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
- Politisierung in Zeiten schwacher politischer Normen: Zum Klima-Gutachten des Internationalen Seegerichtshofs | 2024
Kroll, Stefan / Marauhn, Thilo (2024): Politisierung in Zeiten schwacher politischer Normen: Zum Klima-Gutachten des Internationalen Seegerichtshofs, PRIF Blog, 18.6.2024.
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- Expect the worst, prepare for the best: Frieden verhandeln | 2024
Deitelhoff, Nicole / Dembinski, Matthias / Driedger, Jonas J. / Gromes, Thorsten / Hirschler, Helena / Marauhn, Thilo / Peez, Anton / Polianskii, Mikhail / Schreiber, Franziska (2024): Expect the worst, prepare for the best: Frieden verhandeln, in: Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)/Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (PRIF)/Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (Hg.), Friedensgutachten 2024, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 115–129, www.friedensgutachten.de.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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&.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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Current Projects
- Cluster for Natural and Technical Science Arms Control Research (CNTR)
- German-Colombian Peace Institute CAPAZ
- Heuristics and Repertoires of Collective Security: a Comparative Analysis in the Field of International Law
- Arms Control Approaches to Nanotechnology – The Contribution of Public International Law
- Fact-Finding in the Law of Armed Conflict
- The Collectivisation of International Security through Processes of Institutionalisation in Public International Law
- UN Policing – Legal Basis, Status and Directives on the Use of Force
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) |