a brief biography
Born 1965 | Brought up in Bad Wildbad | Educated at Neuenbürg Grammar School
Military service (1984-1985) | Commission in the German Army (lieutenant)
Law studies at Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen (1985-1987) | Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (1987-1988) | Wolfson College, Cambridge University (1988-1989) | Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen (1989-1991) | St. Antony`s College, Oxford University (1991-1995)
LL.M. (Cantab.) 1989 | First State Legal Exam 1992 | D.Phil. (Oxon.) 1995 | Second State Legal Exam 1997 | Habilitation 2002 | M.A. (Oxon.) 2003
Scholar of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation | Scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation | Rhodes Scholar | Winner of several other scholarships and prizes | University Teacher of the Year Award 2000 | Award of the German Research Foundation for a work of high scientific quality and originality
Professional legal training as judge and public prosecutor (1995-1997) | Assistant Professor, Tübingen University (1997-2002) | Associate Professor, Tübingen University (2002-2003) | Professor of Public International Law, and before that Reader in Public International Law and University Lecturer in Public International Law, University of Oxford (2003-present) | Adjunct Professor, Universities of Georgia and Ohio (2005-2009)
Visiting Professorships: Jaroslaw-Mudryi Academy, Charkov, Ukraine (2001) | University Aix-Marseille III (2002, 2003) | Yeditiepe University, Istanbul (2003) | University Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) (2006) | Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University (2008) | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2010) | Visiting Fellowships: University of Canterbury, New Zealand (2006)