Category Archives: Foundation

5th Federalism Workshop on Legislative-Executive Design held for NCRC in Juba, South Sudan

The Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law recently conducted the [...]

Call for Abstracts: Volume 29 of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (UNYB)

Volume 29 of the UNYB is currently under preparation and scheduled for publication at the end [...]

Workshop discussing detention monitoring frameworks held with the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka

This third workshop concludes the successful series of workshops held with the Human Rights Commission [...]

Publication: Special Issue – Law of the Sea in the ASEAN Maritime Domain

A special issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy. On 20 November [...]

Discussion Series on Law of the Sea and Legal Research and Writing

The Max Planck Foundation welcomed Fellows from the ITLOS-Nippon Foundation Capacity-Building and Training Programme on [...]

Germany-ASEAN Workshop on ‘Climate Change Impacts on the Oceans and Challenges to the Law of the Sea’ held in Singapore

The Max Planck Foundation co-hosted the workshop in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs [...]

UNYB Editorial Advisory Board Member Professor Phoebe Okowa Elected to the International Court of Justice

On 12 November 2025, the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council elected Professor Phoebe [...]

Advance Publication: Volume 28 of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (UNYB) Now Available Online

Volume 28 of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (UNYB) is set to be published [...]

Official Handover of 40.000 copies of printed Transitional Justice laws to the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs in Juba, South Sudan

The Max Planck Foundation reviews and prints two key pieces of national legislation on transitional [...]

Foundation conducts workshop for lawyers in Sri Lanka on human rights and lawyering in times of crisis

From 17-19 October, a workshop focusing on ‘Human Rights and Lawyering in Times of Crisis’ [...]