Peter Odrich
Main Focus
- History of International Law
- Legal History of the European Union
- International and Supranational Adjudication
- EU Law (Constitutional law; Trade, Environment and External Action Law)
Project
Curriculum Vitae
Peter Odrich is a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Research Group “The Hidden Heritage of the European Union: The Legacy of the Law of the League of Nations” at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, and a PhD Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Bruges.
His research interests include the history of international law and of European integration, international and supranational adjudication, as well as EU constitutional, trade and environmental law. His research focuses on mixed arbitral tribunals in the interwar period and the emergence of supranational adjudication in Europe.
Prior to starting his PhD, he completed a MA in European Transformation and Integration Studies at the College of Europe, where he received awards as best student, for the best thesis of his department, and the overall best thesis on the EU and Global Governance (awarded by UNU CRIS).
He holds a dual degree in French and German Law from the University of Cologne and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. During his studies, he received merit-based scholarships from the German Federal Foreign Office, the Max Planck Society, the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the Protestant Scholarship Foundation Villigst, and the Franco-German University Foundation.