About Jochen von Bernstoff

Jochen von Bernstorff holds the Chair for Constitutional law, International Law, and Human Rights at the University of Tübingen in Germany. His main fields of research are general international law, theory and history of international law and its institutions. His book publications include the monograph The Public International Law Theory of Hans Kelsen: Believing in Universal Law (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and the recent monograph L'essor et la Chute du Droit International Humanitaire: Une brève Histoire de la Codification de la Protection des Civils en Temps de Guerre (Pédone Paris, 2024). Recent edited volumes include The Battle for International Law in the Decolonization Era (Oxford University Press, 2019, together with P. Dann).