Chair holder
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
fax: +49 351 463 37871
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 Technische Universität Dresden
- 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
- since 2009 holder of UNESCO Chair in International Relations at the Faculty of Law (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
- since February 2015 holder of the Chair of International Law, Law of the EU and International Relations at the Technische Universität Dresden
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
- 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 and December 2021
- 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)
- 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