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Robin Geiß (born 1974) is a legal scholar and practitioner in the field of public international law and global security. He is Director of the Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security (GCILS) and Professor at the University of Glasgow. He also holds the Swiss Humanitarian Law Chair at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.

Education and career
Geiß holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Kiel and an LLM degree in international legal studies from New York University (NYU).

Geiß has previously served with the International Committee of the Red Cross as Legal Adviser and as ICRC Delegate to the UN. After leaving the ICRC, Geiß was Professor of International and European Law at the University of Potsdam before joining the University of Glasgow in 2013 where he founded the Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security (GCILS) together with Christian Tams. Geiß developed a dual master degree programme in collaboration with the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). In 2020, he received EU funding for an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in the International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development.

He is a visiting scholar at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po and Member of the Scientific Advisory Councils of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) as well as the German Foundation for Peace Research. He was a member of the international group of experts that drafted the Tallinn Manual on cyberwarfare under the auspices of NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and is co-editor of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law.

Selected Publications

 * Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: Technology, Definition, Ethics, Law and Security, Berlin 2017 (edited in collaboration with the Federal Foreign Office)
 * Humanizing the Laws of War, Cambridge University Press 2017 (co-edited with Andreas Zimmermann)
 * Autonomous Weapons Systems, Cambridge University Press 2016 (co-edited with Nehal Butha, Claus Kreß et al.)
 * Ethnic Cleansing, in: Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Law, Oxford University Press 2012
 * Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea, Oxford University Press 2011 (co-authored with Anna Petrig)
 * Humanitarian Safeguards in Economic Sanctions Regimes, Harvard Human Rights Journal 18 (2005), 167-199
 * Failed States, Duncker & Humblot 2005