GPIL - German Practice in International Law

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1. 2024

   • The Slow Road to Justice: Rectifying a Violation by Germany of the European Convention on Human Rights

     Talmon, Stefan; Wallenfang, Iria Lores

   • The Tiergarten Murder: German Court Finds Russia Committed an ‘Act of State Terrorism’

     Sinha, Rohan; Talmon, Stefan

   • No Immunity in Germany for Mongolian Consular Officer Accredited to Türkiye

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Namibia Denies Port Access to German-Owned Vessel Carrying Military Equipment to Israel

     Talmon, Stefan

   • German Judge Invents Nature as an ‘Ecological Person’ With Own Rights – An Attempt at Judicial Law-Making

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany’s Reaction to the International Court of Justice’s Palestine Advisory Opinion: ‘The Opinion Confirms Our Positioning in Many Points’

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Berlin Administrative Court Rejects Pre-emptive Interim Relief against German Weapons Exports to Israel

     Talmon, Stefan; Mirbach, Antonia

   • Why the Provisional Measures Order in Nicaragua v. Germany severely limits Germany’s ability to transfer arms to Israel

     Talmon, Stefan

   • The Modernised German Nationality Law and the Pitfalls of Allowing Unrestricted Multiple Nationality

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany Takes Ostrich Approach to Israel’s Violations of International Humanitarian Law in the Gaza War

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Violent Attack on Turkish Consulate-General in Hannover

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Israel Facilitates the Evacuation of Sixty-Eight Palestinian Orphans From the Gaza Strip to the West Bank at Germany’s Request

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany Opposes Request for ICJ Advisory Opinion on Israel’s Policies and Practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory But Also Rejects Israel’s Reaction

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany Supports Expansive Interpretation of the Right to Self-Defence Against Attacks by the Houthis on Commercial Shipping in the Red Sea

     Talmon, Stefan

   • GPIL – The Statistics for 2023

     Wirtz, Joshua

   • Germany Rushes to Declare Intention to Intervene in the Genocide Case brought by South Africa Against Israel Before the International Court of Justice

     Talmon, Stefan
2. 2023

   • Of Humanitarian Windows, Pause(s), Truces and Ceasefires, and Israel’s Right of Self-Defence Against the Hamas Terrorist Attack

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany’s Unquestioning Solidarity With Israel in the Face of the Hamas Terror Attack Undermines Its Credibility With Regard to International Law

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Banning Belarusian Airlines in Response to Belarus’ Diversion of Ryanair Flight FR4978 as a Third-Party Countermeasure

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany Among the First Countries to Sign the BBNJ Agreement

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany Accuses Azerbaijan of Breaking Its Promise to Refrain from Military Action in Nagorno-Karabakh

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Acceptance of a Palestinian Nationality Within the Area of Private International Law

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Agreements with Non-Recognised Entities: The Case of Taiwan

     Talmon, Stefan

   • International Law Aspects of the Federal Government’s Strategy on China

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Foreign Minister Baerbock Unilaterally Commits Germany to the Re-Export of German Battle Tanks to Ukraine

     Talmon, Stefan; El Mahmoud, Khaled

   • Germany’s National Security Strategy and the Novel Concept of a ‘Free International Order’

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Air Services Between Germany and the Russian Federation and the Power of Reciprocity

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during December 2021

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany Defends Use of EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime Against China

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Reconciliation Without Reparation: The German-Namibian Joint Declaration on Our Colonial Past

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Russia Expels German Diplomat Over Participation in Pro-Navalny Demonstration

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during November 2021

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during October 2021

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Not Quite at the Core of the Core Group Advocating an ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during September 2021

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during August 2021

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany Sends Warship to the South China Sea to Protect and Safeguard the Rules-Based International Order

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Summoning an Ambassador: A Piece of Diplomatic Theatre

     Talmon, Stefan

   • The Thai King in Germany: The Status of Foreign Heads of State on Private Visits

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany rejects claim of recognition of the Falklands Islands (Malvinas) as part of Argentine territory

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during July 2021

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during June 2021

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Federal Minister of Justice Announces Major Changes to German Criminal Law and Procedure With Regard to Crimes Against International Law

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Arrest of a Member of the Staff of the British Embassy in Berlin

