Andreas Buser is a lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin and holds a postdoc position within the DFG research group on "the international rule of law - rise or decline?". Mr. Buser is also an associate prosecutor within the Berlin/Glasgow project on “Protracted Conflicts”. At FU Berlin he teaches courses in international law, fundamental and human rights and German administrative law. In 2021 he also taught international economic law at TU Dresden. During his Rechtsreferendariat he worked with the Berlin Public Prosecutor (Organized Crime), the German Federal Ministry of Commerce, the European Center for Constitutional- and Human Rights and Client Earth.

His research interests more broadly include constitutional law, international law, and the law of the European Union.

Winter Semester 2019/2020

MK General Administrative Law and Administrative Procedural Law

Winter Semester 2018/2019

MK International Law

Winter Semester 2017/18

MK International Law

MK General Administrative Law and Administrative Procedural Law

Winter Semester 2016/17

AK International Law

AK General Administrative Law and Administrative Procedural Law

 

Publications

I.Monographs

"Emerging Powers, Global Justice and International Economic Law: Reformers of an Unjust Order?", Springer 2021

reviewed by:

Helmut Aust, Cai Congyan, Henrique Choer-Moraes, Anna Hankings-Evans, James Nedumpara und Mohsen al-Attar (book discussion opinioiuris.org; 1st Februar - 5th Februar 2021)

Mohsen al-Attar, Journal of International Economic Law 2021, pp. 672-678

II. Articles and Working Papers

„Gibt es ein Grundrecht auf Klimaschutz? — Pro Standpunkt" (Is there a fundamental right to climate protection? ), KlimaRZ (Climate Law Journal) 2023, pp. 140-142 (Contra: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Murswiek)

„Staatliche Informationspflichten“ (Governmental obligations to inform the public), Der Staat 62 (2023), pp. 201-241.

“National Climate Litigation and the International Rule of Law”, Leiden Journal of International Law 2023, pp. 593-615.

“Towards a  Climate Resilient European Union: Prospects and Limitations of a General EU Climate Adaption Law", Journal of European Environmental and Planning Law 2023, pp. 127-144.

„Klimaanpassungsklagen in Deutschland? Ein rechtsvergleichender Überblick“ (Climate Adaptation Litigation in Germany? A Comparative Legal Study), Nachhaltigkeitsrecht (journal for the law of sustainable development) 2023, pp. 21-30.

„Der Menschenrechtsausschuss der Vereinten Nationen und die Klimakrise – Die Entscheidung Billy et al. gegen Australien und ihr Beitrag zur „Begrünung“ des Menschenrechtsschutzes“ (The UN Human Rights Committee and the Climate Crisis – The Decision Billy et al. vs. Australia and its Contribution to Greening Human Rights Protection), MenschenRechtsMagazin (HumanRightsMagazine) 2023, pp. 74-84.

"Investor-State Climate Litigation: Could International Investment Law Help to Protect the Climate?" (available here)

"Of Carbon Budgets, Factual Uncertainties, and Intergenerational Equity - The German Constitutional Court's Climate Decision", German Law Journal 2022, pp. 1409 - 1422 (available here)

"Zur Ökologisierung des Rechts: Rechte der Natur als Paradigmenwechsel" (paper on rights of nature under German constitutional law, written together with Hermann Ott), in: Adloff/Busse, Welche Rechte braucht die Natur? Wege aus dem Artensterben (Which Rights Does Nature Need? Ways to Adress Species Extinctions), 2021, pp. 159-177.

„Ein Grundrecht auf Klimaschutz? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen grundrechtlicher Klimaklagen in Deutschland“, DVBl. 2020, pp. 1389-1397 (available here)

„Eine allgemeine Klimaleistungsklage vor dem VG Berlin: Urteilsbesprechung VG Berlin, Urt. v. 31.10.2019 – 10 K 412/18, Beck RS 2019, 35475“, NVwZ 2020

„Recalibrating Policy Space in Bilateral Investment Treaties: Is There a Common BRICS Approach?”, in: Cai Congyan und Chen Huiping (Eds.) The BRICS in the New International Legal Order on Investment: Reformers or Disruptors, BRILL 2020, pp. 163-203 (available here).

“A Peasant’s Imagination of Alternative Legal Order: Land Reform in India, Food Security and the WTO”, co-authored with Pratyush Kumar, in: Mahendra P. Singh, Wolfram Cremer, Niraj Kumar (Hrsg.) Open Markets, Free Trade and Sustainable Development: Perspectives from EU and India, Springer 2019, pp. 61-90

“Justiciability of Security Exceptions in the US Steel (and other) Disputes: Some Middle-Ground Options and the Requirements of Article XXI lit. b (i)-(iii)”, EJIL Talk! (Blog of the European Journal of International Law), 20 November 2018

“Colonial Injustices and the Law of State Responsibility: The CARICOM Claim to Compensate Slavery and (Native) Genocide, Heidelberg Journal of International Law, 2, 2017, 409-446

"Colonial Injustices and the Law of State Responsibility: The CARICOM Claim for Reparations", KFG "International Law - Rise or Decline?" Working Paper Series, No. 4, August 2016

„Die Finanzierung der EU: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer EU-Steuer nach Europarecht und Grundgesetz“, in: Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien (ZEuS), 1, 2014, S. 91-115 und Berliner Online-Beiträge zum Europarecht, 91, 2 July, 2013, Eds.: Prof. Dr. Christian Calliess, LL.M. Eur.

„Die europa- und verfassungsrechtliche Zulässigkeit sog. Eurobonds“, in: Berliner Online-Beiträge zum Europarecht, 89, 4 April, 2013, Hrsg.: Prof. Dr. Christian Calliess, LL.M. Eur.

 

III. Varia

„Menschenrechtsausschuss, 116. Bis 118. Tagung 2016“, German Review on the United Nations, 4, 2017, p. 179-180

„Ausschuss gegen Folter, 57. bis 58. Tagung 2016“, German Review on the United Nations, 1, 2017, p. 32-34

„German Genocide in Namibia before U.S. Courts“, Völkerrechtsblog, 11 January 2017, available at www.voelkerrechtsblog.org

Ausschuss gegen Folter, 54. bis 56. Tagung 2015, German Review on the United Nations, 5, 2016, p. 225-226

"Oppositionsrechte in Zeiten der GroKo", Fall Staatsrecht, Juni 2016, in: Heike Krieger/Markus Heintzen (Eds.), www.hauptstadtfaelle.de

„Rezension: Andreas von Arnauld, Völkerrecht“, in: JE Online-Zeitschrift für Jurastudium, Staatsexamen und Referendariat, 4 June, 2014

 

Presentations

„Ein Grundrecht auf Klimaschutz? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen grundrechtlicher Klimaklagen in Deutschland“, Presentation given on 14.2.2020 as part of his PhD at Freien Universität Berlin

„Emerging Powers, Global Justice and International Economic Law”, Annual Meeting of the working group on Überseeische Verfassungsvergleichung, 14.-15. June 2019, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

„Rising Powers, Global Justice and International Economic Law”, KFG Research Group “International Law, Rise or Decline?”, Berlin, 1. October 2018

„Recalibrating Policy Space in Bilateral Investment Treaties: Is There a Common BRICS Approach?”, Konferenz zum Thema “BRICS and the International Legal Order on Investment”, Xiamen University Law School, China, 2.-3. November 2017

“Restructuring International Investment Treaties: Approaches from India and Brazil”, Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat, India, 30. April 2017

"Reparations for Historical Injustices as a Development Strategy: The CARICOM Claim for Reparations", Law & Development Conference, Ostende, 14-16 September 2016

"Colonial Injustices and the Law of State Responsibility: The CARICOM Claim for Reparations", Lunch Talk, KFG Research Group "International Law, Rise or Decline?", Berlin, 19 May 2016