Prof. Dr Thilo Marauhn

Head of Research Group "Public International Law"
Research Department:
International Institutions
Research Group Public International Law
Research Alliance TraCe

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CV

since 2021	Extraordinary Professor of International Arms Control Law, Asser Institute, The Hague
since 2016	Head of Research Group on International Law at PRIF
2016	Senior Fellow, Research Group “The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?”, Berlin
2014	Invited to the Professorship of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Basel, Switzerland (declined)
2012	Visiting Professor, California Western School of Law, San Diego, USA
2010	Prize for Excellency in Teaching (Hertie Foundation and Land Hessen), awarded in recognition of the project “Refugee Law Clinic”
2009–2016	Member of the Board of Directors, Centre for International Development and Environmental Research, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2009–2013	Member, Academic Senate, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2006–2009	Dean, Faculty of Law, Justus Liebig University Giessen
since 2005	Visiting Professor, Law School, University of Wisconsin, Madison/Wisconsin (USA) (2008, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015)
2003	Wolfgang Mittermaier Prize, awarded for excellence in teaching
since 2001	Permanent Visiting Professor of Constitutional Theory, University of Lucerne, Switzerland
since 2001	Professor of Public Law and International Law, Faculty of Law, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2001	Professor of Law, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
2000	Habilitation, Faculty of Law, Goethe University Frankfurt/M.
1995	Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), University of Wales (UK)
1994	Dr. iur. utr. (S.J.D. equivalent), Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg
1990–2001	Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
1990	First State Exam (J.D. equivalent), Heidelberg
1986	Diploma in International Law and Relations, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (UK)
1983–1990	Studies in Law and International Relations in Mannheim, Aberystwyth/Wales (UK), Bonn and Heidelberg

Expertise

Prof. Dr Thilo Marauhn is working on the following issues:

Disarmament and nonproliferation
Peace operations
International humanitarian law
International criminal jurisdiction
Human Rights
Arms control
United Nations / Security Council
Public international law

Publications

Research Handbook on International Arms Control Law | 2022: Myjer, Eric P.J. / Marauhn, Thilo (eds), (2022): Research Handbook on International Arms Control Law, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, DOI: 10.4337/9781788111904.; Show details

Chemical Weapons Allegations and Russia’s Invasion in Ukraine | 2022: Burck, Kristoffer / Jakob, Una / Jeremias, Gunnar / Kelle, Alexander / Marauhn, Thilo / Meier, Oliver / Nixdorff, Kathryn / Trapp, Ralf / de Vries, Barry (2022): Chemical Weapons Allegations and Russia’s Invasion in Ukraine, CBWNet News, 8.9.2022.; Show details

Russian allegations of biological weapons activities in Ukraine | 2022: Jakob, Una / Jeremias, Gunnar / Kelle, Alexander / Marauhn, Thilo / Meier, Oliver / Nixdorff, Kathryn / Trapp, Ralf / de Vries, Barry (2022): Russian allegations of biological weapons activities in Ukraine, PRIF BLOG, 22.3.2022.; Show details

Sicherheitspolitische Zeitenwende: Welche Fähigkeiten braucht Deutschland, um den Frieden zu sichern? | 2022: Brockmeier, Sarah / Daase, Christopher / Deitelhoff, Nicole / Dembinski, Matthias / Fehl, Caroline / Junk, Julian / Kroll, Stefan / Marauhn, Thilo / Peez, Anton / Schörnig, Niklas (2022): Sicherheitspolitische Zeitenwende: Welche Fähigkeiten braucht Deutschland, um den Frieden zu sichern?, PRIF BLOG, 11.3.2022.; Show details

Frieden am Ende? Die Eskalation im Russland-Ukraine-Konflikt und die Rolle der Friedenspolitik | 2022: Daase, Christopher / Abb, Pascal / Dembinski, Matthias / Fehl, Caroline / Kroll, Stefan / Marauhn, Thilo / Peez, Anton (2022): Frieden am Ende? Die Eskalation im Russland-Ukraine-Konflikt und die Rolle der Friedenspolitik, PRIF BLOG, 24.2.2022.; Show details

Natural Resources in Times of Occupation | 2021: de Vries, Barry / Marauhn, Thilo (2021): Natural Resources in Times of Occupation, in: Fremuth, Michael Lysander/Griebel, Jörn/Heinsch, Robert (eds), Natural Resources and International Law – Developments and Challenges. A Liber Amicorum in Honour of Stephan Hobe.; Show details

