The introduction to the Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War explains the method which informs the novel scholarly format. Each volume deals with one current problem of the ius contra bellum, ius in bello and ius post bellum and gives a floor to three authors whose geographical,...

Empirical research lends support to the idea of a, "multi-speed globe," of differentiated (fragmented) constitutionalisation, rather than a fully-fledged integrative constitutional process. "Variable geometry," on the global scale could acknowledge irreconcilable differences between nation...

El derecho global puede analizarse a la luz de las categorías jurídicas de derecho global cuasi-privado, derecho público global y derecho global penal. En consecuencia, los bienes jurídicos globales pueden clasificarse en privados, públicos y penales. Todos ellos están subsumidos en el...

The article argues that the principle of sovereignty is being ousted from its position as a Letztbegründung (first principle) of international law. This trend is welcome. Sovereignty must and can be justified. The normative value of sovereignty is derived from and geared towards humanity that...

This paper shows that three versions of the principle of proportionality exist in international law, and that these three have different constitutional functions. The horizontal version 1 applies, inter alia, in the field of countermeasures including self defence. The principle here refers to...

The new posture of international courts and tribunals is the ‘spirit of systemic harmonisation', to use the words of the European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber in Al Dulimi. Fifteen years after then ICJ President's Gilbert Guillaume's ‘proliferation'-speech before the UN General...

It is a fact that states with a high corruption rate (or a high corruption perception) are at the same time those with a poor human rights record. Beyond this coincidence, the paper seeks to identify a concrete legal relationship between corruption and deficient human rights protection. This is...

It is a fact that states with a high corruption rate (or a high corruption perception) are at the same time those with a bad human rights situation. Beyond this coincidence, the paper seeks to identify a concrete legal relationship between corruption and deficient human rights protection. This...