Prof. Dr. Dominik Steiger

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    1. Curriculum vitae
    2. Publications
      1. I. Monographs
      2. II Co-editorships
      3. III. journal articles
      4. IV. Contributions to edited volumes / Working Papers
      5. V. Commentaries
      6. VI Online educational literature
      7. VII Varia
    3. Lectures and conferences
    4. Memberships
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Curriculum vitae

since
7/2025		 Extraordinary Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
1/2025-
3/2025		 Visiting Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
since
3/2023		 Member of the Research Council, German Association for the United Nations (DGVN).
2/2022 - 3/2022 Research stay, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali "Guido Carli" (LUISS), Rome, Italy.
2/2020 - 3/2020 Visiting Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
since 10/2019 Academic Director of the Center for International Studies.
since 10/2019 Member of the Board of the Center for Integration Studies (ZfI).
since 10/2019 Liaison lecturer, Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
since 5/2019 Member of the Executive Committee, German United Nations Association, Regional Association Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia.
2/2019 - 3/2019 Visiting Professor at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
since 1/2019 Member of the Advisory Board, Development and Peace Foundation.

10/2018 - 09/2019

Deputy Academic Director of the Center for International Studies and Dean of Studies

3/2018

Offer of a Chair for Public Law at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz (declined).

2/2018 - 3/2018

Visiting professor at Monash University, Australia.

since 1/2018

Holder of the Chair of Public International Law, European Law and Public Law, TUD Dresden University of Technology.

10/2017

Appointment to the Chair of Public International Law, European Law and Public Law, TUD Dresden University of Technology.

10/2017 - 12/2017

Substitute professorship at the TUD Dresden University of Technology, Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law (Prof. Dr. Thilo Rensmann).

3/2017

Visiting Professor, China-EU School of Law.

10/2016 - 12/2017

Professor of Public International Law, KU Leuven (Belgium) and Open University of the Netherlands (Hoogleraar), on leave 10/2017 - 12/2017.

since 10/2016

Senior Member, Leuven Center for Global Governance Studies.

7/2016

Habilitation at the Free University of Berlin ("Der partizipative Staat. Participation of natural persons in the exercise of state power in constitutional, administrative and procedural law"), awarded the venia legendi for the subjects of public law, international law, European law and foreign public law.

5/2016 - 9/2016

Substitute professorship at the University of Leipzig, Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law (Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schiedermair).

5/2009 - 9/2016

Research Associate at the Chair of Public Law and International Law, Prof. Dr. Heike Krieger, Freie Universität Berlin (on leave from 5/2016 to 9/2016).

11/2014 - 9/2015

DFG Research Fellow, Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at New York University.

9/2014 - 6/2015

Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center, NYU School of Law, project title: "The Separation of Powers Doctrine and the Power of Participation: Citizen's Influence in Delegated Rule-Making in the United States, the European Union and Germany."

9/2012 - 12/2012

Research stay at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

5/2011

2nd state law examination.

7/2010

Dissertation: "The prohibition of torture under international law and the 'war on terror'" (summa cum laude).

5/2009 - 5/2011

Legal clerkship, Berlin Court of Appeal (with stages at the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin; at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Berlin and at the UN Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania).

10/2008 -3/2009

Lecturer for the lectures European Law I and Public International Law II as well as the exercise in Public International Law, University of Potsdam (functional representation of the Junior Professorship for Public and European Economic Law and International Economic Law, Prof. Dr. Markus Krajewski).

10/2004 - 9/2008

Research Associate at the Chair of Constitutional Law, European Law and International Law, Prof. Dr. Eckart Klein, University of Potsdam.

2004

1st state examination in law.

2001 -2004

Student Assistant at the Chair of Constitutional Law, European Law and International Law, Prof. Dr. Eckart Klein, and at the Human Rights Center of the University of Potsdam.

1997 - 2004

Studied law at the Universities of Regensburg, Marseille/Aix-en-Provence III and Potsdam.

1997

Abitur at the Liebigschule Gießen.

1994 -1995

11th grade, Brecksville / Broadview Heights High School, Ohio, USA (honors roll).

