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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

Peters, Anne: The UN Security Council and the Maintenance of Peace in a Changing World. Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War Vol. 5 (Congyan Cai/Larissa van den Herik/Tiyanjana Maluwa). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024, X+310 p. (with Christian Marxsen, ed.).

McLarren, Katharina: The Palgrave Handbook of Diplomatic Thought and Practice in the Digital Age. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2023, 543 p. (with Francis Onditi, Gilad Ben-Nun, Yannis Stivachtis, Pontian Okoth, ed.). Link

von Bogdandy, Armin: The Emergence of European Society through Public Law. A Hegelian and Anti-Schmittian Approach. University Press, Oxford, 2024, 313 p.

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

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

Publications 2023 / 2024