Raffaela Kunz
Dr. iur., Senior Research Fellow
kunz@mpil.de
Main Fields of Research:
International courts and tribunals; ECtHR; relationship between international and domestic law; academic freedom; right to science; Open Science; global justice
Academic Career:
Since 2020: Habilitation Open Science - Opportunity and Challenge for Freedom and Equality in the Digital Age
Since 2020: Lecturer at the Europa-Institut of the Saarland University
Since 2019: Manager of the project "Scientific Blogs as Infrastructure for Digital Publishing and Academic Communication: Expanding the Model Project 'Völkerrechtsblog'"
2018-2020: Editor-in-Chief of the MPIL Research Paper Series
Since 2018: Co-Editor-in-Chief of Völkerrechtsblog
Since 2018: Senior Research Fellow at the MPIL
11/2017: Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude), University of Basel
Dissertation: Richter über internationale Gerichte? Die Rolle innerstaatlicher Gerichte bei der Umsetzung der Entscheidungen von EGMR und IAGMR
Awarded the 2018 Prize of the Swiss Society of International Law
09 - 10/2015: Visiting Fellow at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), supportet by the Mathieu Foundation Basel
2012-2013: Research assistant at the University of Basel, Switzerland, Anne Peters, chair of public international law and constitutional law
2011-2012: Master of Law, University of Basel/Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)
2010-2012: Student assistant at the University of Basel, Anne Peters, chair of public international law and constitutional law
2008-2012: Freelance journalist for Solothurner Zeitung
2007-2011: Bachelor of Law at the University of Basel
2006-2007: Studies in French and German Linguistics and Literature/Latin
Recent Publications
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Securing the survival of the system: the legal and institutional architecture to supervise compliance with the ECtHR’s judgments. In: Research Handbook on Compliance in International Human Rights Law,
Rainer Grote,
Mariela Morales Antoniazzi,
Davide Paris (eds.). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2021,
12-41.
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Special Issue: International Law and the Internet.
In: ZaöRV/HJIL 3,
597-886 (2021) (with
Matthias Kettemann,
Angelo Jr Golia).
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.17104/0...
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Opening Access, Closing the Knowledge Gap? Analysing GC No. 25 on the Right to Science and Its Implications for the Global Science System in the Digital Age.
In: ZaöRV/HJIL 81/1, 23-46 (2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.17104/0044-2348-2021-1-23.
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.17104/0...
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Teaching the World Court Makes a Bad Case: Revisiting the Relationship Between Domestic Courts and the ICJ. In: Remedies against Immunity? Reconciling International and Domestic Law after the Italian Constitutional Court’s Sentenza 238/2014,
Valentina Volpe,
Anne Peters,
Stefano Bettini (eds.). Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin 2021,
259-280.
http:/https://link.springer.com/chapter/...
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Richter über internationale Gerichte? Die Rolle innerstaatlicher Gerichte bei der Umsetzung der Entscheidungen von EGMR und IAGMR.
Springer,
Berlin/Heidelberg, 2020, 275 p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-61176-0
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2...
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Judging International Judgments Anew? The Human Rights Courts before Domestic Courts.
In: European Journal of International Law 30/4, 1129-1163 (2019). doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chz063.
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Diskurse öffnen, Grenzen überwinden: Der Völkerrechtsblog als Plattform für globale Wissenschaftskommunikation im digitalen Zeitalter.
In: Rechtswissenschaft Sonderheft zu "Open Access in der Rechtswissenschaft", 185-191 (2019). doi: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748903659-191 (with
Michael Riegner,
Dana Schmalz).
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/97...
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Constitutionalization and Democratization of Foreign Affairs: the Case of Switzerland. In: The Role of National Constitutions in European and Global Governance,
Anneli Albi,
Samo Bardutzky (eds.). T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer Open Access, The Hague 2019,
1491-1522.
https://www.springer.com/de/book/9789462...
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Weder entfesselt noch geknebelt. Rechtsfindung nationaler Gerichte in Zeiten globalen Regierens am Beispiel des Zusammenspiels mit EGMR und IAGMR. In: Richterliche Abhängigkeit. Rechtsfindung im Öffentlichen Recht, Mülder, Marie, Drechsler, Stefan, Helmrich, Christian, Streule, Veronika, Weitensteiner, Julia (eds.), 58. Assistententagung Öffentliches Recht, Nomos 2018,
299-331.
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The Italian Constitutional Court and ‘Constructive Contestation’: A Miscarried Attempt?
In: Journal of International Criminal Justice 14/3, 621-627 (2016).
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Schweiz - EU: Wohin führt der bilaterale Weg nach der Annahme der Volksinitiative "Gegen Masseneinwanderung"?
