UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

He is co-editor of “Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts” (Studies on the History of International Law) (Nomos, Baden-Baden) as well as the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston) and the Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung (ZHF, Duncker & Humblot). He has been a visiting professor and lecturer at various universities, including the University of Bonn; Bucerius Law School, Hamburg; Université Lumière Lyon 2; University of Konstanz; Université de Montréal; University of Tübingen; University of Vilnius (Lithuania); and most recently at the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law (JSW Law), Bhutan. Miloš Vec is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Foundation “Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation” (Berlin). He received support for his studies from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V.) and was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, the Walter Kalkhof-Rose Memorial Prize (Young Talent Award) of the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, and the Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities for his research. In 2000, he was appointed a founding member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He was awarded a Teaching Award of the University of Vienna in 2015 for his commitment to teaching, as well as Student Teaching Awards from the Faculty Student Council in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Miloš Vec's current research focuses on the history of international law from the 18th to the 20th century. His monograph on the Frankfurt-based international law and criminal law scholar Wolfgang Preiser, who founded an “Institute for the History of International Law” at Goethe University in 1955, was published in September 2025. This will be followed shortly by “The Congress of Vienna and the Transformation of International Law” (Brill; edited together with Mathias Schmoeckel) and “Western International Law, 1776-1870” (The Cambridge History of International Law VII, CUP, edited together with Paulina Starski). In Cologne, Miloš Vec is working on a textbook on the history of international law. Since 1989, he has been writing as a freelance journalist, primarily for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).