Walther Schücking Institute for International Law

The Walther Schücking Institute for International Law is an institute of the law faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel .

history

The institute was founded in 1914 as the Kiel Institute for International Law , making it the oldest university institute for international law in Germany . Since 1995 it has been named after its former director Walther Schücking , who was the first German judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice from 1930 to 1935 .

In addition to the Heidelberg-based Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, the Walther Schücking Institute is another academic institution in Germany in the field of international law. The law scholars who were or are active as professors at the institute include Jost Delbrück , Wilfried Fiedler , Thomas Giegerich , Wilhelm Kewenig , Hermann von Mangoldt , Kerstin Odendahl , Alexander Proelß , Rüdiger Wolfrum and Andreas Zimmermann . The institute's specialist library comprises more than 110,000 volumes and around 180 subscriptions to specialist journals . Since 1948 it has functioned as the United Nations Depository Library , in which all generally distributed English-language documents and publications of the United Nations are collected.

The Institute's publications include the German Yearbook of International Law , which was published as the yearbook for international law until 1977 , as well as the series of publications by the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at Kiel University (VIIR) published by the Duncker & Humblot publishing house. . In the area of international law, the institute is part of the Kiel Cluster of Excellence “ The Future Ocean ”. From 1989 to 1996, the student teams at Kiel University supervised by the institute won the German eliminations for the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition , the largest moot court in the world in the field of international law.

^ Michael Stolleis: History of Public Law in Germany - Weimar Republic and National Socialism . CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-406-48960-0 , page 394f.