Krisch, Nico
Professor
Social & Behavioural Sciences
1 Sep, 2012 - 1 Feb, 2015
Resigned
Short biography
Nico Krisch is ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of International Studies (IBEI) in Barcelona. He has been a Professor of International Law at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a research fellow at Merton College, Oxford, NYU Law School and the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg. He is currently pursuing projects on the legal order of global governance. Nico Krisch is the author of Selbstverteidigung und kollektive Sicherheit (Self-defense and Collective Security, 2001) and of Beyond Constitutionalism: The Pluralist Structure of Postnational Law (OUP, 2010), which was awarded the 2012 Certificate of Merit of the American Society of International Law. He is also a member of the Council of the International Society of Public Law. He joined ICREA in 2012.
Research interests
My research focuses on the law and politics of global governance, and in particular on changes in key categories of legal order brought about by the rise of global governance structures. I am interested in how the different layers of law and politics cope with the gradual disappearance of the boundaries between them, how classical models of order - such as constitutionalism, democracy, or inter-state cooperation - adapt or retreat, and which new models emerge as a result of this change. I am also interested in the institutional mechanisms by which national legal orders, international organizations and other actors in global governance articulate the conflicts at the interfaces of different regimes. They all form part of what I regard as a `pluralist' legal and political order with conflictual relations and gradations of authority quite at odds with traditional modes of understanding law and politics.