Prof. Dr. Michael Riegner, LL.M. (NYU)

• International administrative law and public international law, in particular the law of international institutions, human rights protection, law and development
• Comparative constitutional law and law in the Global South
• Interdisciplinary legal research

An overview of all research topics and projects can be found here.

• Since 1 October 2021, holder of the assistent professorship for international administrative law and public international law (W1 with tenure track to W3) at the University of Erfurt
• 2017: Doctorate at the Humboldt University of Berlin on the topic of "Information administrative law of international institutions"
• 2014-21: Research employee at the Chair of Public Law and Comparative Law (Professor Philipp Dann) at the Humboldt University of Berlin; temporarily also at the Law and Society Institute Berlin; parental leave 2017/18
• 2013-14: LLM at the New York University School of Law as a Hauser Global LLM Scholar
• 2011-14: Research employee at Justus Liebig University Giessen, member of the junior research group "Law and Governance of Development Cooperation"
• 2008-11: Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg
• 2008-10: Legal clerkship in Heidelberg, Speyer, Pristina/Kosovo; admitted to the bar
• 2003-8: Legal studies in Passau and Geneva, internships at the Federal Foreign Office, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and international law firms

Below you will find a representative selection of publications. A complete list of publications can be found here.

I. Monographs and editorships:

1 The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law, 2020 (ed. with Philipp Dann & Maxim Bönnemannn)(to the volume)

2. information management law of international institutions, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017,(to the book)

3. special issues of Constitution and Law Overseas/World Comparative Law (editor of the theme issue, co-editor of the journal): "The Right to Information", issue 50(4) (2017), pp. 329-476; "The Directive Constitution in the Varieties of Constitutionalism", issue 56(3) (2023), pp. 493-610; "Varieties of Constitutionalism", issue 57(2) (2024) (to the journal)

4 Constitutional Justice in Southeast Europe. Constitutional Courts in Kosovo, Serbia, Albania and Hungary between domestic judiciaries and the European Court of Human Rights, 2012 (ed. with Enver Hasani & Péter Paczolay)(to the book)

II Essays and chapters:

1. Canonising the corporation: Liberal, social and transformative varieties of corporate constitutionalism, in: Sujit Choudhry/Michaela Hailbronner/Michael Kumm (eds.), Global Canons in an Age of Uncertainty: Debating Foundational Texts of Constitutional Democracy and Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 530-551

2. Comparative Human Rights Law, in: BårdAndreassen/Hans-Otto Sano/Claire Methven O'Brien, Research Methods in Human Rights: A Handbook, Cheltenam: Edward Elgar, 2nd ed. 2024, 37-56

3. Postcolonial politics of memory in German law: From the decolonisation of public space to decolonial democracy, in: Jochen v. Bernstorff/Philipp Dann/Isabel Feichtner (eds.), (Post)Colonial Jurisprudence, 2022, 549-578

4. Comparative Foreign Relations Law between Centre and Periphery: Liberal and Postcolonial Perspectives, in: Helmut Aust/Thomas Kleinlein (eds.), Encounters between Foreign Relations Law and Public International Law, Cambridge: CUP, 2021, 60-85 (to the text/Open Access)

5. The Southern Turn in Comparative Constitutional Law: An Introduction, in: Dann/Riegner/Bönnemann (eds.), The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law, Oxford: OUP, 2020, 1-36 (to the text;also here)

6. Regionalising Business and Human Rights: Corporate Accountability in the European, African and Inter-American Human Rights Systems, Die Friedens-Warte/JIPO 93 (2020), 70-95 (to the text;also here)

7. The World Bank's Environmental and Social Framework and the Evolution of Global Order, Leiden Journal of International Law 32 (2019)

8. International Institutions and the City, in: Aust/du Plessis (eds.), The Globalisation of Urban Governance, London: Routledge, 2019, 38-64

9. Access to information as a human right and constitutional guarantee, Law and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America 50(4) (2017), pp. 332-366

10. Towards an International Institutional Law of Information, International Organisations Law Review 12 (2015), 50-80

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