Thilo Marauhn

Thilo Marauhn (born April 30, 1963 in Lüdenscheid ) is a German international lawyer and university professor. He currently holds the professorship for public law and international law at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and heads the research group “international law” at the Leibniz Institute Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research (PRIF) in Frankfurt.

biography

After studying law and international relations at the University of Mannheim (1983–1985), at the University College of Wales (Great Britain) (1985–1986), at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1986–1987), and at from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (1987–1990), where he received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1994 on the subject of “The legal regulation of the German chemical weapons waiver” . In 1995 he received a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) From the University of Wales . From 1990 to 2001 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. In 1995, 1996, 1999 and 2000 he was a lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 2000 he received his habilitation from this university with a thesis on "Reconstruction of basic social rights as a norm category".

After his first professorship at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow), he accepted a call to the C4 professorship for public law, international law and European law at the Faculty of Law at the Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) from 2006 to 2009 he dean of the department.

His main research interests are international law, in particular international human rights protection and humanitarian law.

Functions

Marauhn was a visiting professor at various universities, including a. at the University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland), the University of Bergen (Norway) and at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Law School, (USA). Since 2001 he has held a permanent visiting professorship in constitutional theory at the Law Faculty of the University of Lucerne , (Switzerland).

Marauhn has been a member of the “International Humanitarian Law” committee of the German Red Cross since 1995 and has been its chairman since 2014. In 2011 he was elected a member of the International Humanitarian Inquiry Commission for the period from 2012 to 2016 . He was re-elected in 2016. Marauhn was first elected First Vice President (2015) and later President (2017) of the Investigation Commission.

Marauhn was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research (PRIF) from 2003 to 2013, and its chairman from 2006 to 2013.

Since 2005 he has been the academic director of the “International Summer University” at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. Since 2009 he has been academic co-director of the “US-German Summer School in International and Comparative Law”, currently together with Professors Anuj Desai (University of Wisconsin) and Edward Fallone (Marquette University).

Marauhn was a member of the Advisory Board of the Development and Peace Foundation from 2009 to 2017 . From 2009 to 2013 Marauhn was an elected member of the Senate of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. In 2017 he was re-elected as a member of the Senate.

From 2002 to 2009 Marauhn was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development , which he chaired from 2006 to 2009.

In 2016, he was a visiting researcher in the research group “The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?” In Berlin. In 2018 he was visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Center for International Law and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University (UK).

From 2004 to 2006 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Foundation for Peace Research . Since 2008 he has been a member of the UN Political Advisory Board of the Federal Foreign Office .

Among other things, Thilo Marauhn is a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers and a member of the Council of the German Society for International Law.

Major works

• ECHR / GG. Concordance Commentary on the European and German Protection of Fundamental Rights, ed. together with Rainer Grote (overall editor: Konstantin Meljnik), Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck), 2006, 2nd edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-16-149397-3
• The Regulation of International Financial Markets, ed. together with Rainer Grote, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 2006, ISBN 9780521831444
• Making Treaties Work, ed. together with Geir Ulfstein and Andreas Zimmermann, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 2007, ISBN 9780521873178
• International Environmental Law (together with Ulrich Beyerlin), Oxford (Hart), 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62874-0
• Universality and Continuity in International Law, ed. together with Heinhard Steiger, The Hague (Eleven International Publishing), 2011, ISBN 9789490947071
• Doctrine of international law - contemporary ?, Reports of the German Society for International Law, Vol. 48, Heidelberg 2017, 152 pp. (Together with S. Hobe), ISBN 978-3-8114-4259-7
• Securing basic and human rights standards against new threats from private and foreign actors, publications by the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers 74 (2015), pp. 373–400
• Communication rights, in: Dirk Ehlers (Ed.), Europäische Grundrechte und Grundfreiheiten, de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 97-129 (published in 2003, 2005, 2009, 2014), ISBN 978-3-11-036315-9
• Sailing Close to the Wind: Human Rights Council Fact-Finding in Situations of Armed Conflict - The Case of Syria, California Western International Law Journal 43 (2012/2013), 401-459
• Human right to a healthy environment - illusion or reality ?, in: T. Giegerich / A. Proelß (Ed.), Preservation of the ecological balance through international and European law, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, pp. 11-47, ISBN 978 -3-428-13293-5
• Six chapters (marriage and family formation law, right to respect for private and family life, right to social security and support, rights of the elderly and disabled, protection of the family, protection of children and young people) in: S. Heselhaus / C. Nowak ( Ed.), Handbook of European Fundamental Rights, CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-64910-3
• Social Rights Beyond the Traditional Welfare State: International Instruments and the Concept of Individual Entitlements, in: E. Benvenisti / G. Nolte (Eds.), The Welfare State, Globalization, and International Law, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2004, pp. 275-319, ISBN 978-3-540-01103-3

Awards

• 2000: The habilitation thesis was awarded the Werner Pünder Prize 1999 for the best scientific work done at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University on the subject of "Freedom and totalitarianism / constitutional law and the history of political ideas since the 19th century"
• 2003: Awarding of the Wolfgang Mittermaier Prize of the JLU Giessen for outstanding achievements in academic teaching
• 2010: 2nd Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2010, awarded by the State Government of Hesse and the non-profit Hertie Foundation, for the "Refugee Law Clinic" project
• 2016: Senior Fellow, Research Group “The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?”, Berlin

Web links

• Law Faculty of the Justus Liebig University Giessen: Thilo Marauhn , accessed on April 4, 2019
• Literature by and about Thilo Marauhn in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn. Retrieved April 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ "Excellent teaching decides in the competition between university locations". Press release. (No longer available online.) In: hmwk.hessen.de. Press office of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, December 13, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 13, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.