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany Temporarily Does Not Recognise Vietnamese Passports

     Talmon, Stefan; Weiss, Tobias

   • GPIL – The Statistics for 2022

     Wirtz, Joshua
3. 2022

   • German Court Finds Syrian Government Practices Constitute Crimes Against Humanity

     Sinha, Rohan

   • Iran Condemns Firebomb Attack on Its Consulate in Hamburg

     Talmon, Stefan; Wirtz, Joshua

   • International agreements concluded by Germany in 2021

     Talmon, Stefan; Flöer, Zoé
4. 2021

   • Some critical observations on Germany’s Security Council membership

     Talmon, Stefan

   • China: “The performance of Germany has failed the Security Council”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Russia accuses Germany of bringing “dissent, division and negative emotion” to the Security Council

     Talmon, Stefan

   • German Court Sentences IS Wife to Ten Years’ Imprisonment for Letting a Five-year-old Enslaved Yazidi Girl Die

     Werther, Sandra

   • German Court Sentences IS Wife to Ten Years’ Imprisonment for Letting a Five-year-old Enslaved Yazidi Girl Die

     Werther, Sandra

   • Germany releases Iranian in prisoner swap rather than extraditing him to the United States

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany opposes U.S. interpretation of UN Security Council resolution 2331 (2015)

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany opposes Russian initiatives on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany takes three and a half years to enforce UN sanctions against North Korea

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany comes in for serious criticism of its handling of the Afghanistan file in the UN General Assembly

     Talmon, Stefan

   • China accuses Germany of interference in internal affairs for taking measures in response to new Hong Kong national security law

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany considers further U.S. sanctions against Nord Stream 2 an encroachment on its sovereignty

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Federal Administrative Court rules that the United States may continue to use its air base in southern Germany for lethal drone strikes in Yemen

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Responsible until proven otherwise?: Germany holds Russia responsible for the use of a chemical weapon in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny

     Talmon, Stefan; Lobo, Mary

   • Diplomacy in times of Covid-19: Germany closes its Pyongyang embassy in response to North Korea’s drastic measures to fight the pandemic

     Talmon, Stefan

   • UN Security Council reform: a story of growing German frustration

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany calls on Turkey to respect international law when conducting seismic surveys in the eastern Mediterranean

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany as an almost permanent member of the Economic and Social Council

     Talmon, Stefan

   • For Germany the “State of Palestine” is not a State Party of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany appeals to Iran to comply with its treaty obligations not to execute persons who were minors at the time of the crime

     Talmon, Stefan

   • First conviction for aiding and abetting a crime against humanity by enslavement

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Federal Prosecutor General Accuses Russia of State-Ordered Murder

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany Counts and Condemns North Korean Illegal Missile Tests

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany Fails to Integrate Climate Security Concerns Into the Work of the Security Council

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Legal consequences of Germany’s non-recognition of the Russian annexation of Crimea

     Talmon, Stefan; Janknecht, Hannah

   • The Kunduz Air Strike and a Most Unusual Letter to the Editors

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany joins the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during May 2021

     Talmon, Stefan

   • The pitfalls of co-locating diplomatic premises

     Talmon, Stefan; Heylen, William

   • Notable statements on international law during April 2021

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Iran condemns German ambassador’s tweets as interference in internal affairs

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during March 2021

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Federal Court of Justice rejects functional immunity of low-ranking foreign State officials in the case of war crimes

     Sinha, Rohan

   • Germany bans Syrian Embassy in Berlin from holding presidential elections

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany warns Israel that annexation of any part of the occupied Palestinian territories would represent “a most serious violation of international law”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany backs Israel’s right to self-defence against Hamas “rocket terror”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany directs attention to questions surrounding non-legally binding international agreements

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Handing over of six-year-old boy to Islamic State training camp in Syria as war crime of enlisting children

     Talmon, Stefan; Allen, Philippe

   • The Federal Constitutional Court’s Climate Change Order and the interplay between international and domestic climate protection law

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany works to strengthen the international response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria

     Talmon, Stefan; Yadav, Muskan

   • Germany mistakenly considers Russia’s restrictions on navigation of warships in the Black Sea to be “very problematic” and, in part, “contrary to international law”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during February 2021