In: ZaöRV 74, 329-365 (2014).
Blogposts
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The Digital Threat to Science and Academic Freedom. TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 17 May 2022.
trafo.hypotheses.org/36984
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Threats to Academic Freedom under the Guise of Open Access: The Power of Publishers, Data Tracking in Science, and the Responsibilities of Public Actors,. Verfassungsblog, 18. März 2022.
https://verfassungsblog.de/threats-to-ac...
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Unfinished business – on recent human rights theorizations. Völkerrechtsblog, 10 December 2021 (with
Dana Schmalz,
Hannah Birkenkötter).
voelkerrechtsblog.org/unfinished-business/
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Die Zugangsrevolution steht noch immer aus. Verfassungsblog, 15. Juni 2021. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210615-193458-0.
verfassungsblog.de/die-zugangsrevolution-steht-noch-immer-aus/
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Irrational, unprofessional, radical? Towards a differentiated perspective on age in international law and politics scholarship. Völkerrechtsblog, 2020. doi: 10.17176/20200418-182245-0.
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/irrational...
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The ‘pseudo doctrine’ – a pseudo problem? On the (ir-)relevance of the doctrine of self-executing treaties for the domestic effect of international law. Völkerrechtsblog, 2020. doi: 10.17176/20200324-003017-0.
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-pseudo...
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"To be a judge means to be criticized from all sides". An interview with Angelika Nußberger. Völkerrechtsblog, 2020. doi: 10.17176/20200203-225908-0 (with
Dana Schmalz).
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/13674-2/...
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Voting down international law? Lessons from Switzerland for compensatory constitutionalism. Völkerrechtsblog, 2018. doi: 10.17176/20181203-191731-0. (with
Anne Peters).
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/voting-dow...
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A further "constitutionalization" to the detriment of the individual? On the ECtHR’s stricter reading of the principle of subsidiarity regarding the admissibility of cases. Völkerrechtsblog, 2018. doi: 10.17176/20180919-182059-0.
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/a-further-...
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"You learn a lot from your teachers but mostly from your students”. An Interview with Joseph H. H. Weiler. Völkerrechtsblog, 2017. doi: 10.17176/20170706-150503 (with
Dana Schmalz).
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/you-learn-...
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"The Inter-American System has always been in crisis, and we always found a way out". An interview with Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot. Völkerrechtsblog, 2016. doi: 10.17176/20180522-184804 (with
Lucas Sanchez).
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-inter-...
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Open Access on the shores of international legal scholarship. Völkerrechtsblog, 2016. doi: 10.17176/20171110-192408 (with
Michael Riegner).
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/open-acces...
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Keine Diktatur der Volksherrschaft! Warum Volksrechte und Menschenrechte nicht gegeneinander ausgespielt werden sollten. Verfassungsblog, 2014.
https://verfassungsblog.de/keine-diktatu...
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Von Global Cities und gallischen Dörfern.. Verfassungsblog, 2014 (with
Hannah Birkenkötter).
https://verfassungsblog.de/global-cities...
Working Papers
Presentations
10 Jun 2022
Open Science – What Role for Academic Freedom in Reclaiming Scientific Autonomy?
Practicing Sovereignty. Interventions for Open Digital Futures, Annual Conference of the Weizenbaum Institute, 9-10 June 2022, Alte Münze, Berlin.
23 May 2022
Data Tracking in Science
Referentenbesprechung, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
18 May 2022
Interactions of International Courts and Tribunals
Comment, Masterclass with Hélène Ruiz-Fabri on “The Fate of International Courts”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
29 Apr 2022
The Individual and the Enforcement of International Judgments
Lecture in the German-Israeli Minerva School “The Individual and International Human Rights Law”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
14 Apr 2022
Judging International Judgments Anew? On Contestations of Human Rights Courts by Domestic Tribunals
Guest lecture in the course "International Human Rights Law" of Prof. Evelyne Schmid, University of Lausanne
01 Apr 2022
Data Tracking - the Final Blow to the "Access Revolution"?
