The Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (ZaöRV)/Heidelberg Journal of International Law (HJIL) has been published since 1929 under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.
The journal is a forum for discussing fundamental and current issues of public international law, European Union law, comparative public law, and occasionally topics in the domestic public law of EU member states and beyond. It publishes contributions by authors from all over the world, with a wide gamut of scholarly methods and outlooks. The ZaöRV/HJIL particularly seeks to discuss controversial issues, in line with the Institute’s commitment to problem-oriented foundational legal scholarship.
The journal is bilingual (English and German). It thereby continues to serve the German-speaking community. All German pieces are made visible to that international readership by their English abstracts and translated titles.
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The HJIL/ZaöRV Editors invite submissions of manuscripts focusing on international law, European law and comparative public law. Manuscripts can be accepted for evaluation only when submitted using our Online Submission system https://www.editorialmanager.com/heidelbergjil.
Authors are requested to consult and follow the Journal’s submission guidelines as well as the Journal’s Statement on Publication Ethis and Publication Malpractice. All manuscripts must be original and not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere; they represent the scientific views of the author(s).
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As an Institute of the Max Planck Society we are committed to the principle of open knowledge. Therefore, we provide immediate Open Access to the contents of the ZaöRV/HJIL, beginning with issue 1 of 2021. We thereby seek to facilitate the global exchange of knowledge. The full texts of all contributions published after 2020 are available in the Nomos e-Library. Previous content is permanently stored and freely accessible on www.zaoerv.de.
In line with the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, users are allowed to read, download, print, copy, use, distribute, publicly display, make and distribute derivative works, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking for prior permission from the publisher or the author subject to proper attribution of authorship. Starting with issue 1 of 2021, all content of the ZaöRV/HJIL are published under the Creative Commons BY SA 4.0.
Authors publishing in this journal retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions. They are not charged any fees (i.e. no article processing charges or submission charges).
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Directors of the Institute
Armin von Bogdandy, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Anne Peters, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Robert Stendel, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Carolyn Moser, Research Group Leader, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Richard Dören, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Matthias Goldmann, Junior Professor of International Public Law and Financial Law, Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.; Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Rainer Grote, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Laura Hering, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Michael Ioannidis, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Jannika Jahn, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Martin Andrew Jarrett, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Florian Kriener, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Christian Marxsen, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Carolyn Moser, Research Group Leader, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Christiane Philipp, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Raphael Schaefer, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Dana Schmalz, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Mark Somos, Research Group Leader, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Luke Dimitrios Spieker, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Saskia Stucki, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Pedro Villarreal, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
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