Category Archives: News

The Foundation launches a new project in Sri Lanka

The project, entitled ‘Supporting Institution-Building to Stabilise Democracy and Strengthen the Rule of Law in [...]

Foundation Launches Its Third ASEAN Regional Cooperation Project

The Foundation has been awarded funding by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany for the [...]

The Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (UNYB) Holds Fifth Editorial Advisory Board Meeting

The Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (UNYB) recently convened its fifth annual Editorial [...]

‘Perspectives’ Lecture with Prof. Dr Roman Petrov at the Foundation

The lecture addressed Ukraine’s constitutional law dilemmas in the context of a possible peace agreement, [...]

The Foundation Mourns the Loss of Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Jochen Abr. Frowein (8 June 1934 – 8 February 2026)

Professor Frowein was one of Germany’s most distinguished experts in public international and constitutional law, [...]

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 [...]