Helmut Philipp Aust
Biographic Data
| ID | 5699197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helmut Philipp Aust |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helmut Philipp |
| FAMILY NAME | Aust |
| SIGNATURE | AUST H P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9401-2410 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Laila Schestag
Laila Schestag: Zwischenrecht. Die allgemeinen Regeln des Völkerrechts in der frühen Bundesrepublik, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2024, 287 S.
IOM Unbound?
It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migration. Bringing together leading experts in international law and international relations, this collection examines the dynamics and implications of IOM's expansion in a new way. Analyzing IOM as an international organization (IO), the book illuminates the practices, obligations and accountability of …
Cities and Local Governments
This chapter retraces the emergence of cities and local governments as sites and actors of international development. A friction exists between two seemingly competing understandings of global development: the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The SDGs are the most important multilateral articulation of ideas of development today. They are considerably shaped by the long shadow of the post-Cold …
Cities in a world of regions – Remarks from an international law perspective
The role of subnational regions is ill-conceived in international law scholarship, which has come to slowly accept the important role that cities can play as international actors. Opening up the academic debate for a perspective on regions promises to develop new insights on the divide of governance functions between international organizations and states, regions and cities. At the same time, the regional focus helps to unearth some of the short…
Climate Protection Act Case, Order of the First Senate
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Research Handbook on International Law and Cities
This groundbreaking Research Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the impact of international law on cities. It sheds light on the growing global role of cities and makes the case for a renewed understanding of international law in the light of the urban turn. Written by a group of scholars from a wide range of different geographical and theoretical backgrounds, this Research Handbook contributes to a better understanding …
Recognition Returning Home
The days following the 2020 presidential election threw the United States-and the world watching on the sidelines-into a particular form of interregnum. For a moment in November 2020, anything seemed to be possible, even a full-blown collapse of the United States and a retreat into some kind of civil war. The world was speculating for a few wild days who would emerge as the ultimate winner of a close, yet not so close, race. Would it be necessary…
Helmut Philipp Aust, Review of Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Panos Merkouris, Treaties in Motion
US-Drohneneinsätze und die grundrechtliche Schutzpflicht für das Recht auf Leben: »German exceptionalism«?
Das OVG Münster hat die Bundesregierung dazu verurteilt, sich zu vergewissern, dass die Nutzung der US-Basis in Ramstein für Drohneneinsätze im Einklang mit dem Völkerrecht stattfindet, und gegebenenfalls auf die Einhaltung des Völkerrechts hinzuwirken. Der Beitrag analysiert das Urteil und hinterfragt kritisch die Argumentation des Gerichts zur Reichweite der grundrechtlichen Schutzpflicht für das Recht auf Leben. Auch die Begründungskultur des …
Praxis und Protest im Völkerrecht
Die Bundesregierung hat die militärische Reaktion der Vereinigten Staaten, des Vereinigten Königreichs und Frankreichs auf den mutmaßlichen Einsatz von Chemiewaffen im Syrien-Konflikt als »erforderlich und angemessen« eingeordnet. Dies wirft Fragen hinsichtlich Bestand und Entwicklung des völkerrechtlichen Gewaltverbots auf. Im Kontext aktueller Erosionserscheinungen des Gewaltverbots sind Positionierungen wie die der deutschen Bundesregierung zu…
Undermining Human Agency and Democratic Infrastructures? The Algorithmic Challenge to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“Digital technology is transforming what it means to be a subject.” The increase in the use of big data, self-learning algorithms, and fully automated decision-making processes calls into question the concept of human agency that is at the basis of much of modern human rights law. Already today, it is possible to imagine a form of “algorithmic authority,” i.e., the exercise of authority over individuals based on the more or less automated use of …
Das Recht der globalen Stadt
In einer Zeit rapider Urbanisierung werden Städte und Gemeinden zunehmend zu international relevanten Akteuren. Ob in Fragen der nachhaltigen Entwicklung und des Klimaschutzes, der Gewährleistung von Sicherheit oder zur Durchsetzung von Menschenrechten: Städte und Gemeinden haben zahlreiche internationale Netzwerke gegründet, kooperieren mit internationalen Organisationen und verschreiben sich der Durchsetzung völkerrechtlicher Normen. Helmut Phi…
Das Recht der globalen Stadt
The Law of the Global City. Transboundary Dimensions of Local Self-Government.