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Publications

I. Monographs

  • The Participatory State: Participation of Natural Persons in the Exercise of State Power in Constitutional, Administrative and Procedural Law, Duncker & Humblot, 2023, 587 pp.
  • Das völkerrechtliche Folterverbot und der 'Krieg gegen den Terror'", 851 p., Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Springer, 2013.
    • Reviews of: Julia Kozma, United Nations 2014, p. 139; Manuel Ladiges, Yearbook Extremism & Democracy, 2014, pp. 428-429.
  • Die CIA, die Menschenrechte und der Fall Khaled el-Masri: Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Frage der Anwendbarkeit des gemeinsamen Art. 3 der Genfer Konventionen auf den "Krieg gegen den Terror", Studien zu Grund- und Menschenrechten 14, 196 p., 2007.
    • Reviews of: Frederik Naert, The Military Law and the Law of War Review 46 (2007), pp. 491-493; Frank Glienicke, Extraordinary Renditions vs. Menschenrechte, WeltTrends 62 (2008), pp. 141-143; Andreas Haratsch, Friedens-Warte 84 (2009), pp. 112-113.
  • The Prohibition of Torture in International Law (together with Thomas Bruha), 58 pp., Kohlhammer, 2006.
    • Review of: Markus W. Ebner, Torture and International law, in: Criminal Law Forum, 2008, pp. 575-578.

II Co-editorships

  • Special Issue Oxford Journal of Human Rights Practice, "The State of the International Human Rights System - Normativity and Compliance" (guest editorship together with Thomas Kleinlein), Vol. 14 (1), 2022.

  • Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights (together with Stephanie Schiedermair and Alexander Schwarz), Hart/Nomos, 2022, 310 pp.

  • Publication series Leipziger Schriften zum Völkerrecht, Europarecht und ausländischen öffentlichen Recht (together with Markus Kotzur, Stephanie Schiedermair, Mattias Wendel), Nomos, since 2021.

  • The End of the Representative State? Demokratie am Scheideweg - Eine Deutsch-Südafrikanische Perspektive / The End of the Representative State? Democracy at the Crossroads - A German-South African Perspective, Nomos, 2016, 413 p. (together with Henk Botha and Nils Schaks).
  • Constitution and Law Overseas (guest editorship together with Henk Botha and Nils Schaks), Issue 3/2015.
  • Stakeholders in War and Peace (co-edited with Jelena Bäumler, Cindy Daase and Christian Schliemann), 240 p., Mohr Siebeck, 2010.
    • Review of: Lutz Römer, MenschenRechtsMagazin 2011, pp. 89-90.

III. journal articles

  • The veto on its own account, in: Journal of the United Nations, 1/2023, pp. 28-32.

  • Special Issue - Oxford Journal of Human Rights Practice, The State of the International Human Rights System - Normativity and Compliance, Vol. 14 (1), 2022

    • The State of the International Human Rights System-Normativity and Compliance, pp. 1-16.

    • Enhancing Compliance and Fostering Normativity by Institutionalizing Dialogue - The Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, pp. 160-168.

  • Green League v. Tesla - Can and should the right of association to sue be restricted? At the same time discussion of the decision of the OVG Berlin-Brandenburg of February 20, 2020 - OVG 11 S 8.20, in: Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht 2020, pp. 358-363 (together with Kajo Kramp).

  • Freedom of movement in the EU and restrictions on social benefits for EU foreigners - On the loss of the right balance between the interests of the Member States and the rights of the individual and the need for an interpretation of the Free Movement Directive in conformity with primary law, in: Europarecht 2018, pp. 304-338.

