Prof. Dr. Anja Seibert-Fohr

Professor Seibert-Fohr holds law degrees from Germany and the United States. As an alumnus of the prestigious German National Merit Foundation she received her Doctorate in Juridical Science from George Washington University and her "Habilitation" from the University of Heidelberg. In 2008 she was awarded a grant for outstanding researchers by the esteemed Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Sciences. Prof. Seibert-Fohr has published a large number of works in the field of International Law and Comparative Law. She is the author of the book "Prosecuting Serious Human Rights Violations?" (Oxford University Press 2009) and she is the editor of a number of volumes, including "Judicial Independence in Transition" (Springer 2012), "Coexistence, Cooperation and Solidarity" (Martinus-Nijhoff 2011), and "Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law" (Martinus Nijhoff 2007). Prof. Seibert-Fohr has also acted as a legal adviser to the Human Rights Section of the "Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law" (Oxford University Press) and as a member of the Academic Founding Committee of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy. As a lecturer Ms. Seibert-Fohr taught international law classes at the University of Heidelberg and in the Master of Comparative Law Program of the University of Mannheim and the University of Adelaide. In the course of her academic career Professor Seibert-Fohr has been a visiting scholar at Georgetown University (USA) and a Herbert Smith Visiting Professor at Cambridge University (UK).