Senior professor
Prof. Dr. iur. habil. Dr. rer. pol. habil.
Sabine von Schorlemer (M.A.)
(State Minister for Higher Education, Research and the Fine Arts (retd.))
contact:
Phone: +49 351 463 37331
Curriculum Vitae
Scientific background
- Studies of law, international politics and history of arts at the Universities of Berlin, Lausanne, Munich, Hamburg and Geneva
- 1991 Certificate in International Relations at the Graduate School of International Studies, Geneva
- 1992 Doctorate in international law at the University of Hamburg (summa cum laude)
- 1997 Habilitation with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG) / venia legendi in international law and international politics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Scientific expertise
Law of the United Nations and International Organizations; Human Rights; Peacekeeping and International Humanitarian Law; Law of Development Cooperation; International Cultural Heritage Law and Cultural Diversity
Professional career
- 1991 – 2000 lecturer / assistant-professor at the Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- 1998 / 1999 and 1999 / 2000 visiting professor at the University of Lausanne, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Law, Geneva (CH)
- 2000 – 2009 holder of the Chair of International Law, European Union Law and International Relations and commissioner for study abroad programs at the Faculty of Law at the TUD Dresden University of Technology
- 2003 / 2004 visiting professor at the Erfurt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt
- 2003 – 2006 visiting professor at the European Institute of the University of Basel (CH)
- 2002 call to the University of Graz (Austria), Chair of International Law
- 2003 founding director of the School of International Studies at the Technische Universität Dresden, since 2003 managing director
- 2004 / 2006 managing director of the Institute of Technical and Environmental Law
- 2008 / 2009 head of the Research Center United Nations at the Faculty of Law
- 2009-2025 holder of UNESCO Chair in International Relations (Paris / Dresden)
- September 2009 – November 2014 State Minister for Higher Education, Research and the Fine Arts of the Free State of Saxony
- May 2010 – 2015 honorary professor
- February 2015 – 2024 holder of the Chair of International Law, Law of the EU and International Relations at the TUD Dresden University of Technology
- 2024-2025 senior professor at the TUD Dresden University of Technology
Memberships
- 1990 – 1997 German United Nations Association (DGVN), member of the Executive Board, Bonn
- 1993 – 2016 member of the International Law Association (ILA), Committee on Cultural Heritage, London
- since 1999 member of German Society of International Law (DGVR/DGIR)
- 2002 – 2010 member of the advisory board on United Nations policy (reappointed in 2007) of the German Foreign Ministry (consultant)
- 2003 – 2004 / 2007 UNESCO independent expert nominated by UNESCO Director-General for the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
- 2004 German United Nations Association (DGVN), founding member of the United Nations Research Council
- 2004 – 2009 founding member of the Aeronautics and Space Research Centre (UZLR) at the Technische Universität Dresden
- 2004 – 2009 member of the advisory body Chamber of Public Responsibility to the Protestant Church of Germany (EKD)
- 2004 / 2005 UNESCO, member of the German delegation in international treaty negotiations (legal adviser), UNESCO Paris
- 2004 / 2005 United Nations Organization, High Commissioner for Human Rights, Member of the UN High-Level Task Force on the Implementation of the Right to Development, Geneva
- since 2004 (re-elected in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) German Commission for UNESCO (DUK), Bonn and member of the Expert Committee of Culture
- 2006 – 2011 Chair of the executive committee of the Development and Peace Foundation (SEF), Bonn; before: scientific board member
- 2007 – 2010 advisory-board member of the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF)
- 2008 – 2009 member of board of trustees of the University and State Library Dresden
- 2008 – 2010 member of advisory board of research journal “Security and Peace” (S+F)
- 2008 – 2015 member of the editorial board of the “Journal of Politics” (ZfP)
- 2008 – 2012 member of the scientific board of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin
- since 2008 – 2014 member of the scientific board of trustees of the Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft (FEST), Heidelberg
- 2008 – 2014 member of the board of the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Berlin
- since 2009 member of the presidium of the German United Nations Association (DGVN), Berlin, re-elected in 2022 for the term 2022-2026
- 2009 – 2015 member of the board of observers of the chairmanship of the German Atlantic Association (DAG), Berlin
- 2015 nomination as a member of a research project of the German National Academy Leopoldina, Halle, for the elaboration of a report “Cultural Heritage”
- 2015 nomination as a member of the Domestic Advisory Group on EU-Korea Cultural Cooperation of the EU Commission, Brussels
- since 2015 member of the foundation council of the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF), Osnabrück; reappointment March 2020 - March 2024
- November 2015 UNESCO expert to “Responsibility to Protect as Applied on Cultural Heritage”, Paris
- 2015 member of the Experts committees KLAS (Knowledge Link through Art and Science) initiative, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam
- since 2016 member of the executive board of the German Atlantic Association (DAG), Berlin
- 2017 – 2021 chairwoman of the supervisory board of the Institute for Economic Research – Member of the Leibniz Association Halle (IWH)
- December 2017 – December 2021 member of the supervisory board of Infineon (München/Dresden)
- January 2018 nomination as a member of the Advisory Committee for the funding initiative “Patrimonies” of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Düsseldorf); reappointment December 2019, December 2021 and December 2023
- nomination as a member of the “Committee on Participation in Global Cultural Heritage Governance” of the International Law Association (ILA); inaugural meeting in Sydney, Australia, August 2018
- 2018 nomination as a member of the United Nations Association of Germany Selection Committee for the award of the Dag Hammarskjöld medal of honour
- 2019 nomination as a member of the Curatorium of the African Institute of International Law (AIIL, Arusha, Tanzania)
- August 2019 expert for the German Research Foundation (DFG), project Villa Vigoni, German-Italian cooperation
- since February 2020 Vice President of the Curatorium of the African Institute of International Law (AIIL, Arusha, Tanzania)
- 2021 nomination as a member of the Expert Committee on Culture and of the Advisory Board “Diversity of Cultural Expressions” of the German Commission for UNESCO (DUK), reappointment 2024
- since March 2021 Network Partner of the Governance Fund of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
- 2020-2021 Acceptance of a Mentorship in the mentoring program of the Martin Luther University Hallle-Wittenberg for young female scientists
- member of the German delegation at the UNESCO World Conference MONDIACULT 2022 in Mexico City
- Nomination in September 2023 as member of the Curatorium of the new “Leipzig Robert Blum Prize for Democracy”
- European Commission, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, Nomination in September 2023 as member of the European Commission expert sub-group on “Dialogue with the Art Market”
- Nomination in 2023 as member of the committee "Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Armed Conflict" of the International Law Association (ILA)