Legal restraints on the use of military force | 2021: Marauhn, Thilo / de Vries, Barry (eds), (2021): Legal restraints on the use of military force. Collected Essays by Michael Bothe, Leiden/Boston: Brill | Nijhoff.; Show details

Fact-Finding as Diplomacy: The “Good Offices” of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission | 2021: Marauhn, Thilo (2021): Fact-Finding as Diplomacy: The “Good Offices” of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, in: Hofmann, Rainer/Malkmus, Moritz (eds), 70 Jahre Genfer Konventionen. Stand und Perspektiven des humanitären Völkerrechts, Berlin, 99–114.; Show details

An Introduction to Michael Bothe’s Writings on “Legal Restraints on the Use of Military Force” | 2021: Marauhn, Thilo (2021): An Introduction to Michael Bothe’s Writings on “Legal Restraints on the Use of Military Force”, in: Marauhn,Thilo/Vries, Barry de (eds), Legal restraints on the use of military force, Leiden/Boston: Brill | Nijhoff, 1–12, www.doi.org/10.1163/9789004380592_002.; Show details

Verletzung von Schutzpflichten durch die Bundesrepublik in Afghanistan? | 2021: Marauhn, Thilo / Mengeler, Daniel / Strobel, Vera (2021): Verletzung von Schutzpflichten durch die Bundesrepublik in Afghanistan? Verfassungsrechtliche und völkerrechtliche Implikationen im Fall der Beendigung einer militärischen Intervention, VerfBlog, 7.10.2021.; Show details

Deutsche Außen- und Verteidigungspolitik vor dem BVerwG: extraterritoriale grundrechtliche Schutzpflichten bei US amerikanischen Drohneneinsätzen | 2021: Marauhn, Thilo / Mengeler, Daniel / Strobel, Vera (2021): Deutsche Außen- und Verteidigungspolitik vor dem BVerwG: extraterritoriale grundrechtliche Schutzpflichten bei US amerikanischen Drohneneinsätzen. Zugleich Besprechung von BVerwG, Urteil vom 25. November 2020 - 6 C 7.19, in: Archiv des Völkerrechts, 59:3, 328–351, DOI: 10.1628/avr-2021-0018.; Show details

Less is More: Limited Fact-Finding to Avoid Overburdening the European Court of Human Rights in inter-State Cases | 2021: Marauhn, Thilo (2021): Less is More: Limited Fact-Finding to Avoid Overburdening the European Court of Human Rights in inter-State Cases, Völkerrechtsblog, 29.4.2021.; Show details

How Many Deaths Can Art. 2 (4) UN Charter Die? | 2021: Marauhn, Thilo (2021): How Many Deaths Can Art. 2 (4) UN Charter Die?, in: Brock,Lothar/Simon, Hendrik (eds), The Justification of War and International Order, Oxford: Oxford Scholarship Online, 449–470, www.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865308.001.0001.; Show details

Not a love affair | 2020: de Vries, Barry / Marauhn, Thilo (2020): Not a love affair. The relationship between the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, in: Dunworth, Treasa/Hood, Anna (eds), Disarmament Law. Reviving the Field, London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429436727.; Show details

Jumelage und Alliance for Multilateralism: Partnerschaften als diplomatisches Spezifikum der deutschen Außenpolitik | 2019: Deitelhoff, Nicole / Marauhn, Thilo (2019): Jumelage und Alliance for Multilateralism: Partnerschaften als diplomatisches Spezifikum der deutschen Außenpolitik, in: Christian, Ben/Coni-Zimmer, Melanie (Hg.), Deutschland im UN-Sicherheitsrat 2019–2020. Eine Halbzeitbilanz, (PRIF Report 6/2019), Frankfurt/M, 36–39.; Show details

Menschenrechte im Rahmen von Auslandseinsätzen der deutschen Polizei | 2019: Marauhn, Thilo / Thorn, Judith (2019): Menschenrechte im Rahmen von Auslandseinsätzen der deutschen Polizei, in: Kugelman, Daniel (Hg.), Polizei und Menschenrechte, Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 222-236.; Show details

Die internationale Schutzverantwortung im Lichte des gerechten Friedens | 2019: Werkner, Ines-Jaqueline / Marauhn, Thilo (Hg.), (2019): Die internationale Schutzverantwortung im Lichte des gerechten Friedens, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-25538-1.; Show details

