Thilo Marauhn

Thilo Marauhn (born April 30, 1963, Lüdenscheid, West Germany) is a German expert on international law. He is currently a professor of public law, international law and European law at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany

After his Abitur in 1982 and mandatory military service, Marauhn began his studies of law and international relations in October 1983 at the University of Mannheim’s School of Law (1983–1985), the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK (1985–1986), the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn's School of Law (1986–1987) and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg's School of Law (1987–1990). He received his PhD from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg's School of Law in 1994, writing about “the judicial basis for Germany’s rejection of chemical weapons” for which he received highest honors. In 1995 he received a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree from the University of Wales. From 1990 until 2001 he worked as research assistant, scientific officer and, finally, scientific researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. In 1995, 1996, 1999 and 2000, he was an assistant professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. In 2000 he was promoted to professor at the university. His dissertation titled “reconstruction of social basic rights as a norm category“ received the Werner Pünder prize as the best dissertation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in the field of “freedom and totalitarianism/constitutional law and history of political ideas since the 19th century.”

After his first position as a professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, he was offered a professorship in public law, international law and European law at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen’s School of Law in August 2001. Since 2001 he is also a visiting professor of constitutional theory at the University of Lucerne’s School of Law in Switzerland. In 2008 he was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin (USA). From 2006 until 2009 he was dean of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen’s School of Law.

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