Montagsrunde am MPIL

On 20 May 2024, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan filed an application for arrest warrants against Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Deif), Ismail Haniyeh, Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant before the Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court. I will introduce the relevant legal background.

I look forward to an engaging discussion on this important matter!

Best,

Valentin

From 6 to 9 June 2024, around 370 million Europeans will be called to the polls to elect the 720 members of the next European Parliament. In this Monday Round I will discuss the national results and give some outlook on what these could mean for the next legislative period.

Pope Francis' appeal to the Ukrainian government not to be ashamed to raise the white flag provoked strong reactions from various politicians. By examining how the Roman Catholic Church has positioned itself during the Ukraine War specifically and wars in the 21st century more generally, I would like to spark a discussion on what to expect from religious actors concerning international law.

Dear colleagues, 

on July 1, 2024, I would like to present the core findings of my dissertation that was recently published Open Access in the institute's "Schwarze Reihe". The book's title is: Proteste und Intervention - Die staatliche Unterstützung gewaltfreier Protestbewegungen im Völkerrecht. 

The presentation and discussion will be in English. 

Kind regards, 

Florian 

Dear colleagues,

many of you will have followed the proceedings before the ICJ in the case between Nicaragua v. Germany raising many intriguing questions of international law and beyond. In this monday meeting, we want to discuss with you the ICJ's decision on Nicaragua's request for provisional measures (if yet rendered).

We look forward to a fruitful discussion.

Best wishes

Alexander Wentker & Robert Stendel

Jannika Jahn and I will present the Advisory Opinion of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on the obligations of State Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (‘UNCLOS’) relating to climate change. We will also discuss its implications for the climate regime and try to tentatively situate the Opinion in within the larger lines of development of international environmental law.

Talk by Flávia Piovesan, ex-Vice President of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights

Talk by Nancy Hernández, current President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights will deliver three judgments on climate protection on 9 April 2024: Duarte Agostinho, Verein KlimaSeniorinnen and Carême. These are the first judgments handed down by the Court on the question of whether and to what extent the European Convention on Human Rights grants human rights protection in matters of climate change. In doing so, the Court has to clarify fundamental questions, including those relating to the victim status of the complainants, the applicability of the Convention in relation to extraterritorial human rights violations and the interpretative link between international environmental law and human rights protection.

Dear all,

On 24th April 2024, a package-deal piece of US legislation was signed into law by President Biden. The bill tied several policies which were then under discussion to financial and military aid to the US’ strategic partners, effectively securing their entry into force. These policies included the ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’ (PAFACAA), a statute which had been approved by the House of Representatives on 14th March 2024, but was having a difficult time being adopted in Senate.

PAFACAA is often referred to as ‘TikTok ban’. In fact, the statute comes at the end of a 5-year long saga, in which several levels of the US government tried to restrict the US operations of the popular Chinese-owned application, ‘TikTok’. Through its pervasive use by the US population, TikTok is deemed to pose risks to the US’ national security. PAFACAA tries to address these risks through a radical aut-aut: either TikTok’s Chinese owners divest their stakes in TikTok, or the application faces restrictions on its operativity in the US.

While commentaries have mostly focused on TikTok, however, PAFACAA puts in place a more general legal framework, which might be mobilised again in the future against other ‘foreign adversary controlled applications’.

In this Monday meeting, I would like to present PAFACAA and its background, and to reflect with you on what PAFACAA might mean for US economic security law at large.

Best,

Paolo

We have an amazing guest for this upcoming presentation in the “gender talks” series. Dr. Sabine Blackmore will talk about the various forms of bias in academia, including unconscious and unintended mechanisms of bias, and strategies to deal with them.