Isabella Risini

Isabella Risini is currently a lecturer for public law at the law faculty of Ruhr-Universität Bochum and managing director of the Center for International Affairs. She is a member of the scientific advisory board of Völkerrechtsblog. In the summer term 2023, she will be a visiting professor at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel. In the winter term 2021/22, she was a visiting professor of Public Law at Augsburg University.

Media

Of Parties, Third Parties, and Treaty Interpretation: Ukraine v. Russia before the European Court of Human Rights

Isabella Risini Justine Batura

An unprecedented number of member States have requested permission to intervene in the case Ukraine v. Russia (X) before the European Court of Human Rights. The significance that can be...

Article

Die „Bundesnotbremse II“ aus dem Blickwinkel der EMRK

Isabella Risini

Die bundesweiten Schulschließungen in Deutschland infolge der Corona-Pandemie im Jahr 2021, die Gegenstand des Beschlusses des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 19. November 2021 waren, liegen nun dem Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR)...

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Parting Paths – Russia’s Inevitable Exit From the Council of Europe

Isabella Risini Andrew Forde

Since 24 February 2022, Europe has been shaken by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This blatant violation of international law led to the suspension of Russia’s rights of representation at...

Symposium
Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Of Foxes Guarding Chickens, and Their Fellow Foxes

Isabella Risini Geir Ulfstein Andreas Zimmermann

Ever since the adoption of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the system of inter-State applications has constituted an inherent and indeed important part of its enforcement mechanism, as...

Symposium
Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

On Current Developments and Reforms

Justine Batura Isabella Risini

What is the significance of inter-State cases within the European System of Human Rights? And what does their constant increase over the last decade mean for the European Court of...

Interview

A ‘golden age’ of inter-state complaints?

Isabella Risini Justine Batura Lukas Kleinert

Recently, the Principality of Liechtenstein brought an inter-state complaint against the Czech Republic to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Already before, the two countries shared a complicated relationship....

Symposium
Lehre des internationalen Rechts

Moot Courts in der Lehre des internationalen Rechts – eine kritische Würdigung

Sebastian Wuschka Isabella Risini

Unser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob sich eine verstärkte Einbindung von Moot Courts in der Lehre des internationalen Rechts lohnt. Praxisnähe und die Steigerung der Reflexionskompetenzen der Teilnehmer sind...