Public International Law

1. General Public International Law

• Due Diligence in International Law
• Global Constitutionalism and Global Governance
• Human Rights and State Immunities
• The Individual in International Law – History and Theory
• International Health Governance
• International Law in Times of Transition
• International Public Authority
• Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
• Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War
• Privatisation under and of  Public International Law (Lauterpacht Lectures 2017)
• Scientific Blogs as Infrastructure for Digital Publishing and Academic Communication: Expanding the Model Project "Völkerrechtsblog"
• Towards a Proceduralization of International Law?
• Academic Qualification Projects:
  • Cyber Due Diligence (Leonhard Kreuzer)
  • Konflikt und Illegalität – Eine völker- und verfassungsrechtliche Untersuchung zum ius contra bellum (Christian Marxsen) (German Version only)
  • Moral Damages – The Development of Private Law Analogies in Public International Law (Robert Stendel)
• Completed Academic Qualification Projects (Selection):
  • Anhörungs- und Beteiligungsrechte im WTO-Recht: eine Rekonstruktion aus verwaltungsrechtlicher Perspektive (Michael Ioannidis) (German Version only)
  • The "Unwilling or Unable State" as a Challenge to International Law (UoU project) (Paulina Starski)
  • Pandemics and Law: A Global Governance Perspective (Pedro Villarreal)

2. International Humanitarian Law

• Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War, Vol. II (Applicability of IHL)

3. International Economic Law

• Academic Qualification Projects:
  • Law of International Monetary Policy Coordination (Kanad Bagchi)
  • Labour Governance by International Economic Institutions (Franz Christian Ebert)

4. Environmental Law - Global Animal Law

• Biodiversity Litigation
• Global Animal Law
• International Law and the Atmosphere
• Trilogy on a Legal Theory of Animal Rights

5. Law of the Sea

6. International Organisations

• Academic Qualification Projects:
  • Responsibility of International Organizations for Human Rights Violations (Mateja Steinbrück Platise)
• Completed Academic Qualification Projects (Selection):
  • The Security Council`s Contribution to a Global Concept of the Rule of Law (Nuscha Wieczorek)

7. International Jurisdiction

• Academic Qualification Projects:
  • Gesetzgebungsauftrag aus Straßburg? (Markus Fyrnys) (German Version only)
  • Transformative Adjudication: the Case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Ximena Soley Echeverría)
  • Challenging Authority: How International Institutions manage State Resistance (Silvia Karin Steininger)
• Completed Academic Qualification Projects (Selection):
  • Das Prinzip der Komplementarität. Ein Beitrag zur Legitimation des Inter-Amerikanischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte (Simon Hentrei) (German Version only)
  • Richter über internationale Gerichte? Die Rolle innerstaatlicher Gerichte bei der Umsetzung der Entscheidungen von EGMR und IAGMR (Raffaela Kunz) (German Version only)

8. History of International Law

• History of International Law
• Historical Foundations of Public and International Law
• Academic Qualification Projects:
  • Die Entwicklung des humanitären Völkerrechts im 19. Jahrhundert (Raphael Schäfer) (German Version only)
• Completed Academic Qualification Projects (Selection):
  • The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914): the Nature of Nineteenth-Century International Law (Mieke van der Linden)