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Robin Geiß (born November 8, 1974 ) is a German international lawyer and university professor . He holds the Chair in International Law and Security at the University of Glasgow .

Life

Geiß studied law at the University of Bielefeld , the University of Edinburgh and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He then obtained a master's degree from New York University (NYU) as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 2004 Geiß received his doctorate with a thesis on failed states at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law .

Geiß was legal advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva and ICRC delegate to the UN Human Rights Council . He was then professor for international and European law at the University of Potsdam before accepting an appointment at the University of Glasgow in 2013.

Geiss was visiting professor at the Paris Center of International Affairs at Sciences Po , the University of Vienna and the Ruhr University Bochum . From 2016 to 2017 he was a visiting scholar at the Science and Politics Foundation (SWP) in Berlin.

From 2013 to 2017 he headed a project funded by the German Research Foundation on security governance in areas of limited statehood within the Collaborative Research Center 700: “Governance in areas of limited statehood”.

From 2009 to 2013, Geiss was a member of an international group of experts who, at the invitation of the NATO Cooperative Cyber ​​Defense Center of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia, wrote the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber ​​Warfare.

Geiß is a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Science and Politics Foundation (SWP), a member of the scientific advisory board of the consultation process "Orientation Knowledge for Just Peace" supported by the EKD Council , a member of the judging committee of the Francis Lieber Prize of the American Society for International Law and a member of the Humanitarian Committee International law of the German Red Cross .

Geiß is married and has three children.

Publications (selection)

  • Failed States: The Normative Recording of Failed States, Duncker & Humblot (2005)
  • International Law in Cyberwar, IPG 2015
  • The international law dimension of autonomous weapon systems, study, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin 2015
  • When machines kill people, Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 7, 2015
  • Autonomous Weapons Systems - Law, Ethics, Policy, Cambridge University Press 2016, with N. Bhuta, C. Kress, S. Beck and H. Liu
  • Humanizing the Laws of War: The Red Cross and the Development of International Humanitarian Law, Cambridge University Press (2017), with A. Zimmermann a. S. Haumer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Law - Our staff - Robin Geiss. Retrieved January 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Subproject C11. April 3, 2014, accessed January 22, 2018 .
  3. ^ "Counterstrike is not legal" . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 3, 2012, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed January 22, 2018]).
  4. ↑ organs of the foundation. Retrieved January 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Super User: Scientific Advisory Board. Retrieved January 22, 2018 (German).
  6. ^ German Red Cross: National Committee on International Humanitarian Law - DRK eV January 22, 2018, accessed on January 22, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Goat, Robin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German international lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1974