     Talmon, Stefan

   • German Court confirms that there is no Palestinian State and no Palestinian nationality

     Talmon, Stefan; Anna Dickmann-Peña

   • Germany’s push for ambitious UNSCR on sexual violence in armed conflict hits the veto power

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Kidnapping of UN peacekeeper in Syria as war crime against humanitarian operations

     Talmon, Stefan; Mareike Höcker

   • Germany votes against anti-Israel decision at World Health Assembly for the first time

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during January 2021

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany counters China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany takes a more outspoken and active position on the South China Sea disputes

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Iraq accuses Germany of interference in its internal affairs

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during December 2020

     Talmon, Stefan

   • German Constitutional Court affirms that only States can bring claims for compensation for violations of international humanitarian law

     Talmon, Stefan; Dürr, Philipp

   • Notable statements on international law during November 2020

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany adopts restrictive view on what constitutes a “threat to international peace and security” – when it suits

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany reaffirms support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia and calls out Russian “occupation”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany comments on the ILC draft principles on the protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany announces deployment of warship to the South China Sea

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany endorses the Declaration Against the Use of Arbitrary Detention in State-to-State Relations

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany’s position and practice on provisional application of treaties

     Talmon, Stefan; Quast Mertsch, Anneliese

   • China criticises Germany for granting asylum to Hong Kong activists

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany faces difficulties as chair of the Libya Sanctions Committee

     Talmon, Stefan

   • German Federal Court of Justice reaffirms that there is no justification in international law for attacks by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party

     Talmon, Stefan; Wimmer, Philipp

   • Germany publicly objects to the International Criminal Court’s ruling on jurisdiction in Palestine

     Talmon, Stefan

   • U.S. Supreme Court upholds Germany’s plea to State immunity in the “Welfenschatz” case

     Talmon, Stefan

   • France and Germany launch Humanitarian Call for Action

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany champions “Alliance for Multilateralism”

     Reiter, Mirjam

   • Germany rejects formal Greek war reparations claims

     Richter, Christian

   • Germany and Greece disagree over Germany war reparations stemming from the two World Wars

     Talmon, Stefan

   • The difficulties of bringing the human rights situation in North Korea before the UN Security Council

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany considers Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories “illegal under international law”

     Talmon, Stefan; Craven, Julian

   • Higher Regional Court in Stuttgart convicts an IS member of war crimes

     Talmon, Stefan; Kenny-Manning, Roman

   • Indonesia declares German diplomat persona non grata

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during October 2020

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany rejects U.S. sanctions against Nord Stream 2 as contrary to international law

     Talmon, Stefan; Sinha, Rohan
5. 2020

   • Germany accuses Russia and China of obstructing the implementation of Security Council resolutions

     Talmon, Stefan; Dickmann-Peña, Anna

   • Blocking and inviting civil society briefers to the UN Security Council

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during September 2020

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Persona non grata declarations as general act of retorsion

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany not answerable in U.S. courts for alleged colonial genocide

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany sanctions Iran by suspending operating license of Iranian airline

     Talmon, Stefan

   • “Like pirates” – Turkey accuses Germany of illegally boarding its merchant vessel on the high seas

     Talmon, Stefan

   • As night follows day, German condemnation follows North Korea’s missile tests

     Hettihewa, Julian A.

   • Germany’s unusual proposals to disqualify the Tribunal in the Vattenfall arbitration

     Mantilla Blanco, Sebastián

   • 75th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg Trials

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Expelled or recalled? The German ambassador to Venezuela’s journey from Caracas to Berlin and back again

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Meeting with Hong Kong activist as interference in China’s internal affairs?

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany advocates regaining “digital sovereignty”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • “We want to get this man” – Germany requests Lebanon to extradite high-ranking Syrian official accused of crimes against humanity

     Talmon, Stefan; Wittum, Patrick Alexander

   • Notable statements on international law during August 2020

     Talmon, Stefan

   • German embassy in Bangkok asks for protection

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Not much of a welcome: the delayed agrément of the German ambassador to Poland

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany tells Thailand’s King not to rule from its soil

     Talmon, Stefan; Wimmer, Philipp

   • Germany continues to raise concerns over human rights of the Uyghurs and demands that China close the detention camps in Xinjiang

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany raises concerns over human rights situation in Xinjiang

