Prosecuting Serious Human Rights Violations

Dr. Anja Seibert-Fohr heads the Minerva Research Group at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She holds law degrees from Germany and the United States and received her Doctorate of Juridical Science with Thomas Buergenthal as her advisor. As a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute she has published widely in international law. Her scholarly research is focused primarily on international criminal law, international human rights and comparative constitutional law. She also co-edited the Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law. International criminal law, civil rights, international peacekeeping and dispute settlement have been among her teaching assignments at the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim.