Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Rossa

National and International Public Law with a Focus on the Protection of Cultural Heritage (deputy professor)

Institute of Cultural Studies

Tel.: +49 89 6004-2812

Elisabeth Rossa studied law at the University of Cologne and the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. (Naples). She was a research and teaching fellow at the Institute of Public International Law and Comparative Public Law at the University of Cologne and wrote her human rights centered PhD thesis „Children’s Rights. The Convention on the Rights of the child in an international and national context“ (Cologne 2013). After her legal traineeship with a stage at the Federal Constitutional Court (Department Prof. Dr. Peter M. Huber) she returned to the Institute of Public International Law and Comparative Public Law at the University of Cologne and completed her habilitation thesis in 2024, examining questions of european integration regarding European defence policy from a constitutional perspective („The Finality of European Defence. An Investigation Against the Background of the Basic Law“, Tübingen 2025). She received the venia legendi for Public Law, Public International Law and European Union Law. After a research stay at the University of California, Berkeley, interim professorships at the universities of Trier and Cologne and a visiting professorship at the University of Salzburg she recently is Deputy Professor for National and International Public Law with a Focus on the Protection of Culutral Heritage at the Department of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, University of the Bundeswehr, Munich.

Research focus

European integration and the relationship between the European Union and its Member States
Constitutional concepts of peace and open statehood
Human rights protection
The Concept of states in Public International Law
Cultural heritage

Current Publications (Selection)

Kinderrechte. Das Übereinkommen über die Rechte des Kindes im internationalen und nationalen Kontext, Kölner Schriften zu Staat und Recht, Bd. 54, zugl. Dissertation, Köln 2013

Völkerrecht (Lehrbuch in der Reihe „Jurakompakt“ des C. H. Beck Verlages), 3. Aufl. 2023 (gemeinsam mit Dr. Yvonne Dorf)

Die Finalität Europäischer Verteidigung. Eine Untersuchung vor dem Hintergrund des Grundgesetzes, zugl. Habilitationsschrift, Tübingen 2025

Ein Individualbeschwerderecht für Kinder, AVR 52 (2014), S. 566-581

Kunstfreiheit und Eigentumsschutz im Lichte des Europarechts. Das Stilmittel des Samplings vor dem EuGH, MMR (2017), S. 665-670

Bedeutet die Zukunft der Europäischen Union das Ende unserer Verfassung?, in: Martini/Rathke (Hrsg.), Zehn Jahre Vertrag von Lissabon. Reflexionen zur Zukunft der europäischen Integration, EuR Beiheft 3/2020, S. 39-54

Deutsche Waffenlieferungen im Verwaltungsprozess – Überlegungen zu der vorbeugenden Unterlassungsklage im Spiegel des Art. 19 Abs. 4 GG, DVBl 11/2025, S. 661-667