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany goes back on earlier statements on the international legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany accuses Saudi Arabia of violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

     Reiter, Mirjam

   • The missing Taiwanese flag or the flag “as a symbol of statehood”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during July 2020

     Talmon, Stefan

   • A drone is a drone is a drone

     Meyer, Marco

   • Germany rebukes the United States for its approach to international law: “international law is not an à la carte menu”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Breaches of international law “in a very specific and limited way”: a remarkable admission by a German Chancellor

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during June 2020

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany weighs in on immunity of German-Tunisian UN arms expert

     Reiter, Mirjam; Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany confirms non-recognition of “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • “Once a Trader, always a State”: The Federal Constitutional Court classifies Greek debt restructuring measures as acta iure imperii

     Sinha, Rohan

   • Summoning or “inviting” an ambassador – is there a difference?

     Talmon, Stefan

   • The Russian policy of “passportisation” in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions as a violation of the sovereignty of Ukraine

     Talmon, Stefan; Lobo, Mary

   • Notable statements on international law during May 2020

     Talmon, Stefan

   • “Do not vote for these parties” – The Turkish President’s interference in German internal affairs

     Wittum, Patrick Alexander

   • Germany continues aerial refuelling of anti-IS coalition over Syria – and refines the right of sustainable self-defence

     Nussberger, Benjamin

   • Appropriation of household appliances by IS members not a war crime

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Federal Court of Justice on appropriation of apartments by IS members as war crime against property

     Wimmer, Philipp; Talmon, Stefan

   • Loss of nationality for members of terrorist militias with dual nationality

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany on a mission: putting climate change on the agenda of the UN Security Council

     Lobo, Mary; Talmon, Stefan

   • Resignation of the German judge from the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals: a wake-up call for international criminal justice

     Talmon, Stefan; Werther, Sandra

   • Ukrainian extradition request denied by German court because of likely violation of the international minimum standard of human rights protection

     Talmon, Stefan

   • The Bornholm Declaration – another example of Germany’s support of youth participation in international organisations?

     Hettihewa, Julian A.; Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during April 2020

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany’s position on decommissioning oil platforms in the North Sea: Brent Spar Revisited?

     Schönfeldt, Kristina

   • Germany supports Taiwan’s participation in the WHA as an observer – putting policy before principle

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany joins the UK-led Global Ocean Alliance

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Malta apologising for ambassador comparing German chancellor to Hitler: a rare example of a formal State apology?

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during March 2020

     Talmon, Stefan

   • No protest, no problem: German court confirms male captus, bene detentus rule

     Sinha, Rohan

   • Limits to the implementation of the Libyan arms embargo

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Federal Public Prosecutor General declines to bring charges against members of the Federal Government for aiding the killing of Iranian General Soleimani

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Intervention by invitation: the German view of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the civil war in Yemen

     Lobo, Mary; Talmon, Stefan

   • Raising false expectations: Germany’s misleading take on UN Security Council resolution 2510 (2020)

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany mistakenly attributes acts by the Houthi rebels to the State of Yemen

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Notable statements on international law during February 2020

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany favours substantial reform of the Energy Charter Treaty

     Mantilla Blanco, Sebastián; Talmon, Stefan

   • Officer of Afghan National Army convicted of war crimes for desecrating the corpse of a Taliban commander in front of civilians

     Talmon, Stefan; Wimmer, Philipp

   • Sentencing a member of the Syrian opposition for war crimes against persons

     Talmon, Stefan; Weiss, Tobias

   • Germany finally comes clean about the legal status of the JCPoA: no more than soft law

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Misreading Nicaragua: The German position on State responsibility in connection with arms exports

     Sassenrath, Carl-Philipp; Talmon, Stefan

   • The intricacies of maritime boundary delimitation: Germany’s one-sided response to the Turkey-Libya MoU on delimitation of the maritime jurisdiction areas in the Mediterranean

     Talmon, Stefan; Lobo, Mary

   • Notable statements on international law during January 2020

     Talmon, Stefan

   • German Government on foreign troop presence in Syria

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany’s position concerning private maritime rescue operations in the Mediterranean

     Effinowicz, Ruth; Talmon, Stefan

   • Cameroon protests lack of protection of its embassy in Berlin

     Weiss, Tobias

   • Preventing an arms race in outer space and political game-play at the United Nations

