The International Law Subproject
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Wolfrum
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches
öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht
Im Neuenheimer Feld 535
D-69120 Heidelberg
Email: Wolfrum@mpil.de
Rüdiger Wolfrum is Professor of Law at Heidelberg University. He is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (since 1993) and Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, serving as President from 2005-2008. He was Vice-President of the German Research Foundation (1996-2002) and President of the German Society for International Law (2005-2009).
For full CV (German) click here.
Dr. Nele Matz-Lück, LL.M.
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht
und Völkerrecht
Im Neuenheimer Feld 535
D-69120 Heidelberg
Email: nmatz@mpil.de
Nele Matz-Lück, is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg with a focus on international environmental law, law of the sea, law of treaties and comparative constitutional law. For two years she worked as researcher at the German Federal Constitutional Court. She studied law in Trier, Lausanne and graduated from Heidelberg University Law School. She successfully completed an LL.M. course in Environmental Law and Management at the University of Wales Aberystwyth.
David Reichwein, LL.B.
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht
und Völkerrecht
Im Neuenheimer Feld 535
D-69120 Heidelberg
Email: dreichwe@mpil.de
David Moritz Alexander Reichwein studied Law at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, with emphasis on European and International Law, received his LL.B. in January 2007, and completed his Staatsexamen in July 2009. Since December 2009 he is a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Fellow at the Marsilius College, University of Heidelberg.
The project in brief:
The legal sub-project of the Marsilius project “The Global Governance of Climate Engineering“ assesses intentional human interferences in the climate under international law. Without any international agreement specifically addressing the topic, the compatibility of research and actual enforcement of geoengineering technologies with current international law have to be analyzed under various international agreements as well as customary international (environmental) law. Furthermore, feasible environmental governance schemes are to be compared in order to determine which governance instruments appear to be practicable with respect to Climate Engineering.
Project Description International Law
Project Publications:
Reichwein, David/Wiertz, Thilo (2010): Geoengineering zwischen Klimapolitik und Völkerrecht: Status quo und Perspektiven. Heidelberg. [Full Text]