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Moritz Vinken

Maîtr. en droit (Paris II), LL.M. (King's College London). Research Fellow

vinken@mpil.de
Tel. +49 (6221) 482-493

Main Fields of Research:

International and Transnational Environmental Law; the International Public Authority Approach as well as other Legal Approaches to Globalization

Academic Career:

Since 12/2021: Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the MPIL under the supervision of Armin von Bogdandy.

2020-2021: King's College London, LL.M. (Transnational Law) as student of the European Law School
(Dissertation on: Territory and public authority in cyberspace – Shifting pillars of sovereignty).

12/2020: First state examination (law), Berlin.

09/2016-02/2018: Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), Licence en droit, Maîtrise en droit (droit international)

10/2014 - 08/2016: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Law)
(Internships, among others, at the High Court of Botswana and at the law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP)

Recent Publications

Blogposts

Further Publications

  • Book Review: Bischof, Thorsten: Das Pariser Klimaschutzabkommen; Zur Effektivität völkerrechtlicher Klimaschutzverträge, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. In: ZaöRV – Die Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, 83/3, 557-566, 2023. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.17104/0...

Presentations

06 Oct 2023

Feminist Foreign Policy and International Climate Change Law

8th Workshop of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the Federal Foreign Office. Feminist Foreign Policy and Feminist Public International Law

19 Jul 2023

The BBNJ Agreement: A 'New York Moment' for the Oceans?

Joint Presentation and Discussion together with Professor Makane Moïse Mbengue. In context of the Max Planck Law Initiative on Law, Climate Change, and the Environment.

10 Jun 2022

Klimaschutz und Völkerrecht - Perspektiven der strategischen Prozessführung gegen staatliche Stellen (Perspectives of strategic climate litigation against States))

Workshop "Klimaschutz und Völkerrecht (Climate protection and Public International Law)" organized by the Scientists for Future Initiative

Universität Mannheim

Teaching

Winter Term 2023

International Law Tutorial

Summer Term 2023

International Law Tutorial

Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg - with Richard Dören, Felix Herbert and Raphael Schäfer

Winter Term 2022

Seminar 'Unpacking International Climate Change Law; A transnational legal toolkit'

Law Faculty of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Q-Program

Summer Term 2022

International Law Tutorial

Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg - with Richard Dören, Felix Herbert, Paula Anna Jenner and Raphael Schäfer

Summer Term 2017

German Civil Law Tutorial

Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), together with other German students of the double-degree program

Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad

Observer at the COP28, Dubai Climate Change Conference, 07.12.2023 - 14.12.2023

Feminist Foreign Policy and Feminist Public International Law. 8th Workshop of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the Federal Foreign Office., 06.10.2023

Co-Organizer of the Max Planck Climate Conference for a Sustainable Anthropocene, 11.07.2023 - 12.07.2023

XI Strathclyde Postgraduate Colloquium on Environmental Law and Governance; Presenting on 'Global Climate Change Governance: negotiating the process of decolonisation'. , 15.06.2023

Round Table 'Sustainability, Green Transition and Climate Change', Universita Tor Vergata, Presentation on: '“Sustainable” Development? Analysing the Attempted Re-Negotiation of Imperial International
Law in Global Climate Change Governance', 04.05.2023

Masterclass 2023:From Madison to Trump - US Constitutional Law in the Light of Current Developments with Daniel Halberstam organized by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, 24.04.2023 - 27.04.2023

Observer at the COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change Conference., 14.11.2022 - 20.11.2022

Conference on “Liberalism and Ecology in the Anthropocene” organized by the ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law, 30.06.2022 - 02.07.2022

ClimLaw: Graz 1st Annual PhD Workshop on Climate Law and Litigation in cooperation with UNEP, UBA and ASSELLAU, 23.05.2022 - 27.05.2022

Masterclass 2022: 'The Fate of International Courts' with Professor Hélène Ruiz Fabri organized by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, 16.05.2022 - 19.05.2022

Miscellaneous

MPIL Research Paper Series

Since 07/2022: Editor-in-Chief of the MPIL Research Paper Series

Max Planck Initiative: Law, Climate Change and the Environment

Organizer since November 2022

Multiplication of Authorities in Global Governance Institutions (MAGGI); Max Planck Research Group

Associated Researcher since April 2022

Transnational Legal Theory Journal

03/2021 - 07/2022: Senior Student Editor of the Transnational Legal Theory Journal

10/2020 - 03/2021: Student Editor of the Transnational Legal Theory Journal

Scholarships

Since 04/2023: PhD Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

12/2021 - 05/2022: PhD Exposé-Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

04/2019 - 09/2021: Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

09/2016 - 02/2018: Scholarship of the Deutsch-Französische Hochschule / Université Franco-Allemande

Peer Reviews

Reviewer for the American Journal of International Law