  • Exclusion of child benefits for EU foreigners without a right of residence, in: Juristische Ausbildung 2018, pp. 719-726.
  • Unbounded courts? The expansion of subjective law and judicial review powers - Parliament and administration in the "cooperative relationship" of German constitutional and administrative jurisdiction with the ECJ, in: Verwaltungsarchiv 2016, pp. 497-535.
  • A Constitutional Theory of Imperative Participation - Delegated Rulemaking, Citizens' Participation and the Separation of Powers Doctrine, in: Albany Law Review 2016, pp. 101-167.
  • A Steady Race Towards Better Compliance with International Humanitarian Law? The ICTR 1995-2012, in: International Criminal Law Review 2014, pp. 949-1007.
  • More direct democracy? Daring!, in: Legal Education 2014, pp. 963-975.
  • German notary's office stamped out! Discussion of ECJ (Grand Chamber), judgment of. May 24, 2011 - ECJ, C-54/08 (together with Stefan Korte), in: Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht, 2011, pp. 1243-1247.
  • The criminal liability of German soldiers on foreign missions: At the interface of criminal law and international law (together with Jelena Bäumler), in: Archiv des Völkerrechts 2010, pp. 189-225.
  • The German Law Enforcement Authorities and the Case of the Kunduz Air Attack (together with Wolfgang Kaleck and Andreas Schüller), in: Kritische Justiz 2010, pp. 280-289.
  • "War" against terror? - On the applicability of the international law of war to the fight against terrorism, in: Humboldt Forum Recht 2009, pp. 197-219, www.humboldt-forum-recht.de/deutsch/14-2009/index.html.
  • International Law Implications of the Daschner Case (together with Stefanie Schmahl), in: Archiv des Völkerrechts 2005, pp. 358-374.

IV. Contributions to edited volumes / Working Papers

  • International Law in the "Multipolar World Order": A Stronger Role Necessary - and Possible, Global Governance Spotlight, 3/2024, https://www.sef-bonn.org/publikationen/global-governance-spotlight/32024/.
  • International Law in the "Multipolar World Order": A stronger role is necessary - and possible, Global Governance Spotlight, 3/2024, https://www.sef-bonn.org/en/publications/global-governance-spotlight/32024/.
  • Power and Powerlessness of the UN Security Council - Protection against Crimes under International Law by the United Nations?, in: Markus Thiel/Uwe Marquardt/Lars Berster/Benedict Pietsch, Krieg in der Ukraine: Perspektiven, Nomos, 2024, pp. 165-206.
  • Employment of AI in Decisions on the Use of Force, in: Robin Geiß/Henning Lahmann (eds.), Handbook on Warfare and Artificial Intelligence, Edgar Elgar, 2024, pp. 136-160.
  • Social Security, in: Gesa Kübek/Christian Tams/Jörg Philipp Terhechte/ (eds.), EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement 2024, Nomos, pp. 412-431.

  • The Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Use of Military Force in International Law, in: Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan/Ruth Ladeck/Peter Ivankovics (eds.), Digitalization and Law, Yearbook 2023, Nomos, 2023, pp. 15-52.

  • Ex iniuria ius oritur? - Norm Change and Norm Erosion of the Prohibition of Torture, in: Andrea Liese/Heike Krieger (eds.), Tracing Value Change in the International Legal Order - Perspectives from Legal and Political Science, Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 118-135, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4066794

  • Social Security, in: Gesa Kübek/Christian Tams/Jörg Philipp Terhechte (eds.), Handbook Trade and Cooperation Agreements EU/UK, Nomos, 2022, pp. 527-549.

  • Social Security, Right to, in: Manfred Nowak/Jane Hofbauer/Philipp Janig/Christina Binder (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights, Edgar Elgar, 2022 (together with Linus Mührel).

  • Ex iniuria ius oritur? - Norm Change and Norm Erosion of the Prohibition of Torture, KFG Working Paper Series, No. 55, Berlin Potsdam Research Group "The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?", 2022, 27 pages, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4066794.

  • Protecting Democratic Elections Against Online Influence via "Fake News" and Hate Speech - The French Loi Avia and Loi No. 2018-1202, the German Network Enforcement Act and the EU's Digital Services Act in Light of the Right to Freedom of Expression, in: Stephanie Schiedermair/Alexander Schwarz/Dominik Steiger (eds.), Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights, Hart/Nomos, 2022, pp. 165-214.

  • Wehrhafte Demokratie im digitalen Zeitalter -Völkerrechtliche Grenzen in- und ausländischer Einflussnahme auf Wahlen, in: Julia Iliopoulos-Strangas/Egils Levits/Michael Potacs/Jacques Ziller (eds.), Die Herausforderungen der digitalen Kommunikation für den Staat und seine demokratische Staatsform - The Challenges of Digital Communication for the State and its Democratic State Form - Les défis de la communication numérique pour l'État et sa forme démocratique, Nomos 2021, pp. 137-162.

  • In International Law We Shall Trust - (Even in) The Case of Economic and Social Rights, in: Björnstjern Baade/Dana Burchardt/Prisca Feihle/Alicia Köppen/Linus Mührel/Lena Riemer/Raphael Schäfer (eds.), Cynical International Law? Abuse and Circumvention in Public International and European Law, Springer, 2020, pp. 215-234.

  • International Law and New Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Age: Big Data, Privacy and Interferences with the Political Process, in: Normann Witzleb/Janice Richardson/Moira Peterson (eds.), Big Data, Political Campaigning and the Law: Privacy and Democracy in the Age of Micro-Targeting, 2020, pp. 71-98.
  • Termination of international treaties without the participation of the legislator - International and constitutional law requirements for withdrawal from international organizations, in: Thomas Groh/Franziska Knur/Constantin Köster/Sylvia Maus/Tina Roeder (eds.), Verfassungsrecht, Völkerrecht, Menschenrechte - Vom Recht im Zentrum der Internationalen Beziehungen. Festschrift for Ulrich Fastenrath on his 70th birthday, 2019, pp. 137-157.
  • Brexit - What's Public International Law Got to Do With It, in: Karl August Prinz von Sachsen Gessaphe/Juan J. Garcia Blesa/Nils Szuka (eds.), Legal Implications of Brexit, 2018, pp. 93-120 (with Wiebke Günther).
  • The Struggle for a Legal Definition of 'Terrorism' at the International Level, in: Kerstin Odendahl (ed.) Die Bekämpfung des Terrorismus mit Mitteln des Völker- und Europarechts, Duncker & Humblot, 2017, pp. 45-86.
  • The Separation of Powers Doctrine and the Power of Participation: Citizen's Influence in Delegated Rule-Making in the United States, the European Union and Germany, Jean Monnet Working Paper Series, 7/2016, 83 pages, www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/wp-content/uploads/JMWP-07-Steiger.pdf.
  • Separation of Powers as a Means of Conceptualizing Participation, in: Henk Botha/Nils Schaks/Dominik Steiger (eds.), The End of the Representative State? Demokratie am Scheideweg - Eine Deutsch-Südafrikanische Perspektive/The End of the Representative State? Democracy at the Crossroads - A German-South African Perspective, Nomos, 2016, pp. 355-384.
  • Enforcing International Humanitarian Law through Human Rights Bodies, in: Heike Krieger (ed.), Inducing Compliance with International Humanitarian Law: Lessons from the African Great Lakes Region, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 263-299.
  • L'État, c'est moi! L'État, c'est nous! Legitimation of state power through individual and collective self-determination, in: Lisa Heschl et al. (eds.), 54th Assistant Conference on Public Law Graz "L'État, c'est quoi? State power in transition", Nomos, 2015, pp. 79-103.
  • Human rights obligations to punish: Inhalt und Einfluss auf das Weltrechtsprinzip sowie die Immunität ratione materiae, in: Marten Breuer/Astrid Epiney/Andreas Haratsch/Stefanie Schmahl/Norman Weiß (eds.), Der Staat im Recht. Festschrift for Eckart Klein, 2013, Heymanns, pp. 1325-1344.
  • Non-state armed groups in the focus of the Security Council, in: Heike Krieger/Dieter Weingärtner (eds.), Streitkräfte und nicht-staatliche Akteure, Nomos, 2013, pp. 55-82.
  • Deutschland im System kollektiver Sicherheit, in: Andreas Zimmer-mann/Helmut Volger (eds.), Die UN-Politik deutschsprachiger Länder. 11th Potsdam UN Conference on June 10, 2012, 2013, pp. 31-45.
  • Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), in: Georg Lohmann/Arnd Pollmann (eds.), Menschenrechte. An interdisciplinary handbook, 2012, J.B. Metzler, pp. 312-317.
  • Civilian Objects, in: Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Vol. II, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 185-191, www.mpepil.com.
  • Civilian Objects, in: Frauke Lachenmann/Rüdiger Wolfrum (eds.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Thematic Series, vol. 2, The Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force, Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Региональные механизмы запрета применения пыток [Regional Mechanisms of the Prohibition of the Use of Torture], in: P.A. Ромашова [P.A. Romashova] (ed.), Сравнительно - правовой Анализ [Comparative Law Analyses. Practice of the application of the European Convention on Human Rights in Russia], 2012, pp. 245-262.
  • Human Rights as Subjective Rights - Immediate Effect qua Ratification?, in: Christina Binder/Claudia Fuchs/Matthias Goldmann/Thomas Kleinlein/Konrad Lachmeyer (eds.), International Law in the Domestic Sphere, 2010, Manz, pp. 129-154.
  • Just peace, just war? Menschenrechte als Bedingung und Grenze, in: Corinna Hauswedell (ed.), Frieden und Gerechtigkeit. Dilemmata heutiger Friedensethik und -politik: Zur Diskussion der Denkschrift der EKD, Loccumer Protokolle 24/08, pp. 89-101.

