Visiting professorship ,International Law’, Sydney Law School.
Appointment as Executive Director ('Geschäftsführender Direktor'), IFHV, RUB.
Chair for Public Law and International Law, esp. International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Faculty of Law, IFHV, RUB.
Positive Evaluation of Juniorprofessorship (03/2011-03/2014), RUB.
Juniorprofessor for International Law and International Humanitarian Law, IFHV, and since 2012 co-opted at the Faculty of Law, RUB.
Doctoral Dissertation (PhD) in International Law, 'The Human Right(s) to Water', European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy.
Master of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government (HKS), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
University Exam in Journalism & Communication Studies, Institute for Journalism, University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany).
First German Legal State Exam (with distinction, 'gut'). Legal studies at the Universities of Hamburg, McGill (Montréal, Canada) and Humboldt (Berlin, Germany).
Admission to the Willy Brandt Circle.
Finalist for the position of UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Transitional Justice (3rd place), selected by the UN Consultative Group and regional groups within the UN-Human Rights Council.
Appointed to the UN Policy Advisory Board of the Federal Foreign Office.
Elected to the Board of Trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights; has served as its Vice Chair since 2025.
Finalist for the position of UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to water and sanitation (2nd place, selected by the UN Consultative Group and the regional groups within the UN Human Rights Council).
Study commissioned by the EFA Group of the European Parliament on the compatibility of EU member states’ COVID-19 measures with national, EU, and international law (in collaboration with M. Dawson).
Appointed to the Coordination Committee for Humanitarian Aid, Federal Foreign Office.
Regular expert advisor to the German Bundestag, most recently on Bundeswehr foreign deployments (Defense Committee), reform of the Federal Constitutional Court Act (BVerfGG) (Justice Committee), and amendments to asylum law in favor of Yazidis (Interior Committee).
Election as Co.-Director of the ‘Zentrum für Internationales’, Law Faculty, Ruhr University Bochum.
Election as Co.-Convener of the Interest Group ‘Human Rights’ of the European Society of International Law (ESIL).
Election as President of the NOHA General Assembly.
Appointment as Permanent Member in the PhD Selection Committee of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
Award of Membership in the Arab-German Young Academy (AGYA), Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities & Stiftung Leopoldina.
Hertie School of Governance Student Association (HSA) 'Best Teacher Award' for the course 'Law and Governance' voted by HSoG students.
Membership in the Global Young Faculty for excellent young researchers at universities in the Ruhr region, Mercator Foundation Research Center Ruhr.
Award of Career Integration Grant (Seventh EU Framework Programme) for a project about the future of the right to water.
Harvard Kennedy School 'Dean's Award for Excellency in Student Teaching 2010'.
Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center PAE Human Rights Award 2010.
McCloy Scholarship from Harvard University, the 'Haniel Stiftung' and the 'Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes' for a Master of 'Public Policy' at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for PhD thesis at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy.
General scholarship of the 'Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes'.
Awarded several German scholarships, e.g. by the 'Gemeinnützige Hertie Stiftung', 'Studienkolleg zu Berlin', 'DAAD' and 'Deutscher Bundestag'.
Knut Ipsen Lecture Series‘ – in memory of the founder of the IFHV.
Panel discussion ‘10 Years on: The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights with John Ruggie’, with the European Society of International Law, June 2021, online.
Panels: “Third Generation Human Rights” and “Human Rights in Humanitarian Crises”, both at the Conference: World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Changing Crises and the Quest for Adequate Solutions, 5-8 March, Addis Abeba.
Symposium – Organization and Moderation: Independence Movements in Europe: The Cases of Scotland and Eastern Ukraine, A Symposium in Honour of Joachim Wolf, 23 May 2014, Bochum.
Organization and Moderation of the ‘Bochumer Vorträge zum Völkerrecht’, 1-2 lectures per year.
Co.-Conference Organization: From Cold War to Cyber War: 25 Years of IFHV and 20 Years of NOHA (with Prof. Dr. H.-J. Heintze, C. Lülf, and K. Behmer), 14/15 November 2013, Bochum.
Co.-Organization and Co.-Moderation of a Panel Discussion as part of the Third World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Panel: Climate Change, Migration and Conflict: Humanitarian Perspectives and Responses, 26 October 2013, Istanbul.
Organization and Moderation of the Panel Discussion Libya – Quo vadis?, 20 April 2011, Bochum.
