Jannika Jahn

Jannika Jahn is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Her research focuses on public international law, with particular emphasis on human rights, environmental and economic law, the European Union’s external action, and comparative constitutional law—especially with regard to the rule of law and the comparative study of courts, their institutional frameworks, and patterns of legal reasoning and decision-making.

Symposium
Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

From Carbon Sovereignty to Trusteeship of the Climate Commons

Jannika Jahn Nele Suchantke

Treated as a corollary of industrial development, the freedom to emit CO2 and other greenhouse gases within a State’s territory was seen as both a prerequisite of economic progress and...

Symposium
Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Climate Change at the Forefront of the Structural Transformation of International Law

Khaled El Mahmoud Jannika Jahn Moritz Vinken

The ICJ’s advisory opinion on climate protection has far-reaching implications – both for climate action and for the entirety of (environmental) international law. The Court was faced with a complex...

Article

Die schwierige Aufgabe der Humanisierung des humanitären Völkerrechts:

Der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR) steht vor schwierigen Entscheidungen hinsichtlich der Anwendung der Konventionsrechte im bewaffneten Konflikt (vgl. Georgien gg. Russland (II) und Ukraine gg. Russland (I-III)). Für die...

Symposium
Verfassungs- und Völkerrecht im Spannungsverhältnis

The UK’s Potential Withdrawal from the ECHR

The ruling Conservative party of Prime Minister David Cameron published a paper this year, called “Protecting Human Rights in the UK”. The party suggests to replace the Human Rights Act...