Raphael Oidtmann | Associate Postgraduate

Former Member
The State, Political Norms and Political Conflicts
Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, D-10117 Berlin
Email: raphael.oidtmann  ( at )  googlemail.com Tel: +49(0) 30 / 20 93 70700

Home Institution : Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Universität Mannheim | Position : PhD Candidate, Goethe University Frankfurt; Adjunct Lecturer in International Law, University of Mannheim; Associate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law | Disciplines : Political Science , Law , Public Law |

Biography

Raphael Oidtmann currently serves as a parliamentary and legal advisor to the State Parliament of Hesse and holds further appointments as adjunct lecturer at Mannheim Law School, as associate researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and as associate postgraduate (‘doctorant associé’) at the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin. Previously, he was the scientific advisor to the executive director at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and held positions as a research fellow and lecturer at the universities of Mannheim and Mainz.

Raphael holds master’s degrees in political science (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), international and comparative law (University of Mannheim & University of Adelaide) and international relations (University of Cambridge). He is an alumnus of the Hague Academy of International Law and currently an external PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt (supervised by Professor Nicole Deitelhoff).

Raphael’s principal teaching and research interests pertain to (general) international law, international criminal law, the history of international law, human rights and the law of armed conflict as well as international relations theory and history, geopolitics, international security studies and European Union integration. Recently, his research has focussed on (1) the actorness qualities of international institutions, in particular international (criminal) courts and tribunals, (2) the notion of global health in the context of international law as well as (3) questions of implementing and maintaining (international criminal) jurisdiction in areas of limited statehood (such as the High Seas, the Arctic, or Antarctica).

Title of thesis
The Actorness of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals – Implications for Multi-Level Global Governance in International Criminal Justice
Institution of thesis
Université Goethe de Francfort
Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff

The Actorness of International Criminal Court and Tribunals - Implications for Multi-Level Global Governance in International Justice

Publications
  1. Raphael Oidtmann (2022): ‘Reconciling Conflicting Norms of Customary International Law – Towards a Mode of Practical Concordance at the International Court of Justice’, in: Panos Merkouris et al. (eds.), ‘The Rules of Interpretation of Customary International Law’, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (20 pages manuscript; under review).
  2. Raphael Oidtmann (2022): ‘Book Review: Richard Gaskins. The Congo Trials in the International Criminal Court. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 475. £ 85.00. ISBN: 978-1108488013’, European Journal of International Law (5 pages, under review).
  3. Raphael Oidtmann (2022): ‘Book Review: Christopher Rudolph. Power and Principle: The Politics of International Criminal Courts. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2017. 232 pp., $48.95 hardback (ISBN 978-1501705526)’, International Studies Review (3 pages, under review).
  4. Raphael Oidtmann (2022): ‘Ahmad Zaheer D. v. Germany, Federal Court of Justice, Appeals Judgment’, in: Oxford Reports on International Law – International Law in Domestic Courts, ILDC 3251 (DE 2021) – Summary and Analysis of BGH - 3 StR 564/19 – OLG Munich (Higher District Court Munich), Judgment of 28th January 2021 (8 pages, forthcoming).
  5. Raphael Oidtmann (2021): 'Resolution ICC-ASP/19/Res.2 - Resolution on cooperation', in: Oxford Public International Law - Oxford International Organizations, OXIO 639.
  6. Raphael Oidtmann (2021): ‘Interdisciplinary Simulations as Innovative Teaching Formats – Experiences from an International Law Classroom’, in: Barrie Sanders & Jean-Pierre Gauci (eds.), ‘Teaching International Law’, British Institute for International and Comparative Law, Edgar Elgar Publishing (10 pages, forthcoming).
  7. Raphael Oidtmann (2021): ‘Conference Report – Plastic Pollution in the Arctic’, Conference Report for the 14th Polar Law Symposium 2021, Kobe University (10 pages, forthcoming).
  8. Raphael Oidtmann (2021): ‘Pandemics without Borders? Reconsidering Territoriality in Pandemic Preparedness and Response Instruments’, in: Alicia Ely Yamin, Joelle Grogan and Pedro Villarreal (eds.), ‘International Pandemic Lawmaking: Conceptual and Practical Issues Report’, Petrie-Flom Center and Max Planck Institute, November 2021, 51-52 (available at https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/resources/article/international- pandemic-lawmaking).
  9. Raphael Oidtmann (2021): ‘The Concept of Borders in International Health Law’, in: Shinya Murase & Susanne Zhou (eds.), ‘Epidemics in International Law’, Centre for Studies and Research of the Hague Academy of International Law, Leiden: Brill Publishing, 61-80.
  10. Raphael Oidtmann (2021): “Cologne Higher Regional Court, Indicative decision, 5 U 47/18; ILDC 3155 (DE 2018), 21 December 2018”, in: Oxford Reports on International Law – International Law in Domestic Courts, ILDC 3155 (DE 2018) – Summary and Analysis of OLG - 5 U 47/18 – OLG Cologne (Higher District Court Cologne), Indicative Decision of 21stDecember 2018.
  11. Sabine Mokry & Raphael Oidtmann (2020): ‘Future (Dis)Order’, New Perspectives, Vol. 28(3), 366-378.
  12. Raphael Oidtmann (2020): ‘Mu./M. v Germany, Federal Court of Justice, Appeals Judgment’, in: Oxford Reports on International Law – International Law in Domestic Courts, ILDC 3038 (DE 2018) – Summary and Analysis of BGH - 3 StR 236/17 – OLG Stuttgart (Higher District Court Stuttgart), Judgment of 20th December 2020.
  13. Raphael Oidtmann (2019): ‘Jamie Trinidad, Self-Determination in Disputed Colonial Territories, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 292 pp., ISBN 9781108418188 (hb), £85,00’, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 32(4), 891-894.
  14. Raphael Oidtmann (2019): ‘L. v Germany, Federal Court of Justice, Appeals Judgment’, in: Oxford Reports on International Law – International Law in Domestic Courts, ILDC 2967 (DE 2017) – Summary and Analysis of BGH - 3 StR 57/17 – OLG Frankfurt am Main (Higher District Court Frankfurt am Main), Judgment of 27th July 2017.
  15. Raphael Oidtmann (2019): ‘Resolution ICC-ASP/17/Res.3 - Resolution on cooperation’, in: Oxford Public International Law – Oxford International Organizations, OXIO 437.
  16. Raphael Oidtmann (2019): ‘A. v Germany, Federal Constitutional Court, Joint Constitutional Complaint’, in: Oxford Reports on International Law – International Law in Domestic Courts, ILDC 2423 (DE 2015) – Summary and Analysis of BVerfG, Judgment of 27th January 2015, 1 BvR 471/10, 1 BvR 1181/10 (BVerfGE 138, 296).
  17. Raphael Oidtmann (2017): ‘Constanze Schimmel: Transitional Justice im Kontext: Zur Genese eines Forschungsgebietes im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft, Praxis und Rechtsprechung’, Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (VRÜ), Vol. 50(4), 461-464.
  18. Raphael Oidtmann (2016): ‘The Responsibility to Protect and the International Criminal Court – protection and prosecution in Kenya’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 29(4), 1651-1653.
  19. Eva Ellen Wagner, Nils Grosche, Michaela Bierschenk, Marcel Buus, Christoph Czauderna, Fabian Dechent, Richard Deicke, Christopher Finck, Martin Mengden, Alexander Natt, Michael Naumann, Raphael Oidtmann, Daniela Tröppner (eds.) (2016): Pfadabhängigkeit hoheitlicher Ordnungsmodelle: Tagungsband zur 56. Assistententagung Öffentliches Recht, Baden-Baden: Nomos.
  20. Paul Pryce & Raphael Oidtmann (2014): The 2012 General Election in Ghana, Electoral Studies, Vol. 34 (June), 330-334.

