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Professor Michael Bohlander's Outputs (270)

Nachwort (2024)
Book Chapter
Bohlander, M. (2024). Nachwort. In Die kosmische Krise - Warum Außeriridische uns nicht retten werden by Daniel Gerritzen (303-306). Matthes & Seitz

Alien encounter narratives in a forensic environment (2024)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (in press). Alien encounter narratives in a forensic environment. Journal of Anomalistics (Zeitschrift für Anomalistik), 24(2),

The reluctance of the vast majority of SETI researchers to take non-repeatable personal alien encounter narratives into account is a staple trope in the alien encounter debate. However, the proof of the pudding would seem to lie in investigating the... Read More about Alien encounter narratives in a forensic environment.

Going Federal – A longitudinal study of 196 judges’ career trajectories to the German Federal Court of Justice from 2000 to 2020 (2024)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (2024). Going Federal – A longitudinal study of 196 judges’ career trajectories to the German Federal Court of Justice from 2000 to 2020. Journal of Comparative Law,

The structural and political tropes around judicial recruitment and promotion in Germany have so far received the lion’s share of the attention, yet, as every judge in every country’s judiciary knows, there are formal and informal contacts, relations... Read More about Going Federal – A longitudinal study of 196 judges’ career trajectories to the German Federal Court of Justice from 2000 to 2020.

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

Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights (2023)
Book
Bohlander, M. (2023). Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004677708

It is statistically unlikely that humans are the only intelligent species in the universe. Nothing about the others will be known until contact is made beyond a radio signal from space that merely tells us they existed when it was sent. That contact... Read More about Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights.

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