In recent years German and international courts have heard several high-profile cases involving compensation claims for German violations of international humanitarian law in the past. Compensation has been denied for the massacre committed in Distomo (Greece) during the German occupation of...

State immunity for state-run enterprises remains important in the age of globalization. This is indicated by the adoption of the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property on 2 December 2004. In this short article the reader is introduced to the basics of...

The territorial dispute between Russia and Ukraine, which has been going on since the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, is now starting to show effects also far away from the battlefields of Eastern Ukraine: in the waters of the Arctic Ocean, off the shores of Russia's far north....

There is no single treaty regulating the Arctic Ocean, nor a regional seas programme. Written in 2015, this article was intended to show how there existed, during the Obama administration, the possibility to create a legally binding treaty protecting the Arctic marine environment. Today (2019),...

Climate change makes polar regions more accessible for shipping. In particular the Arctic promises new shipping routes which provide shortcuts, for example when compared to existing shipping routes between Europe and East Asia. Also, the boom in cruise shipping and the export of hydrocarbons and...

One of the questions which are not conclusively answered by the current international law of the sea is the legality of military exercises in the Exclusive Economic Zone of another country. Using a 2018 exercise in the Baltic Sea and an example, the article aims to shed light on this issue,...

Climate change is opening new sea routes in the Arctic Ocean. The Northern Sea Route (NSR), along Russia's Arctic shore, is particularly important in this regard. While in recent weeks some shipping companies have pledged to refrain from shipping through the Arctic, due to the environmental...

The Arctic is sparsely populated and many rural areas of the Arctic suffer from a demographic decline. On the other hand has the Arctic long attracted outside interest and in recent years the countries of the European High North have become important migrant destinations. Simultaneously, many...

Using a new SOEP-IS data module on digitalization including information on the prevalence of AI use in the workplace, this report shows that the term "artificial intelligence" often remains inscrutable in the day-to-day work of many employees. When asked directly about the use of digital systems...

Der Begriff der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) bleibt im Arbeitsalltag für Erwerbstätige oftmals undurchschaubar. Das zeigt eine Auswertung der Verbreitung von KI in der Arbeitswelt in Deutschland mithilfe des neuen Datenmoduls des SOEP-IS zum Thema Digitalisierung. Fragt man die...