Christina Binder

Chair, International Law and International Human Rights Law at the Bundeswehr University in Munich since 2017

Dr. Christina Binder, E.MA, holds the Chair for International Law and International Human Rights Law at the Bundeswehr University Munich since April 2017. Before, she was University Professor of International Law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna and Deputy Director of the interdisciplinary Research Centre “Human Rights”. She is member of the ILA Committees on the Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and on Human Rights in Times of Emergency. Christina is member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), was member of the Executive Board of the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC) (2016-2019) and is member of the Council of the Global Campus for Human Rights and Democratization since 2019. Her research focuses on a number of public international law issues, including human rights, the law of treaties, international investment law as well as international environmental law. She is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte, the Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law and the European Yearbook of International Economic Law and has widely published in edited volumes and in peer-reviewed journals. Christina also served as legal and electoral expert for EU and OSCE/ODIHR election observation and assessment missions in several countries. She likewise acts as electoral expert for the Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.

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Research focus

• International Protection of Human Rights
• International Law of Treaties
• Democratisation; International Standards of Political Participation
• International security – political and legal aspects
• International Criminal Law
• Rights of Women
• International Investment Law

Major recent publications

The VCLT over the LAST 50 Years: Developments in the Law of Treaties with a Special Focus on the VCLT’s Rules on Treaty Termination, 24 Austrian Review of International and European Law 2019 (2021) (p. 89-120).

Non-Governmental Organisations. Their Relevance and Impact in the International Law of Global Security, in: R. Geiss, N. Melzer (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the International Law of Global Security, OUP (2021) (p. 1021-1037).

with P Janig, The Effect of Armed Hostilities on Investment Treaty Obligations: A Case of Force Majeure? in: T Ackermann/S Wuschka (eds.), Investments in Conflict Zones, Brill (2021) (p. 112-135)

with A. Reinisch (editorship): ARIEL Special Issue 2019, 50 Years of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (2021) (464 p.; 159 p. Special Issue).

with J. Hofbauer, F. Piovesan, A. Úbeda de Torres (editorship), Research Handbook on International Law

and Social Rights, Edward Elgar Publishing (2020) (608 p.).

with W. Berka, B. Kneihs, Die Grundrechte: Grund- und Menschenrechte in Österreich, Verlag Österreich (2019) (951 p.).

Europäischer Menschenrechtsschutz in der Krise? – Die COVID-19 Pandemie als Herausforderung und Chance, 93 Die Friedens-Warte 2020 (p. 299-324).

with C. Brölmann, The Law of Treaties, in: A. Reinisch, P.A. Nollkaemper (eds.) International Law in Domestic Courts. A Casebook, Oxford University Press (2018) (p. 182-223).

La protección de los Derechos Humanos en Europa y las Américas: Perspectivas, avances y desafíos, Porrúa (2016) (286 p.).

Sections 31-36 of the General Convention, in: A. Reinisch (eds.), The Conventions on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies. A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2016) (p. 629-658).

Sections 41-49 of the Special Agencies Convention, in: A. Reinisch (eds.), The Conventions on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies. A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2016) (p. 659-695).

Die Grenzen der Vertragstreue im Völkerrecht am Beispiel der nachträglichen Änderung der Umstände, in der Reihe “Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht” (A. von Bogdandy, R. Wolfrum, eds.) Springer (2013) (765 p.)

The Prohibition of Amnesties by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in: A. von Bogdandy, I. Venzke (eds.), Lawmaking by International Courts, Springer (2012) (pp. 295-328)