Der Beitrag der internationalen Schutzverantwortung zu einer Ethik des gerechten Friedens | 2019: Marauhn, Thilo (2019): Der Beitrag der internationalen Schutzverantwortung zu einer Ethik des gerechten Friedens, in: Werkner, Ines-Jacqueline/Marauhn, Thilo (Hg.), Die internationale Schutzverantwortung im Lichte des gerechten Friedens, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 143-150, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-25538-1.; Show details

The International Rule of Law in Light of Legitimacy Claims | 2019: Marauhn, Thilo (2019): The International Rule of Law in Light of Legitimacy Claims, in: Krieger, Heike/Nolte, Gerorg/Zimmermann, Andreas (eds), The International Rule of Law. Rise or Decline? Foundational Challenges, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 277-301, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-international-rule-of-law-9780198843603?cc=de&lang=en&.; Show details

Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Vereinte Nationen unter Druck. Wo sich ein deutsches Engagement lohnt | 2019: Bethke, Felix S. / Coni-Zimmer, Melanie / Deitelhoff, Nicole / Dembinski, Matthias / Hofmann, Gregor P. / Junk, Julian / Marauhn, Thilo / Niemann, Holger / Peez, Anton / Peters, Dirk / Ulbert, Cornelia / Wisotzki, Simone / Witt, Antonia (2019): Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Vereinte Nationen unter Druck. Wo sich ein deutsches Engagement lohnt, in: Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)/Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK)/Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (Hg.), Friedensgutachten 2019, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 115-135, www.friedensgutachten.de.; Show details

Power, Security, and Public International Law: An Intricate Relationship | 2019: Marauhn, Thilo / Stenzel, Marie-Christin (2019): Power, Security, and Public International Law: An Intricate Relationship, in: Kreide, Regina/Langenohl, Andreas (eds), Conceptualizing Power in Dynamics of Securitization. Beyond State and International System, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 265-289, https://www.nomos-shop.de/Kreide-Langenohl-Conceptualizing-Power-Dynamics-of-Securitization/productview.aspx?product=39725.; Show details

The Notion of Meaningful Human Control in Light of the Law of Armed Conflict | 2019: Marauhn, Thilo (2019): The Notion of Meaningful Human Control in Light of the Law of Armed Conflict, in: Heintschel von Heinegg, Wolff/Frau, Robert/Singer, Tassilo (eds), Dehumanization of Warfare. Legal Implications of New Weapon Technologies, Cham: Springer, 207-218, https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319672649.; Show details

Friedenssicherungsrecht und humanitäres Völkerrecht unter Druck | 2017: Marauhn, Thilo / Thorn, Judith (2017): Friedenssicherungsrecht und humanitäres Völkerrecht unter Druck, in: Schoch, Bruno/Heinemann-Grüder, Andreas/Hauswedell, Corinna/Hippler, Jochen/Johannsen, Margret (Hg.), Friedensgutachten 2017, Münster: LIT Verlag, 56-68, www.friedensgutachten.de.; Show details

Kapitel 16: Privat- und Familienleben | 2013: Thorn, Judith / Marauhn, Thilo (2013): Kapitel 16: Privat- und Familienleben, in: Dörr, Oliver/Grote, Rainer/Marauhn, Thilo (Hg.), EMRK/GG. Konkordanzkommentar zum europäischen und deutschen Grundrechtsschutz, (Bd. 2.Aufl.), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.; Show details

Current Projects

Other professional activities

since 2022	Principal Investigator at Regional Research Center Transformations of Political Violence (TraCe)
since 2017	President of the International Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission (IHFFC)
since 2014	Project leader on collective security in a collaborative research project funded by the German Research Foundation “Dynamics of Security. Securitization in a Historical Perspective”
since 2012	Member, International Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission (IHFFC)
since 2008	Member, Advisory Board, German Foreign Office on the United Nations
2008–2011	Project leader in a collaborative project as part of the EU’s 7th Framework Program “Regulating Privatisation of ‘War’: The Role of the EU in Assuring Compliance with International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights”
since 2006	Liaison Professor, German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
since 2004	Member, African Law Association; Chairperson (2009-2013)
2003–2013	Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Chairperson (2006-2013)
2002–2009	Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development; Chairperson (2006-2009)
since 2001	Member, German Society of International Law; member of the Council (since 2009)
since 2000	Member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Scholars (Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer e.V.)
since 1995	Member, Advisory Committee on International Humanitarian Law of the German Red Cross; Deputy Chairperson (since 2011); Chairperson (since 2014)