     Bajrami, Shpetim; Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany critical of new U.S. anti-personnel landmine policy

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Unconvincing and non-binding: The Federal Constitutional Court rejects the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ interpretation of the CRPD

     Sinha, Rohan; Talmon, Stefan

   • The U.S. killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani: of wrong trees and red herrings, and why the killing may be lawful after all

     Talmon, Stefan; Heipertz, Miriam

   • Staying grounded: the German response to Kuwait Airways’ refusal to transport Israeli passengers

     Lobo, Mary; Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany denounces arrest of UK ambassador to Iran

     Talmon, Stefan

   • International agreements concluded by Germany in 2019

     Talmon, Stefan; Flöer, Zoé

   • Germany “strongly condemns” Iranian missile attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany: The UN headquarters in New York must be accessible to all member States

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany’s call on Iraq to protect the U.S. embassy in Baghdad – the difference between a legal and a general interest in compliance with Article 22 VCDR

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany considers U.S. extraterritorial sanctions illegal

     Sinha, Rohan; Talmon, Stefan

   • Top 10 statements by the German Federal Foreign Office in 2019 on violations of international law

     Talmon, Stefan
6. 2019

   • Germany considers Brunei’s Sharia Penal Code a clear violation of the country’s human rights obligations

     Talmon, Stefan; Höcker, Mareike

   • Germany confirms non-recognition of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

     Talmon, Stefan; Sinha, Rohan

   • Germany: severe human rights violations in Myanmar point to crimes against humanity and war crimes as well as genocide

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Jumping before being pushed: recall of the German ambassador to Rwanda

     Talmon, Stefan; Lobo, Mary

   • Germany facilitates Cyprus talks in Berlin: “good services”, good offices, or neither?

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany opposes new U.S. position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank – considers all settlement activity illegal under international law

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany’s election to the Human Rights Council not such a great “token of confidence” as it might seem

     Talmon, Stefan; Amissah-Eshun, Emmanuel

   • Germany backs India’s cross-border strikes against terrorists in Pakistan administered Kashmir

     Talmon, Stefan; Sassenrath, Carl-Philipp

   • Killing and torture in Syria: why the German Federal Public Prosecutor charges Syrian officials with crimes against humanity rather than war crimes

     Talmon, Stefan; Lobo, Mary

   • Germany sides with India in Kashmir conflict

     Talmon, Stefan

   • German-Syrian diplomatic relations in times of civil war: the realities of diplomacy

     Talmon, Stefan; Craven, Julian

   • Germany’s new Arctic policy guidelines

     Schönfeldt, Kristina

   • In another Argentinian State bankruptcy case the German Federal Constitutional Court once again rejects the existence of a state of necessity as a general principle of international law

     Wagner, Julia

   • Namibian Ambassador to Germany shielded by diplomatic immunity

     Craven, Julian

   • The Federal Government continues to justify the fight against ISIL in Syria on grounds of collective self-defence

     Nussberger, Benjamin

   • The distinction in international law between “bearing responsibility” and “being responsible”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • A roundabout way to say that the Turkish invasion of north-eastern Syria is illegal under international law

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany opposes Facebook’s Libra currency on grounds of State sovereignty

     Talmon, Stefan

   • German Constitutional Court considers self-defence against non-State actors a tenable interpretation of Article 51 of the UN Charter

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Principles underpinning Germany’s delivery of humanitarian assistance

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany becomes 13th party to Hong Kong Convention

     Talmon, Stefan

   • War crimes charges brought for seizure of property in non-international armed conflict

     Good, Rosie

   • Candidates nominated by Germany elected to serve on human rights bodies

     Talmon, Stefan

   • War crimes charges brought for letting a Yazidi girl die of thirst

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany criticizes India over anti-satellite missile test

     Talmon, Stefan

   • The German UN Ambassador’s strange understanding of international law

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany’s comments on the ILC’s first draft on crimes against humanity

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Non-recognition of Israeli annexation of the occupied Syrian Golan

     Talmon, Stefan

   • South Africa accuses Germany of breach of Article 41(2) VCDR

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany announces bid for Human Rights Council membership

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Syrian war crimes trial before the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Federal Government adopts 13th human rights report

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Federal Government adopts report on the status of children’s rights

     Talmon, Stefan

   • The U.S. accuses Germany of breach of treaty: the refusal to extradite Adem Yilmaz

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Rules-based order v. international law?