V. Commentaries

  • Commentary on Chapter VI of the UN Charter (Articles 33 to 38 UNC), in: Stefanie Schmahl/Paulina Starski (eds.), Kommentar zur UN-Charta, C.H. Beck, i.Vb.
  • Commentary on Articles 16, 17 and 18 ECHR, in: Katharina Pabel/Stefanie Schmahl (eds.), International Commentary on the European Convention on Human Rights, loose-leaf collection, Heymanns, 2010 (63 printed pages, own supplement December 2014).

VI Online educational literature

VII Varia

  • Creating peace - with weapons, in: Sächsische Zeitung, December 7, 2022, p. 7.

  • International Law in a Nutshell: Völkerrechtliche Podcasts als Seminar (together with Kajo Kramp, Martin Hock and Katharina Zimmer), in: Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Rechtswissenschaft, 2022, pp. 112-115.

  • Preface (together with Stephanie Schiedermair and Alexander Schwarz), in: Stephanie Schiedermair/Alexander Schwarz/Dominik Steiger (eds.), Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights, Hart/Nomos, 2022, pp. 7-9.
  • Blog post "(Not) Investigating Kunduz and (Not) Judging in Strasbourg? Extraterritoriality, Attribution and the Duty to Investigate", February 25, 2020, EJIL: Talk!, https://www.ejiltalk.org/not-investigating-kunduz-and-not-judging-in-strasbourg-extraterritoriality-attribution-and-the-duty-to-investigate/.
  • Negotiating together what belongs together - To prevent the controversial backstop, the EU and the UK would first have to clarify their future relationship (together with Ulrich Fastenrath), in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 31, 2019, p. 6.
  • Blog post "Cutting Back on Equal Access to Social Benefits for EU Foreigners: National Solidarity vs. European Identity", August 20, 2016, europaeus blog, http://europaeuslaw.blogspot.com/2016/08/dominik-steiger-on-access-to-social.html.
  • Introduction: On the future of democracy (together with Henk Botha and Nils Schaks), in: Henk Botha/Nils Schaks/Dominik Steiger (eds.), Das Ende des repräsentativen Staates? Demokratie am Scheideweg - Eine Deutsch-Südafrikanische Perspektive/The End of the Representative State? Democracy at the Crossroads - A German-South African Perspective, Nomos, pp. 17-32, 2016.
  • Introduction: On the Future of Democracy (together with Henk Botha and Nils Schaks), in: Henk Botha/Nils Schaks/Dominik Steiger (eds.), Das Ende des repräsentativen Staates? Demokratie am Scheideweg - Eine Deutsch-Südafrikanische Perspektive/The End of the Representative State? Democracy at the Crossroads - A German-South African Perspective, Nomos, pp. 33-47, 2016.
  • Editorial: The Current State of Democracy in South Africa (together with Henk Botha and Nils Schaks), in: Constitution and Law Overseas 2015, pp. 259-262.
  • Book review "Eric Engle: Ideas in Conflict - International Law and the Global War on Terror", in: Max Planck United Nations Yearbook 17 (2013), pp. 394-403.
  • Article "The UN Security Council and the South African Apartheid Regime: Germany's Role in 1977/1978 and 1987/1988", German-South African Lawyers Association's Newsletter Vol. 34, October 2013, pp. 2-4.
  • Book review "Climate wars. What is being killed for in the 21st century", by Harald Welzer, in: Konturen. Rothenfelser Burgbrief 1/2009, p. 37-38, www.burg-rothenfels.de.
  • Online commentary "Important sign; but more staff and resources needed. On the ratification of the Additional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture".
  • Book review "Security instead of freedom? State scope for action in extremely dangerous situations." Edited by Ulrich Blaschke/Achim Förster/Stephanie Lumpp/Judith Schmidt, in: MenschenRechtsMagazin 2006, pp. 107-110.
  • Book review, International Law as a Shackle for Empires. "The Limits of International Law" by Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric Posner, in: United Nations 2006, pp. 128-129.

