Anne Peters - Curriculum Vitae#

Education and Degrees

• 2000 Habilitation at the University of Kiel, Germany
  
• 1995 Master of Laws (LL.M.), Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA
  
• 1994 Doctorate in Law, University of Freiburg, Germany
  
• 1993 Second State Exam (bar qualification)
  
• 1990 First State Exam (university degree in law)
  
• 1986 - 1990 University of Freiburg, Germany. Studies in Law, Spanish and Modern Greek
  
• 1985 - 1986 University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Studies in International Law
  
• 1984 - 1985 University of Würzburg, Germany. Studies in Law, Modern Greek literature and language

Professional Experience

• Since 2020: Global Law Professor at the Law School of the University of Peking
  
• Since 2017: L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the Law School of the University of Michigan
  
• Since 2015: Professor (Honorarprofessorin) at the Freie Universität Berlin
  
• Since 2014: Professor (Honorarprofessorin) at the University of Heidelberg
  
• Since 2013: Professor (Titularprofessorin) for International Law, Public Law, European Union Law, Comparative Law at the University of Basel
  
• Since 2013: Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
  
• 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, 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

Research

Foundational questions in international law including historical dimensions; international, European, and national human rights law; global governance; global animal law; European and comparative constitutional law.

Associations (selection)

• Since 2021: Member of the Institut de Droit International
  
• Since 2021: Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)
  
• Since 2013: Member of the Academic Council of International Law of the German Federal Foreign Office
  
• 2019 - 2023: President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht (DGIR, German Society of International Law)
  
• Since 2013: Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Science
  
• 2010 - 2012: President of the European Society of International Law (ESIL)
  
• 2011 - 2015: Member (substitute) of the Venice Commission

Languages

German native; English and French fluent; Spanish very good; Italian solid; Modern Greek solid; Chinese basic knowledge

Scholarships and Awards (selection)

• 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 a collaborative book") for "Animals in the International Law of Armed Conflict" (CUP 2022)
  
• 2021 Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  
• 2020 Doctor honoris causa of the University of Lausanne
  
• 2014 Book award of the American Society of International Law for the "Handbook of the History of International Law" (OUP 2012)
  
• 1995 Prize of the Scientific Society at Freiburg for the best dissertation of the law school and the economics department