Grundrechtsdogmatik im Staatsorganisationsrecht?
The doctrine of German constitutional law is sometimes described as differing fundamentally in its two main subfields: the protection of fundamental rights and the rest of constitutional law, pertaining to the organisation of state powers, the state organs and the relationship between the federal level and the Länder. The development of constitutional law doctrine in the field of fundamental rights is often praised for its sophistication. It is i…
Helena Lindemann
Helena Lindemann: Kommunale Governance. Die Stadt als Konzept im Völkerrecht, Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2014, 254 S.
Shining Cities on the Hill? The Global City, Climate Change, and International Law
Cities are beginning to assert themselves as internationally relevant actors. This is particularly noticeable in the climate change context. This development has so far not been accorded a great deal of attention by international lawyers. The review essay discusses four new books by political scientists which offer us a closer look at the political dimension of 'global cities', a term originally coined by sociologist Saskia Sassen. The four books…
Spionage im Zeitalter von Big Data - Globale Überwachung und der Schutz der Privatsphäre im Völkerrecht
The revelations prompted by Edward Snowden about mass surveillance by the NSA, GCHQ and other intelligence services of the so-called Five-Eyes states (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand) have triggered a lively debate about the framework for espionage activities in contemporary international law. The different facets of the various activities of surveillance make it impossible to arrive at an overriding and general l…
From Diplomat to Academic Activist
Today mostly forgotten, André Mandelstam (1869–1949) was a pioneer of the human rights movement in the interwar period. Originally a diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire, he went into exile after the Bolshevik revolution and became an important member of the internationalist scene in Paris. An active contributor to the various professional associations and institutions of the time, Mandelstam came to draft the first ever international hu…
Unity or Uniformity? Domestic Courts and Treaty Interpretation
The role of domestic courts in the application of international law is one of the most vividly debated issues in contemporary international legal doctrine. However, the methodology of interpretation of international norms used by these courts remains underexplored. In particular, the application of the Vienna rules of treaty interpretation by domestic courts has not been sufficiently assessed so far. Three case studies (from the US Supreme Court,…
Legacies of the Permanent Court of International Justice
Legacies of the Permanent Court of International Justice
European exceptionalism
The paper discusses recent propositions that, after a period of ‘American exceptionalism’, forms of ‘European exceptionalism’ are now emerging. The paper first asks what makes a political entity ‘exceptionalist’. For this purpose inspiration is sought in the defining features of ‘American exceptionalism’. The paper then discusses whether ‘Europe’ displays comparable features in the fields of international legal policy and domestic rights culture.…
Urfan Khaliq. Ethical Dimensions of the Foreign Policy of the European Union. A Legal Appraisal
Equivocal Helpers—complicit States, Mixed Messages and International Law
Issues of State complicity arise ever more frequently in international relations. Rules which deal with the responsibility of States for aiding or assisting in the commission of internationally wrongful acts by other States are, however, not yet fully developed. States frequently support each other's actions without necessarily considering the potential implications of the rules on complicity in international law. This leads to another problem: i…
Die Zukunft des Kosovo
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Shining Cities on the Hill? The Global City, Climate Change, and International Law
Cities are beginning to assert themselves as internationally relevant actors. This is particularly noticeable in the climate change context. This development has so far not been accorded a great deal of attention by international lawyers. The review essay discusses four new books by political scientists which offer us a closer look at the political dimension of 'global cities', a term originally coined by sociologist Saskia Sassen. The four books…
Unity or Uniformity? Domestic Courts and Treaty Interpretation
The role of domestic courts in the application of international law is one of the most vividly debated issues in contemporary international legal doctrine. However, the methodology of interpretation of international norms used by these courts remains underexplored. In particular, the application of the Vienna rules of treaty interpretation by domestic courts has not been sufficiently assessed so far. Three case studies (from the US Supreme Court,…