Organization and Moderation IFHV Cluster Colloquium-Series regarding International Humanitarian Law PLUS, 3-4 presentations per year.
Advisor to the Rector on Internationalization, tasked with developing an internationalization strategy for the Ruhr University Bochum.
Election to the Executive Committee of RUB's Research School Plus (funded by the German Excellency Initiative) representing the Social Sciences.
Spokesperson of the NOHA Lecturers at RUB, NOHA Master.
Member of the Early Career Researcher Board, RUB Research School Plus.
Representation of the Juniorprofessors in the final round of the RUB's candidature for the Excellency Initiative of German Universities.
Member in European Society of International Law (ESIL).
Main Coach of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team for the Hertie School of Governance (including German national champion (2nd place) in 2018 and German national champion (1st place) in 2019).
Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht [German Society of International Law].
Member of the Advisory Board of the Völkerrechtsblog [Blog of the Working Group of Young German International Lawyers].
Regular member in selection committees for different scholarship program, including the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the Mercator Stiftung as well as the Hertie Stiftung.
Lecturer at several summer and spring academies at the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
Co.-spokesperson of the German McCloy Scholars at Harvard University.
Main Organizer of Harvard Kennedy School's Annual Ball ('Harvard Viennese Ball').
Associate Editor of Human Rights in International Investment Law and Arbitration, (P.-M. Dupuy, E.-U. Petersmann & F. Francioni (eds.)), OUP.
PhD Student-Representative & Member of Academic Council, EUI.
Co-editor of the commentary “Recht des Feuerschutzes und des Rettungsdienstes in NRW,” Rehm Verlag, including, among other things, his own commentary on § 48 (Restriction of Fundamental Rights).
Anthology „Der Schutz der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen als Herausforderung an das Völkerrecht, das Verfassungsrecht und das Verwaltungsrecht”, Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, co-editor with S. Lüder.
Anthology Reimagining Reparations in Human Rights, The Evolving Concept of Reparations in Human Rights Law, International Studies in Human Rights, with Otto Spijkers, Iakovos Iakovidis, and Elena Abrusci, Brill.
Co-editor of the textbook International Humanitarian Action (with H.-J. Heintze), Springer, 1st edition (2017); 2nd edition forthcoming.
Co-editor of the Girls’ Index, in collaboration with Plan International.
Co-editor of the Global Hunger Index, in collaboration with Welthungerhilfe.
Anthology, “Bevölkerungsschutz als Herausforderung an das Völkerrecht, das Verfassungsrecht und das Verwaltungsrecht”, Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, co-edited with S. Lüder.
Anthology, “Der Ukraine-Krieg als Herausforderung an das Völkerrecht, das Verfassungsrecht und das Verwaltungsrecht”, Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, co-editor with S. Lüder.
Anthology ‘Gesundheitssicherheitsrecht: Die Bewältigung des Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) als Herausforderung an das Völkerrecht, das Verfassungsrecht und das Verwaltungsrecht’, co-editor with S. Lüder.
Editor-in-chief of the special issue of Die Friedens-Warte (Journal of International Peace and Organization) on the topic “Resilience and Human Rights” (with M. Göttsche, J. Vüllers et al.).
Co-editor of the Völkerrechtsblog (with M. Riegner (Erfurt)).
Editor-in-chief of the issue of Die Friedens-Warte (Journal of International Peace and Organization), “Regional Human Rights Systems from a Comparative Perspective from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Arab World,” Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag.
Editor-in-Chief of the special issue on International Humanitarian Law (Journal for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict), “Wirtschaft und Menschenrechte,” Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag.
General co-editor of Die Friedens-Warte (Journal of International Peace and Organization), Germany’s oldest academic journal on peace research, blind peer-reviewed, Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, with A. von Arnauld and M. Stark.
Co.-Editor of „Humanitäres Völkerrecht (Journal for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict)", (with H.-J. Heintze), Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag.
Co-Editor of the Textbook „International Humanitarian Action: NOHA Textbook”, (with H.-J. Heintze), Springer Publishing.
Co.-Editor of „Bochumer Schriften zur Friedenssicherung und zum Humanitären Völkerrecht", (with H.-J. Heintze), Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag.
Co.-Editor of „From Cold War to Cyber War: The Evolution of the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict over the last 25 Years” (Hrsg. mit H.-J. Heintze), Springer Publishing.
Zeitschriften-Sonderausgabe „Der Schutz von Wasser im Völkerrecht“, in: Humanitäres Völkerrecht: Informationsschriften (HuV-I), Ausgabe 01/14.
The Right(s) to Water: The Multi-Level Governance of a Unique Human Right, Springer Publishing.
Co.-Editor of „IFHV Humanitarian Studies Working Paper Series”.
“Where the Light is Brightest, the Shadows are Deepest: Critical Remarks on the Bundesverfassungsgericht’s 2025 Decision in Ramstein,” with J. Höni, in Transatlantic Law Journal.
“Happy Birthday: The Human Right to Water at 20,” in: Chinese Journal on Environmental Law (Brill), pp. 365–374.
“Honouring Christian Tomuschat,” with A. von Arnauld, in: Die Friedens-Warte 3–4/2020, Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, pp. 245–256.
“Regional Human Rights Systems from a Comparative Perspective,” with Tim Eike (Judge at the European Court of Human Rights), in: Die Friedens-Warte 1-2/2020, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, pp. 5–11.
‘The Essence of International Human Rights’, in: German Law Journal 20 (6), Cambridge University Press (CUP), pp. 924–939.
„The UNGPs in the European Union: The Open Coordination of Business and Human Rights?“, (with D. Augenstein and M. Dawson), in: Business and Human Rights Journal (Cambridge), Issue 3, No. 1, pp. 1-22.
„Modernisiert und humanisiert – Der neue § 107 I Nr. 4 GWB im Lichte des Humanitären Völkerrechts“, in: Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Issue 30, Nr. 1-2, pp. 4-13.
„A Treaty on Enforcing Human Rights Against Business: Closing the Loophole or Getting Stuck in a Loop?”, (with T. Ackermann), in: Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Issue 24, No. 1, pp. 43-79.
„Implementing the UNGPs in the European Union: towards an open method of coordination for business and human rights”, European University Working Paper, (with D. Augenstein and M. Dawson), EUI LAW 2017/1, 20 pages.
„Re-Conceptualizing the Human Right to Water: A Pledge for a Hybrid Approach”, in: Human Rights Law Review, Oxford Journals, Issue 15, No. 2, pp. 225-249.
„On the Constitutionality of a Main Committee in the German Bundestag”, (with T. Ackermann), in: The German Law Journal, Issue 16, No. 1, pp. 1-21.
„Hybrid Warfare: zwischen Cyber-Attacken und Manipulation von Informationen“, (with R. Ramsahye), in: Die Friedens-Warte, Issue 1/2 (2015), pp. 81-112.
„Großer Ausschuss oder Großer Ausschluss? Zur Verfassungsmäßigkeit eines Hauptausschusses im Deutschen Bundestag”, (with T. Ackermann), in: Zeitschrift für das Juristische Studium, 5/2014, pp. 497–504.
„Die Anerkennung oppositioneller Gruppen in den Fällen Libyen 2011 und Syrien 2012“, in: Journal of the Law of International Peace and Armed Conflict, Issue 1/2013, pp. 34–43.
„The Status and Future of International Law after the Libya Intervention“, in: Göttingen Journal of International Law, Issue 1/2012, pp. 11–45.
„Judicial Passivism at the European Court of Human Rights“, in: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Issue 3/2012, pp. 341–348.
„Should there be a 5% Threshold for Elections to the European Parliament? The view of the BVerfG“, (with M. Dawson), in: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Issue 4/2011, pp. 603–605.
‘Commentary on Article 37 of the Basic Law’ in Bonner Kommentar zum Grundgesetz, edited by Wolfgang Kahl, Christian Waldhoff, and Christian Walter, C.F. Müller.
‘The European Union and the International Court of Justice: European Prospects for the Geopolitical Use of International Law at the World Court’, in Strategic Autonomy and the Geopolitics of EU Law, edited by Mark Dawson and Armin Steinbach, Cambridge University Press.
‘International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice’, in International Humanitarian Action (eds. H.-J. Heintze and P. Thielbörger), Springer, 20 pages (2nd ed.).
‘International Human Rights Law’, in: International Humanitarian Action (eds. H.-J. Heintze and P. Thielbörger), Springer, 25 pages (2nd edition).
‘Protection of Humanitarian Workers’, in: International Humanitarian Action (eds. H.-J. Heintze and P. Thielbörger), Springer, 20 pages (2nd ed.), with J.P. Graf.
