Prof. Dr. Eibe Riedel
Emeritus für Deutsches und ausländisches Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Europarecht und Rechtsvergleichung
Prof. Dr. Eibe Riedel
Emeritus für Deutsches und Ausländisches Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Europarecht und Rechtsvergleichung
Universität Mannheim
Abteilung Rechtswissenschaft
Schloss Westflügel – Raum W 127
68161 Mannheim
Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Eibe Riedel
- Eibe Riedel is emeritus professor of German and Comparative Public Law, European and International Law at the University of Mannheim/Germany, and a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and cultural rights, Geneva from 1997 – 2012. He is a judge at The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration, chaired the Board of Trustees of the German Institute of Human Rights, Berlin until 2016, and is a former director of the Institute of Medical Law, Bioethics and Public Health of the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg, as well as a director and founder of the Mannheim Institute of Transport Law, including Inland Navigation Law.
- Eibe Riedel was Swiss Chair of Human Rights in Geneva from 2009 – 2012, and a visiting professor at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from 2013 – 2017. He is Honorary Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide. He also chairs the Board of Directors of WaterLex, Geneva.
- He has written widely on human rights, recently on the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR in Essays in Honour of Judge Bruno Simma, Oxford 2011, 574–589; on ‘Global Human Rights at the Crossroads: ‘Strengthening’ or ‘Reforming’ the System’, in Festschrift Eckart Klein, Berlin 2013, 1289–1306; on ‘ESC-Rights in Armed Conflict’ in Andrew Clapham (ed.), Oxford Handbook on International Law (2014), chapter 18, 441–468; on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law, in Riedel/Giacca/Golay(eds.), Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law, Contemporary Issues and Challenges, O.U.P. 2014, re-edited 2016, 3–48; and “Rethinking Human Rights – Real Reforms in Procedure and Substance?, in: ‘Aus Kiel in die Welt: Kiel’s Contribution to International Law. Essays in Honour of the 100th Anniversary of the Walther-Schücking-Institute for International Law’, Berlin, September 2014; Reflections on the UN Human Rights Covenants at Fifty, in Archiv des Völkerrechts, vol. 54, Tübingen 2016, 132–152.
Detailed Curriculum Vitae
List of publications and articles
Prof. Dr. Eibe Riedel