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At the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, scholars pursue research relating to basic issues and current developments in the areas of public international law, European Union law, and the constitutional and administrative law of individual states, together with numerous visiting scholars from all over the world. In its fields, our library is the largest in Europe and one of the most comprehensive in the world.


Recent Publications

Tuchtfeld, Erik: No Backdoor for Mass Surveillance: The European Court of Human Rights Protects the Right to Encrypted Communication. Verfassungsblog, 29 February 2024. Link

Moser, Carolyn: Ma patrie, c’est le multilinguisme. MPIL100.de, 2024.

Villarreal, Pedro: Cross-Border Mobility of Persons and Goods during Pandemics: Exposing Normative Duality in International Law. In: Pandemics, Public Health, and the Regulation of Borders: Lessons from COVID-19. Routledge, London 2024, 341-351. Link

Peters, Anne: The Individual in International Law. History and Theory. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2024, XIV+434 p. (with Tom Sparks, ed.).

Viveros Uehara, Thalia: Cartografía de la producción académica sobre cumplimiento e impacto del SIDH. Harvard Dataverse, 2023 (with Patricia Cruz Marin, Maria Gabriela Valenzuela, Lavinia Francesconi). Link

Seidl, Leon: Les Nouveaux Rôles de l'OMC. In: Réforme de l’OMC: vers un nouveau multilatéralisme économique. Les Presses de la SQDI, Sherbrooke 2024, 11-27 (with Gabrielle Marceau, Maéva Obiang Ndong). Link

von Bogdandy, Armin: Grundlagenteil und Verfassungskern der EU-Verträge. In: JZ 4, 115-125 (2024) (with Jürgen Bast).

Herbert, Felix: Hermann Mosler und das „Ius Cogens im Völkerrecht“. MPIL100, 23 February 2024. Link

Publications 2023 / 2024