Prof. Dr. Michael Bothe
Prof. Dr. Michael Bothe is Professor emeritus of Public Law at the J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. He held a Chair in Public International Law at the Universities of Hannover and Frankfurt (where he also was Dean), served as a visiting professor in many universities around the world, and was inter alia coordinator of the Tacis Project for creating an Institute of European Law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). He was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, later served as chair of the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board and is currently a member of the Kuratorium. He was president of the German Society for International Law and of the European Environmental Law Association as well as President of the International Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission and Chairperson of the German Committee for International Humanitarian Law. He served as a delegate or adviser in a number of international conferences (including the Diplomatic Conference for the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law 1974-1977) and as a counsel before the International Court of Justice and the German Federal Constitutional Court. Distinctions: Prix Giuseppe Ciardi of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War, Elisabeth Haub Prize for International Environmental Law, Prize of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (San Remo), Henry Dunant Medal of the International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. He is the author of many books and articles on questions of international law (in particular as it relates to legal restraints on the use of military force and to the protection of the environment), comparative public law, European law and constitutional law.