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Research and Publications

Main Areas of Research


Publications in English

Selected bibliography of Professor Uerpmann-WittzackOrcid 16x16 :

  • International Law as an Element of European Constitutional Law, Jean-Monnet Working Paper 9/03, New York 2003, http://jeanmonnetprogram.org/archive/papers/03/030901-02.pdf
  • Implementation of United Nations Human Rights Law by German Courts, 46 GYIL 2003 (2004), pp. 87-122
  • The Constitutional Role of Multilateral Treaty Systems, in: Armin von Bogdandy/J. Bast (eds.), Principles of European Constitutional Law, 2006, pp. 145-181
  • Personal Rights and the Prohibition of Discrimination, in: Dirk Ehlers (ed.), European Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, 2007, § 3, pp. 67-96
  • Multilevel Internet Governance Involving the European Union, Nation States and NGOs, in: Andreas Føllesdal/Ramses A. Wessel/Jan Wouters (eds.), Multilevel Regulation and the EU, 2008, pp. 145-168
  • “Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo Cases”, in: Anne Peters/Rüdiger Wolfrum (eds), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, online at http://www.mpepil.com/ since September 2008, update March 2013
  • “Mavrommatis Concession Cases”, in: Anne Peters/Rüdiger Wolfrum (eds), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, online at http://www.mpepil.com/ since September 2008, last update April 2021
  • “Norwegian Shipowners’ Claims Arbitration”, in: Anne Peters/Rüdiger Wolfrum (eds), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, online at http://www.mpepil.com/ since September 2008
  • International Regulation by International Regulatory Organisations – A model for ICANN?, in: The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2008 (2009), vol. I, pp.113-123
  • The Constitutional Role of Public International Law, in: Armin von Bogdandy/J. Bast (eds.), Principles of European Constitutional Law, 2nd ed. 2010, pp. 131-167
  • Principles of International Internet Law, German Law Journal 11 (2010), pp. 1245-1264
  • Serious Human Rights Violations as Potential Exceptions to Immunity: Conceptual Challenges, in: Anne Peters, Evelyne Lagrange, Stefan Oeter and Christian Tomuschat (eds.), Immunities in the Age of Global Constitutionalism, 2014, pp. 236-243; you find a preprint here
  • Public Watchdogs and Democratic Society: The Role of the Media and of the Strasbourg Court, in: Katja S. Ziegler, Elisabeth Wicks and Loveday Hodson (eds.), The UK and European Human Rights - A Strained Relationship?, 2015, pp. 441-452
  • Borders and ethnic divides, in: Société française pour le droit international (ed.), Droit des frontières internationales. The law of international borders, 2016, pp. 261-272
  • Immunities before International Criminal Courts, in: Barłomiej Krzan (ed.), Prosecuting International Crimes: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 2016, pp. 70-80; you will find a preprint here
  • European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Healthcare (EDQM), in: Stefanie Schmahl and Marten Breuer (eds.), The Council of Europe. Its Law and Policies, 2017, pp. 394-406
  • Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, ibid., pp. 572-588
  • Media and Information Society, ibid., pp. 708-731
  • Religion and International Law: Living Together, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, 2018 (edited together with Evelyne Lagrange and Stefan Oeter)
  • Cultural Heritage and International Law: Objects, Means and Ends of International Protection, Springer International Publishing, Basel, 2018 (edited together with Evelyne Lagrange and Stefan Oeter)
  • Introduction: Cultural Heritage Law and the Quest for Human Identities, in: Evelyne Lagrange, Stefan Oeter and Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack (eds.), Cultural Heritage and International Law: Objects, Means and Ends of International Protection. Springer International Publishing, Basel, 2018, pp. 1-11
  • The Law-Making Function of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Wroclaw Review of Law, Administration & Economics 8/2 (2018), pp. 36-46
  • Continuity and Succession of States: The Fate of Pre-War Germany and its Implications for the 1970 Treaty of Warsaw, Polish Yearbook of International Law XLI 2021 (2022), pp. 45-56
  • The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – The Role of National Human Rights Institutions: A Comment, Journal of Human Rights Practice 14 (2022), pp. 128-133
  • Freedom of Association: The Shrinking Space of Civil Society, in: Daniel Erasmus Khan, Evelyne Lagrange, Stefan Oeter and Christian Walter, Democracy and Sovereignty, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, 2022, pp. 169-180; you find a preprint here

Other Publications

You will find a list of the Chair's publications at the University of Regensburg's institutional repository.

Professor Uerpmann-WittzackOrcid 16x16 is a co-editor of the German public international law journal "Archiv des Völkerrechts".

Publications in French are listed here.



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Chair of Public and International Law

Prof. Dr.

Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack, Maîtrise en droit

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