Petra Minnerop
Professor of International Law, Durham Law Shool, Durham University

Nationality

GermanCareer History
CURRENT POSITIONS and RESPONSIBILITIESProfessor of International Law, Durham University Law SchoolSenior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, SFHEA
Director and founder, Durham Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy, DurhamUniversity
Chair, UN SDG Strategy Group, Durham University
Member of the Bar (Germany)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Durham University
Professor of International Law (2022-present)
Associate Professor of International Law (2020-2022)
University of Dundee
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer (2018-2020)
Swansea University
Lecturer (2016-2018)
Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg
Senior Research Fellow (2015-2018)
University of Munich, Institute for International Law
Lecturer (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin) (2005-2015), (maternity leave included)
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow (2002-2005)
Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN, New York
Legal Officer, secondment from the Max Planck Institute (2004-2005)

German Foreign Office, Berlin
Legal Officer, secondment from the Max Planck Institute (2003-2004)
University of Göttingen, Institute for International and European Law
Lecturer (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin) and PhD researcher, Institute for International and European Law(1999-2002)

Awards / Publications
PhD AWARD
Award for the best PhD thesis ‘Paria-Staaten im Völkerrecht (Pariah States in International Law,University of Göttingen.
Published in the Max Planck Series, Contributions to Comparative Public Law and International
Law 178 (Springer 2004), 573 pages. Reprinted 2012.
1. Petra Minnerop, Brian Preston and Volker Roeben, Solidarity in Climate Change and Energy Law(book proposal accepted, CUP, forthcoming 2024-5).
2. Petra Minnerop, Robert Schötze, Volker Roeben and Jukka Snell (eds.), EU Citizenship as an
Independent Status: Lessons beyond the Brexit Test (OUP, forthcoming 2023-4).
3. Petra Minnerop, Rüdiger Wolfrum and Frauke Lachenmann (eds.), Max Planck Encyclopedia ofPublic International Law Thematic Series, Band 3, International Law of Development (OUP 2019,948 pages).
4. Petra Minnerop, Paria-Staaten im Völkerrecht (Pariah States in International Law) (2nd print,Springer: Berlin 2012).
5. Karin Oellers-Frahm, Petra Minnerop, Frank Schorkopf, Christian Walter (eds.),
World Court Digest 2001 ? 2005 (Kluwer: Berlin 2008).
6. Rüdiger Wolfrum, Christine Langenfeld, Petra Minnerop (eds.), Environmental Liability inInternational Law Towards a Coherent Conception (Erich Schmidt: Berlin 2005).
7. Petra Minnerop, Paria-Staaten im Völkerrecht (Pariah States in International Law) (Springer:Berlin 2004).
Journal Articles (Peer reviewed)
8. ‘Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations, and theEnvironmental Rule of Law’, Global Policy, forthcoming 2023.
9. ‘Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The Role of the social Superstructure Narrative’ (withFriederike Otto, et al.) (2022) 13 Global Policy, 736-750.
10. ‘European Consensus as Integrative Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation: Joining Climate Scienceand International Law under the European Convention on Human Rights’ Berkeley Journal ofInternational Law, online advance version, 2022
https://www.berkeleyjournalofinternationallaw.com/current-issue.
11. ‘Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation’ (with Stuart-Smith, Friederike Otto, et al.)(2021) 11 Nature Climate Change, 651-655.
12. ‘The “Advance Interference-Like Effect” of Climate Targets: Fundamental Rights,
Intergenerational Equity and the German Federal Constitutional Court’ (2021) 34 Journal ofEnvironmental Law, 135-162.
13. ‘In Search of a Fair Share: Article 112 Norwegian Constitution, International Law and anEmerging Inter-Jurisdictional Judicial Discourse in Climate Litigation’ (with Ida Roestgaard) (2021)
44 Fordham International Law Journal, 847-920.
14. ‘The First German Climate Case’ (2020) 22 Environmental Law Review, 215-226.
15. ‘Climate Change and Causation. Joining Law and Climate Science on the basis of Formal Logic’(with Friederike EL Otto) (2020) 27 Buffalo Environmental Law Journal, 49-86.
16. Integrating the ‘duty of care’ under the European Convention on Human Rights and the scienceand law of climate change: the decision of the Hague Court of Appeal in the Urgenda Case’ (2019)37 Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, 149-179.
17. ‘Revisiting Union Citizenship from a Fundamental Rights Perspective in the Time of Brexit’(with Volker Roeben, Jukka Snell & Pedro Telles) (2018) 5 European Human Rights Law Review,450-474.
18. ‘Continuity as the Rule, not the Exception: How the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
Protects Against Retroactivity of “Brexit”’ (with Volker Roeben) (2018) 5 European Human Rights
Law Review, 474-490.
19. ‘Taking the Paris Agreement forward. Continuous strategic decision-making on Climate Action
by the Meeting of the Parties’ (2017) 21 Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, 124-167.
20. ‘The German University Reform’ (with Frank Schorkopf) (2004) 1 The Annual of German &European Law, 1-42.
21. ‘German Constitutional Law Cases’ (2004) 10 European Public Law, 221-236.
22. ‘The Classification of States and the Creation of Status within the International Community’(2003) 7 Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, 79-182.
23.‘Rogue States - States Sponsoring Terrorism’ 2002 German Law Journal (online,http://www.germanlawjournal.net.).
24. ‘German Constitutional Law Cases’ (2001) 7 European Public Law, 549-563.
Book chapters (Peer reviewed)
25. ‘Union Citizenship as a fundamental right’ in Petra Minnerop, Volker Roeben, Robert Schützeand Jukka Snell (eds.), EU Citizenship as an Independent Status: Lessons beyond the Brexit Test
(Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023).
26. ‘Article VIII WTO Agreement, Status of the WTO’ in Peter-Tobias Stoll and Holger Hestermeyer(eds.), Institutions and Dispute Settlement Vol. 1 Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law(Brill Academic Publishers, 2022).
27. ‘The Legal Effect of the ‘Paris Rulebook’ under the Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation’ in Peter
Cameron, Volker Roeben and Mu Xi (eds.), Global Energy in Transition (Hart Publishing, 2021),
101-134.
28. ‘Solidarity Rights in Development, Peace, Environment, and Humanitarian Assistance’ (withNaomi Roht-Arriaza) in Petra Minnerop, Rüdiger Wolfrum and Frauke Lachenmann (eds.), MaxPlanck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Thematic Series, Band 3, International Law ofDevelopment (OUP 2019), 825-837.
29. ‘Climate Protection Agreements’ in Petra Minnerop, Rüdiger Wolfrum and Frauke Lachenmann(eds.), Max Planck Encyclopedias of Public International Law Thematic Series, Band 3,
International Law of Development (OUP 2019), 205-215.
30. ‘Climate Protection Agreements’ Max Planck Encyclopedias of Public International Law, online,OUP, e2207 (May 2018).
31. ‘Solidarity Rights in Development, Peace, Environment, and Humanitarian Assistance’ (withProfessor Naomi Roht-Arriaza), online, Max Planck Encyclopedias of Public International Law,OUP, e1470 (May 2018).
32. ‘Article VIII WTO Agreement’ in Rüdiger Wolfrum, Peter-Tobias Stoll and Karen Kaiser (eds.),
Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO Agreement), (Kluwer: The Hague
2006).
33. ‘Environmental Liability Provisions in International Law’ (with Christine Langenfeld) inRüdiger Wolfrum, Christine Langenfeld and Petra Minnerop (eds), Environmental Liability inInternational Law - Towards a Coherent Conception, (Erich Schmidt: Berlin 2005), 3-158.
34. ‘European Community Law’ in Rüdiger Wolfrum, Christine Langenfeld and Petra Minnerop(eds.), Environmental Liability in International Law - Towards a Coherent Conception, (ErichSchmidt: Berlin 2005), 159-210.
35. ‘Supplementary State Liability in European Law’ in Rüdiger Wolfrum, Christine Langenfeld andPetra Minnerop (eds.), Environmental Liability in International Law - Towards a CoherentConception, (Erich Schmidt: Berlin 2005), 211-222.
36. ‘Elements of Coherency in the Conception of International Environmental Liability Law’ (withRüdiger Wolfrum) in Rüdiger Wolfrum, Christine Langenfeld and Petra Minnerop (eds.),
Environmental Liability in International Law - Towards a Coherent Conception, (Erich Schmidt:

