Universität Bonn

Institute for Public International Law

Rhineland Lectures in International Law
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Rhineland Lectures in International Law

The Institute for Public International Law hosts the Rhineland Lectures in International Law at irregular intervals – short talks in an informal setting on topics relating to public international law. This format provides an opportunity to discuss current developments or one’s own research projects with a group of interested participants.

Afterwards, there is an opportunity to continue the discussion over coffee.

Upcoming lectures:

8 October, 13.00-14.00 - Patrick Marquardt, LL.M. (University of Göttingen): "Law in a Dataset – Optional Clause Declarations at the ICJ"

https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/j/61013467522?pwd=G1GaEexoowyNyPvQmXe7fn7PZaiHbk.1

Meeting-ID: 610 1346 7522

Passcode: 763855

  • The lectures are held regularly in the library of the Institute for Public International Law. Any changes to the venue will be announced in advance.
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  • The Rhineland Lectures are open to the public. No registration is required.
  • Lioba Müller, Ass. iur. LL.B. B.A. (University of Bonn): "The 2026 ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Right to Strike: Putting an End to the Crisis of the International Labour Organization?"
  • Dr Anni Pues (University of Glasgow): "Realising Victims’ Rights in International Criminal Law"
  • Prof Dr Stefan Talmon LL.M. M.A. (University of Bonn): "Minelaying and mine-clearing in the Strait of Hormus"
  • Prof Dr Miloš Vec (University of Vienna): "Vom Versailler Vertrag bis zur Großraumordnung - Nationalsozialistisches Völkerrechtsdenken im Kontext (1920-1950)"
  • Dr Jay Desai: "Sovereign Equality of States in International Law: Increasing Multipolarity in a Changing World Order"
  • Dr Teresa Quadt (Syria Justice and Accountability Centre): "Documenting Atrocities Committed in Syria before Domestic Courts - The Yarmouk Trials"
  • Prof Bharat H. Desai (Humboldt Awardee): "The UN@80: Looking Back to Look Ahead"
  • Prof Dr Stefan Talmon LL.M. M.A. (University of Bonn): "How to prove Genocide before the International Court of Justice"
  • Dr Franziska Knur (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt): "Weltraumbergbau? Das Völkerrecht und die Nutzung von Ressourcen auf Himmelskörpern"
  • Dr Jens Theilen (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg): "What’s the point of jus cogens?"
  • Dr Janina Barkholdt (Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne/Freie Universität Berlin): "The international legal order in a more multipolar world: What role for regional international law?"
  • Domen Tursic (Freshfields): "Addressing apparent asymmetry in international investment law"
  • Prof Dr Eliav Lieblich (Hans Kelsen Fellow, Cologne): "The Death and Life of the Prohibition on Forcible Reprisals"
  • Dr Alexis Galán (University of Bonn): "On the origins of modern international investment law: the 1967 OECD Draft Convention on Protection of Foreign Property"
  • Dr Alex P Dela Cruz (Tilburg University): "Archipelagos, imperial boundary-making, and the question of ‘whose history?’ in post-colonial Philippines"
  • Prof Dr Stefan Talmon LL.M. M.A. (University of Bonn): "Exploding Pagers and Walkie-Talkies: What does international law have to say about it?"
  • Prof Dr Björn Schiffbauer (University of Rostock): International Law in International Sports Organisations
  • Hartmut Rank: Indigenous Laws and Human Rights in Latin America
  • Dr Moritz Brake: Maritime Sicherheit und der Schutz kritischer maritimer Infrastruktur in gesamtstrategischer Perspektive
  • Prof Dr Stefan Talmon LL.M. M.A. (University of Bonn): The Gaza War: Self-Defence or Genocide?
  • Jens Dieckmann (Becher&Dieckmann): Fair Trial in International Criminal Law from a Counsel's Perspective
  • Dr Isabel Lischewski (University of Münster): Function - Interaction - Exclusion. How Rules of Procedure shape international treaty negotiations
  • Bethany Houghton (VU Amsterdam): Criminal Law and Climate Justice: Reconciling Stakeholders Perspectives of a Criminal Climate Law with Principles of Climate and Criminal Justice
  • Dr Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt): Autonomous Weapon Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Humanitarian Law
  • Prof Dr Julian Scheu (University of Cologne): Climate Change, Human Rights, and the Redirection of Global Capital Flows
  • Dr Maria A. Gwynn (University of Bonn): International Law and Transboundary Hydropower Projects: Lessons learned from the Binational Entity ITAIPU
  • Natasha Holcroft-Emmess (University of Oxford): Notified Derogations and their Absence: from the Iraq War to the Covid-19 Pandemic
  • Dr Moritz von Rochow (Kiel University): Ukrainian Grain and Chinese Rare Earths: An Essential Facilities Doctrine in International Law
  • Yunus Gul (University of Bonn): Cyber operations and international law
  • Dr Moumita Mandal (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law): Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in International Law: Making Institutions Work
  • Prof Dr Christian Tams (University of Glasgow): From Wimbledon (1923) to Rakhine (2022): Standing to enforce collective interests before the World Court
  • Vincent Schnell (Projektträger Jülich): Common Heritage of Humankind vs. Freedom of Research: How BBNJ addresses the controversial issue of Marine Genetic Resources
  • Dr Dana Schmalz (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law): How the discourse on population growth shaped international law: a look at the first decades of the United Nations
  • Dr Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan (University of Nottingham): German Angst: facing colonial reverberations and legal repercussions
  • Dr Sué González Hauck (DeZIM): The politics of systematization as a scholarly task in international law
  • Dr Paula Rhein-Fischer (University of Cologne): Making Russia pay: Legal hurdles to use seized Russian assets to compensate Ukraine
  • Dr Sebastián Mantilla Blanco (University of Bonn): Denial of Justice in International Investment Law
  • Prof Dr Erika de Wet (Universities of Bonn & Graz): The Aggression against Ukraine and Austrian Neutrality
  • Ori Pomson (University of Cambridge): Twenty-Three Shades of Intervention: Ukraine vs. Russia at the International Court of Justice
  • Julian A. Hettihewa (University of Bonn): Looking Behind the UN Youth Office: Considering Structural Limitations of Youth Participation After the Party
  • Dr Alexis Galán (University of Bonn): Staring into the void: Territory at the International Court of Justice