Prof. Markus W. Gehring, J.S.D., LL.M. (Yale), Dr. iur. (Hamb), M.A. (Cantab) is a legal scholar and jurist with expertise in international, European, and sustainable development law.

Prof Gehring is a professor in the Faculty of Law and an affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a law fellow and Director of Studies at Hughes Hall. Prof Gehring is a Founding Fellow of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (CEENRG) and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL). Before joining Cambridge Law, Prof Gehring was a Lecturer in International and European Law at the Centre of International Studies, Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLIS) and Fellow in Law at Cambridge University (Robinson College). He previously served as Tutor in Public International Law at the University of Oxford and taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg. Prof Gehring also held the Jean Monnet Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa Law Faculty in Canada, where he was also associated as professor in Civil Law Section. He has been a visiting professor in several universities around the globe.

Prof Gehring is a member of the Frankfurt Bar, a member of the Ontario Bar, and a former associate member of the Brussels Bar. He contributes actively to international legal policy and scholarship through his roles as a member of the International Law Association (German Branch), serving on its Committee on International Law on Natural Resources, and as a member of the IUCN Environmental Law Commission and its Research and Scholarship Committees, where he has contributed to several high-profile research projects. Before entering academia, Prof Gehring practiced European competition and international trade law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in Brussels. He was also Legal Fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in Geneva, where he edited the BRIDGES legal column.

Prof Gehring has contributed extensively to research and policy with a focus on the constitutional dimensions of European and international trade law, and sustainable development law. He is the author/editor of several books including with Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Sustainable Development in World Trade Law (Kluwer Law International, 2005) and with J Hepburn and Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger World Trade Law in Practice (Globe Publishing, 2007). In addition to his wide publication and research on sustainable development law, Prof. Gehring has remarkable experience advising and representing institutions in global treaty negotiations and multilateral fora. As the Lead Counsel for Sustainable Trade, Investment and Finance Law with the Centre of International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), he represented the CISDL at several World Trade Organization Ministerial Conferences over the last 15 years; as well as at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development and various other international negotiations.