Interim Professor

Dr. Romy Klimke, Interim Professor, Chair of Public International Law, EU Law and International Relations

Academic and professional background

Since 04/2024 Interim Professor, Chair for Public International Law, EU Law and International Relations at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science at TU Dresden
07/23-08/23 Research stay at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund (Sweden)
Since 03/2023 Associate editor at Verfassungsblog.de (On Matters Constitutional)
Since 04/2020 Research Associate and habilitation candidate at the Chair of Public Law, European Law and International Business Law of Prof. Dr. Christian Tietje, LL.M., Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Since 04/2020 employee in the lead sentence project of the C.H.Beck publishing house
10/18-03/20 Probationary judge in the judicial service of the Free State of Thuringia, assigned to the public prosecutor's office in Gera
09/18 Doctorate awarded by the Faculty of Law and Business and Economics at MLU, overall grade: summa cum laude
05/14-10/18 Research Associate and doctoral student at the Chair of Public Law, European Law and International Business Law of Prof. Dr. Christian Tietje, LL.M., Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
04/11-07/12 Conducting crash courses on the European Union at schools in Berlin and Brandenburg for the Schwarzkopf Foundation
12/10-10/12 Research Associate at the Berlin office of the law firm Gleiss Lutz

Legal training

11/13 2nd state examination in law
12/11-11/13 Certificate course in specialized journalism at the Freie Journalistenschule Berlin
11/11-11/13 Legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal, with stages at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Division 200 (Peace and Security), and at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer
09/10 1st state examination in law
10/08-09/10 Studies at the Free University of Berlin (University focus area: "The Internationalization of the Legal System" (International Law, European Law, Comparative Law))
09/07-03/08 ERASMUS studies at the Complutense University of Madrid
10/06-05/07 Member of the Freiburg NMUN delegation to participate in the simulation game National Model United Nations in New York in March 2007
0/05-07/07 Studied law at the Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg i.B.

Internships & stays abroad during my studies

05/11-07/11 Internship in a project of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to strengthen the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (3 months)
03/09-04/09 Internship in the secretariat of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag (6 weeks)
08/08-10/08 Internship at the Consulate General of the Federal Foreign Office in New York (2 months)
04/08-06/08 Internship at the DAAD office in Mexico City (3 months)
07/05-08/05 Internship at the children's aid organization SAC-CCC (South Asian Council for Community and Children in Crisis) in Bangalore/India (6 weeks)

Awards and prizes

10/2020 Awarded the Human Rights Prize 2020 of the Faculty of Law and Business and Economics at MLU for the dissertation, donated by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Widmaier, former judge at the Federal Administrative Court (endowed with 3,000 euros)
11/16 Awarded the sponsorship prize for research projects with a gender aspect in Saxony-Anhalt for the dissertation project (endowed with 2,000 euros)

Memberships

German United Nations Association (DGVN)
German Association for International Law (DVIR)
German University Association (DHV)