Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae (PDF file)

Employment

  • August 2023: Offer of a W3 professorship in public law with an international focus (successor to Epping) at the Leibniz University of Hannover (declined)
  • April 2023 – October 2024: Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Trier
  • April 2022 – March 2023: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Trier
  • April 2022 – March 2023: Managing Director of the Institute for Digital Law Trier
  • Since January 2019: Director of the Institute for Law and Digitalisation, University of Trier
  • Since November 2018: Director of the Institute for Legal Policy, University of Trier
  • Since March 2017: Professor at the Chair of Public Law, University of Trier
  • September 2016: offer of a chair of public law (W3) offered by the University of Trier
  • Summer Semester 2014 – Winter Semester 2016/17: Lecturer of Public Law and Public International Law at the Universities of Münster, Potsdam, Göttingen, Hannover and Jena
  • April 2011 – March 2017: Senior Research Fellow at the Chair of Public Law and Public International Law, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • May 2008 – March 2011: Senior Research Fellow at the Chair of Public Law, including Public International and European Law, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”)
  • Dec. 2006 – Dec. 2008: Research Assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court (Justice Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Di Fabio)
  • Oct. 2003 – May 2008: Research Fellow at the Chair of Public Law, including Public International and European Law, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
  • Oct. 2002 – Jan. 2003: Detached National Expert at the European Commission, DG Enlargement

Education

  • June 2015: Habilitation in Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, thesis "Public International Law and Democracy - The Democratic Legitimacy of National and International Lawmaking"; lecturer ("venia legendi") in German and Comparative Public Law, Public International Law, European Law, and Law of Religion
  • Dec. 2007: Doctorate in Law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, thesis “Religious Freedom in Europe. The Individual Freedom of Religious Exercise in Great Britain, France, and Germany – A Comparison” Oct. 2003: Second Legal State Examination (Bar Exam Equivalent)
  • Febr. 2001: Magister Artium in History, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Sept. 2000: Maîtrise d’Histoire, University of Paris (Paris IV – Sorbonne)
  • Febr. 1999: First Legal State Examination
  • Sept. 1993 – Febr. 2001: Student of Law and History at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Münster, Cambridge (UK) and Paris (Paris IV – Sorbonne)

Awards

  • Member of the Network of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft "Grundrechte und Grundfreiheiten im europäischen Mehrebenensystem – Konkurrenzen und Interferenzen“ (Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the European Multilevel System – Overlaps and Interferences) 2009 – 2011
  • Fellow of the SIAS Summer Institute "Comparative Perspectives on Federalism and the Separation of Powers" (Wissenschaftskolleg/National Humanities Center) 2009 – 2010
  • Scholar, Cusanuswerk (Catholic Academic Foundation) 2003 – 2006
  • Scholar, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) 1993 – 1999

Research Interests

Constitutional Law, European and Public International Law, Comparative Law, with particular focus on

  • Law and Religion
  • Human Rights
  • Democracy
  • Law and Digitalisation

Memberships

  • Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer
  • German Society of International Law German Section of the International Commission of Jurists
  • International Society of Public Law (ICON Society)
  • European Society of International Law (ESIL)
  • Interdisciplinary Institute of Automated Systems, Hannover (RifaS)