Prof. Dr. Dirk Hanschel
Prof. Dr. Dirk Hanschel
Main Research Areas
- Human rights protection
- Environmental and energy law
- Law of international organizations
- Comparative constitutional law
Curriculum Vitae
| Since 2025 | Head of the Environmental Justice Research Unit (EnJC) |
| 2021-2025 | Global Law Professor (Visiting Professorship) at the University of Connecticut Law School |
| 2019-2025 | Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| Since 01.04.2015 | Holder of the chair for German, European and International Public Law, University of Halle- Wittenberg |
| 2013 - 2015 | Reader at the Law School of the University of Aberdeen |
| 2010 - 2012 | Visiting Professor at the universities of Trier, Münster, Göttingen, Würzburg and Hannover |
| March 2010 | Habilitation at the University of Mannheim with the thesis „Konfliktlösung im Bundesstaat“; Authorization to teach for Public Law, Public International Law, European Law and Comparative Law |
| 2004 - 2008 | Research and teaching positions at the European University Institute, Florence, as well as at the Universities of Melbourne, Adelaide, Toulouse and Connecticut. |
| 2004 | Second state examination at the OLG of Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 2003 | Doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Mannheim with the thesis „Verhandlungslösungen im Umweltvölkerrecht” |
| 1999 - 2005 | Participation in the interdisciplinary Mannheim DFG- Research Group "Institutionalization of International Negotiation Systems" |
| 1999 - 2000 / 2003 - 2010 | Research Associate/Assistant at the Chair for German and Foreign Public Law, International Law and European Law (Prof. Dr. Eibe Riedel), University of Mannheim |
| 1998 -1999 | Master of Comparative Law (Mannheim/Adelaide) |
| 1997 | First State Examination, University of Heidelberg |
| 1991 - 1996 | Law studies at the universities of Marburg and Heidelberg as well as at the London School of Economics; scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |
| 1989 | Abitur at the Mataré-Gymnasium, Meerbusch |
Memberships
- German Institute for Human Rights
- German Section of the International Commission of Jurists
- Board of Directors of the Center for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies
- Association of German teachers of constitutional law
- German Society of International Law
- German Society for Comparative Law (sections Comparative Public Law and European Law/Scientific Society for European Law)