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

• 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

  In Germany, a structural investigation (Strukturermittlungsverfahren) is opened where there is evidence that a crime has taken place but potential perpetrators have not yet been definitively identified. The investigation focuses on structures related to the potential crime and groupings of potential perpetrators.

• 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