Dr Sigrid Mehring-Zier, LL.M.
Lawyer
Profile
The focus of Dr Sigrid Mehring-Zier’s work is on individual defence briefs related to white-collar crime and tax offences as well as advisory services for and the representation of corporate clients in criminal law cases, also in an international context. Having obtained a doctorate on the topic of medical war crimes and as a graduate of both German and Dutch law, Dr Mehring-Zier has in-depth expertise in German legal proceedings under international criminal law.
Curriculum vitae
- Legal studies at the University of Amsterdam with a focus on international law
- Academic assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Interna-tional Law (Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum)
- Doctorate at the University of Hamburg (“The Role of Physicians in Armed Conflict – The Intersection of International Humanitarian Law and Medical Ethics“)
- Adviser on human rights, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
- Lawyer at Ufer Knauer/Knauer Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten (2020-2023)
- Lawyer at Feigen Graf since 2023
References
Areas of Practice
Criminal employment law
Capital markets criminal law
Consumer criminal law
Embezzlement proceedings
Banking criminal law
Antitrust fine proceedings
Tax criminal law
Antitrust criminal law
Cum/ex proceedings
Criminal law on corruption
Environmental criminal law
Selected Publications
Command Responsibility
Mehring-Zier/Pira
The Companion to International Humanitarian Law, 246 ff. 2018
First do no harm
Mehring-Zier
Medical Ethics in International Humanitarian Law, 2015
The Judgment of the German Bundesverfassungsgericht concerning Reparations for the Victims of the Varvarin Bombing
Mehring-Zier
International Criminal Law Review, 191 ff., 2014
Water Law and Cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris Region
Mehring-Zier/Kibaroglu/Kirschner/Wolfrum
Herausgeberschaft, 2013
The Ethicalization of International Humanitarian Law
Mehring-Zier
Ethics and Law – The Ethicalization of Law, 229 ff., 2013
The rules for medics in armed conflict
Mehring-Zier
Humanitäres Völkerrecht – Informationsschriften, 193 ff., 2012
Collective Punishment
Mehring-Zier/Rabatt
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, 2012
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Mehring-Zier
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, 2012
Book Review of Gerd Hankel: The prohibition of killing in war
Mehring-Zier
European Journal of International Law, 1198 ff., 2011
Medical War Crimes
Mehring-Zier
Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Vol. 15, 229 ff., 2011
International cooperation: from peacekeeping to sustainable development
Mehring-Zier
Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 71, 443 ff., 2010
The Rights and Duties of Physicians in Armed Conflicts
Mehring-Zier
Militair Rechtelijk Tijdschrift, 205 ff., 2010
Doctors as actors in war
Mehring-Zier
Akteure in Krieg und Frieden, 69 ff., 2010