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Lecture - Law and Global Governance (SB 4 & 6)
Tuesday, 2pm - 4pm, SR 114, Carl-Zeiß-Str. 3
In a rapidly changing and interconnected world, it is assumed that the protection of global public goods increasingly requires the resort to flexible forms of ruling. Accordingly, several and dynamically evolving global governance mechanisms have had a deep impact on international law over the past few decades. Most of these mechanisms are innovative regulatory techniques at the global level, which are difficult to grasp from within the doctrine of sources of international law, but which are highly effective and continue evolving. The course will analyze the main global regulatory techniques in fields such as climate change, sustainable development, and international security. Furthermore, it will delve into the significance of these regulatory evolutions for the structures of international law.
Please register hereExterner Link.
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Lecture - The Law of International Organizations (SB 4 & 6)
Monday, 2pm - 4pm, SR 274, Carl-Zeiß-Str. 3
International organizations (IOs) are the cornerstone of multilateralism and the international legal order. These institutions give voice to member States, facilitate coordination, enable cooperation, empower concerted action, and help to articulate the needs and hopes of the international community as a whole. The course will deal with the law of international organizations (IOs), that is with the legal principles and rules that underly their structure and functions, as well as with the legal powers attributed to them in order to allow them to fulfil their tasks and to function effectively. It will analyse the legal nature of IOs, their constituent treaties, the interpretation of the latter, as well as issues of responsibility and immunities. The focus will be on the United Nations Organization and the broader UN family.
Please register hereExterner Link.
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Lecture - El Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos
Tuesday, 10am - 12pm, SR 124, Carl-Zeiß-Str. 3
El Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos
Este curso dará un panorama del derecho internacional desde el continente americano. Iniciará con algunos apuntes históricos sobre la importancia del derecho internacional en las guerras de independencia y en la consolidación de las nuevas naciones latinoamericanas, para después abordar el surgimiento y las características fundamentales del sistema interamericano de protección de derechos humanos, con énfasis en la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Finalmente, se analizará críticamente el desarrollo del llamado “derecho constitucional común en América Latina” (ius constitutionale commune in Latin America – ICCAL).
The Interamerican Human Rights System
This course provides a perspective of international law from the Americas. It will offer a historical overview of the importance of international law for the independence and consolidation of statehood of Latin American countries, and then dwell into the emergence and characteristics of the Inter American human rights system, with an emphasis on the jurisprudence of the Inter American Court of Human Rights. Finally, the evolution of the so-called “common constitutional law in Latin America” (ius constitutionale commune in Latin America – ICCAL) will be critically analyzed.
Please register hereExterner Link.
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Seminar - Global Law & Transformation: Authoritarianism, Populism, and International Law (SB 6)
In the summer semester 2024 Professor Rodiles will hold a Übungs- and Examensseminar on the topic "Global Law and Transformation: Authoritarianism, Populism, and International Law". Certificats can be acquired for focus area (Schwerpunktbereich) 6 as well as for the International Legal Studies program. The application deadline for wissenschaftliche Hausarbeiten is February 29th, 2024. Students intending to write their wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit should please contact Tim Niendorf (tim.niendorf@uni-jena.de) and provide their Übungsseminarschein to register. A first organizational session will be held on Tuesday, 16th April, 12 to 2 PM (location follows).
The Preamble of the UN Charter reminds us of the importance of human rights, freedom, and values such as "tolerance" and the "worth of the human person." Similarly, at the domestic level, many Constitutions drafted after 1945 uphold these values as a safeguard against the return of an authoritarian past. However, nowadays there are signs that democracy may be in decline. As authoritarian populism rises, we need to ask: What is the role of international law in all of this? This seminar delves into this question by exploring the possibility and risk of an authoritarian breed of international law, that is, the potential for authoritarian tendencies to shape international law (cf. GINSBURG, Tom. Authoritarian International Law? 114 AJIL 221, 228 (2020)). To do that, the seminar seeks to examining key (and debated) concepts such as authoritarianism and populism. The seminar will also seek a better understanding of whether international law inherently favors liberal governance, or not. The seminar seeks to explore cases in which authoritarian populists might have shown signs of how the international legal order might be shaped according to authoritarian tendencies, and if those examples are convincing that the future of the international legal order is illiberal.
Please register hereExterner Link. Students who want to write their wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit in the course should also register hereExterner Link.
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Lecture - Global Security Law (SB 6)
Tuesday, 2pm - 4pm, SR 122, Carl-Zeiß-Str. 3
This course will analyze the contemporary regulatory processes of global security, with a focus on counter-terrorism trends. This includes the evolution of sanctions regimes, the measures adopted against the financing of terrorism, as well as the evolving practices dealing with foreign terrorist fighters (FTF) and the prevention and countering of violent extremism (P/CVE). Accordingly, the UN counter-terrorism machinery will be studied in conjunction with the several interactions it entertains with coalitions and networks, like the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF).
Please register hereExterner Link.
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Lecture - An Introduction to Comparative International Law (SB 6)
Monday, 2pm - 4pm, HS 8, Carl-Zeiß-Str. 3
The universalist presumption of international law is challenged by the circumstance that it is often approached, interpreted, and sometimes even applied differently in different places. Interestingly though, for some scholars, the latter represents an ideal worth pursuing, since it allows for a more diverse, less Western-centric approach to international law. In practice, this ideal has found historical expressions through regionalisms and Third World alliances. Whether such diversity in approaches and understandings really leads to a more international international law (Anthea Roberts), or whether it propels fragmentation and weakens the law of the international community, is the main question that will guide this course.
