From 2012-2017 he was a member of the International Academic Commission at the Federal Ministry of Justice for Critical Study of the National Socialist Past. The final report of the Commission was published in 2016: The Rosenburg Files. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi Past. He is one of the vice-presidents of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy.
Dr. Gurgen Petrossian, LL.M. is a senior research associate at the International Criminal Law Research Unit (ICLU) at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg. He holds a Master degree in Law from Heidelberg University and a Bachelor degree in Law from Yerevan State University. He completed his PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg in 2018. His research interests lie mainly in international law, international criminal law and human rights. From 2016-2019 he was the one of the main organisers of the Nuremberg Moot Court law competition. He was practicing as legal advisor in cases in Armenia and Madagascar. He is the president of German-Armenian Law Association.