‘Völkerrechtliche Mindeststandards als Gebot von Friedenspolitik: Nachhaltiger Frieden,’ in: Peace Report 2025, pp. 65–85.
,Zur menschenrechtlichen Bindung von Fußballvereinen und -verbänden‘, in: Fußball für Vielfalt, Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld.
‘Diversität im Katstrophenschutzkontext: Ein rechtlicher Überblick,’ in: World Risk Report 2023, (ed. Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft & IFHV), with V. Bliecke and D. Yaman, pp. 15-20.
Art. 14 UN’, commentary in: The Charter of the United Nations. A Commentary (4th edition), (eds. B. Simma, D.E. Khan, G. Nolte, and A. Paulus), Oxford University Press.
‘The Right to Water’, in: Human Rights Encyclopedia (eds. C. Binder et al.), Edward Elgar.
‘Democracies and Pandemics: Germany - Federalism in Action’, in: Pandemocracy: Power, Parliaments, and People in Crisis (eds. M. Kettemann and K. Lachmayer), Hart Publishing.
‘Water Security’, in: The Oxford Handbook on the International Law of Global Security (eds. R. Geiss and N. Melzer), OUP, pp. 528-543.
‘Liberal Democratic Basic Order’, ‘Basic Law: Constitution / Constitutional Reform’, and ‘State of Emergency’, in: Handbook of the Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany (eds. U. Andersen et al.), Springer.
‘Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue: Lessons to be learned from the Oldest of the ‘New’ Rights – The Human Right to Water’, in: The Cambridge Handbook on New Human Rights: Recognition, Novelty, Rhetoric (eds. A. v. Arnauld et al.), CUP, pp. 70-78.
‘Implementation of International Standards through EU Procedures? The Case of “Business and Human Rights’, in: The Interface of EU and International Law (eds. I. Govaere and S. Garben), College of Europe, Brill, pp. 179-200.
„Water Security?“, in: The Oxford Handbook on the International Law of Global Security, (ed.. R. Geiss and N. Melzer), Oxford University Press, 2019.
„The Right to Water: A Comment“, in: New Human Rights: Recognition, Novelty, Rhetoric, (ed.. A. v. Arnauld, K. v. d. Decken and M. Susi), Cambridge University Press, 2019.
„The Interface between EU and International Law in the Field of Human Rights?“, in: The Interface of EU and International Law, (ed. I. Govaere und S. Garben), College of Europe Annual Edited Collection, Brill, 2019.
„Propaganda-blindes Völkerrecht?“, in: Propaganda als (neue) außen- und sicherheitspolitische Herausforderung, Schriften des Hellmuth-Loening-Zentrums für Staatswissenschaften Jena, (ed. T. Oppeland), Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, pp. 63-80.
„Besser spät als nie: geschichtlicher und verfassungsrechtlicher Hintergrund zur Rehabilitierung und Entschädigung von nach § 175 StGB verurteilten Personen “, in: Späte Aufarbeitung, (ed. M. Cüppers and N. Domeier), LpB Verlag, pp. 239-247.
„International Criminal Law“, in: International Humanitarian Action, (ed. with H.-J. Heintze), Springer Publishing, pp. 173-195.
„The International Law of the Use of Force and Transnational Organised Crime’, in: International Law and Transnational Organised Crime, (ed. P. Hauck and S. Peterke), Oxford University Press, pp. 361-380.
„International Peace and Security and the Effects of Climate Change: Time for a Green Security Council?”, in: From Cold War to Cyber War: The Evolution of the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict over the last 25 Years, (ed. with H.-J. Heintze), Springer Publsihing, pp. 67-86.
„Governing International Watercourses: Implications of the Human Right to Water“, in: Water Law and Cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris Region, (ed. R. Wolfrum et al.), Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Brill Publishing, pp. 39–59.
„The Right to Water: Effective Multi-Level Protection of a Multi-Faceted Human Right? An Application of the Kadi and Medellin Approaches to the Case of Water“, in: Reflections on the Constitutionalization of International Economic Law, (ed. M. Cremona et al.), Brill Publishing, pp. 553–569.
„Positive Obligations under the ECHR after the Stoicescu Case“, in: European Yearbook on Human Rights 2012, (ed. W. Benedek et al.), Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, pp. 49–58.
„The Human Right to Water versus Investor’s Rights”, in: Human Rights in International Investment Law and Arbitration, (ed. P.-M. Dupuy, E.-U. Petersmann and F. Francioni), Oxford University Press, S. 487–510.
