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Democracy in Latin America under COVID-19

28.10.2020
Mariela Morales Antoniazzi Alina Maria Ripplinger
Just like all over the world, Latin America’s current state of emergency concerns saving the health, integrity and lives of people. Nevertheless, in the context of COVID-19 the region is...
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Three years after the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar: Has the ASEAN changed?

26.10.2020
Dominique Virgil Tuapetel
August 2020 marked the three-year commemoration of mass atrocities towards the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, causing around 730,000 Rohingya to flee to the neighbouring Bangladesh and other countries. This post...
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Video: ‘To me, fair friend, you can never be old’. The European Convention on Human Rights at 70

23.10.2020
Başak Çalı
On 23 October we transmitted the livestream of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law's 3rd Bernhardt Lecture with Başak Çalı which took place in a hybrid...
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Solidarität oder gemeinsame Verantwortungslosigkeit?

20.10.2020
Dana Schmalz
Das gemeinsame Europäische Asylsystem war in den vergangenen Jahren immer weniger ein gemeinsames - und immer weniger ein funktionierendes. Die Fehler im System sind allgemein bekannt: Ineffektive Zuständigkeitsregeln, Streit um...
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Die Schrems II-Entscheidung des EuGH

15.10.2020
Erik Tuchtfeld
In der Referentenbesprechung vom 12. Oktober 2020 am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht stellt Erik Tuchtfeld die Schrems II-Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs vor, mit der das Privacy Shield...
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The U.S. v. the rest of the world

14.10.2020
Jan-Philip Graf
On October 18, an arms embargo on Iran imposed by the UN Security Council a decade ago will expire. As of that day, Iran will be allowed to deal with...
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Bridging the gap: the MPIA as a valuable short-term solution to the impasse of the WTO’s Appellate Body?

12.10.2020
Caroline Glöckle
“At the core of a well-functioning multilateral trading system is an effective dispute resolution mechanism”, emphasized Appellate Body Member Peter Van den Bossche in his farewell speech. Reality in the...
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Digitaler Salon: Der Fall der Paywall

07.10.2020
Raffaela Kunz
Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat erneut gezeigt, wie wichtig digitaler Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Publikationen ist und hat der Debatte rund um Open Access neuen Schwung gegeben. Am 30. September organisierte das Alexander...
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A state obligation to allot land to minorities?

06.10.2020
Robin Ramsahye
Land rights are an important, but underexplored aspect of international law. Although a general right to land has been discussed for several years and appears to slowly take shape (see...
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Transnational biographies and “legal flows”

02.10.2020
Kerstin von Lingen
I feel honoured by the inspiring comments my book has received from so many eminent colleagues, and I would like to thank everybody, and also the Völkerrechtsblog for the opportunity...
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Christian is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and a member of the research project “Methods of the history of global law”. His fields of research include the history and normative foundations of the modern law of the sea, processes of norm-genesis in international law and comparative international law.

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Video: ‘To me, fair friend, you can never be old’. The European Convention on Human Rights at 70

23.10.2020
Başak Çalı
On 23 October we transmitted the livestream of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law's 3rd Bernhardt Lecture with Başak Çalı which took place in a hybrid...
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Solidarität oder gemeinsame Verantwortungslosigkeit?

20.10.2020
Dana Schmalz
Das gemeinsame Europäische Asylsystem war in den vergangenen Jahren immer weniger ein gemeinsames - und immer weniger ein funktionierendes. Die Fehler im System sind allgemein bekannt: Ineffektive Zuständigkeitsregeln, Streit um...
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Die Schrems II-Entscheidung des EuGH

15.10.2020
Erik Tuchtfeld
In der Referentenbesprechung vom 12. Oktober 2020 am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht stellt Erik Tuchtfeld die Schrems II-Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs vor, mit der das Privacy Shield...
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Digitaler Salon: Der Fall der Paywall

07.10.2020
Raffaela Kunz
Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat erneut gezeigt, wie wichtig digitaler Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Publikationen ist und hat der Debatte rund um Open Access neuen Schwung gegeben. Am 30. September organisierte das Alexander...
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Vortrag: Grundrechte schützen – eine grenzenlose Verpflichtung?

19.05.2020
Erik Tuchtfeld
Der Völkerrechtsblog veröffentlicht die Aufzeichnung des digitalen Vortrags von Erik Tuchtfeld, Redaktionsmitglied des Völkerrechtsblogs, auf Einladung des Heidelberger Kreises am 07. Mai 2020: Grundrechte schützen – eine grenzenlose Verpflichtung? Der...
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Awarding inspiration

21.01.2020
In 2018 the Max Planck Society established the Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law (MaxCamPIL), a research prize awarded jointly by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and...
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Reflections on the history and future of Law and Development

10.10.2019
Watch here the recording of  the Keynote Lecture of David Trubek (University of Wisconsin-Madison) who reflects upon the history and future of Law and Development and its main current challenges,...
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Social justice – a vehicle for transformative constitutionalism

10.10.2019
Watch here the recording of the Keynote of Justice Madan Lokur (Supreme Court of India) who explains the challenges and opportunities of transformative constitutionalism as a vehicle for social justice,...
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Towards comparative legal institutionalism

09.10.2019
Watch here the Keynote Lecture of Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School) reflecting on questions of method and theory through her approach of "comparative legal institutionalism", opening the LDRN Conference at...
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