Overview
FORUM – Debating a WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Pedro A. Villarreal
The Law of the WHO and COVID-19 Pandemic Reformism
Silvia Behrendt and Amrei Müller
Do We Need to Protect the Entire World Population from Health Threats Through One Global Biomedical Surveillance and Response System? A Human Rights-Based Comment on the Proposed WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness and Response
FOCUS – China and International Law
Kerstin von der Decken
Introduction
Björn Ahl
China’s Perspectives on Public International Law: Selective Adaptation of International Treaties and the Community of Common Destiny Concept
Congyan Cai
China and International Security: How Law and Politics Work
Sarah Biddulph
The Chinese Approach to Human Rights
Yuhong Zhao
The Chinese Approach to International Environmental Law
Moritz Rudolf
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Public International Law
Matthieu Burnay and Florian Couveinhes-Matsumoto
One Country, Two International Status? The Evolution of Hong Kong’s International Positioning from Western Imperialism to Chinese Authoritarianism
WALTHER SCHÜCKING LECTURE
Daniel McCarthy
Professor Bruno Simma’s Reflections on Dispute Resolution at the Peace Palace
GENERAL ARTICLES
Julien Berger
The End of Intra-EU Investor-State Arbitration
Henning Goeke
Moria 2.0 – Systemic Human Rights Violation and the Chance of a Pilot Decision
Silvia Venier
The International Regime Governing Notification, Information-Sharing and Early Warning Applicable to Epidemic Outbreaks
Apollin Koagne Zouapet
Turning Fantasy into Inclusion … Regional Approaches and Unity of International Law
GERMAN PRACTICE
Helen Arling
The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Climate Decision and its Implications for International Law
Phillip Eschenhagen
Germany’s Strategy for Promoting World Peace: Rule of Law, Locality, and the Berlin Process on Libya
Leonard Amaru Feil
Criminal Procedural Law Interacting with International Criminal Law and Human Rights in the Context of Military Operations Abroad: The European Court of Human Rights’ Judgment in the Case of Hanan v. Germany
Philip Nedelcu and Stefan Schäferling
The Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains – An Examination of the German Approach to Business and Human Rights
Rico Neidinger
German Transparency and Anti-Corruption Regulations for Members of Parliament in the 19th Legislative Period (2017–2021) in Light of GRECO Evaluation
Richard Schmidt
Sovereignty Decoupled from Human Rights: The German Position Paper on the Application of International Law in Cyberspace
Hannah Sophie Strewe
Functional Immunity Before the Federal Court of Justice
Sara Wissmann and Julius Adler
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait? The Joint Reconciliation Declaration of Germany and Namibia for the Herero and Nama Genocide
OUTSTANDING THESES
Andreas von Arnauld, Kerstin von der Decken, and Nele Matz-Lück
Editors’ Note
Robert Böttner
The Constitutional Framework for Enhanced Cooperation in EU Law
Lisa-Marie Lührs
Protection from Transfers and Mutual Trust: The Protection of Fundamental and Human Rights in the Common European Asylum System
Lara Maria Panosch
The Human Right to Water in Investment Arbitration
Björn Schiffbauer
Formal Theory of Constitution. Foundation of a General Concept of Law and Constitution
Malte Symann
Protecting the Rule of Law Through European Budgetary Law: A Plea for a New Sanctions Mechanism
Hava Yurttagül
Whistleblower Protection by the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights and the European Union: An Emerging Consensus
Marie-Christine Zeisberg
An International Law on Natural Resources for the 21st Century
BOOK REVIEWS
Christina Binder, Jane A. Hofbauer, Flávia Piovesan, and Amaya Úbeda de Torres (eds.), Research Handbook on International Law and Social Rights (STEPHANIE SCHIEDERMAIR)
Sigrid Boysen, Die postkoloniale Konstellation. Natürliche Ressourcen und das Völkerrecht der Moderne (MARKUS P. BEHAM)
Thomas Burri and Jamie Trinidad (eds.), The International Court of Justice and Decolonisation: New Directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion (KANAD BAGCHI)
Andrea Gattini, Rosana Garciandia, and Philippa Webb (eds.), Human Dignity and International Law (TINA ROEDER)
Sondre Torp Helmersen, The Application of Teachings by the International Court of Justice (JOHANN RUBEN LEISS)
Giovanni Mantilla, Lawmaking Under Pressure: International Humanitarian Law and Internal Armed Conflict (ALDO ZAMMIT BORDA)
Daniel Peat, Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals (ANDREAS TH. MÜLLER)
Nicolás M. Perrone, Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Foreign Investors Play by Their Own Rule (CHRISTIAN J TAMS)