Christian Pogies has been working at SW&D since 2025 and is the managing editor of the quarterly De Gruyter Brill publication SIRIUS – Journal for Strategic Analyses.

Previously, he was a doctoral student and researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt. His dissertation, currently being finalised at the Faculty of Law at Goethe University Frankfurt, examines the fragmentation of the law of the sea into regional orders. He is a graduate of the MA programme 'International Studies / Peace and Conflict Research' (Goethe University Frankfurt and Technical University Darmstadt), with a specialisation in 'Globalisation and Law'. He holds a BA in political Science with a focus on the sociology of law from the University of Marburg. At Kiel University, he also studied history alongside political science. He is a member of the editorial team of Völkerrechtsblog.