     Talmon, Stefan

   • International agreements concluded by Germany in 2018

     Talmon, Stefan
7. 2018

   • 45th anniversary of German UN membership

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Arrest of an Iranian diplomat over alleged bomb attack in France

     Talmon, Stefan

   • The unconventional repatriation of an Iraqi murder suspect to Germany

     Talmon, Stefan

   • No need for legal instrument on electronic surveillance and privacy

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Endorsement of Safe Schools Declaration

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Return of illegally exported cultural property to Vietnam

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Israel’s right to self-defence against Iranian rocket attack from within Syria

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Bringing human rights to the Security Council

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany ranked second for visa-free travel

     Deeg, Nils

   • Protesters raid German consulate in Greece

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Acceptance or recognition of Kosovo’s independence: does it make a difference?

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Interpreting Security Council resolution 2401 (2018)

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Paint bomb attack on Turkish embassy in Berlin

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Acts of retorsion in defence of Cambodian democracy?

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Busting of U.S. sanctions against Iran? German military refuels Iranian Foreign Minister’s plane

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Israel’s claim to self-defence has a “very high plausibility”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Warning Kosovo over revocation of internationalised criminal tribunal

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Arrest of Gui Minhai during consular support mission

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Criticism of U.S. Guantánamo policy

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany submits written comments in the case of Yücel v. Turkey before the European Court of Human Rights

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Appeal to Iran to stop the execution of persons who were minors at the time of the crime

     Talmon, Stefan

   • U.S. politicization of humanitarian aid to UNRWA

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Difficulties in assessing the illegality of the Turkish intervention in Syria

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Russian aggression against Ukraine

     Talmon, Stefan

   • 55th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Leading Iranian cleric accused of crimes against humanity

     Talmon, Stefan

   • German research vessel caught up in Greek-Turkish Aegean Sea dispute

     Talmon, Stefan

   • North Korea’s missile and nuclear issues

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Unrest in Iran and the right to protest

     Talmon, Stefan

   • International agreements concluded by Germany in 2017

     Talmon, Stefan
8. 2017

   • Diplomatic relations, embassies-in-exile and ambassadors taking refuge in foreign embassies

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Consular protection of German nationals in prison, custody or detention

     Talmon, Stefan

   • China denounces German interference in internal affairs

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Germany’s ambassador to China: an undiplomatic diplomat?

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Effects of climate change as threats to international peace and security

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Defending the Iranian nuclear agreement

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Execution of the death penalty on minors

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Situation in Israeli-occupied Hebron reminiscent of apartheid

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Reporters Without Borders lodges ECHR application against Germany

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Trial of Chinese civil rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Suing Germany over the genocide in Namibia in U.S. courts: the pitfalls of serving a summons on the German Government

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Detention and disappearance of Egyptian human rights lawyer Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy

     Talmon, Stefan

   • The right to freedom of religion for the Baha’i in Iran

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Non-recognition of Catalonia’s unilateral declaration of independence

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Violence against the Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Immunity of German diplomats in the United States

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Abolition of the death penalty

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Arbitration between Croatia and Slovenia

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Death penalty not generally incompatible with ICCPR

     Talmon, Stefan

   • The genocide in Namibia: genocide in a historical-political or in a legal sense?

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Venezuela protests German interference in internal affairs

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Towards an agreement to combat marine litter

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Loss of refugee status by going on holiday to the country of persecution

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Condemnation of certain developments in Eastern Ukraine as “completely unacceptable”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Banning campaign rallies by Turkish government officials in Germany

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Abstention from vote on Chagos Archipelago advisory opinion

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Nonexistence of a “State of Palestine”

     Talmon, Stefan

   • UNESCO resolution calling into question Israel’s jurisdiction over west Jerusalem

     Talmon, Stefan

   • No German support for British sovereignty over Gibraltar

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Diplomatic asylum on German embassy premises in Istanbul

     Talmon, Stefan

   • Tibet or the pitfalls of meeting Richard Gere

     Talmon, Stefan