Dr. Rémi Fuhrmann is Assistant Professor of Law at Euro University of Bahrain. Before joining Euro University of Bahrain, he completed a PhD in Law at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, United-Kingdom. Alongside his doctoral research, Dr. Fuhrmann was also a teaching assistant at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow, where he taught various undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including Public International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Jurisprudence and Common Law System and Method. At Euro University of Bahrain, he teaches various modules of the LLB program, ranging from Jurisprudence and Public Law to Criminal Law.

In addition to his PhD degree, Dr. Fuhrmann also earned a BA in International Relations and an LLM by research in International Law, both from the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada.

As a researcher, Dr. Fuhrmann’s scholarship focuses on international law, particularly international humanitarian law (IHL), the history of international law, international legal theory, law and (post)colonialism, human rights law, and international law and cultural heritage. In addition to his publications, Dr. Fuhrmann has been a speaker at various international conferences, including the European Society of International Law, the Socio-Legal Studies Association, Max Planck Law or the Critical Legal Conference. Dr. Fuhrmann is also an editor of the German Law Journal.

Peer-reviewed Journals

• “The Return of the “Savage”: Gaza and the Dark Side of International Humanitarian Law” (2025) Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 15:3, 334 (co-authored with Dr Victor Kattan).
• “Ending the Past: International Law, Intertemporality and Reparations for Past Wrongs” (2025) 26 German Law Journal 171(co-authored with Melissa Schweizer).
• “Les Temps du Droit International: Temporalité et Histoire Critique” (2024) Les Cahiers de Droit 65, 559. (Translation: “The Times of International Law: Temporality and Critical History”)
• “Légitimités conflictuelles: le droit international humanitaire entre légitimité du statut et légitimité de la cause” (2024) Canadian Yearbook of International Law 61, 33. (Translation: “Conflicting Legitimacies: Status and Cause as Bases of Legitimacy under International Humanitarian Law”)
• “Anne Orford, International Law and the Politics of History” (book review) (2022) Nordic Journal of International Law 91, 343.
• “Destruction of Cultural Property and Fragmentation of International Law: Beyond the Lex Specialis Principle” (2021) Journal of International Law and Comity 1, 21.

Monographs

• La Protection des Biens Culturels en cas de Conflits Armés et la Fragmentation du Droit International, Editions Yvon Blais, 169 p. (in press). (Translation: The Protection of Cultural Property in Event of Armed Conflict and the Fragmentation of International Law).

Doctoral and Master’s Theses

• The international laws of civil and colonial wars: A history, 1918-1949. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow (2025).
• La protection des biens culturels en cas de conflit armé et la bipolarité du droit international. LLM thesis, University of Quebec in Montreal (2020). (Translation: The protection of cultural property in event of armed conflict and international law’s bipolarity)

Grants and Awards

• Canadian Yearbook of International Law Charles B. Bourne Article Prize – Prize awarded for the article “Légitimités conflictuelles: le droit international humanitaire entre légitimité du statut et légitimité de la cause” (2024)
• Canadian Bar Association (Quebec Branch) Michel Robert Prize – Best LLM thesis (2022)
• University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences PhD Scholarship – Fully funded (2021-2024)
• Inclusion in the honour roll of the Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Quebec in Montreal (Academic years 2018-2019 & 2019-2020)
• University of Quebec of Montreal Law School Prize – Prize for the best student in the Master’s course Universal and Regional Models of International Organizations (Academic year 2017-2018)

Academic Presentations

• “Unethical yet Legal? Reflexions on the Doctrine of Intertemporality in International Law”: Heritage & Justice: Unpacking Legal Narratives in Natural History (The Center for Humanities of Nature, Berlin Natural History Museum, Germany, Nov 2025) (with Melissa Schweizer)
• “Orientalist, Colonial and Racist Biases as Legal Arguments: Gaza, International Humanitarian Law and the Legal Rationality of Genocidal Rhetoric”: Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference (University of Liverpool, United-Kingdom, Apr 2025) (with Dr Victor Kattan)
• “Moralising Civil Wars: The Laws of War and the Red-Cross Turn to Internal Conflicts, 1921-1949”: European Society of International Law Research Forum (University of Catania, Italy, Mar 2025)
• “Ending The Past: International Law, Intertemporality and Reparations for Past Wrongs”: German Law Journal & Max Planck Law Transnational Junior Faculty Forum (Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany, Sep 2024) (with Melissa Schweizer)
• “Arbitrariness as Necessity: The Laws of War and the Long Exclusion of Colonised People”: Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference (University of Portsmouth, United-Kingdom, Mar 2024)
• “The Laws of War and the Legitimacy of Civil and Colonial Conflicts”: Violent Turns: Sources, Interpretations, Responses (Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention, The American University of Paris, Paris, France, Jun 2023)
• “The Right to Self-Determination and the Shadow of Civil War: The Discipline of International Law and its Interwar Anxieties”: International Summer Research Institute, States and Nations: Diversity, Domination and Legitimacy (EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy, Jun 2023)
• “The 1918-1949 International Legal Discourse and Civil War: Between Tradition and Legal Experimentation”: Civil Wars & International Laws: The Irish Civil War 1922-23 and the Evolving Laws of War (Irish Center for Human Rights, University of Galway, Ireland, Apr 2023).
• “Moving Crimes against Cultural Property up the Hierarchy of Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law: Backlash and Weaponization”: War and Peace in the 21st Century – The Lifecycle of Modern Armed Conflicts (Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary, Sep 2022)
• “Carl Schmitt and the Laws of War: Friend or Enemy?”: Critical Legal Conference 2022 (The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Aug 2022)
• “Carl Schmitt and the Law of Armed Conflict: a Paradoxical Critic?”: Trinity College Law Student Colloquium (Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Feb 2022)
• “The Al Mahdi Case: Rethinking the Relationship between Lex Specialis and Lex Generalis”: International Law Association (ILA) Regional Conference (University Minho, Braga, Portugal, Sept 2019)
• “La Protection des Biens Culturels en Cas de Conflit Armé”: International Law and Culture, University of Sherbrooke International Law Summer School (University of Sherbrooke, Montreal, Canada, Jun 2019) (with Dr Sophie Rondeau) (Translation: “The Protection of Cultural Property in Event of Armed Conflict”)