More than one hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court started to refer to social science evidence in its judgments. However, this has not resonated with many constitutional courts outside the United States, in particular in continental Europe. This contribution has a twofold aim. First, it...

More than one hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court started to refer to social science evidence in its judgments. However, this has not resonated with many constitutional courts outside the United States, in particular in continental Europe. This contribution has a twofold aim. First, it...

The UN Charter and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties require interpreting treaties and settling international disputes in conformity with the principles of justice and international law. This contribution discusses procedural and substantive principles of justice which the...

Die Arbeit in einem sozialhilferechtlichen Beschäftigungsprogramm kann eine Voraussetzung sein, um Leistungen der Sozialhilfe und der Nothilfe (Art. 12 BV) zu erhalten. Diese Dissertation untersucht, inwiefern diese Anspruchsvoraussetzung für die Leistungen der subsidiären sozialstaatlichen...

The assignment will be focusing on International court of justice acts that helped in development of international law directly or indirectly. International law itself is weak law because of heterogenic nature of state’s laws. Few of them overlap each other few of them don’t. International...

This paper examines Hans Kelsen's theory of international adjudication and its political implications in the context of Kelsen's post-war calls for compulsory jurisdiction. It defends Kelsen's position on judicial law-making against claims by scholars such as Hardt and Negri that it amounts to a...

The paper aims at appraising whether domestic courts, because of different legal and institutional constraints, construe the systemic character of the international legal order differently from international courts and international legal scholars. After recalling the extent to which...

This open access book examines the multiple intersections between national and international courts in the field of investment protection, and suggests possible modes for regulating future jurisdictional interactions between domestic courts and international tribunals. The current system of...