On October 2019, the EU adopted Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law (Directive) following the proposal for a Directive introduced
by the Commission on April 2018. The new approach taken in the Directive to protect whistleblowers differs from the concept developed by the European Court of Human [...]
One of the chair’s assistants will participate next weekend in the „International Americanistic Studies Congress“, which will take place in Perugia, Italy, from 17-22
September and will be organised by the Centro Studi Americanistici „Circolo Amerindiano“. [...]
Unwired Planet v. Huawei, Judgment of 26 August 2020, [2020] UKSC 37, upholding the High Court and Court of Appeal decisions ([2017] EWHC 711 (Pat) and [2019] EWCA Civ 38)
in the related cases Unwired Planet v. Huawei and ZTE v. Conversant [...]
Our latest Saar Blueprint is written by Irene Salgado Doval and is on „The immunity of acting and former heads of State from national and international criminal Courts„.
This paper is based on the seminar paper she wrote during Prof. Dr. Thomas Giegerich’s seminar in the summer term 2020. [...]
The Chair was very happy to contribute to the European Summer Course 2020 of the Europa-Institut, for the first time held completely online due to the worldwide corona crisis.
Get an insight here. [...]
Christian Mommers, external PhD candidate at the Europa Institute of the Leiden University Law School and Adviser to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe*
* Views expressed are solely the author’s [...]
Prof. Giegerich hat in der letzten Nachlieferung für den Grundgesetz-Kommentar von Maunz/Dürig das „Grundrecht auf Auslieferungsfreiheit“ in Art. 16 Abs. 2 GG unter Einbeziehung
der völker- und europarechtlichen Vorgaben des Auslieferungsrechts und Kritik an der einschlägigen BVerfG-Rechtsprechung neu kommentiert. [...]
Ben Hulme, PhD Warwick University Among the collection of draft texts for the future UK/EU relationship released by the UK government in May 2020, one which has received
little attention thus far has been the draft UK-EU Readmission Agreement. Readmission is the process by which an individual who did not fulfil, or no longer fulfils, [...]
Felix Beck, PhD candidate at the University of Freiburg, Germany; former research assistant of Prof. Dr. Silja Vöneky; research assistant at the law firm POSSER SPIETH
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Since last week, this year’s European Summer Course of the Europa-Institut is in full swing and the Jean-Monnet Chair is also involved: Today, Prof. Dr. Giegerich will give
a lecture on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and Human Rights Protection in Europe and this afternoon & tomorrow morning there will be a […] [...]
