Andreas Zimmermann
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Andreas Zimmermann is Professor of International and European Law at the University of Potsdam, Germany and Director of the Potsdam Centre of Human Rights.
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Palestine v. Israel: 1:0? Palestine, Israel and FIFA: What Are the Laws of the Game? Part I
June 24, 2015
Andreas Zimmermann
On 12 June 1015, the FIFA Executive Committee appointed former South African government minister Tokyo Sexwale to lead a monitoring committee to oversee issues related to the development of football in Palestine, and alleged interferences, by Israel, with such development. This committee was established on the basis of the decision by the 65th FIFA Congress in May…
Does 19 + 11 Equal 30?: the Nitty Gritty of the Law of Treaties and the Kampala Amendment to the Rome Statute on the Crime of Aggression
November 27, 2014
Andreas Zimmermann
Sometimes, it seems that it is the reality of international law that provides one with questions of treaty law that probably even a sophisticated international law professor would have had problems inventing. On November 19, 2014, San Marino became the 19th State to have ratified the amendments to the Rome Statute on the crime of…
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Times Are Changing – and What About the International Rule of Law Then?
March 5, 2018
Andreas Zimmermann
Note from the Editors: This week we hold the first EJIL:Talk! Contributing Editors' Debate, where some or all of our distinguished Contributing Editors lend their views on broad themes of international law and the state of the art, science, and discipline of international law. Our thanks to Andreas Zimmermann (Co-Director of the Berlin-Potsdam Research Group, 'The…
“To Appear or not to Appear this was the Question” – The Saga of Kenya’s Non-Appearance in the Kenya –Somalia Maritime Delimitation in the Indian Ocean Case
March 29, 2021
Andreas Zimmermann
“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles (…)” Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1 Just like Hamlet, Kenya…
‘There’s life in the old dog yet …,’ or: the news of the death of Art. 124 Rome Statute were premature
August 20, 2024
Andreas Zimmermann
Ukraine, the ICC and Art. 124 Rome Statute On August 15, 2024, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy submitted to the Ukrainian parliament a bill on the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and its amendments. Ukraine might thus in the foreseeable future become the 125th contracting party of the Rome Statute. At the same time,…