2025

28th March 2025
Christian Schultheiss talks about “30 Years of Negotiations in the South China Sea: What Can We Learn for the Way ahead?“ at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2025 by the South China Sea Sub-forum, Boao, China.

25th March 2025
Christian Schultheiss talks about “Orbit, Ocean and Law: How Satellites, AI and Networks Enable Maritime Security. Conference: US-China Strategic Competition at the Planetary Frontiers ” at the conference „US-China Strategic Competition at the ‘Planetary Frontiers’“, Washington DC.

20th January 2025
Kerttuli Lingenfelter discusses “The ICC Prosecutor’s Libya Investigation” at the MPIL Monday Meeting.

16thJanuary 2025
Sofia Vandenbosch delivers a „Tour d’horizon du cadre juridique belge relatif à la politique extérieure“, Belgian vs. Flemish diplomacy. Conflict or cooperation?,“ Rethinking Belgium initiative, Bruxelles.
2024

17th December 2024
Carolyn Moser speaks about security cooperation and long-term support for Ukraine at the reception of the Max Planck Society – Prelude 2025, Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin.

13th December 2024
Kerttuli Lingenfelter talks about the „Special Tribunal for the Crime of Agression against Ukraine“.

9th December 2024
Laurids delivers a presentation on „Assessing the Iranian missile attack of October 1 under the jus ad bellum“ in the Max Planck Discussion Series on the Situation in the Middle East.

21st November 2024
Christian Schultheiss talks about „How to give effect to adjudication? The impact of the South China Sea Arbitration beyond compliance“ at the ILSEA Conference, The Hague.

31st October 2024
Christian Schultheiss delivers the presentation „Schiffbruch im Südchinesischen Meer –Wie hält sich Völkerrecht in Großmächtekonflikten über Wasser?“ at Wissenswerte, Tagung für Wissenschaftsjournalisten in Heidelberg.

28th October 2024
Christian Schultheiss explores “Surveillance Technologies, AI, and Maritime Law Enforcement” at the MPIL Monday Meeting.

22nd October 2024
Sofia Vandenbosch addresses “Is there a future for the political question doctrine in Europe?” at the Max Planck Law Annual Conference on 22 October 2024 in Berlin.

22nd October 2024
Christian Schultheiss gives a presentation on “How to give effect to adjudication during protracted disputes? The impact of the South China Sea Arbitration beyond compliance” at the Max Planck Law Annual Conference.

30th September 2024
Carolyn Moser contributes to the Monday Meeting of the MPIL with a talk titled “The jurisdiction of the CJEU regarding foreign policy matters – or: what the Court can (not) rule on.” She discusses two landmark decisions handed down by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) on 9 October 2024, regarding its jurisdiction over the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)

27th September 2024
Laurids Hempel chaired the panel “Courts in challenging geopolitical times – an ongoing (re)vision?” at the ICON-S conference at the University of Mannheim

27th September 2024
Christian Schultheiss gives a lecture on the topic: “How to give effect to adjudication during geopolitical struggle? The impact of the South China Sea arbitration beyond compliance” at the ICON-S conference at the University of Mannheim

27th September 2024
Sofia Vandenbosch contributes to the panel with a talk titled: “Is there a future for the political question doctrine in Europe?” at the ICON-S conference at the University of Mannheim

27th September 2024
Carolyn Moser delivers a presentation on the topic: “The CJEU’s geopolitical coming of age? What the Court’s latest decisions tell us about the challenges of adjudication in EU foreign policy” at the ICON-S conference at the University of Mannheim

2th September 2024
Carolyn Moser analyses in her presentation „What can the Paris Olympics teach us about the international (legal) order?“ the extent to which the Paris Olympics reflect the current state and challenges of the international (legal) order, at the MPIL Monday Meeting

26th June 2024
Carolyn Moser gives a lecture on “EU Defence and Security Policy in Motion: Response to the war in Ukraine” at the MPIL workshop “Ukraine’s accession negotiations: methodology, law and war” in cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Heidelberg

14th June 2024
Carolyn Moser delivers a presentation on “The Legal Challenges of a Genuine Common European Defence” followed by a debate with the audience at the High-Level Conference of the Legal Service of the European Commission, Brussels

25th April 2024
Sofia Vandenbosch discusses “The European Convention on Human Rights and the Judicial Review of Military Activities Abroad” at the workshop European Security and Defence in the 21st Century: International and European Law Perspectives. Organized by Sciences Po Paris in collaboration with HeiParisMax and the MPIL in Paris.

25th April 2024
Kerttuli Lingenfelter contributes as a panellist with a presentation on “Dispatches from the Judicial Frontline: Projections of normative power Europe in the prosecution of core crimes committed in Ukraine” at the workshop European Security and Defence in the 21st Century: International and European Law Perspectives. Organized by Sciences Po Paris in collaboration with HeiParisMax and the MPIL in Paris.

16th April 2024
Carolyn Moser gives a presentation on “As long as it takes? Unpacking the recent bilateral security agreements with Ukraine” at the international roundtable on EU Common Security and Defence Policy—International/Regional Security: Can Ukraine be Part of It? Organized by the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence and taking place online.

