Raphael Schäfer

Dr. iur.; Senior Research Fellow

schaefer@mpil.de
Tel. +49 (6221) 482-305

Main Fields of Research:

International humanitarian law; history and basics of international law; global history; national and international judiciary; comparative public law; legal theory; law and literature

Academic Career:

December 2022: Elected as Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

November 2022: Doctorate (Dr. iur.) at the Faculty of Law of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

April 2022: Defense of the dissertation

October 2019 to October 2022: Law Clerkship (Rechtsreferendariat) at the Heideberg District Court. Stages inter alia at the Federal Foreign Office (temporarily on leave to complete the dissertation)

July 2019: Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the University of Melbourne, Institute for International Law and the Humanities

June 2019: Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the University of Sydney, Sydney Centre for International Law

September 2017 to December 2017: Visiting Doctoral Researcher at École de Droit, SciencesPo Paris

Since September 2016: Managing Editor of the Journal of the History of International Law

July 2016 to September 2016: Visiting Doctoral Researcher at Clare Hall College and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge

Since Summer term 2016: Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) at Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg

Since April 2015: PhD Candidate at the University of Heidelberg under the supervision of Anne Peters. Research Project Codification of the Laws of War

Since September 2014: Research fellow at the Institute

July 2014 to September 2014: Graduate assistant to Prof. Dr. Stephan Schill

June 2014: First State Exam in Law (Land of Baden-Württemberg) 

September 2012 to July 2014: Student assistant to Prof. Dr. Stephan Schill

October 2008: Start of Legal Studies at Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg (with an additional training in Anglo-American Law). Stages at German Bundestag, Berlin and at the German Consulate General, New York City

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Recent Publications

• (Writing) International Legal Histories – Continuation of Politics by Other Means?. In: Völkerrechtsblog, 17.09.2021. (with Anne Peters) to the contribution
  
• Book Review: Finke, Jonas: (Un-)bedingte Gleichheit nichtstaatlicher Gewaltakteure im Völkerrecht, Baden-Baden, 2020. In: Archiv des Völkerrechts, 59/3, 377-381, 2021. to the contribution
  
• Spotlight-Interview with Maria Adele Carrai. In: Journal of the History of International Law 23/4, 521-527 (2021) (with Maren Körsmeier). to the contribution
  
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  Politics and Histories of International Law. The Quest for Knowledge and Justice. Brill, Leiden, 2021, 504 p. (editor with Anne Peters). to the contribution
  
• Miloš Vec, A Luminous Trace. Commemorating the Frankfurt Lawyer and Historian of International Law Michael Stolleis (20 July 1941–18 March 2021). In: Journal of the History of International Law 23/3, 377-390 (2021). to the contribution
  Transl. of: Eine leuchtende Spur Zum Tod des Frankfurter Juristen und Völkerrechtshistorikers Michael Stolleis (20. Juli 1941–18. März 2021)
  Translated into: English
  

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Spotlight-Interview with Mark Somos. In: Journal of the History of International Law 23/2, 243-248 (2020) (with Maren Körsmeier). to the contribution




Cynical International Law? Abuse and Circumvention in Public International and European Law. Springer, Berlin, 2021, 369 p. (editor with Björnstjern Baade, Dana Burchardt, Prisca Feihle, Alicia Köppen, Linus Mührel and Lena Riemer). to the contribution


Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Case (Croatia v Serbia). In: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020. to the contribution


Politics and the Histories of International Law: An Introduction to the Special Issue. In: Journal of the History of International Law 2-3, 197-204 (2020) (with Anne Peters and Randall Lesaffer). to the contribution


Soft law im System des Völkerrechts. In: JuS 9, 827-831 (2020). to the contribution


Book Review: Gaita, Raimond, Simpson, Gerry (eds.): Who’s Afraid of International Law?, Monash University Publishing, 2017. In: Heidelberg Journal of International Law, 3/2019, 752-757, 2019. to the contribution


Reflections on the International Court of Justice Decision in the Jadhav Case (India v. Pakistan). In: OpinioJuris, 25.07.2019. (with Kanad Bagchi) to the contribution


Book Review: Lange, Felix: Praxisorientierung und Gemeinschaftskonzeption. Hermann Mosler als Wegbereiter der westdeutschen Völkerrechtswissenschaft nach 1945, Springer, 2017. In: Völkerrechtsblog, 16. April, 2019. to the contribution


The 150th Anniversary of the St Petersburg Declaration: Introductory Reflections on a Janus-Faced Document. In: Journal of the History of International Law 20/4, 501-514 (2018). to the contribution


Book Review: Zollmann, Jakob: Naulila 1914. World War I in Angola and International Law. A Study in (Post-)Colonial Border Regimes and Interstate Arbitration, Nomos, 2016. In: Journal of the History of International Law, 20/2, 257-262, 2018. to the contribution


Leitfälle des Internationalen Gerichthofs aus 70 Jahren Rechtsprechung. In: JURA - Juristische Ausbildung 9, 906-915 (2018). to the contribution


A History of Division(s): a Critical Assessment of the Law of Non-International Armed Conflict. In: International Humanitarian Law in Areas of Limited Statehood, Nomos 2018, 43-58. to the contribution


Einführung in das internationale Investitionsschutzrecht. In: JuS 9, 795-799 (2016). to the contribution


Anwendung humanitärvölkerrechtlicher Normen in asymmetrischen Konflikten – Extensive Auslegung oder „Lawfare“-Methode?. In: Völkerrechtsblog, 23.12.2015. to the contribution


May it please the Court - A danced pleading. In: Völkerrechtsblog, 11.03.2015. to the contribution


Humanitäres Völkerrecht in Zeiten des internationalen Terrorismus. In: JuS 3, 218-223 (2015). to the contribution


Verfassungswidrigkeit der Drei-Prozent-Sperrklausel im Europawahlrecht - Darstellung von BVerfG, 2BvE 2/13 vom 26.02.2014. In: StudZR 2 (2014).


Praktikum beim Deutschen Generalkonsulat New York - ein Erfahrungsbericht. In: JURA 1 (2013).

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