Notes on Contributors
Csilla Bertha
is an ip counsel at a pharma company, egis Plc, and a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of International Law Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Her academic research focuses on the challenges facing the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Kristoffer Burck
is a Ph.D. candidate of international law in the CBWNet project at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and associate fellow at prif. His research focusses on arms control, specifically chemical and biological weapons, at the intersection of law and international relations.
Glenn A. Cross
is the founder of Crossbow Analytics llc, a firm specializing in analysis of wmd issues. Since the early 1990s, he worked on chemical- and biological-weapons issues for several US government agencies. From September 2008 to October 2010, he was the deputy national intelligence officer for wmd responsible for biological-weapons issues on the director of national intelligence’s National Intelligence Council. He is the author of Dirty War: Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare, 1975–1980 (2017) and several peer-reviewed book chapters and articles in academic journals.
Craig Eggett
is an assistant professor of International Law at Maastricht University. He holds a Ph.D. and ll.m. from Maastricht University and an ll.b. from Durham University. Craig teaches and researches on public international law and international criminal law.
Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan
is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (prif), specializing in international law, especially humanitarian and human rights law, as well as arms control and emerging military technologies. Her work focuses on compliance with norms against chemical and biological weapons and the implications of artificial intelligence in warfare.
Alexander Kelle
is senior researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (ifsh). He coordinates CBWNet and is assigned to the ifsh Berlin Office. Previously, he was Senior Policy Officer in the Office of Strategy and Policy of the opcw in The Hague (2013–2019). Prior to this he taught and conducted research at the universities of Bradford, Belfast, and Bath, UK. He received his Ph.D. in political science from J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt.
Robert Lawless
is an associate professor in the Department of Law and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy, West Point. He is also Research Director of the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare and editor for Articles of War, the Lieber Institute’s loac publication forum.
Detlef Mannig
has been an industrial chemist for more than thirty years in multiple functions in Germany, the USA, and China. Having graduated from Bonn University, Yale University, and Munich University, he has been involved in cwc and btcw issues for also more than 30 years, including functions at chemical industry associations as well as with opcw. He is author of around 125 publications and presentations (see www.mannig-consulting.com). For his engagement, he received the German Federal Cross of Merit.
Thilo Marauhn
is professor of Public Law and International Law at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Head of the International Law Research Group at prif, and Extraordinary Professor of International Arms Control Law at the University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Asser Institute.
Sarah Thin
is an assistant professor of International Law at Radboud University Nijmegen. She holds a Ph.D. from Maastricht University, an ll.m. from the University of Nottingham, and an ll.b. from Durham University.
Ralf Trapp
is a consultant on chemical and biological weapons arms control, providing services, amongst others, to the UN, the opcw and the EU. He participated in the negotiations of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the setting-up of the opcw.
Barry de Vries
is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, specializing in public international law and arms control law. He holds a Ph.D. from Justus-Liebig University Giessen, an ll.m. from the Free University Brussel and an M.Sc., ll.m. and ll.b. from the Free University Amsterdam.