Sophie Schuberth is a guest researcher and PhD-candidate at the Chair of Public Law and Public International Law (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heike Krieger) at Freie Universität Berlin. Her doctoral research project, titled ‘The Duty to Cooperate in the Law of State Responsibility: Bringing Serious Breaches of Peremptory Norms to an End during Occupation’, focuses on the enforcement of peremptory international law through third state cooperation in situations of military occupation.

She previously worked as legal assistant to Professor Andreas Zimmermann in proceedings before the International Court of Justice and supported ILC Member Professor Patrícia Galvão Teles during the 76th session of the International Law Commission in 2025. From 2019 to 2025 she was a research fellow in the Berlin Potsdam Research Group The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline? and at the Chair of Professor Heike Krieger at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2021/22 she spent 6 months as a visiting research fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Hebrew University of Jerusalem funded by a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

She served as an editor at Völkerrechtsblog and was a founding member and co-host of the Völkerrechtspodcast.

Sophie Schuberth studied law in Berlin (Freie Universität) and Barcelona (ESADE Law School), specializing in public international and European law. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant for Professor Heike Krieger at Freie Universität Berlin (2016-2019), interned at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, and participated in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and the International Day of Crisis.

• The International Law Commission as an interpreter of international law?: An introduction, Völkerrechtsblog, 22.02.2021, available here (with Justine Batura and Sué González Hauck)

  • Selection of episodes of the Völkerrechtspodcast:
    
    
    • Sophie Schuberth, Erik Tuchtfeld, Isabel Lischewski & Philipp Eschenhagen, #3 Bindung an Menschenrechte im Ausland: So close, no matter how far?, Völkerrechtsblog, 05.03.2021, doi: 10.17176/20210305-153635-0
    • Sophie Schuberth, Erik Tuchtfeld, Isabel Lischewski & Philipp Eschenhagen, #6 (Des-)information: Wahrheit und Fake News im Völkerrecht, Völkerrechtsblog, 04.06.2021, doi: 10.17176/20210702-183824-0
    • Sophie Schuberth, Isabel Lischewski, Philipp Eschenhagen & Erik Tuchtfeld, #9 Brennendes Öl: Schutz der Umwelt im bewaffneten Konflikt, Völkerrechtsblog, 03.09.2021
    • Sophie Schuberth, Erik Tuchtfeld, Isabel Lischewski & Philipp Eschenhagen, #12 Die Vereinten Nationen: UNverantwortlich?, Völkerrechtsblog, 03.12.2021, doi: 10.17176/20211203-210726-0
    • Sophie Schuberth, Erik Tuchtfeld, Isabel Lischewski & Philipp Eschenhagen, #15 Das internationale Investitionsschutzrecht durch die Linse der emerging powers, Völkerrechtsblog, 04.03.2022, doi: 10.17176/20220305-000919-0
    • Sophie Schuberth, Isabel Lischewski, Philipp Eschenhagen & Erik Tuchtfeld, #19 Der Kriegsparteistatus: It's complicated, Völkerrechtsblog, 08.07.2022, doi: 10.17176/20221007-175429-0
    • Sophie Schuberth, Isabel Lischewski, Philipp Eschenhagen & Erik Tuchtfeld, #22 Staatliche Hilfe zu militärischen Operationen: Regeln und Grenzen, Völkerrechtsblog, 04.11.2022, doi: 10.17176/20230203-130220-0
    • Sophie Schuberth, Philipp Eschenhagen, Erik Tuchtfeld & Isabel Lischewski, #26 Völkervertragsrecht: Können Friedensverträge nichtig sein?, Völkerrechtsblog, 07.04.2023, doi: 10.17176/20230407-190055-0
    • Viktoria Loukia Moissiadis, Isabel Lischewski, Sophie Schuberth, Erik Tuchtfeld & Philipp Eschenhagen, Völkerrecht und Nationalsozialismus (Teil I): Eine Kooperation mit dem Podcast "Mal nach den Rechten schauen", Völkerrechtsblog, 10.07.2023, doi: 10.17176/20230710-230947-0