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Dr. Dominik Rennert, LL.M. (Yale)

Name
Dr. Dominik Rennert LL.M. (Yale)
Status
Research Assistant
Email
dominik.rennert (at) hu-berlin.de
Homepage
https://kaiser.rewi.hu-berlin.de/staff/dr/

Institution
Faculty of Law →
Public Law and Basics of Law
Visiting address
Altes Palais, Unter den Linden 9 , Room 422
Phone number
+49 30 2093-91550
Mailing address
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
ORCID
0009-0006-5439-0886
Office Hour

Office hours upon request

Vita

since 2023 Postdoc at the Chair for Public Law and Foundations of Law

Habilitation project: "Democracy-Enhancing Media Regulation", funded by the German Research Foundation

2022 Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project, Yale Law School

2022 PhD in Law, doctoral scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, publication assistance by the German Research Foundation

2022, 2018, 2017 Visiting Student Research Collaborator at the Department of Politics, Princeton University

2020 Second State Exam, Berlin, with clerkships at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs (Group EA6, legal representation of the Federal Republic before the European Courts) and the Legal Service of the European Commission (group Eurozone)

2015 LL.M. Yale Law School, scholarships by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Bucerius Jura) und German Academic Exchange Service 

2013 First State Exam, Baden-Württemberg

2007–2013 Legal Studies al Freiburg University, Grenoble University and Heidelberg University, scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

 

Other

Faculty Prize 2023 (PhD), Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin

Faculty Teaching Award 2023, Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin

 

Publications

Monographs

Reviews: Sydow, Der Staat 63 (2024), 481–484; Pyta, Historische Zeitschrift 318 (2024), 482–484; Collin, Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History 33 (2025), 234–238; Greifenstein, Theologische Rundschau 90 (2025), 431–442; Goerlich, Sächsische Verwaltungsblätter 2025, 382–383; Munsonius, Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts 151 (2026), 174–176.

 

Commentaries

  • §§ 28a, 30b, 121b MStV, in: Reinhart Binder/Matthias Cornils (Hrsg.), Beck'scher Kommentar zum Rundfunkrecht, C.H. Beck, 6. Aufl., i.V.

 

Articles

 

Other Contributions

 

Talks and Lectures

  • "Affekt als Gegenstand der Medienregulierung", I-CON-S Conference Germany, Bremen, September 2026.
  • "Ending the Methodological Isolation of Comparative Constitutional Law in the Time of Political Turmoil", International Academy of Comparative Law – XXIInd General Congress 2026, Younger Scholars Forum, Berlin, September 2026.
  • Lecture "Foundations of German Constitutional Theory: Fundamental Rights as Values and the Proportionality Principle", Summer School, University of Sydney Law School, Professor Wojciech Sadurski, Berlin, July 2018–2026 (held annually).
  • "The Current Frontier of Social Media Regulation: Creator Regulation in Top-Down Ecosystems", ICON-S Annual Conference, Dublin, June 2026.
  • "Verfassung, Demokratie, Krise. Verfassungsrechtliche Strukturen im Spiegel aktueller demokratischer Herausforderungen", German-American Lawyers' Association Youth Section, Berlin, June 2026.
  • Workshop "Wie Medienregulierung Demokratie stützen kann", Student Seminar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation "Demokratie in Deutschland", Berlin, October 2025.
  • "Corporatism", Workshop "Oxford Handbook of the German Constitution", Humboldt University Berlin, March 2025.
  • "Wehrhafte Anteile, Stärken und Schwächen der Weimarer Reichsverfassung", Conference "Bedrohung und Verteidigung der liberalen Demokratie", FernUniversität Hagen, November 2024.
  • "Carl Schmitt as a Method? Whether Schmitt Is Still Relevant Methodologically", Workshop "Is Carl Schmitt Still Relevant to Contemporary Public Law?", Jean Monnet Center, New York University, November 2024.  
  • "Demokratische Krise und Verfassungsrecht als Forschungsprogramm", Forum Junge Rechtswissenschaft, Tübingen University, November 2024.
  • "Drift and Mastery. Veränderungsverarbeitung in Verfassungstheorie und -dogmatik am Beispiel des Tarifsystems", ICON-S Conference Germany, September 2024 (cancelled).
  • "Varieties of Capitalism, Law and Political Economy, and the Corporatist Tradition in Germany", Conference on "Law and Political Economy in Germany", Humboldt University Berlin, June 2024.
  • "Quelle protection des libertés fondamentales dans le domaine du numérique?", Berlin-Munich-Paris Seminar "60 ans du traité de l'Élysée", Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II, September 2023.
  • Penal Debate on the 2023 Electoral Reform with Dr. Till Steffen, MdB, Konstantin Kuhle, MdB, und Dr. Halina Wawzyniak, MdB a.D., Humboldt University Berlin, July 2023.
  • "A Judicial Ethic of Responsibility", Workshop “How Should Institutions and Individuals Act under the New Illiberal/Authoritarian Regimes”, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 2019.
  • "The Epistemic Intelligence of the Margin of Appreciation Doctrine", Cambridge International and European Law Conference, University of Cambridge, 2017.