Lightning Talk, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin
11 Nov 2021
The Internet and Digital Scholarly Communication: Chances and Challenges for Academic Freedom
Resisting Multiple Pressures: Perspectives on Academic Freedom in Europe
re:constitution Seminar, Nova Univerza, Liubljana
18 Oct 2021
A Fundamental Rights Perspective on Open Science
“Open Science Ambassadors” conference of the Max Planck PhDnet and the Max Planck Digital Library
09 Sep 2021
International Law-Making from Below: The Case of Open Science
Changes in International Lawmaking: Actors, Processes, Impact
16th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law, Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice
01 Sep 2021
A Fundamental Rights Perspective on Open Science
Talk Series: Open Science in Practice
Max Planck Digital Library
09 Jul 2021
Varieties of Open Statehood: Comparing the Role of Domestic Courts in the Implementation of Judgments of the ECtHR and the IACtHR
The Global South and Varieties of Constitutionalism
ICON-S Mundo
09 Jul 2021
Teaching the World Court Makes a Bad Case: On the Complex Relationship Between Domestic and International Courts
The Future of Remedies against Immunity: The Italian–German Stalemate and Possible Ways Out
ICON-S Mundo
15 Mar 2021
ECtHR, Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Selahattin Demirtaş v. Turkey (no. 2)
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
09 Mar 2021
From Compliance Partners to Gatekeepers? The Role of Domestic Courts in Interpreting and Enforcing IHRL
Human Rights Discussion Group, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights
10 Dec 2020
Open Science in der Rechtswissenschaft - Wissenschaftsblogs
Online workshop zu "Open Access und Wandel der Publikationskultur in der Rechtswissenschaft, organisiert vom "open-access.network" und dem "Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung"
27 Oct 2020
Opening Access, Closing the Knowledge Gap? Thoughts on the CESCR's GC on the Right to Science
Rights Realization or Rights Inflation?
Max Planck Law Annual Conference
17 Feb 2020
Open Access in International Legal Scholarship and Beyond (together with Erik Tuchtfeld)
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
10 Jan 2020
Eine neue, junge Stimme im kritischen Kanon? Plädoyer für eine intersektionale und inklusive Betrachtung der Stellung junger Menschen im Völkerrecht
Keynote zur Konferenz "Jugend im Völkerrecht" an der Freien Universität Berlin
22 Jul 2019
Recent developments at the ECtHR (first infringement procedure and first advisory opinion) (together with Silvia Steininger)
Max Planck Instiute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
01 Apr 2019
Backlash, Compliance, and Institutional Architecture: Current Challenges to the Implementation of ECtHR Judgements
MPIL Momentum
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Description of the event
24 Jan 2019
Akzeptanz von Gerichtsentscheidungen
Menschenrechte unter Druck im Zeitalter des Populismus, 8. Potsdamer MenschenRechtsTag
Universität Potsdam
16 Jan 2019
Wie umgehen mit der Krise? Das EMRK-System und gegenwärtige Herausforderungen
Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen
Walther Schücking Institute for International Law, Kiel
26 Nov 2018 - 27 Dez 2018
Democratization and constitutionalization of foreign affairs – the case of Switzerland
The Role of National Constitutions in European and Global Governance. Book announcement conference
The Goodenough College, London
02 Nov 2018
Juzgando los tribunales de derechos humanos. Tribunales nacionales y el derecho constitucional para resistir el derecho internacional
A 40 años de la Corte IDH: Una mirada desde Europa
Max Planck Insitute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
18 Oct 2018 - 19 Okt 2018
Beispiele und Best Practices für Open Access in der Rechtswissenschaft: Völkerrechtsblog
Open Access für die Rechtswissenschaft. Pflicht oder Privatsache?
Exzellenzcluster Normative Ordnungen, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M.
21 Sep 2018
Domestic Courts and Constructive Contestation in the European and the Inter-American Human Rights Systems
Responding to Legitimacy Challenges: Opportunities and Choices for the European Court of Human Rights. Seminar organized by PluriCourts, The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and the Montaigne Centre at Utrecht University, the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University, Koç University Centre for Global Public Law and Hertie School of Governance, Berlin and hosted by the European Court of Human Rights
20 Aug 2018
The ECtHR and its stricter reading of subsidiarity – the end of individual justice?
