Research

Books

Research at the professorship is dedicated to public international law and international administrative law, in particular the law of international institutions, human rights law, law and development, as well as comparative and interdisciplinary foundations, especially from the perspective of the Global South.

Michael Riegner is Principal Investigator in the third-party funded projects Varieties of constitutionalism, Amazon of Rights and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict.  He is also a professorial member of the junior research groups Center for Political Practices and Orders and Effective and Innovative Policymaking in Contested Contexts. 

Information on these and other projects can be found on the Projects page.

The following is an overview of Prof. Michael Riegner's research interests and projects. A complete list of publications can be found on this page.

International administrative law

International law

Comparative constitutional law and foundations

Science communication and knowledge transfer

  • Co-editor and co-responsible for the DFG-project Völkerrechtsblog
  • Consultant for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and international organizations
  • Director of the Global Justice Clinic Erfurt

Current lectures and events

Recent Events and News can be found here. 

Doctoral supervision

Requests for supervision of PhD projects in the thematic spectrum of the professorship should be sent with a short sketch of the topic to Prof. Michael Riegner.

List of currently supervised PhD projects:

  • Shareholder Primacy and Stakeholder Conflicts in Corporations, Neeraj Grover
  • The Soldier and the Constitution in Brazil: Alternity and Insularity in the Armed Forces heterodox interpretation of the Army’s powers and limits, Evandro Sussekind
  • Political Instrumentalization of Anti-Corruption Agenda Using the Example of the "Car Wash" Operation in Latin America, Jessica Holl
  • Towards Quasi-Judicial Self-Empowerment? An Analysis of the Meta Oversight Board, Jasmin Wachau
  • International climate finance - a legal view at German practice, Lisa Palmen
  • Mobilizing transnational human rights law: the use of LkSG technicalities by Peruvian communities affected by copper mining, Carla Cabanillas Linares