Rüdiger Wolfrum
Rüdiger Wolfrum (born 13 December 1941 in Berlin) is German jurist and the current professor of international law at the Heidelberg University Faculty of Law and director emeritus of the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Wolfrum was a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea from 1996 to 2017, serving as president of the court from 2005 to 2008.
Life
After his military duty, Wolfrum studied law at the universities of
Federal Republic of Germany.[1] Since January 2013 he is one of the managing directors of the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law
.
Recent publications
- Fighting terrorism at sea: options and limitations under international law. Japan Society for Defense Studies, Tokio 2008.
- The protection of the environment through international courts and tribunals. In: Andreas Fischer-Lescano (Hrsg.): Frieden in Freiheit - Festschrift für Michael Bothe zum 70. Geburtstag. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3667-9, S. 807.
- Kosovo - some thoughts on its future status. In: Sienho Yee (Hrsg.): Multiculturalism and international law - essays in honour of Edward McWhinney. Nijhoff, Leiden 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-17471-9, S. 561.
Lectures
- Legitimacy in International Law in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- Environmental Law: Preservation of the Marine Environment in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- Security at Sea in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- „Die Festlegung von Seegrenzen“ on YouTube(German)
See also
- International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
- University of Heidelberg
- Max Planck Society