Heike Krieger is a professor of public law and international law at the Freie Universität Berlin and chair of the DFG-funded research group ‘The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?’. She has taught at the Universities of Göttingen, Nottingham, the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies, London and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, among others. Heike Krieger was a judge at the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin from 2007 to 2014, a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) from 2014 to 2020 and a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, from 2017 to 2021. She is Deputy Chair of the German Society of International Law and a member of the DFG Senate and the Holberg Committee. Her research focuses on general international law, international humanitarian law and human rights protection.

Heike Krieger is editor-in-chief of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (T.M.C. Asser Press and Springer). Her publications include the ‘Research Handbook on International Law and Domestic Legal Systems’ (Edward Elgar, 2024; ed. with H. Aust and F. Lange), ‘Tracing Value Change in the International Legal Order - Perspectives from Legal and Political Science’ (Oxford University Press, 2023; ed. with A. Liese), ‘Legitimacy and Law-making in International Humanitarian Law’ (Edward Elgar, 2021; ed.), and ‘Due Diligence in the International Legal Order’ (Oxford University Press, 2020; ed. with A. Peters and L. Kreuzer).

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Constructing Narratives of Change – The War against Ukraine as a Transformational Moment for International Law?, (2024) 34 Swiss Review of International and European Law 3-21

Research Handbook on International Law and Domestic Legal Systems, Cheltenham (Edward Elgar Publishing), 2024 (436pp.) (co-ed. with Helmut Aust and Felix Lange)

Von den völkerrechtlichen Fesseln befreit? – Zur Ordnungsfunktion des Völkerrechts in einer Welt im Umbruch, (2023) 62 Der Staat 579-612

Tracing Value Change in the International Legal Order – Perspectives from Legal and Political Science, Oxford (Oxford University Press), 2023 (353 pp.), co-ed. with Andrea Liesel

Review Essay: Of Zombies, Witches and Wizards – Tales of Sovereignty, (2022) 33 European Journal of International Law 275-296

Law-making and Legitimacy in International Humanitarian Law, Cheltenham UK (Edward Elgar Publishing), 2021 (488 pp.) (editor; assistant editor Jonas Püschmann)     

Due Diligence in the International Legal Order, Oxford (Oxford University Press), 2020 (432 pp.), co-ed. with Anne Peters and Leonard Kreuzer

The Legal Pluriverse Surrounding Multinational Military Operations, Oxford (Oxford University Press), 2020 (512 pp.), co-ed. with Robin Geiß

The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline? Approaching current foundational challenges, Oxford (Oxford University Press), 2019 (400 pp.), co-ed. with Georg Nolte and Andreas Zimmermann

Populist Governments and International Law, (2019) 30 European Journal of International Law 971-996

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, T.M.C. Asser Press and Springer since vol. 17 (2014); currently co-ed. with Pablo Kalmanovitz, Eliav Lieblich, and James Sexton

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