Siegfried Wiessner (born 26 February 1953 in Germany) is a Professor of Law and the Founder and Director of St. Thomas University's Graduate Program in Intercultural Human Rights in Miami, Florida.
In fall 2009, he was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
[3] Throughout his life, Professor Wiessner has pushed the envelope in favor of social justice, protection of the poor and marginalized.
[8] His main contribution to an order of human dignity worldwide has been, as of yet, his research on, and subsequent development of, the law regarding the rights and status of indigenous peoples.
[9] As Chair of the International Law Association's Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples he led 30 experts from around the globe to a thorough review of this position, culminating in the organization's emphatic approval of Resolution No.
program so far, it sent out "warriors for dignity" who are confidently using the arms of the law and other peaceful instruments to bring about positive change in all four corners of the world.
Die Funktion der Staatsangehörigkeit [The Function of Nationality] (Tübingen University Press, 1989), 414 pp.
International Law in Contemporary Perspective (Casebook,Foundation Press 2004), with W. Michael Reisman, Mahnoush Arsanjani and Gayl Westerman,1584 pp.
Looking to the Future: Essays on International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman (Editor, with Mahnoush Arsanjani, Jacob Katz Cogan & Robert D. Sloane, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011), 1100 pp.
The New Haven School of Jurisprudence: A Universal Toolkit for Understanding and Shaping the Law, 18 Asia Pacific L. Rev.