Prof. Dr. Jochen von Bernstorff, LL.M.
Chair of Constitutional Law, Public International Law and Human Rights Law
Research
Current projects
Academic career
2018-2020
Dean Faculty of Law
at Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen
since 2011
Chair of Constitutional Law, Public International Law and Human Rights Law
at Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen
2010
Temporary engagement
standing in for Prof. Dr. Andreas Paulus, Georg-August-University Goettingen
2010
Habilitation
at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, „Core Contents of the Protection of Fundamental and Human Rights“ supervised by Prof. Armin von Bogdandy
2008
Visiting Scholar am Lauterpacht Centre for INternational Law
University of Cambridge (am 24. 10. 2008 Friday Lecture at Lauterpacht Centre “Hans Kelsen as an International Lawyer”)
2007-2011
Research Fellow
at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law in Heidelberg. Research area: Law of the United Nations (especially Security Council/ Human Rights)
2003-2007
Referent im Auswärtigen Amt (Diplomatischer Dienst)
Aide at the German Federal Foreign Office (diplomatic service), Multilateral Human Rights Policy Task Force, UN-Department
2004 und 2005
Member of the German delegation
at the UN Commission on Human Rights 2004 and 2005 and UN Human Rights Council 2006, Geneva
2003, 2004, 2005
Member of the German delegation
at the UN General Assembly 2003, 2004, 2005, New York
2003-2007
Chief negotiator of the German delegation
at negotiations over the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, New York (2003-2007)
2002-2003
Diplomatic qualification
through the 57th Attaché training course of the German Federal Foreign Office
2000
PhD at University Mannheim
„The belief in universal law. On the international legal theory of Hans Kelsen and his disciples“, supervised by Prof. Dr. Eibe H. Riedel (summa cum laude)
2000-2001
LL.M.- Student
at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence
1999-2001
Legal traineeship (Referendariat), Hamburg
1997-1999
Staff member of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Michael Stolleis
at Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main
1995
Final admission to the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
1991-1997
Studied law
at Philipps-University Marburg and University of Poitiers (WS 95)