Michael Bothe

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Michael Bothe (born 11 June 1938) is a German legal scholar. The focus of his work is international law, in particular peacekeeping law, arms control, humanitarian law, international environmental law and comparative constitutional law.

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Life and work

Bothe was born in Berlin in 1938 and studied law and international relations at the universities of Heidelberg, Hamburg and Geneva. In 1961 he passed the first state examination in Heidelberg and the second state examination five years later in Stuttgart. In 1966, he obtained a diploma from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. The following year, he received his doctorate in law from the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the armed forces of international organizations. [1]

From 1964 to 1979, he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. In 1974, he obtained his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg. From 1974 to 1977 during the international diplomatic conference in Geneva on the first two additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions, he was a member of the delegation of the German Red Cross. From 1977 to 1979, he was an adjunct professor at the University of Heidelberg, then until 1983 a full professor at the University of Hanover. In 1983, he became the chair for public, international and European law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he also served as dean of the law department from 1993 to 1994 and where he worked until his retirement in 2003. He was also visiting professor at various foreign universities and in 1994 head of the research center of the Hague Academy of International Law. [2]

Bothe headed the Expert Committee on Humanitarian International Law of the German Red Cross starting in 1995 and was chairman of the German Society for International Law from 2001 to 2005. He was also a member of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission from 2001 to 2011 and was its president starting in 2007. [3] From 2002 to 2006, he was a research group leader at the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research.

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References

  1. ↑ "Biography of MR. MICHAEL BOTHE" (PDF). www.un.org/law/avl. United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law. Retrieved Aug 3, 2024.
  2. ↑ https://www.iucn.org/sites/dev/files/import/downloads/cv_michael_bothe.pdf [ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ "Michael Bothe". International Review of the Red Cross. April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Academic awards: Sant'Anna School Researcher of Dirpolis (Law, Politics, Development) wins the Ciardi Prize 2018 in recognition of her study in international humanitarian law".
  5. ↑ "The Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS" (PDF). Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law. Retrieved Aug 3, 2024.
  6. ↑ "2017 Henry Dunant Medal Winners | The Standing Commission".
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