Matters of interpretation: how to conceptualize and evaluate change of norms and values in the international legal order
In: KFG working paper series No. 24 (December 2018)
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In: KFG working paper series No. 24 (December 2018)
In: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, 231
Der Autor untersucht analytisches Potential und normative Konsequenzen der v lkerrechtlichen Konstitutionalisierungslehre. Anhand der Begriffsgeschichte zeigt er zun chst auf, wie sich der Verfassungsbegriff aussagekr ftig auf das V lkerrecht bertragen l sst. Sodann sp rt er Vorl ufern und philosophischen Wurzeln nach und sucht nach neuen Ankn pfungspunkten f r die. Konstitutionalisierungsthese. Vor diesem Hintergrund unterzieht er die Hierarchisierung und Objektivierung des V lkerrechts sowie die Bindung von internationalen Organisationen an Menschenrechte als m gliche Verfassungsmerkmale ein
In: Forthcoming in Helmut Philipp Aust, Heike Krieger and Felix Lange (eds.), Research Handbook on International Law and Domestic Legal Systems, Edward Elgar Publishing
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In: German yearbook of international law: Jahrbuch für internationales Recht, Band 62, Heft 1, S. 129-162
ISSN: 2195-7304
Abstract: The concept of international law underlying the Versailles Peace Treaty is marked by a complex and ambivalent combination of references to just peace and the use of the legal form. This article analyses the concept of law and the use of legal techniques and institutions in the Paris settlement, and connects it to various contemporaneous strands of 'legalism' and to the transformation from (classical) nineteenth-century to (modern) twentieth-century international law. In a second step, the article turns to how the ambivalent legalism in the Versailles Peace Treaty impacted on the respective case law of the Permanent Court and how this case law connects to 'modern' approaches to international law. While, in substance, the cases involving the Versailles Peace Treaty raised issues of both post-war settlement and international organisation, in doctrinal terms, the Court tentatively developed a concept of international law that squares with modern approaches. This can be demonstrated by examination of the case law, which contributed to the law of international organisations, redefined sovereignty, and developed the humanitarian dimension of international law.
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 114, Heft 3, S. 539-544
ISSN: 2161-7953
In: German Yearbook of International Law 62, Forthcoming (https://elibrary.duncker-humblot.com/journals/gyil)
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In: The international & comparative law quarterly: ICLQ, Band 68, Heft 1, S. 91-110
ISSN: 1471-6895
AbstractThis article explores how a procedural approach in the case law of the ECtHR combines subsidiarity and progressive development of international obligations. Rather than constituting a simple retreat from substantive commitments, it renders the obligations of Conventions States more flexible and has the potential to enhance the democratic legitimacy of the Court's rulings. This article first sets out various aspects of proceduralization in international human rights law. This is followed by a discussion of how procedural approaches are linked to subsidiarity. In the case law of the ECtHR, procedural approaches facilitate dynamic evolution, both in the practice of Convention States (analytic or bottom-up approach) or by the Court itself (constructive or top-down approach). This interaction of the procedural approach and arguments based on European Consensus allows the ECtHR and domestic institutions to fulfil their 'shared responsibility' for the effective protection of human rights in Europe.
In: C. Binder, F. Piovesan, A. Úbeda de Torres, J.A. Hofbauer (eds.), Research Handbook on International Law and Social Rights, Edward Elgar 2020, pp. 111–125
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In: Emanuel Castellarin & Andrea Hamann (eds), Le traité de Versailles : Regards ds en droit international à l'occasion du centenaire / The Versailles Treaty: French and German Perspectives in International Law on the Occasion of the Centenary, Paris: Pedone 2020, pp. 253–265
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In: KFG Working Paper Series, No. 24, Berlin Potsdam Research Group "The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?"
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In: European Society of International Law (ESIL) 2017 Annual Conference (Naples)
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In: European journal of international law, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 871-893
ISSN: 1464-3596
In: European journal of international law, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 295-315
ISSN: 1464-3596
In: Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt: DVBL, Band 132, Heft 17
ISSN: 2366-0651
In: Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts, Band 142, Heft 1, S. 43