Universität Potsdam • August-Bebel-Str. 89 • 14482 Potsdam Juristische Fakultät Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht, insbesondere Staatsrecht, Europa- und Völkerrecht sowie Europäisches Wirtschaftsrecht und Wirtschaftsvölkerrecht
Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann, LL. M. (Harvard) Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
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Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann, LL.M. (Harvard)
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP: Germany
EDUCATION:
Spring 1999 Habilitation at the Faculty of Law, University of Heidel- berg; venia legendi for „German and Foreign Public Law, Public International Law, European Community Law“
Summer 1996 Hague Academy of International Law, Centre for Stu- dies and Research
February 1994 Dr. jur., University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Law: summa cum laude; awarded the 1994 Ruprecht-Karls- Prize, University of Heidelberg
July 1992 Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen grade: 'gut' ranking seventh in class of 574
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Bankverbindung: E-Mail: andreas.zimmermann@uni- Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) potsdam.de BIC/Swift: WELADEDDXXX Internet: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/ls- IBAN: DE09 3005 0000 7110 4028 44 zimmermann/index.html Dienstgebäude: August-Bebel-Str. 89, Haus 1, Zimmer 3.36
Sept. 1988 - June 1989 Harvard Law School, LL.M., Cambridge, MA
December 1986 Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen grade: 'sehr gut' ranking first in class of 228
Winter term 1984/85 Participation Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition; German national round
1980 - 1982 and Oct. 1983 - Dec. 1986 University of Tübingen, Faculty of Law
Summer 1985 Hague Academy of International Law Summer Course
Sept. 1982 - June 1983 Université de Droit, d`Économie et des Sciences d`Aix- Marseille III, Aix-en-Provence, France
EMPLOYMENT/ PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES:
2015- 2016 Visiting professor Bir Zeit University, Faculty of Law, Palestine
2014 – 2015 Visiting professor Hebrew University, Faculty of Law, Israel
2014 – present Counsel in Case A/15 Iran-US Claims Tribunal
2014 – 2016 Parental leave (‘Elternzeit’)
2010- present Member, Advisory Board on public international law, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2009 – 2013 Counsel for the German Government in a case before the German Constitutional Court involving issues of in- ternational humanitarian law
2009 – present Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Centre, University of Potsdam (on leave 2014 - 2016)
2008 - present Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
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2006 - present Member, Advisory Board on UN-issues, German Minis- try of Foreign Affairs
2006 Judge ad hoc in two cases before the European Court for Human Rights
2001- 2015 Counsel in the following International Court of Justice cases:
- Case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia) (Merits)
- Case concerning the Application for Revision of the Judgment of 11 July 1996 in the Case concerning Appli- cation of the Convention on the Prevention and Pun- ishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herze- govina v. Yugoslavia)
- Case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia and Montenegro) (Preliminary Objec- tions)
- Case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro) (Merits)
- Case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia and Montenegro) (Merits)
- Case concerning Application of the International Con- vention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Dis- crimination (Georgia v. Russian Federation) (Provisional Measures)
- Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by the Provisional Institu-
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tions of Self-Government of Kosovo (Request for Ad- visory Opinion)
- Case concerning Application of the International Con- vention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Dis- crimination (Georgia v. Russian Federation) (Preliminary Objections)
2001 - 2009 Professor of Law and Director Walther-Schücking- Institute for International Law, University of Kiel
Spring 2005 Visiting professor, University of Johannesburg
Spring 2004 Visiting professor, University of Tartu, Estonia:
Spring 2001 Visiting professor, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law
Winter term 2000/2001 – Visiting professor, Faculty of Law, University of Summer term 2001 Hannover
1999 - 2001 Member, expert commission for the drafting of a Code of Offenses against International Law, German Ministry of Justice, Berlin.
Summer term 2000 Privatdozent, Faculty of Law, University of Heidelberg
Winter term 1999/2000 Visiting professor at both, the Faculty of Law of the University of Regensburg and the Faculty of Law of the University of Düsseldorf
Summer term 1999 Visiting professor, Faculty of Law, University of Hei- delberg
1997 - 1998 Member and legal adviser of the German delegation during the work of the Preparatory Committee and the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotenti- aries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court
Sept.- Dec. 1994 Visiting Scholar and Professor, University of Michigan Law School
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August 1992 – September 2001 Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for (on leave 09-12/1994; 04/1999- Comparative Public and Public International Law, 04/2000; 09/2000-09/2001) Heidelberg, Germany
Oct. 1989 - July 1992 Practical Training (Referendariat), State of Baden Würt- temberg
Jan. - March 1992 Legal Service of the Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, Belgium
Oct. 1989 - July 1992 (Part-time) Assistant, Max-Planck-Institute for Compa- rative Public and Public International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
June - August 1989 Associate with O'Melveny & Myers, New York
Febr. 1987 - June 1988 Civil Alternative Service (Zivildienst)
March 1987 - June 1988 (Part-time) Assistant Prof. Dr. H. v. Mangoldt, Director Institute for International and European Law, Univer- sity of Tübingen
LANGUAGES: English (fluent), French (fluent), German (native), Arabic (basic)
AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Public international law (in particular refugee law, hu- man rights, law of State succession, international crimi- nal law, international humanitarian law, peaceful settle- ment of disputes), European Union law, comparative constitutional law, German public law (in particular German constitutional law)
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AWARDS, STIPENDS GRANTS: (selection)
2014 – 2018 DFG-funded Research Group “Rise or Decline of In- ternational Law” (approx. 4 Mill. Euros)
2008- 2010 opus magnum stipend Volkswagen- Foundation (coverage of two years of paid leave of absence)
1994 Ruprecht-Karls-Prize University of Heidelberg for out- standing dissertation
1988/ 1989 DAAD scholarship LL.M. Harvard Law School (full co- verage of tuition and living expenses)
1985 DAAD fellowship summer course at the Hague Aca- demy of International Law
1982 – 1983 Fellowship legal studies Aix-en-Provence France
WORK AS REFEREE: inter alia for Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, VW-Foundation, Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung, Israeli Science Foundation, Österreichischer Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Brill Publishers, German Yearbook International Law, British Yearbook of In- ternational Law.
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