Please register hereExterner Link.
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Lecture - El Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos - The Interamerican Human Rights System
Tuesday, 10am - 12pm, SR 119, August-Bebel-Str. 4
El Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos
Este curso dará un panorama del derecho internacional desde el continente americano. Iniciará con algunos apuntes históricos sobre la importancia del derecho internacional en las guerras de independencia y en la consolidación de las nuevas naciones latinoamericanas, para después abordar el surgimiento y las características fundamentales del sistema interamericano de protección de derechos humanos, con énfasis en la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Finalmente, se analizará críticamente el desarrollo del llamado “derecho constitucional común en América Latina” (ius constitutionale commune in Latin America – ICCAL).
The Interamerican Human Rights System
This course provides a perspective of international law from the Americas. It will offer a historical overview of the importance of international law for the independence and consolidation of statehood of Latin American countries, and then dwell into the emergence and characteristics of the Inter American human rights system, with an emphasis on the jurisprudence of the Inter American Court of Human Rights. Finally, the evolution of the so-called “common constitutional law in Latin America” (ius constitutionale commune in Latin America – ICCAL) will be critically analyzed.
Please register hereExterner Link.
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Seminar - Global Law and Transformation: The United Nations facing Change - How is the UN responding and adapting to contemporary challenges and crises? (SB 1, 4 & 6)
Im Wintersemester 2023/24 werde ich sowohl ein Übungs- als auch Examensseminar zum Thema: Global Law and Transformation: The United Nations facing Change - How is the UN responding and adapting to contemporary challenges and crises? für die Schwerpunktbereiche 1, 4 und 6 anbieten.
Eine erste einführende Sitzung wird am 23.10.2023 um 12:00 Uhr im SR 308, CZS 3 stattfinden. Dort werde ich eine Einführung in das Thema des Seminars sowie Literaturhinweise geben. Maximilian Beyer wird im Anschluss eine Einführung zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten anbieten. Die Seminare werden als Blockseminar am 31.01. von 10:00-13:00 und 15:00-19:00 Uhr sowie am 01.02. von 10:00-13:00 und 15:00-19:00 Uhr durchgeführt.
Anmeldeschluss für die Anmeldung der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit ist der 31. Juli 2023. Bitte melden Sie sich für das Examensseminar bis dahin per E-Mail an tim.niendorf@uni-jena.de an. Sie erhalten ein Formular, das Sie ausgefüllt per E-Mail zurücksenden. Mit dieser E-Mail übermitteln Sie bitte auch einen Scan Ihres Seminarscheins über das erfolgreiche Bestehen eines (Übungs-)Seminars (§ 16 Abs. 3 SBPrüfO). Melden Sie sich bitte anschließend auch über Friedolin für die Veranstaltung an (diejenigen, die eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit schreiben wollen, melden sich bitte sowohl für das Übungs-Externer Link als auch das Examensseminar Externer Linkan, alle anderen nur für das Übungsseminar).
Anmeldung zum Übungsseminar sind auch noch nach dem 31.07.2023 möglich.
Bei organisatorischen Fragen, wenden Sie sich bitte an Herrn Dr. Niendorf: tim.niendorf@uni-jena.de
Kurze Beschreibung des Themas (auf Englisch):
Global Law and Transformation: The United Nations facing Change - How is the UN responding and adapting to contemporary challenges and crises?
In the history of international relations, durable peace and relative stability have rather been the exceptions. However, diverse processes of accelerated change and several crises are unfolding nowadays at the same time. Crises vary in scale and intensity, from locally situated chronic violence, over transregional dynamics of massive migratory flows, to the global dimensions of wars and pandemics, and the planetary climate crisis. These crises are often interrelated and have mutually re-enforcing dynamics. The same can be said in relation to accelerated processes of technological and social change, as well as tectonic shifts in geopolitics. All these processes of transformation affect global law and governance, and their institutions. Being the most universal and general in terms of participation and material scope, the United Nations Organization (UN) is certainly the one where these changes and crises are felt most acutely. Having the finger on the pulse of global transformations also calls for the design and promotion of their solutions. Indeed, the whole UN system is heavily involved in these endeavours of facing change. The seminar attempts to look at these efforts and to better understand what they are doing to the organization as such, that is how facing change (by the institution) provokes (institutional) change.
Die Themen für Examensseminararbeiten (wissenschaftliche Arbeiten) können vorab nicht bekannt gegeben werden.
Mögliche Themen für die Übungsseminararbeiten (auf Englisch):
I. The Security Council
- The viability of the Security Council in face of Syria, Ukraine, and other major crises: Reform, incremental change, or protracted impasse?
- Evolving threats and challenges to peace and security
- Climate change as a matter of peace and security
II. The General Assembly
- The war against Ukraine and the Uniting for Peace Process
- Revitalization of the GA?
III. The International Court of Justice
- Latest developments (pending): Request of an Advisory Opinion on the “obligations of States in respect of Climate Change” (29 March 2023)
IV. The Secretary General
- The Secretary General’s vision of a renewed United Nations according to “Our Common Agenda”
- Towards a 21st Century multilateralism?
- “UN 2.0”
- The role of international law
- A reformed Trusteeship Council for the global commons?V. Transversal themes and evolutions
- Towards a new peacebuilding architecture? The concept of “sustaining peace”
- The UN 2030 Agenda and the “development reform”
- SDGs implementation (SDG17) through partnerships
o The “whole of society approach”
o The role of the private sector
o The role of civil society
o The resident coordinator system
o Digital developmentalism