Thilo Marauhn

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

Sicherung grund- und menschenrechtlicher Standards gegenüber neuen Gefährdungen durch private und ausländische Akteure, Veröffentlichungen der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer 74 (2015), p. 373–400.

Marauhn has been a visiting professor at various universities, including the University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland), the University of Bergen (Norway), the University of Warwick (UK) and the University of Wisconsin – Madison Law School (US). Since 2001, he has held a permanent visiting professorship in Constitutional Theory at the Law Faculty of the University of Lucerne (Switzerland).

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), p. 401–459.

In 2011, he was elected as a member of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) for the term from 2012 to 2016. Marauhn was reelected in 2016. In 2015, he became First Vice-President and later he has been elected as President (2017) of the Fact-Finding Commission.

Universality and Continuity in International Law, ed. with H. Steiger, Eleven International Publishing, Den Haag 2011, ISBN 9789490947071.

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. He was reelected to the Senate in 2017.

Making Treaties Work, ed. with G. Ulfstein und A. Zimmermann, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 9780521873178.

The Regulation of International Financial Markets, ed. with R. Grote, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 9780521831444.

Six chapters (Eheschließungs- und Familiengründungsrecht, Recht auf Achtung des Privat- und Familienlebens, Recht auf soziale Sicherheit und Unterstützung, Rechte älterer und behinderter Menschen, Schutz der Familie, Schutz des Kindes und Jugendlicher) in: S. Heselhaus/C. Nowak (eds.), Handbuch der Europäischen Grundrechte, C.H. Beck, München 2006, ISBN 3-406-51017-5.

Since 2005, he has been the academic director of the “International Summer University” of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. Since 2009, Marauhn has been the 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).

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

Marauhn was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) from 2003 to 2013 and its chairman from 2006–2013.

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

Since 1995, Marauhn has been a member of the expert committee “International Humanitarian Law” of the German Red Cross and its chairman since 2014.

After his studies of law and international relations at the University of Mannheim (1983–1985), at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, (Great Britain) (1985–1986), at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1986–1987) and at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg (1987–1990), Marauhn received his doctorate with summa cum laude in 1994 on “The legal regulation of the German renunciation of chemical weapons”. In 1995 he received a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) from the University of Wales. From 1990 to 2001 he was employed at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. In 1995, 1996, 1999 and 2000, he held teaching positions at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 2000, Marauhn was habilitated by this university with a thesis on “Reconstruction of fundamental social rights as a norm category”. After his first professorship at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) in August 2001, he was appointed to the C4 professorship for Public Law, International Law and European Law at the department of law of the Justus Liebig University (JLU). From 2006 to 2009, Marauhn was dean of the department. His research focuses on International Law, in particular Human Rights protection and International Humanitarian Law.

Thilo Marauhn (born April 30, 1963, Lüdenscheid, West Germany) is a German expert on international law. He currently holds the professorship for Public Law and International Law at the Justus Liebig University Giessen and heads the research group “International Law” at the Leibniz Institute Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung / Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF).