Anne Peters

Anne Peters (born 15 November 1964 in Berlin) is a German-Swiss legal scholar and an expert on public international law. She is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, a Titular Professor of Law at the University of Basel, an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Heidelberg and an Honorary Professor of Law at the Free University of Berlin. She is known for her research on the constitutionalisation and history of public international law, global animal law, global governance and the status of humans in international law. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the History of International Law.