Institute for International Law and European Law (Göttingen)

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The Institute for International Law and European Law is an institute of the law faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

history

The institute was founded in 1930 as a seminar for international law and diplomacy , making it one of the oldest still existing university institutes for international law in Germany . Its founding goes back to the legal scholar Herbert Kraus , who was forcibly retired from 1937 to 1945 due to his opposition to National Socialism and was the founding director of the institute. Until 2005 the institute was called “Institute for International Law”, since then it was called “Institute for International Law and European Law”. However, international law was taught in Göttingen well before the institute was founded, among others by Georg Friedrich von Martens .

The institute's specialist library comprises more than 56,000 volumes and around 152 subscriptions to specialist journals . During the re-establishment of the institute from 1945, Hans-Günther Seraphim worked as a librarian at the institute and was responsible for editing the files on the Nuremberg Trials .

The Institute for International Law and European Law at the University of Göttingen is one of the leading academic institutions in Germany in the field of international law , alongside the Heidelberg-based Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the Walther Schücking Institute in Kiel . The legal scholars who were or are active as professors at the institute include Ulrich Scheuner , Wilhelm Grewe , Georg Erler (lawyer) , Dietrich Rauschning , Volkmar Götz , Gottfried Zieger , Gilbert Gornig , Udo Fink , Frank Schorkopf , Georg Nolte , Peter-Tobias Stoll and Andreas Paulus .

Until 2012 the institute had its own department for nuclear law. The Institute's publications include the Goettingen Journal of International Law, founded in 2007 .

Alumni

The institute’s doctoral and post-doctoral candidates include:

Alfred de Zayas also worked as an assistant at the institute.

literature

  • C. Calliess / G. Nolte / P.-T. Stoll (Ed.), From Diplomacy to Codified Law - 75 Years of the Institute for International Law at the University of Göttingen (1930–2005), Göttingen Studies on International and European Law, Cologne: Heymanns, 2006, ISBN 3-452-26472-6 .
  • E. Schumann, The Göttingen Law and Political Science Faculty 1933–1955, in: dies. (Ed.), Continuities and Caesuras. Law and justice in the “Third Reich” and in the post-war period, Göttingen 2008, pp. 65 ff, ISBN 978-3-8353-0305-8 .
  • Frank Halfmann: A "nursery of the best National Socialist legal scholars": The legal department of the law and political science faculty . In: Heinrich Becker, Hans-Joachim Dahms, Cornelia Wegeler (HG.): The University of Göttingen under National Socialism , KG-Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-10853-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Stolleis: History of Public Law in Germany - Weimar Republic and National Socialism . CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-406-48960-0 , page 268f.
  2. ↑ Heiko Meiertöns: An International Lawyer in Democracy and Dictatorship - Re-Introducing Herbert Kraus In: EJIL, Vol. 25 (2014), pp. 255–286. ( Online ).
  3. ^ Martti Koskenniemi: Into Positivism: Georg Friedrich von Martens (1756-1821) and Modern International Law . In: Constellations 15 (2).
  4. ↑ Kai Arne Linnemann: Das Erbe der Ostforschung , 2002, p. 61, fn. 118.
  5. ^ Michael Stolleis: History of Public Law in Germany, Volume IV Political and Administrative Science in West and East 1945-1990 '. CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-406-63203-7 , page 53f.
  6. ↑ Benigna von Krusenstjern, "that it makes sense to die - to have lived": Adam von Trott zu Solz 1909-1944 , Wallstein, 2013 p. 199

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