21st March 2024
Carolyn Moser delivers the presentation “The geopolitical conundrum: Judicial responses in a changing World—A view from Europe” at the Faculty Colloquium organized by the Sciences Po Law School in Paris.
2023

22nd – 24th November 2023
Christian Schultheiss participates in the panel discussions on the “Maritime Security Challenges and the quest for greater domain awareness in the Indo-Pacific” during the 3rd SHARE.IT conference at the UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific in Bankok, Thailand.

14th November 2023
Carolyn Moser inputs her expertise as a pannelist in the public debate entitled “Der Deutsche Bundestag und vernetzte Auslandseinsätze – Welche Verantwortung und Kontrollmöglichkeiten hat das Parlament?”, organized by the 1st Committee of Inquiry (Afghanistan) in the 20th electoral term of the German Bundestag, taking place at the Paul-Löbe-Haus in Berlin (video recording; 01:29:10).

26th October 2023
Carolyn Moser takes part in a panel discussion at the conference “The Changing Concept of National Security and the International Economic Law System” organized by the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne.

28th September 2023
Carolyn Moser delivers a presentation at the BerMuPa conference “60 ans du traité de l’Elysée” in Paris.

12th to 16thAugust 2023
Invited by the Foreign Service Institute of the Philippines, Christian Schultheiss gives a presentation on “The impact of the Arbitral Award of 2016 seven years hence” at the Dialogue on Governance in the South China Sea.

12th July 2023
Guest speaker and affiliated researcher (Paris 2), Anne Marie Thévenot-Werner, inaugurates the first session of the ENSURE Colloquium with a lecture on, “The Immunity of International Organizations and Their Officials in War Zones,” at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.

27th June 2023
Nina Boy contributes to the workshop ‚Beyond paradigms: Tim Sinclair’s social foundations of global finance‘ with the presentation ‚Sovereign safety revisited‘ at the University of Warwick.

7th to 9th June 2023
Nina Boy gives a presentation on Security Capitalism: Risk without return at the Symposium Crises Capitalism: Shadow banking, central banks, and new configurations of state-financial market entanglements at the Convention Center Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover.

6th June 2023
Carolyn Moser participates in the Trier Talks on Law and Digitalisation lecture series, delivering a presentation on the topic of Cyberwarfare titled “Hackbacks – eine europarechtliche Perspektive” at the Law Faculty of the University of Trier (further information).

24th and 25th May 2023
Christian Schultheiss participates in the first trans-regional Steering Committee Meeting of IORIS, a Maritime Domain Awareness and information-sharing platform for maritime law enforcement agencies and navies in Bali, Indonesia (further information).

15th May 2023
Carolyn Moser delivers a keynote speech on EU security and defence after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: a legal-institutional perspective at the Academy of International Affairs NRW in Bonn (further information).

4th May 2023
Christian Schultheiss speaks about the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and more specifically The maritime dispute settlement and security in the Indo-Pacific, at the European Security and Defence College seminar for officials of Indo-Pacific countries and the EU in Brussels.

27th to 28th April 2023
Nina Boy participates in a panel discussion on The Situation and its Truth at the Workshop Situational Awareness: Sensing Insecurity and Coming Catastrophe, University of Hamburg.

3rd May 2023
As part of the Lecture Series Ukraine, Carolyn Moser gives a presentation on The European Security Architecture in the Light of New Geopolitical Realities at the Württembergische Landesbibliothek (WLB) (video recording).

30th and 31st March 2023
Carolyn Moser holds a presentation on The EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy. Status quo and challenges in view of the war in Ukraine at The XXII Walter Hallstein-Symposium “The Common Security and Defence Policy of the EU – Perspectives from Member States” at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.

23rd March 2023
Carolyn Moser discusses Accountability in EU Security and Defence at the Award ceremony for the 2020 and 2022 ECA Awards for research on public-sector auditing in Luxemburg (further information).

21st March 2023
Carolyn Moser provides experts insights into The Common Security and Defence Policy after the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the webinar on EU Law and Politics after the Russian Invasion organized by UKAEL and the Finnish branch of FIDE (further information).

19th February 2023
Carolyn Moser gives a presentation on „The Ukrainian War, a Reality Check for International Law“ at the Amnesty International Members Conference in Mannheim.

12th February 2023
Carolyn Moser participates as an expert in a Panel discussion in the context of the ‚Europa Quartett‘ hosted by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Bremen, together with Dr. Helga Trüpel, Dr. Emanuel Herold and Madita Standke-Erdmann (further information).
2022

30th November to 1st December 2022
Christian Schultheiss chairs the panel discussions of the 4th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Workshop on the Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS) in Hanoi (media mention).

18th November 2022
Carolyn Moser holds a lecture on the EU and the War in Ukraine at the annual meeting of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Internationales Recht (DVIR), the German branch of the International Law Association (ILA) in Frankfurt a.M..

26th to 28th October 2022
Christian Schultheiss presents Maritime Security Challenges in ASEAN at the 2nd EU-IDFR Diplomacy Course 2022: 45 Years of ASEAN-EU Relations and the Road Ahead in Malaysia (detailed programme).