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Sophie Schuberth is a research fellow and PhD-candidate at Freie Universität Berlin, working in the Berlin Potsdam Research Group The International Rule of Law- Rise or Decline?. In 2021/22 she was a visiting research fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Hebrew University of Jerusalem funded by a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Her doctoral research project titled ‘Ending Serious Breaches of Peremptory Norms: The Third State Duty to Cooperate and Occupation’ focuses on the enforcement of peremptory international law through third state cooperation in situations of occupation. Her other fields of interest include the law of state responsibility, international humanitarian law, the law of the sea, dispute resolution and norm change in international law. She worked as legal assistant to Professor Andreas Zimmermann in proceedings before the International Court of Justice, and was an editor at Völkerrechtsblog and co-host of the Völkerrechtspodcast. During her law studies in Berlin (Freie Universität) and Barcelona (ESADE Law School) she specialised in public international and European law, taking part in the Philipp C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition and the International Day of Crisis. During her studies, she also worked as a student assistant for Professor Heike Krieger and interned at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy.