Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht
Armin von Bogdandy is director at the Max Planck Institute for comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and Professor for Public Law at the University in Frankfurt/Main. He studied law and philosophy before obtaining a Ph.D. in Freiburg (1988) and qualifying as a professor at the FU Berlin (1996).
He has been President of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal as well as a member of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) and the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights; he has held visiting positions at the New York University School of Law, the European University Institute, the Xiamen Academy of International Law, and the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, among others.
Armin von Bogdandy is the recipient of the Leibniz Prize (2014), the Premio Internacional “Hector Fix Zamudio” (2015), the “Mazo” (gavel) of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights (2015), and the prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of legal and economic foundations by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (2008).
His research centers on the structural changes affecting public law, be they theoretical, doctrinal, or practical.
Legal Education
1979 - 1984 Law studies, first state exam (LL.B./J.D. equivalent), Freiburg/Breisgau
1984 - 1986 Doctoral thesis in law, funded by a scholarship of the state of Baden Württemberg on Hegel’s Theory of the Statute (Gesetz), Freiburg/Breisgau
1986 - 1989 Legal apprenticeship at the Berlin Court of Appeal
1989 Second state exam, Berlin
1996 Habilitation at the Freie Universität Berlin
Philosophical Education
1980 - 1987 Freiburg, Rome, Berlin, Master of Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin
Scientific Career
1989 - 1992 Research Fellow at the Institute of International, European and Foreign Public Law at the Freie Universität Berlin
1993 - 1995 Awardee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (National Trust for Advanced Studies)
1995 - 1996 Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence
1996 - 1997 Invited Professor (Lehrstuhlvertreter) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Chair of Philosophy of Law
1997 Full Professor (C4) for Public Law, European Law and International Economic Law as well as Legal Philosophy at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/Main
2001 - 2014 Judge at the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal, Paris, since 2006 President of the Tribunal
Since 2002 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
2005 - 2008 Member of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) appointed by the President of the Federal Republic
2008 - 2013 Member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights
2010 - 2015 Senior Emile Noël Fellow of the Global Law School of New York University
2013 - 2017 Partner Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders”, Frankfurt
Since 2015 Member of the Board of Trustees (Kuratorium) of the Deutscher Studienpreis
Visiting Professorships
Institut für Höhere Studien, Vienna; Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Helsinki;
Global Law Professor at the New York University School of Law; Università degli Studi di Roma Tre; Centro
de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid; Xiamen Academy of International Law, China; Tel Aviv
University; Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa; University of Pennsylvania Law School; Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; European University Institute (General
Course); Venice Academy of Human Rights; Universidad Externado de Colombia; Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona; Università di Bologna; Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas
Prizes
Awardee of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Premio Internacional de Investigación "Héctor Fix Zamudio" of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México
Mazo of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights “en reconocimiento por extraordinario aporte en la difusión y fortalecimiento de los derechos humanos”
Prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of foundations of law and economics from the BerlinBrandenburgian Academy of Sciences
Memberships
Honorary Member of the Sección Mexicana del Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Constitucional
Honorary Member of the Asociación Argentina de Derecho Constitucional
Member of the Scientific Council of:
Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional, Common Market Law Review, ELTE Law Journal, Eunomía.
Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad, European Yearbook of International Economic Law, Global Constitutionalism, International Organizations Law Review, Israel Law Review, Revista Española de Derecho
Europeo, Revista General de Derecho Europeo, Teoría y Realidad Constitucional, Revista de Derecho
Comunitario Europeo, Rivista Percorsi Costituzionali, Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico, Per una koiné
costituzionale
Editorships
Der Staat. Zeitschrift für Staatslehre, deutsches und europäisches öffentliches Recht und
Verfassungsgeschichte; Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (ZaöRV) – Heidelberg
Journal of International Law (HJIL); Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht,
Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht.