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Germany (2023)
Book Chapter
Bohlander, M. (2023). Germany. In M. Bohlander, G. Kemp, & M. Webster (Eds.), Public Health Crisis Management and Criminal Liability of Governments - A Comparative Study of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Hart/Bloomsbury

Public Health Crisis Management and Criminal Liability of Governments - A Comparative Study of the Covid-19 Pandemic (2023)
Book
Bohlander, M., Kemp, G., & Webster, M. (Eds.). (2023). Public Health Crisis Management and Criminal Liability of Governments - A Comparative Study of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Hart/Bloomsbury

This book addresses potential avenues of criminal liability for public health crisis management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, under national and international criminal law, especially for causing death and bodily harm. The national case st... Read More about Public Health Crisis Management and Criminal Liability of Governments - A Comparative Study of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Article 1 – The Court (2021)
Book Chapter
Bohlander, M. (2021). Article 1 – The Court. In K. Ambos (Ed.), Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (17 - 25). (4th). CH Beck/Hart/NOMOS

Drafting a commentary on the Chinese Criminal Code – German reflections on a Chinese desideratum (2021)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (2021). Drafting a commentary on the Chinese Criminal Code – German reflections on a Chinese desideratum. Peking University Law Journal, 9(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/20517483.2021.1978676

Chinese criminal law scholars have increasingly been establishing links with colleagues in other jurisdictions and drawing benefits from comparative research, and more than anything else with those from Germany. This appears to be based on the fact t... Read More about Drafting a commentary on the Chinese Criminal Code – German reflections on a Chinese desideratum.

Case Note: Germany – Balancing the right of a parliamentary commission of enquiry to access classified evidence from anti-terrorist undercover operations with the requirements of national security – “Anis Amri Case” (2021)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (2021). Case Note: Germany – Balancing the right of a parliamentary commission of enquiry to access classified evidence from anti-terrorist undercover operations with the requirements of national security – “Anis Amri Case”. Public Law, 2021(3), 638-641

Abandoning Dishonesty – A Brief German Comment on the State of the Law after Ivey (2021)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (2022). Abandoning Dishonesty – A Brief German Comment on the State of the Law after Ivey. Journal of Criminal Law, 86(3), 170-178. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220183211035179

The debate about the two-pronged Ghosh test for dishonesty has troubled academics and practitioners alike for some time. Concerns were raised about the jury’s ability to determine both the objective honesty standards and the defendant’s personal comp... Read More about Abandoning Dishonesty – A Brief German Comment on the State of the Law after Ivey.

Joining the “Galactic Club”: What Price Admission? – A hypothetical case study of the impact of human rights on a future accession of humanity to interstellar civilisation networks   (2021)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (2021). Joining the “Galactic Club”: What Price Admission? – A hypothetical case study of the impact of human rights on a future accession of humanity to interstellar civilisation networks  . Futures, 132, Article 102801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102801

“全球圆形监狱”：大规模监控与作为反人类罪的数据隐私侵犯？ (Chinese translation of: "The Global Panopticon" - Mass surveillance and data privacy intrusion as a crime against humanity? In Justice without Borders - Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Schomburg. Böse, Martin, Bohlander, Michael, Klip, André & Lagodny, Otto (eds) Brill Nijhoff, 2018, 73 – 102.) (2021)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (2022). “全球圆形监狱”：大规模监控与作为反人类罪的数据隐私侵犯？ (Chinese translation of: "The Global Panopticon" - Mass surveillance and data privacy intrusion as a crime against humanity? In Justice without Borders - Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Schomburg. Böse, Martin, Bohlander, Michael, Klip, André & Lagodny, Otto (eds) Brill Nijhoff, 2018, 73 – 102.)

Metalaw – What is it good for? (2021)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (2021). Metalaw – What is it good for?. Acta Astronautica, 188, 400-404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.06.039

The initial metalaw debate about relations with ETI since the mid-to-late 1950s advocated a transmogrification of the traditional Golden Rule into “Do unto others as they would be done by”. The reasoning built upon full equality between humans and ET... Read More about Metalaw – What is it good for?.

“External Stakeholder Benevolence”: An Emerging Policy Paradigm in International Criminal Justice? – Critical reflections on the Paris Declaration 2017 and the Oslo Recommendations 2018 on the efficiency and legitimacy of international courts (2019)
Book Chapter
Bohlander, M. (2019). “External Stakeholder Benevolence”: An Emerging Policy Paradigm in International Criminal Justice? – Critical reflections on the Paris Declaration 2017 and the Oslo Recommendations 2018 on the efficiency and legitimacy of international courts. In G. Z. Capaldo (Ed.), Global community yearbook of international law and jurisprudence 2018 (21-67). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190072506.003.0002

The debate about concerns surrounding the efficiency and legitimacy of international (criminal) courts has been joined by a new voice, judicial declarations on how proceedings can be expedited and the legitimacy deficit resolved, in particular the Pa... Read More about “External Stakeholder Benevolence”: An Emerging Policy Paradigm in International Criminal Justice? – Critical reflections on the Paris Declaration 2017 and the Oslo Recommendations 2018 on the efficiency and legitimacy of international courts.

Murder by Dangerous Driving: Decision of the BGH of 16 January 2019, Case No 4 StR 345/18 Judgment of the LG Hamburg of 19 February 2018, Case No 621 Ks 12/17 German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof—BGH) 4th Criminal Senate (2019)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (2019). Murder by Dangerous Driving: Decision of the BGH of 16 January 2019, Case No 4 StR 345/18 Judgment of the LG Hamburg of 19 February 2018, Case No 621 Ks 12/17 German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof—BGH) 4th Criminal Senate. Journal of Criminal Law, 83(3), 191-194