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Christiane Ahlborn is Assistant Professor of Public International Law. Dr. Ahlborn is a general international lawyer with research interests and expertise in diverse areas of international law. Those areas include the law of international responsibility, the law of treaties, the law of international organizations, theories of international law, sustainable development law, international human rights law, international refugee law, and international law & technologies (cyberspace, AI, and nuclear). At Trinity's School of Law, she teaches modules and supervises students in Public International Law, the Law of International Organizations, and Refugee and Immigration Law. Dr. Ahlborn has published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the European Journal of International Law, the Leiden Journal of International Law, and the International Organizations Law Review. She serves on the Editorial Board of the newly established Arab Yearbook of Public and Private International Law and was previously a Submissions Editor for the Harvard International Law Journal. She is a Co-Chair of the United Nations (UN) Law Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association (ILA), a member of the ILA Committees on Business and Human Rights and Urbanization and International Law, a former member of the ILA Study Group on UN Sanctions, and former Co-Rapporteur of the ILA Study Group on Responsibility of International Organizations. She is also a member of the Coordinating Committee of the International Organizations Interest Group of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), the ESIL Diversity Advisory Body. At Trinity, she serves on the Steering Committee of the Trinity Centre for Post-Conflict Justice and the School of Law's Sustainability Working Group. Before joining Trinity, Dr. Ahlborn worked as a Legal Officer (Public International Law and Treaty Law) in the Office of Legal Affairs of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). She also served as Legal Officer in the Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs in New York, facilitating the work of the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the UN General Assembly and the International Law Commission (ILC). In addition, she had academic positions at the Vienna School of International Studies and the University of Amsterdam where she was a member of the 'Project on Shared Responsibility in International Law' (SHARES). She also has practice experience with Human Rights Watch, the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Amsterdam, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and an MIS in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID).

Representations

Details	Date
Member of the American Society of International Law	Since 2015

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details	Date From	Date To
European Society of International Law	2010	Present
American Society of International Law	2015	Present
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), German Section	2024	Present
Deutsche Vereinigung für Internationales Recht (DVIR)/German Branch of the International Law Association	2010	Present
American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA)	2015	Present
Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA)	2013	Present

Publications and other Research Outputs

Publications

Peer Reviewed (30)
Non Peer Reviewed (28)

From Functionalism to Constitutionalism: Translating Theories on IGO Powers into Practice in, editor(s)Gabrielle Marceau and Henner Goett , International Organizations Initiatives: How and Why International Organizations Adapt to Changes, Oxford University Press, 2025, pp41 - 56, [Christiane Ahlborn], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

Christiane Ahlborn, Towards a theory on the international legal personality of corporations, Transnational Legal Theory, 16, 2025, p1-31 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED URL

Reciprocity and International Organizations Law in, editor(s)Marcin Kaldunkski , Reciprocity in International Law, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2024, pp273-299 , [Christiane Ahlborn], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED URL

Christiane Ahlborn, Regulating Business and Human Rights through Soft and Hard Law: Lessons from International Nuclear Law, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 57, (2), 2024, p411 - 467, Journal Article, PUBLISHED URL

Christiane Ahlborn, The Meaning of Codification and Progressive Development in the International Law Commission's Mandate - Time for a Review?, Max Planck Journal of United Nations Law, 27, 2024, p1 - 49, Journal Article, PUBLISHED URL

Christiane Ahlborn and Michael A Becker, Protecting Irish Constitutional Identity on the International Plane: Costello v Government of Ireland, Irish Supreme Court Review, 6, 2024, p81 - 112, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

Christiane Ahlborn, Hate speech in Myanmar (since early 2010s), Cyber Law Toolkit, 2023, Case Study, PUBLISHED URL

Christiane Ahlborn, Hate speech in India (since 2017), Cyber Law Toolkit, 2023, Case Study, PUBLISHED URL

Christiane Ahlborn, Syria's 'social media war' (since 2011), Cyber Law Toolkit, 2023, Case Study, PUBLISHED URL

Arab Journal of Public & Private International Law, Brill, 2023, Editorial Board, PUBLISHED

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Christiane Ahlborn, Protecting Gaza's Marine Environment in Armed Conflict: Shared or Exclusive International Responsibility?, EJIL:Talk!, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

Christiane Ahlborn, 'Scenario 19: Hate Speech', Faculti, 2024, -, Film production, PUBLISHED

Christiane Ahlborn, Challenges to Human Rights Protection in the Digital Age, Protection of human rights in the context of digitalisation, Trinity College Dublin, 27 February 2024, 2024, European Law Students Association, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

Christiane Ahlborn, Lifting the Corporate Veil: The Responsibility of International Organizations and their Member States, University of Vienna, 2024, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

Christiane Ahlborn, Establishing an International Organization to Regulate Artificial Intelligence, University of Vienna, 2024, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

Christiane Ahlborn, Inter-State Reparations before International Courts and Tribunals (ICTs), Online, 2024, American Society of International Law International Courts and Tribunals Interest Group, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

Christiane Ahlborn, The Next 75 Years: Modern Threats, Conference on '75 years of Geneva Conventions - A Time to Reaffirm Commitments to the Rules of War', Dublin, 2024, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

Christiane Ahlborn, Immunity of Foreign Officials: the State of Play, London Conference on International Law, London, 2024, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

Christiane Ahlborn, The Evolution of the Role of the International Law Commission, 34th Informal Meeting of Legal Advisers to the United Nations General Assembly Sixth Committee, New York City, 2024, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

Christiane Ahlborn, Towards a Theory on the International Legal Personality of Companies, Decoding the Rights of Companies in the Technocene, Lund University, 4-5 December 2023, 2023, Conference Paper, PRESENTED

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Dr. Christiane Ahlborn

Adjunct Assistant Professor (Law)

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