Heike Krieger

Heike Krieger is a university professor of public law and international law at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is Chair of the German Society for International Law, Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees of the German Foundation for Peace Research, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), and a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG). From 2020 to 2024, Heike Krieger was spokesperson for the DFG-funded research group ‘The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?’. As a visiting professor, she has taught at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London, the University of Macerata and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. From 2007 to 2014, she served as a judge at the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin, a member of the German Science Council from 2014 to 2020, and a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law from 2017 to 2021. She has appeared in proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Heike Krieger is Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer). Her publications include From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace (Oxford University Press, 2026, edited with G. Jokubauskaite, A. Olcay and A. Buser), the Research Handbook on International Law and Domestic Legal Systems (Edward Elgar, 2024; edited with H. Aust and F. Lange) and Tracing Value Change in the International Legal Order – Perspectives from Legal and Political Science (Oxford University Press, 2023; edited with A. Liese).