Berlin 2005), 495-512.
37. ‘Legal Status of State Sponsors of Terrorism in US Law’ in Christian Walter, Volker Rüben andSilja Vöneky (eds.), Terrorism as a challenge for international and national law: security versus
liberty (Springer 2004), 733-786 .
Additional Projects/Further research output
38. The Glasgow Climate Pact and Article 6 Rulebook (with Denis Kusaasira), Policy Report for theEnergy Transition Council (BEIS), 2022, 47 pages.
39. Pathways to designing bankable PPAs for Lao PDR renewable energy (with Denis Kusaasira),
Policy Report for the Energy Transition Council, 2022, 12 pages.
40. Climate Change in Context: Uganda. An Analysis of Uganda’s National Climate Change Act,
2021 (with Denis Kusaasira), 2021, 19 pages.
41. Article in Nature about interdisciplinary research: Climate science is supporting lawsuits that
dould help save the world, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02424-7 (Sept. 9, 2021).
42. ‘Attribution science and litigation: facilitating effective legal arguments and strategies to manage
climate change damages.’ (with Rupert Stuart-Smith (PI), Aisha Saad, Friederike Otto, Gaia Lisi,
Kristian Lauta, Thom Wetzer) Report for FILE Foundation (2020) Stuart-Smith, R., Saad, A., Otto,F., Lisi, G., Lauta, K., Minnerop, P. and Wetzer, T. (2021) Smith School of Enterprise and theEnvironment, Oxford.
The research conducted for the article on ‘Climate Change and Causation. Joining Law and Climate
Science on the basis of Formal Logic’ (with Friederike EL Otto, Oxford University) (2020) 27
Buffalo Environmental Law Journal (forthcoming 2020) led to interviews with the authors and apublication in the MIT based journal Technology Review, July 2020, 76-81.
43. ‘The Feasibility of Associate EU Citizenship for UK Citizens post-Brexit’ July 2017 (with Volker
Roeben, Jukka Snell, Pedro Telles and Keith Bush QC).
Available at
http://www.jillevans.net/the_feasibility_of_associate_eu_citizenship_for_uk_citizens_post_brexit.pdf.

Areas of expertise
Public International Law, International Environmental Law, Climate Change Law, Comparative Law