Prof. Dr. Mattias Wendel

Prof. Dr. Mattias Wendel

Professor

Öffentliches Recht, Europa- und Völkerrecht, Migrationsrecht und Rechtsvergleichung
Institutsgebäude
Burgstraße 21, Room 1.27
04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 35111
Fax: +49 341 97 - 31135110

Abstract

Mattias Wendel is Professor of Public Law, EU Law, International Law, Migration Law and Comparative Law. He joined Leipzig University in 2020. Professor Wendel studied law at the University of Passau, Humboldt-University Berlin and University Paris 1 - Panthéon/Sorbonne and was academic visitor at the University of Oxford. He worked as a research fellow and lecturer at the Walter-Hallstein-Institute for European Constitutional Law at Humboldt University (chair Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ingolf Pernice), where he received his doctorate in 2010 as well as his habilitation in 2017. From 2018-2020 he was Professor at Bielefeld University. In 2021 he received a call for a professorship at the University of Freiburg. He is author of several books, articles and contributions in the field of EU constitutional law, comparative law. Mattias Wendel is a member of the editorial board of the European Constitutional Law Review and the Cahiers de droit européen.

Professional career

  • 06/2021
    Call for a professorship at the University of Freiburg (declined).
  • since 04/2020
    Professor of Public Law, EU Law, International Law, Migration Law and Comparative Law at Leipzig University.
  • 02/2018 - 03/2020
    Professor of Public Law, International Law, EU Law and Comparative Law, Bielefeld University.
  • 04/2017 - 02/2018
    Interim professorship for Public Law and EU Law at Free University Berlin.
  • 10/2016 - 03/2017
    Interim professorship for Public Law at the University of Freiburg.
  • 04/2014 - 03/2015
    Post-Doc in the DFG-Research Training Group “Multilevel Constitutionalism: European Experiences and Global Perspectives”, Humboldt-University Berlin.
  • 10/2011 - 09/2016
    Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Walter-Hallstein-Institute for European Constitutional Law, Humboldt-University Berlin, Chair Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ingolf Pernice.
  • 08/2009 - 08/2011
    Legal Clerkship (Referendariat). Trainee positions i.a. Federal Ministry of Economics – Unit EA5 (Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany before the European Courts) and European Commission – Legal Service (Team Institutions).
  • 06/2005 - 09/2011
    Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Walter-Hallstein-Institute for European Constitutional Law, Humboldt-University Berlin, Chair Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ingolf Pernice.

Education

  • 06/2017
    Habilitation (qualification for full professorship), Humboldt-University Berlin.
  • 02/2017
    Franco-German Parliamentary Price 2016 for the Book "Französisches und Deutsches Verfassungsrecht" (together with Nikolaus Marsch and Yoan Vilain).
  • 08/2011
    Second Legal State Exam (corresponds to a Bar Exam), Berlin.
  • 09/2010
    Doctorate (Dr. iur.) at Humboldt-University Berlin, Doctoral Thesis Award of the Faculty of Law.
  • 08/2009 - 08/2011
    Legal Clerkship (Referendariat). Trainee positions i.a. Federal Ministry of Economics – Unit EA5 (Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany before the European Courts) and European Commission – Legal Service (Team Institutions).
  • 02/2008 - 08/2008
    Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford.
  • 12/2005 - 11/2008
    Doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation.
  • 03/2005
    First Legal State Exam, Berlin.
  • 06/2003
    Maîtrise en droit, mention droit européen, University Paris 1 - Panthéon/Sorbonne.
  • 01/2000 - 03/2005
    Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation.
  • 10/1999 - 03/2005
    Studies of Law, University of Passau, Humboldt-University Berlin and University Paris 1 – Panthéon/Sorbonne.

In his academic work, Professor Wendel focuses on the following fields. A list of publications can be found on this website under the heading "Research and Publications".


EU Law and Public International Law

EU constitutional law; basic principles of EU law; European migration law; international and EU Human Rights law; EU citizenship; evolution and reform of EU primary law


Comparative Law

French public law; constitutional EU clauses; comparative legal reasoning; normativity and methods of comparative law; ius publicum europaeum


Constitutional Law and Constitutional Theory

Constitutionalism beyond the state; domestic constitutional law and its relationship with public international and EU law; legal and constitutional pluralism


Administrative Law

Administrative discretion; residence and asylum law; Europeanisation and internationalisation of domestic administrative law; transnational administrative law