Nico Krisch

Biography

Dr Nico Krisch is an international lawyer with a particular interest in the legal structure of global governance, the politics of international law, and the postnational legal order emerging at the intersection of domestic, transnational and international law. He joined the Institute in 2015 from the Barcelona Institute of International Studies where he was a Research Professor of the Catalan Institution for Advanced Studies. Previously, he had been a professor of international law at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, a senior lecturer at the Law Department of the London School of Economics, and a research fellow at Oxford University’s Merton College, at New York University School of Law and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Originally from Germany, he holds a PhD in law from the University of Heidelberg. His 2010 book, Beyond Constitutionalism: The Pluralist Structure of Postnational Law (OUP), was awarded the Certificate of Merit of the American Society of International Law.

Research Interest

His most recent work focuses on the concept of authority in global governance, on the changing foundations of international law ‘beyond consent’, and on the ‘interface law’ that governs the relation between different spheres of authority in the global realm.