Jochen Abr. Frowein is Professor emeritus at the University of Heidelberg. He was the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law from 1981 to 2002. From 1973 to 1993 he was a Member of the European Commission of Human Rights where he served as Vice-President from 1981 to 1993.

Professor Frowein is Professor of Constitutional law and Public International Law. He held positions at the University of Bochum, the University of Bielefeld and the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of a commentary on the European Convention on Human Rights (together with W. Peukert). He has commented Articles 39 to 43 of the Charter of the United Nations in the commentary on the Charter of the United Nations edited by B. Simma. Other scholarly writings include ‘The European Convention on Human Rights as the Public Order of Europe’ (A. Cassese and J.H.H. Weiler, Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law, 1990) and ‘The Transformation of Constitutional Law through the European Convention on Human Rights’ (Human Rights Law Journal, 2015).

Professor Frowein was Vice-President of the Max Planck Society, Vice-President of the German Research Foundation and Vice-President of the International Commission of Jurists. He has acted on behalf of the German Government in a number of cases before the European Court of Human Rights and was involved in major cases before the German Federal Constitutional Court, the European Court of Justice and the International Court of Justice.