Anne Peters is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Basel, a position she has held since 2001. Prior to taking up the tenured post she was Assistant Professor at the Walther Schücking Institute of Public International Law at the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, where she obtained the Habilitation-qualification on the basis of her Habilitation thesis Elemente einer Theorie der Verfassung Europas [Elements of a Theory of the Constitution of Europe].

Born in Berlin in 1964, Anne Peters studied Law, Modern Greek and Spanish at the Universities of Würzburg, Lausanne and Freiburg in Breisgau and pursued postgraduate studies at Harvard Law School. She was a fellow of the National Scholarship Foundation of the German People (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) and was awarded the prize from the Scientific Society at Freiburg im Breisgau for her doctoral dissertation on territorial referendums in international law in 1995.

Her research activities cover the field of general public international law, especially its constitutionalisation, European constitutional law, constitutional theory and constitutional comparison and national and international human rights. Anne Peters is a member of numerous academic societies and since 2004 has been a member of the executive board of the European Society for International Law.