Entries (62)

• Access to case files

• Administrative action

• Administrative court

• Administrative law

• Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA)

• Amicus curiae brief

• Civil action

• Civil law

• Command responsibility

• Communication (ICC)

• Complementarity principle

• Constitutional complaint

• Corporate criminal law

• Crimes against humanity

• Criminal complaint (Germany)

• Customary international law

• Dossier

• Due diligence

• Enforced disappearance

• European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

• European Convention on Human Rights

• European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)

• European Ombudsperson

• Freedom of Information Acts

• Gender-based violence

• Geneva Conventions

• Genocide

• German Federal Public Prosecutor

• Hard law/soft law

  The term soft law is used to denote agreements, principles and declarations that are not legally binding. Soft law instruments are predominantly found in the international sphere. UN General Assembly resolutions are an example of soft law. Hard law refers generally to legal obligations that are binding on the parties involved and which can be legally enforced before a court.

• Individual complaints

• International Criminal Court (ICC)

• International criminal law

• International Labour Organization (ILO)

• Intertemporal principle

• Investor-state dispute settlement

• Monitoring process

• Monitoring report

• National action plan on business and human rights

• OECD complaint

• OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

• Pinochet Effect

• Postcolonial legal criticism

• Preliminary examination

• Public interest litigation

• Public international law

• Pushback

• Regional court (Germany)

• Sexual violence

• Special tribunal

• Strategic litigation

• Structural investigation

• Transitional justice

• UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

• UN Convention against Torture

• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

• UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

• UN Special Rapporteur

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Universal jurisdiction

• War crimes

• Whistleblower