Claus Kress

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Claus Kreß (born March 16, 1966 in Cologne ) is a German lawyer and teacher of criminal and international law . Since 2004 he has held the chair for German and international criminal law and director of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the University of Cologne , and since 2012 director of the newly founded Institute for International Peace and Security Law there.

Since 2019 he has been ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice in the case The Gambia v. Myanmar .

Life

Claus Kreß attended the Apostle Gymnasium and the Hildegard von Bingen Gymnasium in his native Cologne. After graduating from high school (1984) and doing military service, he began studying law at the university there in 1985 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . After studying as a DAAD scholarship holder at the University of Geneva in 1987/1988, he passed the first state examination in 1991 in Cologne . While working on his dissertation at the Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, which he graduated in 1994, he spent a year at the University of Cambridge , where he obtained a Master of Laws . In 1995 he completed his legal clerkship with the second state examination at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court .

From 1996 to 2000 Kreß worked as a civil servant in the Federal Ministry of Justice . During this time he worked as a consultant for criminal law, legal advisor for European criminal law and in 1998 as a member of the German delegation at the conference of states in Rome for the establishment of the International Criminal Court . He then worked as an academic senior counselor at the Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law at the University of Cologne until 2004, where he completed his habilitation in 2004 .

In December 2004 he was appointed to his current chair for German and international criminal law at the University of Cologne and at the same time took over the position of director of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law. After an offer of founding director at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law was rejected , he became director of the Institute for International Peace and Security Law, newly created at the University of Cologne, whose research focus is on international peacekeeping law which also includes international criminal law.

Since 1998, Kreß has been a member of the German government delegations to the negotiations at the International Criminal Court. In this capacity he also took part in the first Review Conference of the Rome Statute in Kampala, and in particular in the negotiations on the crime of aggression . This is also a special focus of his scientific work. He is co-editor of several journals including the Journal of International Criminal Justice and the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law.

In 2018, Kreß appeared as an amicus curiae in the proceedings of the International Criminal Court against Jordan following the arrest warrant for Umar al-Bashir . In 2019 he was appointed ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice in the case The Gambia v. Myanmar deployed.

Honors

Kress worked at numerous universities as a visiting professor, including at the Lauterpacht Center for International Law at the University of Cambridge , at the Columbia University , the University of Melbourne and the University of Kyoto .

He is Life Member of Clare Hall College of the University of Cambridge . In 2012 he was accepted into the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts as a full member of the class for humanities.

On November 29, 2014, Kreß received the MCBassiouni Justice Award from the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law in Brussels.

In 2017 he received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Huánuco and Tbilisi .

Works (selection)

  • Prohibition of violence and the right to self-defense according to the statutes of the United Nations in the event of state involvement in acts of violence by private individuals , writings on international law 116, Duncker and Humblot 1995 (dissertation)
  • On the benefits of a German international criminal code , Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 2000
  • The Cambridge Library on Aggression , together with Stefan Barriga, 3 volumes, Cambridge University Press 2012 (volume I), 2017 (volumes II and III)
  • Grützner / Pötz / Kreß / Gazeas. International mutual legal assistance in criminal matters , ed. together with Nikolaos Gazeas, Loseblattwerk, CFMüller

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Faculty of Law: Current reports. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ New establishment of the Institute for Peacekeeping Law at the University of Cologne. Retrieved January 29, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ See Writen observations of Professor Claus Kreß, ICC-02 / 05-01 / 09-359. Retrieved January 29, 2020 (UK English).
  4. ↑ FICHL: 2014 MC Bassiouni Justice Award winner Claus Kress. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kreß, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, criminal lawyer and professor at the University of Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne