Anne Peters

Anne Peters is director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, professor at Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, and Basel, and L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan.

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DGIR Statement on the Russian Attack on Ukraine

The Charter of the United Nations obliges all Member States to refrain in their international relations from the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of another...

Symposium
A Critical Christmas Week

Ein Weihnachtsgeschenk für Enten und Gänse

Das insbesondere in Frankreich beliebte Weihnachtsessen Foie gras ist ein krankes Produkt, nämlich die pathologisch verfettete Leber von Enten und Gänsen. Die mit der Herstellung verbundene Tierquälerei sollte EU-weit beendet...

Interview
Symposium
International Law and the Political

(Writing) International Legal Histories – Continuation of Politics by Other Means?

Anne Peters Raphael Schäfer Hendrik Simon

Dear Professor Peters, dear Mr. Schäfer – to begin with the genesis of your anthology Politics and the Histories of International Law: How did this publication project come about? Where...

Interview
Symposium
International Law and the Political

Völkerrechtsgeschichte (schreiben) – Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln?

Anne Peters Raphael Schäfer Hendrik Simon

Liebe Frau Professorin Peters, lieber Herr Schäfer - um mit der Entstehungsgeschichte Ihres Sammelbandes „Politics and the Histories of International Law“ zu beginnen: Wie kam es zu diesem Publikationsprojekt? Wo würden Sie...

Symposium
Book Review
ABC of OPT

From “Assigned Residence” to “Zone”

Alexandra Kemmerer Anne Peters

Israel’s occupation or “control” (as the book prefers to call it) of Palestinian Territory that began with six days in June 1967, presents a depressing and tragic political and moral...

Symposium
South and East Asian Perspectives on International Law

Multiperspectivism in and on international law

The symposium on “South and East Asian perspectives on international law” postulates that perspectives matter for the understanding, interpretation, and application of international law. I agree, but would like to...

Article

Voting down international law?

Raffaela Kunz Anne Peters

There was quite some relief in Switzerland when it became clear on Sunday 25thNovember that the so called “initiative on democratic self-determination” had been rejected by the voters (the end result...

Symposium
Debating “Beyond Human Rights”

Part 2: Simple international rights, global constitutionalism, and scholarly methods

This post continues Anne Peters rejoinder Roland Portmann’s main point is that national (domestic) law principles and practices matters crucially for the legal status of the individual, and that we...

Symposium
Debating “Beyond Human Rights”

Simple international rights, global constitutionalism, and scholarly methods

An unexpected, organized, serious, and multiple engagement with arguments put forward in a manuscript which has gained shape, has grown, was written and re-written, was shrunk, cut, re-arranged, and which...

Symposium
Verfassungs- und Völkerrecht im Spannungsverhältnis

Let Not Triepel Triumph

(This article has previously been published on EJIL: talk!) The Italian Constiutional Court’s decision no. 238 of 22 Oct. 2014 (unofficial translation into English) already inspired a flurry of comments in the blogosphere (see...