Water Law and Cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris Region: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach

With a special focus on normative questions of water governance in the relations between Iraq, Syria and Turkey, Water Law and Cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris Region: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach examines different issues of management regarding these shared waters.

Ayşegül Kibaroğlu, Ph.D. (1998), Bilkent University, is professor at the International Relations Department at Okan University Istanbul. Previously she was Vice Chair of the Department of International Relations at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Dr. Kibaroğlu has published extensively on the politics of water resources with an emphasis on the Euphrates Tigris river basin including a book entitled Building a Regime for the Waters of the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin (Kluwer 2002).

Adele J. Kirschner studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg, Germany and Geneva, Switzerland. She worked as a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and was a member of the Institute’s project team on ＂Water Conflicts in International Law＂. She now works for Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law and is writing her Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg.

Sigrid Mehring studied law at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands and McGill University, Montréal, Canada. She worked as a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and is currently legal advisor on the right to health at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Agency for International Cooperation, GIZ).

Rüdiger Wolfrum, em. Dr. Dr. h.c., was Professor of National and International Public Law at the Universities of Mainz (1982), Kiel (1982-1993) and Heidelberg (1993-2012). He was also Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (1993-2012). In 1996 he was appointed as Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and served as president from 2005 to 2008. He has published extensively in various fields of international law.