Lectures and conferences

2026 Is the World Order Breaking Down? Why International Law Still Matters, University of Western Cape, March 20, 2026.
2026 Shoot to kill? Targeted killings in Constitutional Law and International Law, University of Western Cape, March 18, 2026.
2026 State power in German Constitutional Law, International Human Rights Law and the Law of Armed Conflict, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, March 12, 2026.
2026 Apartheid and Genocide in International Law - Concepts, Legal Foundations and Current Procedures, "Wie meinst du das? Keywords and Terms in Debates on the Middle East Conflict", Berlin, March 10, 2026.
2026 The OSCE as part of a rules-based international order, Ladenburg Roundtable, March 6, 2026.
2025 How is world peace possible, Science4Pease Slam Dresden, November 14, 2025.
2025 Human rights - international legal claim and reality, Rothenfels Whitsun Conference: Universal, inalienable, indivisible? Human rights as a challenge for humanity, Burg Rothenfels am Main, June 7, 2025.
2025 Trumping International Law? The End of the World as We know it (And I do not feel fine), Guest Lecture, Stellenbosch University, March 19, 2025/University of the Western Cape, March 20, 2025.
2024 "Political Conflicts at the University: (Basic) Legal Framework Conditions and Options for Action", World Café: Quo Vadis? Teaching and studying at TU Dresden after the 2024 state election
December 2, 2024.
2024 "Was die Welt im Inneren zusammenhält - Die Säulen der Gesellschaft", TUD Lectures+, Marktplatz Pirna (together with Florian Bruns), May 2, 2024.
2024 "The democratic principle of the Basic Law: Wehrhaft und partizipativ?", Conference on 75 Years of the Basic Law - Basis of Democracy, Christliches Bildungswerk Die Hegge, Willebadessen, April 26, 2024.
2024 "Das Verhältnis von humanitärem Völkerrecht und Menschenrechten", Faculty of Law, European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, February 1, 2024.
2024 "Political Neutrality of Universities", closed meeting Senate and Extended University Executive Board TU Dresden, Seiffen (Erzgebirge), January 31, 2024.
2023 "The role of international law in the 'multipolar world order'", Meeting of the SEF Advisory Board, State Chancellery Potsdam, September 21, 2023.
2023 "Macht und Ohnmacht des UN-Sicherheitsrates - Schutz vor Völkerrechtsverbrechen durch die Vereinten Nationen?", Interdisziplinäre Tagung an der Deutschen Hochschule der Polizei "Krieg in der Ukraine: Perspektiven", Münster, September 1, 2023.
2023 "Unilateral sanctions as a means of law enforcement - At the same time a contribution to the unity of the international legal order", Walther Schücking Institute for International Law Kiel, January 26, 2023.
2022 "I can't get no Vaccination - Global Access to Vaccines and Medicines from the Perspective of Human Rights Law and International Intellectual Proberty Law", Conference "Access to Vaccines and Medical Care in Times of Covid19", TUD Dresden University of Technology, July 11, 2022.
2022 "The Russian war of aggression on Ukraine - Putin to The Hague?", Sticks & Stones, Verti Music Hall Berlin, June 11, 2022
2021 "Influencing Elections Online and the Freedom of Speech under the European Convention on Human Rights", Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Begabtenförderung Dresden, January 14, 2021.
2020 "What connects us with the world ...", What connects Saxony with the world - and how Saxony can help shape the world. Der sef: Advisory Board in conversation with members of the Saxon State Parliament, Dresden, September 1, 2020.
2019 "The Normativity of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Between Progressive Development and Subjective Rights", TUD Dresden University of Technology, December 7, 2019.
2019 Organization and management of the 5th German-French-Peruvian University, Lima, 26-28 August 2019 (together with Prof. Dr. Manuel Tirard, Paris-Nanterre and Dr. Carlos Gonzalez, ESAN, Lima).
2019 "Rule of Law - Regulation of Migration under International and European Law", Refugee Law Clinic Dresden, July 12, 2019.
2019 "Wehrhafte Demokratie im digitalen Zeitalter - Völkerrechtliche Grenzen in- und ausländischer Einflussnahme auf Wahlen", Annual Conference Societas Iuris Publici Europaei (SIPE), "Challenges of Digital Communication for the State and its Democratic State Form", Riga, Latvia, June 14, 2019.
2018 "Much ado about nothing? The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and its Impact on the Federal Republic of Germany", TU Chemnitz, December 11, 2018.
2018 "The Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture - The Effects of Preventive Action", Commentary, Conference "We Have Come a Long Way The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70 - Normativity and Compliance", TU Dresden, December 7, 2018.

