Nationality
Germany
Year of election
2021

Function(s)

  • Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg (Germany);
  • Professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, Basel (Switzerland);
  • L. Bates Lea Global Law professor at the Law School of the University of Michigan.

Area(s) of Expertise

  • public international law
  • global animal law
  • global governance and global constitutionalism
  • the status of humans in international law
  • history of public international law

Biography

Anne Peters is director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (Germany), a professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, and Basel (Switzerland), as well as a L. Bates Lea Global Law professor at the University of Michigan Law School. She was a member (substitute) of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect of Germany (2011-2015) and a legal expert for the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (2009).

She was the President of the European Society of International Law (2010-2012) and is currently the President of the German Society of International Law (DGIR).

In 2020 she received a doctor honoris causa from the University of Lausanne and in 2021 the Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Selected publications

  • Animals in International Law (Brill 2021)
  • Remedies against Immunity? (co-ed., Springer 2021);
  • Völkerrecht (Schulthess 5th ed. 2020);
  • Due Diligence in the International Legal Order (co-ed OUP 2020);
  • Self-Defence against Non-State Actors (co-ed , Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War vol. 1, CUP 2019);
  • Law Applicable to Armed Conflict (co-ed, Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War vol. 2, 2020);
  • The Legal Framework of the OSCE (co-ed, CUP 2019);
  • Global Constitutionalism from European and East Asian Perspectives (co-ed., CUP 2018).
  • Beyond Human Rights: The Legal Status of the Individual in International Law (CUP 2016)
  • Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (co-ed., OUP 2012)

 

 

Copyright picture: Anna Logue

Website
https://www.mpil.de/en/pub/institute/personnel/institute-management/directors/peters.cfm
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