Professor Dr. jur. Thomas Giegerich, LL.M. (Univ. of Virginia 1985) holds a Chair of European Union Law, Public International Law and Public Law at the Faculty of Law, Saarland University, Germany (since 2012) where he also is Director of the Europa-Institut. In 2017, he was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration, Antidiscrimination, Human Rights and Diversity (until 2021). Before joining Saarland University, he held chairs at the Universities of Bremen and Kiel where he also was Director of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law. Thomas Giegerich has lectured at universities in China, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the USA. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge (2007), a Visiting Professor at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh (2011-12), and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence (2016). He has published widely on European Union law, public international law and (comparative) constitutional law with an emphasis on human rights.