Silvia Steininger

LL.M., M.A., Research Fellow

steininger@mpil.de

Main Fields of Research:

Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law | Law of International Organizations | International Courts | Human Rights | Investment Law and Arbitration | Political Theory

Academic Career:

CURRENT POSITIONS

Research Fellow for Armin von Bogdandy at the MPIL (2016 - )

• Dissertation on the topic "Under Pressure. On the Resilience of Regional Human Rights Regimes in an Age of Backlash"
• Project management and coordination of the project on International Public Authority
• Individual research project on the role of human rights in investment law and arbitration
• Founder and co-organizer of the discussion group Theory Talks
• Affiliated researcher at the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders" at Goethe University Frankfurt

Lecturer at Karlshochschule International Karlsruhe (2020 - )

Lecturer at Université Catholique de Lille (2019 - )

EDUCATION

PhD student at the Law Faculty of the Goethe University Frankfurt (2019 - )

Master of Laws (LL.M cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam in International and European Law: Public International Law (2015 - 2016)

Master of Arts (M.A.) at the University of Heidelberg: Political Science with a minor in Public Law (2014 - 2017)

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at the University of Heidelberg: Political Science with a minor in Public Law (2011 - 2014)

RESEARCH STAYS

Masaryk University, Judicial Studies Institute, Brno (03 - 05/2023)

Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Department for International Dispute Resolution, Luxemburg (2/2023)

Hertie School, Centre for Fundamental Rights, Berlin (06 - 08/2022)

iCourts, The Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for International Courts, Copenhagen (08 - 09/2021)

Council of Europe, Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg (10 - 12/2018)

EUI, European University Institute, Florence (07/2016)

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES

Graduate Research Assistant for Prof. Deirdre Curtin, Amsterdam Center for European Law and Governance, Amsterdam (2015 - 2016)

Intern at the German Embassy Bulgaria, Political Department, Sofia (02 - 04/2015)

Graduate Research Assistant and Tutor at the Chair for International Relations and Foreign Policy, Prof. Sebastian Harnisch & Prof. Peter Schlotter, University of Heidelberg (2013 - 2015)

Research Assistant for Dr. Matthias Goldmann, Department of Armin von Bogdandy, MPIL, Heidelberg (2012 - 2016)

Intern at the European Parliament, MEP Csaba Sògor, Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania, Brussels (04 - 06/2011)

Volunteer in Romania in the "kulturweit" program, cultural volunteer service by the German Commission for UNESCO and the Federal Foreign Office, High School for Fine Arts in Miercurea Ciuc/Csikszereda and Goethe Institute Bucharest, Romania (2010 - 2011)

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Recent Publications

• Investment and Human Rights in the Shadow of the Pandemic: Recent Developments in 2020. In: Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2020, Lisa E. Sachs, Lise J. Johnson, Jesse Coleman (eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2022, 1-21. Available online at OUP Investment Claims
  
• Against the Masters of War: The Overlooked Functions of Conflict Litigation by International Courts. In: Law & Contemporary Problems 84, 95-122 (2021) (zusammen mit Nicole Deitelhoff). Available at L&CP (Open Access)
  
• The Role of Human Rights in Investment Law and Arbitration. State Obligations, Corporate Responsibility and Community Empowerment. In: The Cambridge Companion to Business and Human Rights Law, Ilias Bantekas, Michael Ashley Stein (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2021, 406-421. Available at CUP
  
• With or Without You: Suspension, Expulsion, and the Limits of Membership Sanctions in Regional Human Rights Regimes. In: Heidelberg Journal of International Law/Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 81 (2), 533-566 (2021). Available at HJIL/ZaöRV (Open Access)
  
• Who Turned Multinational Corporations into Bearers of Human Rights? On the Creation of Corporate 'Human' Rights in International Law. In: Contingency in International Law. On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories, Ingo Venzke, Kevin Jon Heller (eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2021, 281-296 (zusammen mit Jochen von Bernstorff).
  

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Democracy and Financial Order: Legal Perspectives. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Bd. 273. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Bd. 273. Springer, Heidelberg, 2018, 227 p. . Available at Springer


Parting ways or lashing back? Withdrawals, backlash and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. In: International Journal of Law in Context 14(2), 237 -257 (2018). Available at International Journal of Law in Context


What's Human Rights Got To Do With It? An Empirical Analysis of Human Rights References in Investment Arbitration. In: Leiden Journal of International Law 31(1), 33-58 (2018). Available at LJIL


A Discourse Theoretical Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Towards a Democratic Financial Order. In: German Law Journal 17(5), 709-746 (2016). Available at GLJ


Democracy and Financial Order: Legal Perspectives. In: German Law Journal 17(5), 705-906 (2016). Available at GLJ

Blogposts

• Favourite Readings 2022 – A Collection of First Academic Books. EJIL:Talk!, 2022 (zusammen mit Helga Molbæk-Steensig). Available at EJIL:Talk!
  
• Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Verfassungsblog, 2022. Available at Verfassungsblog
  
• Travelling Courts and Strategic Visitation. A German Court went to Peru. Verfassungsblog, 2022 (with Juan Camilo Herrera). Available at Verfassungsblog
  
• Deutschland, Russland und „Dazwischen“ (English Version: Germany, Russia and the „In Between“). Verfassungsblog, 2022. Available at Verfassungsblog
  
• Swipe up for the German Federal Constitutional Court on Instagram. Judicial Storytelling in the Era of Social Media. Verfassungsblog, 2021. Available at Verfassungsblog
  

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Beyond Shaming. Potentials and Limits of Rewarding in Human Rights. Völkerrechtsblog, 2021. Available at Völkerrechtsblog


Once More on Judicial Resilience: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights Responds to the Revictimizing Challenge of Colombia in the Case of Jineth Bedoya Lima and Other. Opinio Juris, 2021 (zusammen mit Mariela Morales). Available at Opinio Juris


From the margins to the center – can social movements save international investment law? A comment to Moshe Hirsch. Völkerrechtsblog, 2021. Available at Völkerrechtsblog


Don’t Leave Me This Way: Regulating Treaty Withdrawal in the Inter-American Human Rights System. EJIL:Talk!, 2021. Available at EJIL:Talk!


Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore. A Critical Reflection on Zoomification. Verfassungsblog, 2020. Available at Verfassungsblog


How to Protect Human Rights in Times of Corona? Lessons from the Inter-American Human Rights System. EJIL:Talk!, 2020 (with Mariela Morales). Available at EJIL:Talk!


An Internal Safety Net for the Council of Europe?. Verfassungsblog, 2019. Available at Verfassungsblog


Managing the Backlash? The PACE and the Question of Participation Rights for Russia. Verfasungsblog, 2018. Available at Verfassungsblog


On history, geography, and radical change in international law - An interview with BS Chimni. Völkerrechtsblog, 2018. Available at Völkerrechtsblog


The Kosovo Specialist Chambers: A New Chapter for International Criminal Justice in the Balkans. Völkerrechtsblog, 2018. Available at Völkerrechtsblog


„Vor săvoteze, lăsați-i săvoteze!“: Über Diaspora und Demokratie. Völkerrechtsblog, 2015. Available at Völkerrechtsblog


“Law for the people, not for the judges“ – Reflexionen von und über Luis Moreno Ocampo. JuWiss Blog, 2014. Available at JuWiss Blog

Working Papers

• Investment and Human Rights in the Shadow of the Pandemic: Recent Developments in 2020. Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law (MPIL) Research Paper No. 2021-04, 2021. Available at SSRN
  
• The Role of Human Rights in Investment Law and Arbitration: State Obligations, Corporate Responsibility, and Community Empowerment. MPIL Research Paper Series No. 2020-16, 2020. Available at SSRN
  
• Who Turned Multinational Corporations into Bearers of Human Rights? On the Creation of Corporate “Human” Rights in International Law. MPIL Research Paper Series No. 2018-25, 2018 (with Jochen von Bernstorff). Available at SSRN
  
• Parting Ways or Lashing Back? Withdrawal, Backlash and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. MPIL Research Paper Series No. 2018-01, 2018 (with Ximena Soley). Available at SSRN
  

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Further Publications

• Buchbesprechung: Aust, Helmut Philipp, Esra Demir-Gürsel: The European Court of Human Rights. Current Challenges in Historical Perspectives, Cheltenham, 2021. In: Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, 42, 110-120, 2022. Available at Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie
  
• Buchbesprechung: Wiener, Antje: Contestation and Constitution of Norms in Global International Relations, Cambridge University Press, 2018. In: International Journal of Constitutional Law, 19 (1), 363-367, 2021. Available at ICON
  
• Buchbesprechung: Ranjan, Prabash: India and Bilateral Investment Treaties. Refusal, Acceptance, Backlash, Oxford, 2019. In: European Yearbook of International Economic Law, 10, 1-6, 2021. Available at Springer
  

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