Sabrina Schäfer
Research Project:
„Out means out“? – The Effect of Brexit on International Agreements of the EU and its Member States
Vita
Law Studies from 2011 to 2017 at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Major in Public International and European Law. Participant in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court in Heidelberg and Washington, D.C. 2015 and coach of the Humboldt Team 2016. March 2017 First State Exam in Berlin. Since October 2019 Research Fellow at the DFG-Graduate Program ‘Dynamic Intergration’ at Humboldt-University of Berlin.
From January 2014 to September 2015 Student Assistant at the Institute for Energy and Competition Law in the Municipal Economy (Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Schwintowski) and from September 2015 to March 2017 in the Research Group “The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?”. Research Assistant at the Chair for Public and Public International Law (Prof. Dr. Georg Nolte) at the Humboldt-University of Berlin from May to July 2019. From October 2017 to September 2019 Desk Officer in the International Treaty Section of the Federal Foreign Office.
Research Interests
- European Constitutional Law
- Law of International Treaties
- Law of International Organisations
Publications
- Withdrawing from the ‚Withdrawal Doctrine‘: Reviving US treaty relations post-Trump, Völkerrechtsblog, 21.01.2021
- Expect the Unexpected: Judging the 2021 Virtual Global Rounds of the Jessup Competition (with Lena Riemer), Völkerrechtsblog, 25.05.2021
- Memoranda of (Mis)Understandings (Part I): Observations on German Practice Regarding Non-Legally Binding Arrangements in International Law (with Florian Held), Völkerrechtsblog, 13.09.2021
- Memoranda of (Mis)Understandings (Part II): Towards Standardisation? - The Guidelines of the Inter-American Juridical Committee on Binding and Non-Binding Agreements (with Florian Held), Völkerrechtsblog, 15.09.2021
- Nomen est Omen? The Relevance of 'EU Party' in International Law, (with Jed Odermatt), in: N. Levrat, Y. Kaspiarovich, C. Kaddous und R.A. Wessel (Eds.), The EU and Its Member States' Joint Participation in International Agreements, Hart Publishing, Oxford 2022
Conference Presentations
- The Relevance of "EU Party" in International Law, The EU and its Member States' Joint Participation in International Agreements, Geneva Transformative Governance Lab, 5th November 2020 (online)
- A Letter from the Bundestag - Or How the Global Compact for the Migration Shed New Light on Parliamentary Participation in Informal Lawmaking, 16th Annual Meeting of the European Society of International Law, 10th September 2021, Stockholm