2018

Organization and chair of the conference "We Have Come a Long Way The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70 - Normativity and Compliance" (together with Thomas Kleinlein, Stephanie Schiedermair, Dirk Hanschel), TU Dresden, 7-8 December 2018.
2018 "Notwendigkeit und Ausgestaltung sachunmittelbarer Demokratie auf Bundesebene: Was lässt sich von Sachsen und Kroatien lernen?", Conference "Sachunmittelbare Demokratie im interdisziplinären und internationalen Kontext 2017/2018 - Kroatien/Deutschland - Sachsen", German Institute for Immediate Democracy, Dresden, November 29, 2018.
2018 Organization and chair of the conference "The Future of Democracy - the Democracy of the Future: Digitization and Democracy" (together with Wessel Le Roux, Henk Botha, Nils Schaks), University of Mannheim, 13 July 2018.

2018

"International Law and New Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Age - Big Data, Privacy and Interferences with the Political Process" Prato University Center, June 18, 2018.

2018

"Privacy Intrusions by State and Non-State Actors in the Digital Age as a Challenge to Democracy - A Public International Law Perspective -, Monash University, March 14, 2018.

2017

"Brexit - What's Public International Law Got to Do With It", Conference "Legal Implications of Brexit", Fern-Universität Hagen, November 8, 2017.

2017

"A Beauty or a Beast? The New Role of the United Nations Security Council since 1990", Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, July 14, 2017.

2017

"Paradigm Shift in the Development of International Law by the United Nations and the Need for an 'International Rule of Law'", TUD Dresden University of Technology, June 30, 2017.

2017

"Do the Rules on Withdrawal from International Organizations Undermine the International Legal Order?", Humboldt University of Berlin, KFG The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?, 18 May 2017.

2017

"International Law and the Protection of Democracy in the Digital Age", Open Universiteit, April 4, 2017.

2017

"Die NSA-Affäre, Cambridge Analytica und russische Hackerangriffe - Menschenrechte, Demokratie und Frieden in der digitalisierten Welt", Bielefeld University, 8 February 2017.

2016

"Where is the exit? The withdrawal from international organizations and the consequences", Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 25 November 2016.

2016

"Freedom of movement in the EU and restrictions on social benefits for EU foreigners", Habilitation lecture, Freie Universität Berlin, July 20, 2016.

2016

"Piracy and International Law", KU Leuven, April 6, 2016.

2016

"Von den Extraordinary Renditions zum "Islamischen Staat": Ohnmacht des Völkerrechts?", Zephyr, Mannheim, April 4, 2016.

2016

Organization and chair of the conference "Preconditions of Democracy", University of the Western Cape, South Africa, 26 February 2016 (together with Wessel Le Roux, Henk Botha, Nils Schaks).

2015

"The Struggle for a Legal Definition of 'Terrorism' at the International Level", Walther Schücking Institute Kiel, December 10, 2015.

2015

"A Constitutional Theory of Imperative Participation", Conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), New York, July 3, 2015.

2015

"A Citizen's Guide to the Participatory State: Beware of the Leopard?", Deutsches Haus, New York, April 3, 2015.

2014

"The Separation of Powers Doctrine and the Power of Participation: Citizen's Influence in Delegated Rule-Making in the United States, the European Union and Germany", Emile Noël Fellows Workshop, Jean Monnet Center, New York University, September 30, 2014.

