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

• Public international law and international administrative law, esp. law of international institutions, law and development, human rights law
• 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 1.10.2021: Assistant Professor for Public International Law and International Administrative Law (tenure track) at the University of Erfurt.
• Since 2020: Principal Investigator in the DFG project "Varieties of Constitutionalism"
• 2017 PhD at the Humboldt University of Berlin on the topic International Institutional Law of Information(summa cum laude, faculty PhD prize)
• 2014-21: Research Assistant at Humboldt University Berlin, Chair of Public Law and Comparative Law (Prof. Philipp Dann); temporarily also at the Law and Society Institute Berlin;parental leave 2017/18
• 2013-14: LLM at New York University School of Law as Hauser Global LLM Scholar 
• 2011-14: Research Fellow at Justus Liebig University Giessen, member of the 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, Germany
• 2008-10: Legal clerkship in Heidelberg, Speyer, Pristina/Kosovo; admission to the bar
• 2003-8: Law studies in Passau and Geneva, internships at the Federal Foreign Office, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and international law firms

You can access a complete list of publications here. Below you will find a representative selection of publications.

I. Monographs and editorships:

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

2. Informationsverwaltungsrecht internationaler Institutionen, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017, (to the book)

Reviews: Kaltenborn, DV 2019, 608 (zum Text); Rossi, AdV 2020 (German text; English version); Hendrik Simon, to the post) 

3. Special Issue “The Right to Information”, Verfassung und Recht in Übersee/World Comparative Law 50(4) (2017), S. 331 – 450) editor of the special issue, co-editor of the journal) (to the edition)

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. Selected contributions to journals and anthologies:

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

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

3. Regionalizing 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)

4. “Decolonization” und “Corporations”, in: Grote/Lachemann/Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law,2020 (with Daniel Bonilla Maldonado bzw. Jedidiah Kroncke)

5. Transformativer Konstitutionalismus und offene Staatlichkeit im regionalen Verfassungsvergleich mit Lateinamerika, Jahrbuch des öffentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart 67 (2019), 265-299

6. Interdisziplinäre Forschung zur Globalisierung und Europäisierung des Rechts, in: Boulanger/ Rosenstock/Singelnstein (ed.), Interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2019, 291-316

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 (ed.), The Globalization 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), S. 332-366

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