Anna-Julia Saiger

Anna-Julia Saiger (Dr. iur., LL.M.) is a legal trainee at the Higher Regional Court in Karlsruhe. She graduated from King’s College, London, Humboldt University, Berlin, and La Sapienza, Rome, and is currently working as a research assistant at the Institute for Media and Information Law at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg i. Br. Her research focuses on climate change and international law. She is an editor at Völkerrechtsblog.

Symposium
Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective

Introducing the Symposium on Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective

Maxim Bönnemann Meike Krakau Anna-Julia Saiger

“We are dealing with core, indeed, high policy-making”. Last week, in overturning the ground-breaking Sharma decision, Justice Allsop of the Australian Federal Court made this crucial statement. This decision has...

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Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective

Anna-Julia Saiger Michael Riegner Maxim Bönnemann

We invite you to send us your blogposts for a joint blog symposium to be published on Verfassungsblog and on Völkerrechtsblog. Selected contributions may also be developed into full articles for a...

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Contingency in International Law

Book Review Symposium: Contingency in International Law

Raffaela Kunz Raphael Oidtmann Anna-Julia Saiger

Could international law have turned out differently? What were contingent crossings at which international law could have taken different avenues? And why might it be worth thinking counter-factually? Over the...

Article

Three Hours from Paris to Karlsruhe

Anna-Julia Saiger

Only two days after its publication, the German Constitutional Court’s decision on the 2019 Climate Protection Act has already given rise to significant repercussions both in political and legal debates....

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Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

COVID-19 and “New” Human Rights Symposium

Maria Antonia Tigre Anna-Julia Saiger Nesa Zimmermann

Legal debates on the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the urgently needed containment measures, the distribution of vaccines, and the protection of human rights are flourishing. A year after the WHO declared...

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Call for Contributions: COVID-19 and “New” Human Rights

Maria Antonia Tigre Nesa Zimmermann Anna-Julia Saiger

COVID-19 has spread all over the world, unequivocally reaching countries of very different socio-economic development. Yet, COVID-19 has unequally affected different groups and communities around the world and continues to...

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Interview
The Battle for International Law

“‘The West’ might not exist anymore”

Christian Pogies Anna-Julia Saiger Sebastian M. Spitra

This interview is the beginning of a book symposium on Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann´s edited volume on The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era...

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Book Review
Indigenous Rights and Biodiversity

Incorporating indigenous rights in the international regime on biodiversity protection

Sebastian M. Spitra Anna-Julia Saiger

This post is the first of a series of four that will discuss Federica Cittadino’s book Incorporating Indigenous Rights in the International Regime on Biodiversity Protection. Access, Benefit-sharing and Conservation...

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Climate Justice

International law in an age of catastrophe

Dana Schmalz Raffaela Kunz Anna-Julia Saiger

The symposium on climate justice is starting on the blog today, and it appears both a most urgent and a curious moment for it. Last year, the climate crisis finally...

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Rewarding in International Law

International law in an age of catastrophe

Dana Schmalz Raffaela Kunz Anna-Julia Saiger

We live in an age of catastrophe. This is not alarmism. Rather, denying this would mean disregarding all scientific evidence we have. At the beginning of this new decade, Australia...

Interview

Whose rights? Whose justice? (Second part)

Anna-Julia Saiger

Völkerrechtsblog is pleased to present the second part of the interview with Marta Torre‑Schaub. In this section, we will discuss the status of the Amazonian forest in international law, the importance...

Interview

Whose rights? Whose justice? (First part)

Anna-Julia Saiger

The urgent need to combat climate change seems widely accepted. Nonetheless, the measures taken so far have remained ineffective while irreparable environmental damages are constantly augmenting and threats to the...

Interview

Quel droit? Quelle justice? (Deuxiéme partie)

Anna-Julia Saiger

Völkerrechtsblog est ravi de vous présenter la deuxième partie de l’interview avec Marta Torre‑Schaub. Dans cette partie, nous parlerons du statut de la région Amazonienne en droit international, de l’importance des...

Interview

Quel droit? Quelle justice? (Première partie)

Anna-Julia Saiger

Il ne paraît guère nécessaire de répéter l’urgence demandée pour lutter contre le changement climatique. Néanmoins, les mesures prises jusque‑là sont restées ineffectives, les dommages irréparables pour l’environnement augmentent. De...