hassrede auf Facebook – eine Herausforderung für die Online-Meinungsfreiheit [Hate speech on Facebook - new challenges for online-free speech].
In: NJW 32, 2315-2318 (2023).
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BeckOK LkSG (Commentary to the German Human Rights Due Diligence Law).
3. Ed.. Beck Verlag,
Munich, 2023. (with
Elisabeth Henn)
https://beck-online.beck.de/Dokument?vpa...
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Domestic courts as guarantors of global climate protection - Insights from the German Constitutional Court's recent decision.
In: ICON Vol. 21, Issue 3, 859-883 (2023).
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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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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).
Blogposts
Media
Presentations
06 Dec 2023
The equality of member states in European Union Law: new justification for the primacy of European Union law?
University of Heidelberg
24 Nov 2023
The German human rights due diligence law as global governance?
Conference on economics, criminal law and ethics
University Frankfurt am Main
06 Oct 2023
Human rights-based feminist foreign policy
Workshop between the German Foreign Office and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Berlin
05 Oct 2023
International courts and the public: the ambivalent relationship between public responsiveness and judicial independence
Conference on Judicial Independence of International Courts
University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
22 Sep 2023
Comment on: “Case law of the CJEU and the ECtHR: What can it tell us about the threats to the independence of these courts and the tools to combat them”
Works in Progress Workshop, ICON-S Germany
31 Aug 2023
Procedural Fairness in Global Supply Chains, European Society for International Law, Interest Group for Business and Human Rights
ESIL Conference, Business and Human Rights Interest Group
29 Jun 2023
From Corporate Individualism to Social Responsibility of Multinational Enterprises in a Transnational Economic Order
World Law Conference
University of Erlangen
24 Apr 2023
Presentation of Opinion No. 25 (2022) on Freedom of Expression of Judges des Consultative Council of European Judges
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
Teaching
Winter term 2023/2024
Colloquium on current challenges of European human rights protection
Summer term 2023
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
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
Reviewer for Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law
Reviewer for the Göttingen Journal of International Law
Reviewer for Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie [Journal on Sociology of Law]
Member of the Heidelberg Journal Advisory Board
German Association of Women Lawyers (Commission for Public International Law)
Former Member of the Association of Young Researchers in Public International Law
Miscellaneous
Gender Equality Officer at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
