Anne Peters#
| Membership Number: | 7566 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mpil.de/en/pub/institute/personnel/institute-management/directors/peters.cfm |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2779-0626 |
| Bluesky: | @annepetersmpil.bsky.social |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-peters-68941b359/ |
| Publication Link: | https://www.mpil.de/en/pub/institute/personnel/institute-management/directors/peters.cfm |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Global Law Professor at the Law School of the University of Peking
- 2017 - present L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the Law School of the University of Michigan
- 2015 - present Professor (Honorarprofessorin) at the Freie Universität Berlin
- 2014 - present Professor (Honorarprofessorin) at the University of Heidelberg
- 2013 - present Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
- 2013 - present Professor (Titularprofessorin) for International Law, Public Law, European Union Law, Comparative Law at the University of Basel
- 2001 - 2013 Chair of Public International Law and Swiss Constitutional Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland
- 1995 - 2001 Assistant Professor at the Walther-Schücking-Institute of Public International Law, University of Kiel, Germany
- 1990 - 1994 Research assistant at the Chair of Public International Law and European Community Law, University of Freiburg, Germany
- 1990 - 1993 Legal traineeship (Referendariat), Regional Court of Freiburg
Fields of Scholarship
- International, European, and national human rights law
- Global governance
- European and comparative constitutional law
- Historical dimensions
- Global animal law
- Foundational questions in international law including
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Doctor honoris causa of the University of Vienna
- 2025 Doctor honoris causa of the Catholic University of Leuven
- 2023 Book prize of the European Society of International Law for “Animals in the International Law of Armed Conflict”
- 2021 Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2021 Member of the Institut de Droit International
- 2020 Doctor honoris causa of the University of Lausanne
- 2014 Book award 2014 of the American Society of International Law for the "Handbook of the History of International Law"
- 2013 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1995 Prize of the Scientific Society at Freiburg, Germany, for the best dissertation of the law school and the economics department