2014

"Separation of Powers as a Means of Conceptualizing Participation", Conference "The End of the Representative State? Democracy at the Crossroads", Freie Universität Berlin, July 12, 2014.

2014

Organization and chair of the conference "Das Ende des repräsentativen Staates? Democracy at the Crossroads", Freie Universität Berlin, July 11-12, 2014 (together with Nils Schaks and Henk Botha).

2014

"L'État, c'est moi! L'État, c'est nous! Legitimation of state power through individual and collective self-determination", 54th Assistant Conference on Public Law "L'État, c'est quoi? State power in transition", February 12, 2014.

2013

"Das völkerrechtliche Folterverbot", Conference "Folter - Eine extreme Form interpersoneller Gewalt", Refugee Law Clinic Gießen, November 23, 2013.

2013

"German contributions to the protection of human rights by the UN Security Council", symposium "Vom Feindstaat zum Musterknaben? Germany and the United Nations", Federal Foreign Office Berlin, September 18, 2013.

2012

"Participative Administration and Direct Democracy in Germany", Postgraduate Seminar, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, December 6, 2012.

2012

"Human Dignity and Participation: The Legitimacy Chain Model of the German Constitutional Court and its Limits", Conference "Democracy in Constitutional Perspective", Stellenbosch University, South Africa, November 1, 2012.

2012

Organization and chair of the conference "Democracy in Constitutional Perspective", University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1 November 2012 (together with Henk Botha).

2012

"Germany in the System of Collective Security", 11th Potsdam UN Conference "The UN Policy of German-Speaking Countries", June 30, 2012.

2012

"Nicht-staatliche Gewaltakteure im Fokus des Sicherheitsrats", Defense Law Conference, "Streitkräfte und nicht-staatliche Akteure", Berlin, February 23, 2012.

2011

"Enforcing International Humanitarian Law through Human Rights Bodies", Conference "Enforcing International Humanitarian Law in Contemporary African Conflicts", DFG Collaborative Research Center 700, September 16, 2011, Freie Universität Berlin.

2010

Organization and chair of the political discussion group "Jenseits der Lobbys - Ein neuer Blick auf die Gesundheitspolitik", Burg Rothenfels, 5-7 November 2010.

2010

"Human Rights Protection and the Fight against Terrorism", Attaché Training of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, September 2, 2010.

2010

"Die strafrechtliche Verfolgung von Folterern in Drittstaaten", lecture series "Recht schaffend", Freie Universität Berlin, July 19, 2010.

2009

Foundation, organization and management of the political discussion group "The Desolation of the World - Wars, Migration and Climate Change", Burg Rothenfels, 6-8 November 2009.

2009

Organization and management of the workshop of the Working Group of Young International Lawyers (AjV) "Stakeholders in War and Peace", Berlin, 30 November - 1 December 2009.

2008

Rapporteur at the conference "Peace and Justice. Dilemmas of today's peace ethics and politics - The EKD memorandum in discussion", Evangelische Akademie Loccum, June 2-4, 2008.

2008

Lecture "Human rights as subjective rights? Reflections on International and National Law", Workshop of the Working Group of Young International Lawyers (AjV) "International Law and Domestic Law", Vienna, December 6-7, 2008.

2007 -2014

Foundation, organization and management of a monthly meeting of young international lawyers in Berlin.

2006

Lecture "El-Masri, die CIA und die Menschenrechte", lecture series "Ausgesuchte Fragen des Internationalen Menschenrechtsschutzes" of the MenschenRechtsZentrum of the University of Potsdam.

2005

Lecture "Der Fall Daschner und das Verbot der Folter im nationalen Recht und im Völkerrecht", lecture series "Ausgesuchte Fragen des Internationalen Menschenrechtsschutzes" of the Human Rights Center of the University of Potsdam.

Memberships

since 2026 Member of the Expert Committee on International Humanitarian Law/German Committee on International Humanitarian Law
since 2023 Member of the Research Council, German Association for the United Nations(DGVN)

since 2018

Societas Iuris Publici Europaei

since 2017

German Society for International Law

since 2016

Association of German Constitutional Law Professors

since 2005

German Association for the United Nations

since 2005

Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Human Rights Center of the University of Potsdam e.V.

since 2005

Association of the Friends of Rothenfels Castle

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