Max Planck Instiute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
09 Apr 2018
Dänemarks Reformpläne für den EGMR
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
28 Feb 2018
Domestic Courts and Constructive Contestation in the European and the Inter-American Human Rights Systems
International Law in Times of Disorder and Contestation, ESIL Research Forum 2018, Hebrew
University Jerusalem
23 Feb 2018
Internationale Gerichte als nationale Richter? Rechtsfindung in Zeiten globalen Regierens
Richterliche Abhängigkeit - Rechtsfindung im Öffentlichen Recht, 58. Assistententagung im Öffentlichen Recht, Universität Regensburg
11 Dec 2017
Von EidgenossInnen und fremden RichterInnen: Die "Selbstbestimmungsinitiative" und ihr verfassungsrechtlicher Kontext
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (together with Saskia Stucki)
14 Aug 2017
Implementation of ECtHR Judgments at Center Stage - the Case of Moreira Ferreira v. Portugal (No. 2)
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
05 Jul 2017
Between Compliance and Contestation: The Implementation of Human Rights Judgments Trough Domestic Courts
Courts, Power, Public Law
ICON-S 2017, University of Copenhagen
12 May 2017
An International law perspective after Sentenza 238/2014 (Discussant)
Remedies Against Immunity? Reconciling International and Domestic Law After the Italian Constitutional Court's Sentenza 238/2014
Villa Vigoni, Lake Como, Italy
19 Jul 2016
Sentencias de la CorteIDH y del TEDH frente a las cortes nacionales: técnicas de implementación
Seminario: Impacto y desafíos de la supervisión de cumplimiento de sentencias de los tribunals regionals de derechos humanos
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
22 Feb 2016
Gefährdung der Rechtsstaatlichkeit durch die direkte Demokratie? Die Diskussion in der Schweiz vor der Abstimmung über die „Durchsetzungsinitiative“,
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
20 Oct 2015
The Direct Effect of Judgments of International Courts
Presentation of Research at the ACIL Luncheon Meeting
Amsterdam Center for International Law, Amsterdam
13 Feb 2015
Sentenza No. 238: A Setback or an Impetus for the Development of International Law?
European University Institute, Florence
02 Feb 2015
The ACHR and ECHR under Pressure - Do National Backlashes Imperil the Conventions' Future?
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (together with Jannika Jahn)
29 Aug 2014
Re-balancing the Power Shift? Parliamentary Participation Regarding Foreign Policy in Switzerland
Work-in-Progress Seminar 'Assessing the EU's responsiveness to constitutional rights: Data Retention, Arrest Warrants and beyond'
28 -29 August 2014, University of Kent, UK
Teaching
Frühjahr 2021
MPI/Juristische Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg
, 10. Mai 2021, 18-20 Uhr (c.t.)
Wintersemester 2020
Introduction to Public International Law
Europa-Institut of the Saarland University
Spring 2019
Völkerrecht, Lüge und Vertrauen in Zeiten der Fake News (Co-supervision and organisation of the seminar of Prof. Dr. Anne Peters)
University of Heidelberg/Freie Universität Berlin, 4-6 July 2019
Spring 2018
The UN Security Council as a Guarantor of Peace
Together with Dr. Carolyn Moser and Dr. Christian Marxsen, German-Chinese Seminar on International Law, German Foreign Office, Berlin, 19.03.2018
Frühjahr 2016
Heidelberg
Juristische Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg, 4. Juli 2016, 18.15-19.45
2013-2014
Head Coach of the Jessup Moot Court Team of the University of Heidelberg (National Champion 2014)
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg Faculty of Law/Max Planck Institute
Summersemester 2013
Tutor in constitutional law (Prof. Dr. Enrico Riva)
University of Basel Faculty of Law
Wintersemester 2012
Tutor in constitutional law (Prof. Dr. Enrico Riva)
University of Basel Faculty of Law
Summersemester 2012
Tutor in constitutional law (Prof. Dr. Markus Schefer)
University of Basel Faculty of Law
Wintersemester 2011
Tutor in constitutional law (Prof. Dr. Markus Schefer)
University of Basel Faculty of Law
Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad
Inaugural Conference of Max Planck Law, 21.10.2019 - 23.10.2019
8. Max Planck Masterclass with Professor Christoph Möllers, 13.05.2019 - 16.01.2020
Principled Resistance against ECtHR Judgments - a New Paradigm?, University of Constanze, Germany, 01.06.2017 - 02.06.2017
A Doctorate in Law - From Application to Publication, Workhsop with JHH Weiler, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 19.04.2016
Apprendre à repenser le droit international, Masterclass with Prof. Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet (Sciences Po, Paris), Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law, 04.05.2015 - 06.05.2015
First Max Planck Young Legal Scholars' Meeting, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 23.04.2015 - 25.04.2015
The Effectiveness of International Law, 108th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C. , 07.04.2014 - 12.04.2014
L‘État, c’est quoi? Staatsgewalt im Wandel, 54. Assistententagung Öffentliches Recht, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 11.02.2014 - 15.02.2014
13th Summer Course on International Humanitarian Law, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Sanremo (Italy) and Genva (Switzerland), 24.06.2013 - 05.07.2013
Towards A Global History of International Law, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Rechtskulturen Workshop, Berlin, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 01.02.2013
Honours
Award for the best university degree of the year 2012 of the University of Basel Faculty of Law
Memberships
European Society of International Law (ESIL)
Miscellaneous
Sprachen
German, French, English, Spanish
Further activities
Co-organizer "Schweizer Nachwuchsforum Öffentliches Recht"/"Forum suisse pour la relève en droit public" (2018-2019)
2014-2017: PhD representative at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
