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Isabel Feichtner

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Isabel
Feichtner


Institute of International Law, European Law and European Private Law, University of Würzburg

BIO

Isabel is Professor of Public Law and International Economic Law at the University of Würzburg. Her research interests cover the distributive effects of law, the democratization of society, and the law of the commons and commoning. She explores how institutional experiments, e.g. the redesign of money or Commons Public Partnerships, can support social-ecological transformation through democratization and commoning. Her monograph, The Law and Politics of WTO Waivers: Stability and Flexibility in Public International Law, published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press, gained renewed relevance with regard to recent demands for a TRIPS Waiver to facilitate the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. She recently co-edited two volumes published in 2023 – one on German (post-)colonial law and the other on legal constitutions of value. Isabel founded the Law Clinic Transformation Law at Würzburg University.

At THE NEW INSTITUTE Isabel is involved in the program "The Future of Democracy".

QUESTIONS
  • What gives you hope?
    Spring awakenings, practices of commoning, and scientists turning to mushrooms for answers to questions of coexistence.

  • How does change happen?
    Through resistance.

  • Why have you joined TNI?
    For its promise of time and space for transformative collaboration.

PUBLICATIONS

Gesamtverfassung. Das Verfassungsdenken Helmut Ridders (ed., with Tim Wihl), 2022


"Law of Natural Resource Extraction and Money as Key to Understanding Global Political Economy and Potential for Its Transformation", in: Poul Kjaer (ed.), The Law of Political Economy: Transformation in the Function of Law, 2020


"Mining for Humanity in the Deep Sea and Outer Space: The Role of Small States and International Law in the Extraterritorial Expansion of Extraction", in: Leiden Journal of International Law, 2019


“Public Law’s Rationalization of the Legal Architecture of Money: What Might Legal Analysis of Money Become?”, in: German Law Journal, 2016


"Verteilung in Völkerrecht und Völkerrechtswissenschaft", in: Sigrid Boysen, Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Florian Meinel (eds.), Verfassung und Verteilung, 2015

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