Shorter Contributions & Blog Entries

  1. ‘Fighting on the Business Front – On Corporate Criminal Liability and the War in Ukraine’, Verfassungsblog (1 August 2022), https://verfassungsblog.de/fighting-on-the-business-front/.
  2. ‘Pandemics without Borders? Reconsidering Territoriality in Pandemic Preparedness and Response Instruments’, Verfassungsblog (28 October 2021), doi: 10.17176/20211028-182730-0.
  3. ‘The Virtue of Failure – Why Practicing Human Rights Is Also About Losing’, völkerrechtsblog (25 August 2021), doi: 10.17176/20210825-232642-0.
  4. ‘Defining Ecocide – An Interview with Christina Voigt’, völkerrechtsblog (9 July 2021) (together with Justine Batura, Philipp Eschenhagen and Christina Voigt).
  5. ‘Introducing the Symposium on the Draft Definition of Ecocide’, völkerrechtsblog (7 July 2021), doi: 10.17176/20210707-135837-0 (together with Justine Batura & Philipp Eschenhagen).
  6. ‘Book Review Symposium: Contingency in International Law’, völkerrechtsblog (14 June 2021) (together with Raffaela Kunz & Anna-Julia Saiger).
  7. ‘International, abwechslungsreich, politisch? – Reflektionen über berufliche Wege in das Völkerrecht in der Folge der Veranstaltungsreihe „Völkerrechtslunch“‘, völkerrechtsblog (18 May 2021), doi: 10.17176/20210518-165611-0.
  8. ‘Defining Ecocide: An Interview with Philippe Sands’, völkerrechtsblog (24 April 2021), doi: 10.17176/20210424-100922-0 (together with Philippe Sands, Justine Batura and Philipp Eschenhagen).
  9. ‘The ICJ Then and Now – Interview with Professor Bruno Simma and Professor Georg Nolte’, völkerrechtsblog  (18 March 2021), doi: 10.17176/20210318-153724-0.
  10. ‘International Justice Through the Kaleidoscope of Photography – Thoughts on the Exhibition ‘Trauma, Healing and Hope’ at the International Criminal Court’, Art and International Justice (ARTIJ) Blog (2 July 2019).
  11. ‘Interdisciplinarity in Times of Backlash – On the Convergence of International Law and International Relations’, JuWiss-Blog(3 April 2018).
  12. ‘Beyond Individual Criminal Responsibility?’, völkerrechtsblog (29 January 2016), doi: 10.17176/20171005-172659.