Michael Bothe
Michael Bothe (born June 11, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German legal scholar . The focus of his work is the field of international law , in particular the topics of peacekeeping law , arms control , humanitarian law , international environmental law and comparative constitutional law .
Life
Michael Bothe was born in Berlin in 1938 and studied law and international relations at the Universities of Heidelberg , Hamburg and Geneva from 1957 . In 1961 he passed the first state examination in Heidelberg and the second state examination five years later in Stuttgart . Also in 1966 he received a diploma from the Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales (Institute for International Studies) in Geneva . In the following year he received his doctorate in law at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the armed forces of international organizations .
From 1964 to 1979 he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He obtained his habilitation in 1974 at the University of Heidelberg with a legal document. During the international diplomatic conference in Geneva, which worked out the first two additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 from 1974 to 1977 , he was a member of the delegation of the German Red Cross. From 1977 to 1979 he was an adjunct professor at the University of Heidelberg, then until 1983 full professor at the University of Hanover . In 1983 he changed to the chair for public law, international and European law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he also served as dean of the law department from 1993 to 1994 and worked until his retirement in 2003 . He was also visiting professor at various foreign universities and in 1994 head of the research center of the Hague Academy for International Law .
Michael Bothe has headed the “Expert Committee on Humanitarian International Law” of the German Red Cross (DRK) since 1995 and was chairman of the German Society for International Law from 2001 to 2005. He was also a member of the International Humanitarian Investigation Commission from 2001 to 2011 and was its President from 2007. From 2002 to 2006 he was a research group leader at the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research.
In September 2019 he was one of about 100 constitutional law teachers who, with the open appeal for the right to vote, Downsized the Bundestag! turned to the German Bundestag .
Awards
- 1974 - Giuseppe Ciardi Prize (in the field of military law and international humanitarian law)
- 1987 - Elizabeth Haub Prize (in the field of environmental law)
- 2017 - Henry Dunant Medal
Works (selection)
- Michael Bothe, Kay Hailbronner , Eckart Klein , Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum (eds.): Völkerrecht. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-11-012866-7 .
- Michael Bothe, Allan Rosas , Natalino Ronzitti: The New Chemical Weapons Convention - Implementation and Prospects. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden and Boston 1999, ISBN 9-04-111099-2 .
- Michael Bothe, Horst Fischer , Christopher J. Greenwood, Dieter Fleck (Eds.): The Handbook of Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-19-829867-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Bothe in the catalog of the German National Library
- CV Prof. em. Michael Bothe - Website at the University of Frankfurt am Main
Individual evidence
- ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bothe, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar and international law expert |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |