Markus Wagner
Biography
Markus Wagner is Associate Professor at the School of Law at the University of Wollongong. He previously held academic positions at Warwick Law School, the University of Miamiand the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg / Germany. He obtained his law degree in 2002 and a master’s degree in international law in 2005, both from the Faculty of Law at the University of Giessen / Germany. In 2006, he graduated from Stanford Law School with an LL.M. degree. Professor Wagner subsequently clerked for then-President of the Supreme Court of Israel, Aharon Barak. Starting in 2007, he worked for the Brussels office of WilmerHale.
Professor Wagner has advised international organisations and various national governments
on matters concerning international trade and investment law and policy, international humanitarian law and dispute settlement.
Professor Wagner is the Executive Vice-President of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), after having held various governing functions for SIEL. He has advised
international organizations and has presented at academic and professional conferences in the areas of autonomous weapons and international economic law. He holds an appointment as Visiting Research Fellow at the Mandela Institute at the Oliver Schreiner School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Professor Wagner serves as the Associate Editor for the Journal of World Investment and Trade ( JWIT) and sits on the advisory boards of the Göttingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) and the African Journal of International Economic Law (AfJIEL).