Mark Somos

Mark Somos is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He co-edits Grotiana and served as Counsel at the International Court of Justice.

Symposium
International Law and the Political

The Politics of Reception

Edward Jones Corredera Mark Somos Hendrik Simon

400 years ago, Hugo Grotius published his most important work, De iure belli ac pacis (IBP). The work made Grotius famous and earned him the title of father of modern...

Article

The urgent, the plausible and the irreparable

Tom Sparks Mark Somos

The ICJ’s decision on Iran’s application for provisional measures in its high-profile proceedings against the United States of America for alleged violations of their 1955 Treaty of Amity was handed...