Equivocal Helpers—complicit States, Mixed Messages and International Law
Issues of State complicity arise ever more frequently in international relations. Rules which deal with the responsibility of States for aiding or assisting in the commission of internationally wrongful acts by other States are, however, not yet fully developed. States frequently support each other's actions without necessarily considering the potential implications of the rules on complicity in international law. This leads to another problem: i…
From Diplomat to Academic Activist
Today mostly forgotten, André Mandelstam (1869–1949) was a pioneer of the human rights movement in the interwar period. Originally a diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire, he went into exile after the Bolshevik revolution and became an important member of the internationalist scene in Paris. An active contributor to the various professional associations and institutions of the time, Mandelstam came to draft the first ever international hu…
European exceptionalism
The paper discusses recent propositions that, after a period of ‘American exceptionalism’, forms of ‘European exceptionalism’ are now emerging. The paper first asks what makes a political entity ‘exceptionalist’. For this purpose inspiration is sought in the defining features of ‘American exceptionalism’. The paper then discusses whether ‘Europe’ displays comparable features in the fields of international legal policy and domestic rights culture.…
Die Zukunft des Kosovo
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Urfan Khaliq. Ethical Dimensions of the Foreign Policy of the European Union. A Legal Appraisal
Equivocal Helpers—complicit States, Mixed Messages and International Law
Issues of State complicity arise ever more frequently in international relations. Rules which deal with the responsibility of States for aiding or assisting in the commission of internationally wrongful acts by other States are, however, not yet fully developed. States frequently support each other's actions without necessarily considering the potential implications of the rules on complicity in international law. This leads to another problem: i…
Legacies of the Permanent Court of International Justice
Legacies of the Permanent Court of International Justice
European exceptionalism
The paper discusses recent propositions that, after a period of ‘American exceptionalism’, forms of ‘European exceptionalism’ are now emerging. The paper first asks what makes a political entity ‘exceptionalist’. For this purpose inspiration is sought in the defining features of ‘American exceptionalism’. The paper then discusses whether ‘Europe’ displays comparable features in the fields of international legal policy and domestic rights culture.…
Spionage im Zeitalter von Big Data - Globale Überwachung und der Schutz der Privatsphäre im Völkerrecht
The revelations prompted by Edward Snowden about mass surveillance by the NSA, GCHQ and other intelligence services of the so-called Five-Eyes states (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand) have triggered a lively debate about the framework for espionage activities in contemporary international law. The different facets of the various activities of surveillance make it impossible to arrive at an overriding and general l…
From Diplomat to Academic Activist
Today mostly forgotten, André Mandelstam (1869–1949) was a pioneer of the human rights movement in the interwar period. Originally a diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire, he went into exile after the Bolshevik revolution and became an important member of the internationalist scene in Paris. An active contributor to the various professional associations and institutions of the time, Mandelstam came to draft the first ever international hu…
Unity or Uniformity? Domestic Courts and Treaty Interpretation
The role of domestic courts in the application of international law is one of the most vividly debated issues in contemporary international legal doctrine. However, the methodology of interpretation of international norms used by these courts remains underexplored. In particular, the application of the Vienna rules of treaty interpretation by domestic courts has not been sufficiently assessed so far. Three case studies (from the US Supreme Court,…
Helena Lindemann
Helena Lindemann: Kommunale Governance. Die Stadt als Konzept im Völkerrecht, Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2014, 254 S.
Shining Cities on the Hill? The Global City, Climate Change, and International Law
Cities are beginning to assert themselves as internationally relevant actors. This is particularly noticeable in the climate change context. This development has so far not been accorded a great deal of attention by international lawyers. The review essay discusses four new books by political scientists which offer us a closer look at the political dimension of 'global cities', a term originally coined by sociologist Saskia Sassen. The four books…
Grundrechtsdogmatik im Staatsorganisationsrecht?
