Public International Law

1. General Public International Law

• Due Diligence in International Law
• Global Constitutionalism and Global Challenges
• Human Rights and State Immunities
• The Individual in International Law – History and Theory
• International Health Governance
• International Law and the Internet
• 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 Proceduralisation of International Law?
• Academic Qualification Projects:
  • Völkerrechtswissenschaft im Vergleich: Die völkerrechtliche Verantwortung multinationaler Unternehmen im Spiegel der Völkerrechtsliteratur aus Deutschland und den USA (Richard Dören) (German Version only)
  • Privatized Justice: The Role of the Private Sector in Transitional Justice Processes (Julia Emtseva)
  • Cyber Due Diligence (Leonhard Kreuzer)
  • Support to Nonviolent Protest Movements and International Law (Florian Kriener)
  • Moral Damages – The Transformation of Private Law Analogies in Public International Law (Robert Stendel)
• Completed Academic Qualification Projects (Selection):
  • Völkerrechtsordnung und Völkerrechtsbruch: Theorie und Praxis der Illegalität im Ius Contra Bellum (Christian Marxsen) (German Version only)
  • The "Unwilling or Unable State" as a Challenge to International Law (UoU project) (Paulina Starski)

2. International Humanitarian Law

• Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War

3. International Economic Law

• Human Rights in Investment Law and Arbitration
• The Unionisation of International Investment Law: Promoting and Protecting European Values?
• 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
• Climate Mainstreaming
• Global Animal Law
• International Law and the Atmosphere
• Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law
• Trilogy on a Legal Theory of Animal Rights

5. Law of the Sea

6. International Organisations

• Transnational Institutionalism
• 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

• Geopolitics and International Law in the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
• Academic Qualification Projects:
  • Under Pressure: On the Resilience of Regional Human Rights Regimes in an Age of Backlash (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)
  • Transformative Adjudication: the Case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Ximena Soley Echeverría)

8. History of International Law

• History of International Law
• Academic Qualification Projects:
  • Humanity as a Vehicle - The Discourse on the Codification of the Laws of War in European International Law During the Formative Years from 1815 to 1874 (Raphael Schäfer)