Anne Peters

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Anne Peters (born November 15, 1964 in Berlin ) is a German-Swiss legal scholar specializing in international law . She is director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law , adjunct professor at the University of Basel and honorary professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Freie Universität Berlin as well as William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the Michigan Law School. Her main research interests include constitutionalization and the history of international law, global animal law, global governance and the status of humans in international law. Anne Peters has been chairwoman of the German Society for International Law since 2019.

Live and act

Anne Peters studied law, modern Greek and Spanish at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , the University of Lausanne , the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Harvard Law School . Peters received his doctorate in 1994 with the dissertation The regional referendum in international law: its significance in the light of state practice after 1989 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. From 1995 to 2001 she worked as a research assistant at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . She completed her habilitation there in 2000 with the habilitation thesis Elements of a Theory of the Constitution of Europe .

From 2001 to 2013, Peters was a full professor of international and constitutional law at the University of Basel . From 2004 to 2005 she was dean, from 2008 to 2012 research dean of the Faculty of Law in Basel and from 2008 to 2013 research councilor at the Swiss National Science Foundation . Since 2013 she has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg . Peters has also been adjunct professor for public law, international law, European law, comparative law at the University of Basel since 2013, a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 2014 honorary professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

Peters held visiting professorships at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (2009), at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas , Institut des hautes études internationales (2014) as well as at Peking University , Institute of International Law (2014 and 2016) and the Université Panthéon -Sorbonne (2015). In 2012/2013 she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

Peters was Vice President 2008–2010 and President 2010–2012 of the European Society of International Law and 2014–2015 board member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers . She was a member (substitute) of the Venice Commission (European Commission for Democracy through Law) for Germany (2011–2015) and legal expert on the Independent Fact Finding Mission on the conflict in Georgia (2009). She has been on the board of the German Society for International Law (DGIR) since 2017, in the General Council of the Society for International Constitutional Law (I-CON-S) since 2014 and as Vice-President of the Foundation Council of the Basel Institute on Governance (BIG) since 2002. Since 2013 she has been a member of the International Legal Advisory Board of the Federal Foreign Office and the Research Advisory Board of the Science and Politics Foundation .

Research priorities and theses

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The research interests of Peter's include Constitutionalisation and history of international law, global animal rights , global governance and the status of people in international law. Peters advocates the following theses:

  • Area-based referendums , if they are free, fair, peaceful and under impartial observation, are a necessary, but not sufficient, procedural factor in the exercise of the peoples' right to self-determination . In this way, you can contribute to the legalization of a change of territory, even in the case of the unilateral separation of a region from a state.
  • Fundamental legal norms of the EU can and should be qualified as a constitution of the EU (regardless of the existence of a formal constitutional instrument). This European constitution gains its legitimation primarily through its probation, thus through its "output", i.e. legal and political results in the European public interest , less because of its genesis and through the "input" of the European citizens through elections and votes.
  • International law should and can counteract its tendency towards epistemic nationalism by problematizing national precursors and maintaining sufficient distance from legal practice; the pursuit of a constructive utopia is the task of international law.
  • The democratization of international law and global governance is possible and necessary in order to supplement their indirect democratic legitimation (via national parliaments and governments) (“dual democracy”).
  • The well-being of people, their security and their rights are the basis and limits of state sovereignty . “Humanity”, not “Sovereignty”, is the ultimate foundation of international law.
  • A general principle of transparency has emerged as a basic principle of international law in all of its sub-areas, starting with environmental law. The function of transparency in international law is similar to that in national public law: Transparency enables public criticism of the exercise of international sovereignty. The principle of transparency strengthens the quality of international law as public law, as the right to establish and channel sovereignty, in the public interest and under the control of the public. The transparency of international institutions and legislative and implementation processes can thus alleviate the democratic deficit of international law, i.e. the lack of a world parliament, a democratic legislative process and a direct right of citizens to have a say in filling international offices.
  • The history of international law can be rewritten with the help of approaches from global history. The global history approach raises awareness of the problem of Eurocentrism in the development of international law and how it is presented, and makes it possible to better recognize and appreciate non-European influences.
  • The individual enjoys “subjective international rights” and obligations which, so to speak, lie below the threshold of particularly high-quality human rights, for example in international labor law, refugee law, international humanitarian law, etc. The recognition of these legal positions and the (anticipated) international legal capacity of the person expressed therein allow it is to qualify the individual as an original and normatively priority (not just derived and subordinate from the states) subject of international law. The shift from the state as the starting point of international law to humans represents a paradigm shift in the international legal order.
  • Global animal law is to be established and developed as a research field in order to preserve the animal welfare standards undermined by globalization, outsourcing and location mobility and to research new concepts such as basic rights of animals, the citizenship status of animals, the sovereignty of wild animals over natural resources. The new research field can receive suggestions from numerous neighboring disciplines in the course of the "animal turn" in the humanities and social sciences.

