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Biography of Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelss

Current Position
Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelss holds the Chair in International Law of the Sea and International Environmental Law, Public International Law and Public Law at the University of Hamburg (jura.uni-hamburg.de).

Educational & Early Career

• Studied law at the University of Bonn and University of Tübingen, passing his First State Examination in 2000 (Wikipedia, jura.uni-hamburg.de).

• Earned his doctorate in 2003 from the University of Tübingen with a thesis on the protection of the oceans under both international and European law (Wikipedia, jura.uni-hamburg.de).

• Following his legal clerkship, he passed the Second State Examination and was appointed a research assistant in Tübingen. During that period (2005–2006), he worked at the German Federal Constitutional Court with Judge Udo Di Fabio (Wikipedia, jura.uni-hamburg.de).

Academic Career Path

• 2007–2010: Appointed Professor of Public Law with a focus on the Law of the Sea at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel. He served as co-director of the Walther-Schücking Institute for International Law and was involved in the “Future Ocean” interdisciplinary excellence cluster (Wikipedia, jura.uni-hamburg.de).

• 2010–2018: Moved to the University of Trier, where he held the chair in Public International Law and European Law. He became director of the Institute of Environmental and Technology Law (IUTR), member of the board of the Centre for European Studies (ZES), and later co-director of the Institute for Legal Policy (IRP) (Wikipedia, jura.uni-hamburg.de).

• Since October 2018: Serving at the University of Hamburg as the Chair in International Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law, Public International Law, and Public Law (Wikipedia, jura.uni-hamburg.de).

Research Focus & Contributions

• His expertise spans the international law of the sea, international environmental law, EU law, and constitutional aspects of public international law (mundusmaris.org, jura.uni-hamburg.de).

• He has contributed significantly to scholarship through works such as Internationales Umweltrecht, a comprehensive German-language textbook on international environmental law (De Gruyter Brill).

• He also edited an authoritative commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), first presented in 2017 and central to understanding how UNCLOS interacts with European legal frameworks (mpi.lu, Cambridge University Press & Assessment).

Summary Overview

Prof. Proelss is widely recognized for bridging environmental law and maritime legal frameworks with public international law, contributing both to academic scholarship and practical legal policy.

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