Dr. Tim Wihl

Tim Wihl is a deputy professor of public law and modern legal history at the University of Erfurt since April 2022. Since July 2024, he is also working as a research associate at the Global Justice Clinic. 

Previously, he had been Visiting Professor of Political Theory, Constitutional Theory and Legal Relations of Politics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2020, before he was a guest lecturer at the Department of Politics and Law at Freie Universität Berlin from October 2018. From 2009 to 2018, he was a research employee at the Faculty of Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin at the Chair of Public Law, in particular Constitutional Law, and Philosophy of Law under Professor Dr. Christoph Möllers. In 2013 he was a visiting researcher at the University of Paris I - Sorbonne, in 2014 Visiting Student Research Collaborator at Princeton University. Between 2014 and 2016, he completed his legal clerkship in Berlin with stations at the Federal Chancellery and at the Institut Michel Villey of the University of Paris II - Panthéon Assas. Since 2017, he has worked as an adjunct lecturer at the HWR Berlin and the OSI. In 2018, he was a research employee in the Humboldt Law Clinic Fundamental and Human Rights at the Chair of Professor Dr Susanne Baer, HU Berlin.

In 2018, Tim Wihl received funding from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation for his thesis „Aufhebungsrechte. Form, Zeitlichkeit und Gleichheit der Grund- und Menschenrechte“ for his Dr. iur. degree (summa cum laude). The study attempts to conceptually restructure the legal comparison in the field of fundamental and human rights through an independent typology of (1.) the forms of fundamental rights as variable determinacy, (2.) the temporally structured contents and (3.) the levels of constitutive equality. In a broader sense, the analysis follows a Hegelian tradition.

Tim Wihl studied political science and law in Cologne and Berlin (scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation) and passed the first and second state examinations in law.
He is an associate at the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin and a member of the founding group of the German chapter of the International Society for Public Law.

• Fundamental and human rights
• Constitutional law and constitutional theory
• Police law, right of assembly
• Philosophy of law, political theory