Awards

  • Book Prize 2014 from the American Society of International Law ("Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of ​​international law") for the Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford University Press 2012).
  • Dissertation award of the Scientific Society in Freiburg im Breisgau for the dissertation The regional referendum in international law: its significance in the light of state practice after 1989 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Beyond Human Rights: The Legal Status of the Individual in International Law . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016, (revised and supplemented English version of: Beyond Human Rights ), ISBN 978-1-107-16430-7 .
  • International law, general part . 4th revised edition. Schulthess, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7255-7348-6 .
  • together with Isabelle Ley: The Freedom of Peaceful Assembly in Europe . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 978-1-5099-0699-4 .
  • Three versions of proportionality in international law , in: Giovanni Biaggini, Oliver Diggelmann, Christine Kaufmann (eds.): Polis and Kosmopolis, Festschrift for Daniel Thürer . Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2015, pp. 589–603 online
  • Animal law in the age of man , in: Jürgen Renn, Bernd Scherer (ed.): The Anthropocene - To the state of things . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-153-3 , pp. 67–87
  • Corruption and Human Rights , in: Basel Institute on Governance - Working Paper No. 20, 2015, pp. 1-34, online
  • as ed. with Saskia Stucki, Livia Boscardin: Animal Law: Reform or Revolution? Schulthess, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7255-7311-0
  • The Transparency Turn in International Law , in: The Chinese Journal of Global Governance 1 , 2015, pp. 3–15 online
  • Has the Advisory Opinion's Finding that Kosovo's Declaration of Independence was not Contrary to International Law set an Unfortunate Precedent? In: Marko Milanović, Michael Wood (Eds.): The Law and Politics of the Kosovo Advisory Opinion . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, pp. 291-313, ISBN 978-0-19-871751-5 .
  • Olivier de Frouville (ed.): La transparence comme principe du droit international public, in: Le cosmopolitisme juridique . Pedone, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-233-00755-1 , pp. 171-185.
  • The human being at the center of international law , in: Dieter Grimm, Alexandra Kemmerer, Christoph Möllers (Hrsg.): Rechtswege. Context sensitive law facing the transnational challenge . (= Law in context / volume 2). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1182-6 , pp. 63-77.
  • Constitutional Fragments: On the Interaction of Constitutionalization and Fragmentation in International Law , in: Center for Global Constitutionalism St Andrews - Working Paper 2 , 2015, pp. 1-42 online
  • The "constitutional" question , in: Claudio Franzius , Tine Stein (Ed.): Law and Politics. Ulrich K. Preuss's understanding of the state . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-2129-0 , pp. 109–122.
  • Realizando la utopía como un esfuerzo doctrinal , in: Revista del Posgrado en Derecho de la UNAM Julio-Dicembre , 2014, pp. 21–57
  • The Crimean Vote of March 2014 as an Abuse of the Institution of the Territorial Referendum , in: Christian Calliess (Ed.): Liber Amicorum for Torsten Stein on his 70th birthday . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1347-9 , pp. 278–303.
  • Symposium: "The Incorporation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in the Light of International Law" , in: Journal of Foreign Public Law and International Law / Heidelberg Journal of International Law 75 (2015) pp. 1–231 (together with Christian Marxsen, Matthias Hartwig)
  • Law for a Global World Society: Conditions and Limits of Universal Standard-Setting , in: Science - Drive or Result of Global Dynamics? Böhlau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79648-0 , pp. 131–160.
  • Global Constitutionalism , in: Michael T. Gibbons (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Political Thought . Wiley-Blackwell, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-4051-9129-6 , pp. 1484-1487.
  • Immune against constitutionalization? in: Anne Peters, Evelyne Lagrange, Stefan Oeter, Christian Tomuschat (eds.): Immunities in the Age of Global Constitutionalism . Brill Nijhoff, Leiden 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-25162-5 , pp. 1-19.
  • Beyond Human Rights: The Legal Status of the Individual in International Law . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014., ISBN 3-7890-3857-1 .
  • Liberté, égalité, animalité, An (anti) battle cry , The magazine No. 23 of the Federal Cultural Foundation, October 2014, pp. 12–15, online
  • Transparency in International Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013, 620 pp. (Ed. With Andrea Bianchi), ISBN 978-1-107-02138-9
  • Realizing Utopia as a Scholarly Endeavor, European Journal of International Law 24 (2013), pp. 533-552, online
  • together with Tilmann Altwicker: European Convention on Human Rights: With comparative law references to the German Basic Law . 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63216-7 .
  • as ed. with Bardo Fassbender, Daniel Högger, Simone Peter: Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-959975-2 .
  • as ed. with Lukas Handschin, Daniel Högger: Conflict of Interest in Global, Public and Corporate Governance . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-1-107-02932-3 .
  • Roles of legal thinkers and practitioners - from an international law perspective, in: Paradigms in international law. Implications of the world financial crisis for international law . Reports of the German Society for International Law, Volume 45. CF Müller, Heidelberg 2012, pp. 105–173. on-line
  • together with Jan Klabbers, Geir Ulfstein: The Constitutionalization of International Law, expanded paperback edition with new epilogue . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-954342-7 .
  • as editors with Lucy Köchlin, Till Förster, Gretta Fenner Zinkernagel: Non-State Actors as Standard Setters . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-11490-5 .
  • Humanity as the A and Ω of Sovereignty , European Journal of International Law 20 (2009), pp. 513-544, online
  • The future of international law: Against epistemic nationalism , Journal for Foreign Public Law and International Law / Heidelberg Journal of International Law 67 (2007), pp. 721–776, online
  • Compensatory Constitutionalism: The Function and Potential of Fundamental International Norms and Structures , Leiden Journal of International Law 19 (2006), pp. 579-610, online
  • Privatization, globalization and the resistance of the constitutional state , in: State and constitutional theory in the field of tension between the disciplines , Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 100–159.
  • Elements of a theory of the constitution of Europe . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10602-4 .
  • Women, Quotas and Constitutions: A Comparative Study of Affirmative Action for Women in American, German, European Community and International Law . Kluwer Law International, Dordrecht / London / Boston 1999, ISBN 90-411-9708-7 .
  • The Area Referendum in International Law: Its Significance in the Light of State Practice after 1989 . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1995, ISBN 3-7890-3857-1 .

literature

  • Anne Peters: Generalist in international law , in: Annual Report of the Max Planck Society 2013 (enclosure), p. 15 (portrait).

Interviews

  • Svenja Goltermann, Kijan Espahangizi, Monika Dommann: Power and impotence of international law. Interview with Anne Peters . In: Mercury . tape 73 , no. 5 , May 1, 2019, ISSN  0026-0096 , p. 5–16 ( merkur-zeitschrift.de [accessed on May 3, 2019]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. iur. Anne Peters, LL.M. (Harvard) Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, accessed on July 11, 2018.
  2. ↑ http://www.mpil.de/de/pub/institut/lösungen/institutsleitung/direktoren/peters.cfm
  3. ↑ Peters, Anne, The regional referendum in international law: Its significance in the light of state practice after 1989, Baden-Baden: Nomos 1995, 562 pp.
  4. ↑ Peters, Anne, Elements of a Theory of the Constitution of Europe, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2001, 889 pp.
  5. ^ Peters, Anne / Koechlin, Lucy / Förster, Till / Fenner Zinkernagel, Gretta (Eds.), Non-State Actors as Standard Setters, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009, 588 p .; Peters, Anne, Compensatory Constitutionalism: The Function and Potential of Fundamental International Norms and Structures, Leiden Journal of International Law 19 (2006), 579-610; Peters, Anne, The Globalization of State Constitutions, in: Nijman, Janne / Nollkaemper, André (eds.), New Perspectives on the Divide Between National and International Law, Oxford 2007, pp. 251–308; Peters, Anne, The Merits of Global Constitutionalism, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 16 (2009), 397-411; Peters, Anne, Are we Moving towards Constitutionalization of the World Community ?, in: Cassese, Antonio (Ed.), Realizing Utopia, Oxford 2012, pp. 118-135.
  6. ↑ Peters, Anne, The Future of International Law Studies: Against Epistemic Nationalism, Journal for Foreign Public Law and International Law / Heidelberg Journal of International Law 67 (2007), 721–776; Peters, Anne, Roles of Legal Thoughts and Practitioners ?? from an international law perspective, in: Reports of the German Society for International Law 45 (Ed.), Paradigms in International Law. Implications of the World Financial Crisis for International Law, Heidelberg 2012, pp. 105–173; http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/2/533
  7. ↑ Klabbers, Jan / Peters, Anne / Ulfstein, Geir, The constitutionalisation of International Law, expanded paperback edition with new epilogue, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011, 437 pp .; Klabbers, Jan / Peters, Anne / Ulfstein, Geir, The Constitutionalization of International Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009, 416 pp.
  8. ↑ http://www.ejil.org/pdfs/20/3/1849.pdf
  9. ↑ Bianchi, Andrea / Peters, Anne (eds.), Transparency in International Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013, 620 pp.
  10. ↑ Fassbender, Bardo / Peters, Anne / Peter, Simone / Högger, Daniel (assistant editors) (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012, 1228 pp.
  11. ↑ Peters, Anne, Beyond Human Rights: The Legal Status of the Individual in Völkerrecht, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2014, XXIV + 535 pp.
  12. ↑ http://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/cms/de/mediathek/magazin/magazin23/peters/index.html
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, professor of international and constitutional law
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin