Malcolm Jorgensen

Dr. Malcolm Jorgensen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. He holds a PhD in International Law and American Foreign Policy from the University of Sydney, which has been published as American Foreign Policy Ideology and The International Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020; Foreword by Prof. Anthea Roberts). He is an Associate of the Sydney Centre for International Law, Sydney Law School, and formerly a Research Fellow of the DFG funded Berlin Potsdam Research Group ‘International Law – Rise or Decline?’. During his doctoral studies Malcolm was resident at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, where he was a Research Associate and Lecturer in American Politics. He has previously served as a Judge’s Associate in the Supreme Court of Queensland and as an Assistant Director in the Legal Division of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Jointly with Prof. Christian Marxsen (Humboldt University of Berlin), he is the recipient of a two year VolkswagenStiftung grant for a comparative international legal policy project and associated workshops, investigating states' foreign policy approaches towards the international legal order. He is also a co-editor of the forthcoming 'Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Diplomacy' (2025).