Prof. Dr. Christian Marxsen, LL.M. (NYU)
Christian Marxsen holds the chair of public law and public international law at Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2018 until 2024 he was research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Professor Marxsen has held visiting professorships and teaching positions in Kiel, Santiago de Chile, and Beijing. His research focuses on matters of peace and security, with a particular interest in norm contestation and interdisciplinary inquiries. He holds an LL.M. from New York University and a PhD from the University of Hamburg (with a thesis on philosophy of law and democratic theory). He has completed the Habilitation at Heidelberg University. His Habilitation thesis (German title: Völkerrechtsordnung und Völkerrechtsbruch) develops a typology of illegal acts in the law against war – exploring the destructive as well as productive effects of norm violations within the decentralized order of international law (the English translation will be published with Oxford University Press in 2025). Christian is coeditor of the Cambridge University Press book series "Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War" and member of the International Law Association's committee on Military Intervention on Request.
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Telephone: +49 30 2093 91572
E-mail: christian.marxsen@hu-berlin.de