The doctrine of German constitutional law is sometimes described as differing fundamentally in its two main subfields: the protection of fundamental rights and the rest of constitutional law, pertaining to the organisation of state powers, the state organs and the relationship between the federal level and the Länder. The development of constitutional law doctrine in the field of fundamental rights is often praised for its sophistication. It is i…
Das Recht der globalen Stadt
In einer Zeit rapider Urbanisierung werden Städte und Gemeinden zunehmend zu international relevanten Akteuren. Ob in Fragen der nachhaltigen Entwicklung und des Klimaschutzes, der Gewährleistung von Sicherheit oder zur Durchsetzung von Menschenrechten: Städte und Gemeinden haben zahlreiche internationale Netzwerke gegründet, kooperieren mit internationalen Organisationen und verschreiben sich der Durchsetzung völkerrechtlicher Normen. Helmut Phi…
Das Recht der globalen Stadt
The Law of the Global City. Transboundary Dimensions of Local Self-Government.
Praxis und Protest im Völkerrecht
Die Bundesregierung hat die militärische Reaktion der Vereinigten Staaten, des Vereinigten Königreichs und Frankreichs auf den mutmaßlichen Einsatz von Chemiewaffen im Syrien-Konflikt als »erforderlich und angemessen« eingeordnet. Dies wirft Fragen hinsichtlich Bestand und Entwicklung des völkerrechtlichen Gewaltverbots auf. Im Kontext aktueller Erosionserscheinungen des Gewaltverbots sind Positionierungen wie die der deutschen Bundesregierung zu…
Undermining Human Agency and Democratic Infrastructures? The Algorithmic Challenge to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“Digital technology is transforming what it means to be a subject.” The increase in the use of big data, self-learning algorithms, and fully automated decision-making processes calls into question the concept of human agency that is at the basis of much of modern human rights law. Already today, it is possible to imagine a form of “algorithmic authority,” i.e., the exercise of authority over individuals based on the more or less automated use of …
US-Drohneneinsätze und die grundrechtliche Schutzpflicht für das Recht auf Leben: »German exceptionalism«?
Das OVG Münster hat die Bundesregierung dazu verurteilt, sich zu vergewissern, dass die Nutzung der US-Basis in Ramstein für Drohneneinsätze im Einklang mit dem Völkerrecht stattfindet, und gegebenenfalls auf die Einhaltung des Völkerrechts hinzuwirken. Der Beitrag analysiert das Urteil und hinterfragt kritisch die Argumentation des Gerichts zur Reichweite der grundrechtlichen Schutzpflicht für das Recht auf Leben. Auch die Begründungskultur des …
Research Handbook on International Law and Cities
This groundbreaking Research Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the impact of international law on cities. It sheds light on the growing global role of cities and makes the case for a renewed understanding of international law in the light of the urban turn. Written by a group of scholars from a wide range of different geographical and theoretical backgrounds, this Research Handbook contributes to a better understanding …
Recognition Returning Home
The days following the 2020 presidential election threw the United States-and the world watching on the sidelines-into a particular form of interregnum. For a moment in November 2020, anything seemed to be possible, even a full-blown collapse of the United States and a retreat into some kind of civil war. The world was speculating for a few wild days who would emerge as the ultimate winner of a close, yet not so close, race. Would it be necessary…
Helmut Philipp Aust, Review of Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Panos Merkouris, Treaties in Motion
Climate Protection Act Case, Order of the First Senate
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
IOM Unbound?
It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migration. Bringing together leading experts in international law and international relations, this collection examines the dynamics and implications of IOM's expansion in a new way. Analyzing IOM as an international organization (IO), the book illuminates the practices, obligations and accountability of …
Cities and Local Governments
This chapter retraces the emergence of cities and local governments as sites and actors of international development. A friction exists between two seemingly competing understandings of global development: the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The SDGs are the most important multilateral articulation of ideas of development today. They are considerably shaped by the long shadow of the post-Cold …
Cities in a world of regions – Remarks from an international law perspective
The role of subnational regions is ill-conceived in international law scholarship, which has come to slowly accept the important role that cities can play as international actors. Opening up the academic debate for a perspective on regions promises to develop new insights on the divide of governance functions between international organizations and states, regions and cities. At the same time, the regional focus helps to unearth some of the short…
Laila Schestag
Laila Schestag: Zwischenrecht. Die allgemeinen Regeln des Völkerrechts in der frühen Bundesrepublik, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2024, 287 S.
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