Dr. Heike Spieker
Dr. Heike Spieker is a Assistant Professor at the Chair of Public Law and International Law and Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) at the Ruhr-Universität of Bochum (Germany).
Since May 2000 she has been working at the German Red Cross in various leading roles.
She is also a Adjunct Lecturer at the University College Dublin in Dublin (Ireland)
Her special fields of research interest are, International Humanitarian Law, legal regime of humanitarian action; implementation and enforcement mechanisms in the law of armed conflict; forms of development of IHL, legal protection of cultural property in armed conflict; legal protection of the natural environment in armed conflict; legal frameworks of civil defence and civil protection under IHL and under German Constitutional Law; legal status and framework of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.