Nico Krisch

Dr Nico Krisch is a professor of international law and former co-director of the Global Governance Centre at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies. His main research interests concern the legal structure of international organizations and global governance, the politics of international law, and the postnational legal order emerging at the intersection of domestic, transnational and international law. Prior to joining the Institute, he was an ICREA research professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals and held faculty positions at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Law Department of the London School of Economics. He was also a research fellow at Oxford University’s Merton College, at New York University School of Law and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, as well as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Columbia Law School. Originally from Germany, he holds a PhD in law from the University of Heidelberg. His 2010 book, Beyond Constitutionalism: The Pluralist Structure of Postnational Law (OUP), received the Certificate of Merit of the American Society of International Law. Dr Krisch is a member of the Council of the International Society of Public Law, and of the editorial/advisory boards of the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, and the London Review of International Law. In 2017, he was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant for a project on change and stability in international law. In 2019, he received the inaugural Max Planck-Cambride Prize for International Law.

Previous Positions

• Co-Director of the Global Governance Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 2017-2019
• Research Professor, Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), 2012-2018 (on leave 2015-2018) & Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Studies (IBEI), Barcelona, 2013-2018
• Professor of International Law, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, 2009-2013
• Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, Harvard Law School, 2012
• Lecturer / Senior Lecturer, Law Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2006-2009
• Junior Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University, 2004-2006
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, New York University School of Law, 2001-2004
• Hauser Research Fellow (2003-2004), Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for International Law and Justice (2002-2004); Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for International Studies (2001-2002)
• Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany, 1997-2000

Education

• Ph.D. in Law (Dr. iur.), University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2001
• State Examination in Law (Erstes juristisches Staatsexamen), University of Heidelberg , 1997
• Studies in Law, University of Heidelberg (1994-1997), University of Geneva and Graduate Institute of International Studies (IUHEI) (1993-1994), Freie Universität Berlin (1991-1993)
• Diploma of European Law, Academy of European Law, European University Institute, 1995
• Final Examination (Abitur), Berlin, 1991

Awards, Scholarships

• Max Planck-Cambridge Prize in International Law, 2019, here
• European Research Council Advanced Grant, 2017 (for a project on “The Paths of International Law: Stability and Change in the International Legal Order”)
• Certificate of Merit for preeminent contribution to creative scholarship, 2012 (American Society of International Law, for the monograph, Beyond Constitutionalism)
• Hertie School of Governance Research Award, 2011
• Modern Law Review, Wedderburn Prize, 2009
• Major Review Teaching Prize, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2008
• Hauser Research Scholarship, New York University School of Law, 2003-2004
• Otto Hahn Medal for Young Scholars, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, 2002
• Postdoctoral Fellowship,Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, 2001-2003
• Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, German National Merit Foundation, 1998-2000
• Scholarship for Legal Studies, German National Merit Foundation, German Academic Exchange Council, 1993-1997