Dr. Heike Krieger

Biography

Heike Krieger is a full professor for Public Law and International Law at Freie Universität Berlin. She serves as the chair of the German Society for International Law and is a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Holberg Committee. She was the spokesperson for the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center "The International Rule of Law – Rise and Decline?" (2020-2024) and has been a visiting professor at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London, University of Macerata, and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. From 2007 to 2014, she served as a judge on the Constitutional Court of Berlin and was a member of the Science Council from 2014 to 2020, as well as a Max-Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg from 2017 to 2021. Her research focuses on General International Law, humanitarian international law, and human rights protection. Krieger is the Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook International Humanitarian Law (T.M.C. Asser Press Springer). Her publications include works on international legal systems and humanitarian law.

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