Kirk W. Junker holds the Chair of U.S. American Law at the University of Cologne, where he is also Director of the Environmental Law Center, Board Chair of the International Master of Environmental Science (I.M.E.S.) Program, and a Principal Investigator at the Global South Studies Centre. He also serves as an expert witness before German courts. Before joining the Law Faculty at the University of Cologne, Prof. Junker was Associate Professor of Law and Director of International Programs at the Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He held the first cross-border academic position after the Belfast Agreement simultaneously being a full-time faculty member at both Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland. Earlier, he was a member of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Open University in the United Kingdom. Prof. Junker is an Adjunct Professor of Comparative and International Environmental Law to the Law Faculty at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; the Institute of Environment Education and Research, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune, India; and Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Northern Macedonia. Prof. Junker is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and before the federal courts of the U.S.A. For nine years, he practiced environmental law as litigation counsel to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources.