Nico Krisch (Germany), Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Germany

Nico Krisch is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Law and Justice at NYU and a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Germany. Previously, he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at NYU Law's Center for International Studies, and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. After studies in law and international relations in Berlin, Geneva and Heidelberg., he has received a Ph.D. in law from the University of Heidelberg. He also holds the Diploma of European Law of the Academy of European Law in Florence, Italy. Nico is the author of Selbstverteidigung und kollektive Sicherheit (Self-defense and Collective Security, 2001) and of several articles on the United Nations collective security system, on the use of force in international law, on international and European human rights law, and on the role of the United States in international law. He is currently pursuing projects on the role of constitutionalism in a fragmenting legal order, on hegemony in international law, and on global administrative law.