Curriculum Vitae

• 1977 born in Stadt Lahn/Gießen (Germany)

• 1996–2001: Studies of law at the University of Hannover, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and University of Surrey (England)

• 2002–2004: Research and Teaching Assistant University of Basel

• 2004: Dr. iur (Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel)

• 2004-2006: Munich Higher Regional Court, Required Legal Clerkships

• 2006-2007: New York University School of Law, LL.M. Degree in International Legal Studies (Hugo Grotius Scholar)

• 2007-2010: Munich, Associate Lawyer

• 2010-2020: Junior Professor of Public Law with a focus on Public International Law, University of Augsburg

• 2017: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Habilitation, venia legendi: Public Law, Public International Law and European Law.

• 2017-2020: Visiting Professor in Berlin, Potsdam, Göttingen and München

• 2018-2020: Member of the Bavarian Constitutional Court

• Since September 2020: Professor of Public and Public International Law, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

Research interests 

• Public International Law, in particular: Treaty Law, Interpretation and Human Rights

• Constitutional Identity

• The Relationship between Public International Law, European Law und National Law

• Constitutional Amendments and Constituent Power

• European Economic Law

Publications

• Pandora oder Montesquieu? Die ultra-vires Kontrolle von Völker- und Unionsrecht durch nationale Verfassungsgerichte, AöR 146 (2021), 1-49

• The basic-structure doctrine and its German and French origins: a tale of migration, integration, invention and forgetting, Indian Law Review 2021, 45-61
  Eine aktuelle Diskussion des Artikels findet derzeit auf dem indischen Blog „law and other things“ statt:
  https://lawandotherthings.com/2022/02/the-basic-structure-doctrine-and-its-german-and-french-origins-a-tale-of-migration-integration-invention-and-forgetting-summary/

• Verfassungsidentität: Ein normatives Konzept des Grundgesetzes?, Habilitationsschrift, Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Jus Publicum, Tübingen, 2018                                                                      

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