The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198843603)

Heike Krieger is Professor of Public Law and International Law at Freie Universitat Berlin and Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She is Co-Editor of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law and has, inter alia, taught at the Universities of Gottingen, Nottingham, and the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies, London. She is member of the German Council of Science and Humanities which advises the German government on the development of science, research and higher education. Between 2007 and 2014 she acted as Judge at the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin. Her areas of research are general international law, human rights law, and international humanitarian law.

Georg Nolte is Professor of Law at Humboldt University of Berlin since 2008. He is a member of the UN International Law Commission (since 2007) and an associate member of the Institut de Droit International (since 2015). He held chairs at the University of Gottingen (1999 - 2004) and the University of Munich (2004 - 2008). He was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (2003 - 2004), Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2006 - 2007), and Princeton University (2013 - 2014).

Andreas Zimmermann, LL.M. (Harvard) is Professor of Public, Public International, and European Union Law at the University of Potsdam, and Director of the Potsdam Centre of Human Rights. Apart from Potsdam University, he has also taught inter alia at the University of Michigan (United States), the University of Johannesburg (RSA), Hebrew University (Israel) and most recently at Bir Zeit University (Palestine), as well as part of the United Nations International Law Fellowship Programme. He has been adviser of the German delegation during the United Nations Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and has acted as counsel in various cases before the ICJ and before the Iran-US Claims Tribunal. He was judge ad hoc at the European Court of Human Rights, and is a member of the advisory committee on international humanitarian law of the German Red Cross.