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Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (ZaöRV) | MPIL Heidelberg.
International, Comparative, and European Law. Where the #Staatslehre goes #International

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🌊 Resilience of UNCLOS in the Ocean-Climate Nexus
UNCLOS turns 40+ but can it adapt to climate change? Yoshifumi Tanaka argues that due diligence, precaution, & ecosystem approaches may hold the key. Read now #OpenAccess in the latest issue of the #ZaöRV: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🌍⚖ Do We Need a World Climate Court?
In the new ZaöRV, Keller, Gurash and Heri explore the mandate, limits& legitimacy of a World Climate Court. Would a World Climate Court help enforce global climate obligations—or politicize them further? Read now #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
November 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🇩🇪⚖In the #ZaöRV’s Re-reading Historic Articles series, Paulina Starski revisits Steinberger’s classic on the Federal Constitutional Court and explores how today’s case law engages with EU & international law. Available now #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🔹 The Right to Vote of Non-Resident Citizens
In the new #ZaöRV’s comment, Davide Paris explores if all expats should vote in home elections - or only those with a “close connection”. A provocative rethink on democracy & diaspora suffrage. Read now #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
📖✨ Sneak peek into #ZaöRV 3/2025:
From diaspora voting & German constitutional openness to a world climate court, UNCLOS, animal welfare + a symposium on Digital Empires. Plenty of insights and debates await in this issue. Available now #OpenAccess:
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October 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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📖 My review of Anu Bradford’s "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford University Press 2023) is out on @zaoerv.bsky.social

Many thanks to @alexanderwentker.bsky.social and @erik.d-64.social for editing this timely book review symposium.

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September 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📚 The new issue of the Heidelberg Journal of International Law (ZaöRV) is out and available now (Issue 3/2025)!

#OpenAccess articles on international law, European law & more.

👉 Read here: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...

#ZaöRV #HJIL #InternationalLaw #OpenAccess
September 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
📢 When Solange I Met Neubauer

In #ZaöRV 2/2025, Eyal Benvenisti explores what happens when national courts use Solange to protect global interests while reviewing international organizations. Now available #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
September 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
📢 Solange and Anti-Globalism

In the latest #ZaöRV, Karen Alter shows how the Solange doctrine has become a tool to defend constitutional democracy against rising anti-globalist pressures. Read her interesting article #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...

#HJIL #InternationalLaw
September 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
ZaöRV 2/2025 features an article by Anuscheh Farahat & Teresa Violante, who compare Solange I to Solange IV, and argue why Solange IV is at least as bold as Solange I was at the time. Read their assessment of the role of national courts from Solange I to IV: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
September 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
📢 Freeing Constitutional Identity

@jscholt.bsky.social reads Solange I as a groundbreaking judgment on constitutional identity, arguing why constitutionaly identity does not need to be linked to unamendability. A truly interesting article #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/... #ZaöRV
September 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
📢 Constitutional Courts and the EU

In ZaöRV 2/2025, Ana Bobić analyzes how constitutional courts confront the EU’s reconfiguration, especially in the area of the Euro crisis and criminal law. Find the ZaöRV's article - as always - #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.17104/...
September 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
📢 Matej Avbelj's #ZaöRV article analyses what, if anything, has been an original theoretical and institutional contribution of #Solange I. Read now why the decision is a prime example of social constructivism in the field of law and politics beyond the state: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.17104/...
September 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🌍Solange I goes abroad

In the #ZaöRV, Niels Graaf traces how Solange I was translated—legally and literally—into French and Italian debates. Read now #OpenAccess how the German decision is understood and applied differently along national lines.

#ZaöRV #HJIL

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August 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📢What if the dissent had won?

In the latest #ZaöRV, Franz C. Mayer explores the Solange I dissent—and how it might have changed EU law. Read about parallel paths not taken, a parallel legal universe. Available #OpenAccess.

#ConstitutionalLaw #SolangeI #HJIL

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August 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
📢 Must-read!

The new #ZaöRV features an article by Andrej Lang who puts #Solange I in historical context. Read now #OpenAccess why Solange I is not parochial and backward, but in many regards a modern and forward-looking decision.

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#HJIL #Solange
July 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
📢50 years of Solange I!
The new #ZaöRV issue revisits a constitutional classic: What is the legacy of #Solange I in a world of overlapping legal orders? Read the introduction to the special issue by Lang, Kovács & Kumm!

#Constitutionalism #HJIL #OpenAccess

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July 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
From State Sovereignty to Human Rights– and Back?
In the latestet #ZaöRV, Farahat & Kießling revisit the Prohibition of Collective Expulsion in the ECHR from a Historical Perspective.

Read their argument now #OpenAccess!

#HumanRights #Sovereignty #ECHR #HJIL

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July 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
📢New article in the #ZaöRV!
Can international tribunals still matter in times of great power competition? Christian Schultheiss explores the impact of the South China Sea arbitration in his #OpenAccess comment.

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#InternationalLaw #SouthChinaSea #HJIL
July 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
📢 Exciting news!
The new issue of ZaöRV/Heidelberg Journal of International Law 2/2025 is out now #OpenAccess🌍

This edition features a special issue on “Re-Examining Solange I”.

📸 Get a look at the new contents, and stay tuned for more updates!

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#HJIL #ZaöRV
June 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“Smart sanctions” on Russian oligarchs?
Alexander Blankenagel argues why EU's sanctions on Russian business elites, including the freezing of their property, are neither smart nor lawful. Read his timely analysis #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.17104/...
June 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Isabel Walther's article in the #ZaöRV dives into a German ruling on exceptions to functional immunity. She unpacks why the decision by the Federal Court of Justice raises international and constitutional law concerns & much more. Read #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.17104/...
June 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🌱 Environmental Community Interests
In the #ZaöRV Keynote (Issue 1/2025), Malgosia Fitzmaurice analyzes how community interests can be redressed beyond court proceedings, focusing on international environmental law. Read her topical Keynote #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.17104/...
May 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The ocean treaty is signed. Now what?
In the new #ZaöRV, @carcru.bsky.social examines the potential of the Implementation and Compliance Committee under the BBNJ treaty as a tool for advancing cooperation under the Law of the Sea Convention. Read now: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.17104/...
May 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Elisa Ruozzi's article in the #ZaöRV analyzes how common spaces and interests are addressed at the reparations stage. She explores emerging institutional innovations across legal regimes in public international law. Read her intriguing article #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.17104/...
May 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM