Prof. Dr. Philipp Dann, LL.M. (Harvard)
Office
Altes Palais
Raum 420
Unter den Linden 9
Berlin-Mitte
Contact
Fon: +30 2093 91532
Email: philipp.dann@rewi.hu-berlin.de
CV
- 2024: Teaching the Master Class at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg)
- since 2022: Co-Speaker of the German Chapter of ICON-S
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since 2019: Principal Investigator at Cluster of Excellence Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)
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2015 and 2016: Visiting Professor at Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne
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2014–2019 Co-Director of the Law & Society Institute Berlin (LSI)
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since 2014: Professor of Public Law and Comparative Law at Humboldt University Berlin
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2013: Visiting Professor at National Law School (NLS), Bangalore, Indien
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2013–2014: Dean of the Department of Law at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
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since 2012: Coordinator of the Indian European Advanced Research Network (IEARN)
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since 2011: Coordinator of the Working Group for Overseas Comparative Constitutional Law (AÜV)
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since 2011: Co-editor of the Journal Verfassung und Recht in Übersee / World Comparative Law
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2010–2014: Professor at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
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2010: Visiting Professor at National University of Juridical Science (NUJS) in Kolkata, India
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2010: Habilitation at Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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2008–2013: Schumpeter-Fellow (now Freigeist-Fellowships) of the Volkswagenstiftung (Project »Recht und Governance der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit«)
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2007–2008: Lecturer at the faculty of law of University Heidelberg (Public law and EU law)
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2006–2008: DFG Research Fellow and Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg
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2005–2006: Visiting Researcher at Law Center of Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
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2004–2005: Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Sudan Peace Project)
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2004: Second State Examination in Law
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2002–2004 Legal Clerkship (Referendariat) at Kammergericht Berlin (Berlin Appellate Court)
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2002: Ph.D. in Law at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (summa cum laude)
Thesis: “Parlamente im Exekutivföderalismus. Eine Studie zum Verhältnis von föderaler Ordnung und parlamentarischer Demokratie in der Europäischen Union” -
2001–2002: Emile Noel Fellow at New York University School of Law (Professor JHH Weiler)
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2000–2001: LL.M. graduate studies at Harvard Law School, Cambridge MA, USA
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1997–2000: Research Assistant to Professor Dr. Armin von Bogdandy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main
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1997: First State Examination in Law
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1992–1997: Studies of Law in Mainz, Jena and Berlin
Selected Publications
Full list of publications available here.
Monographs
- „The Law of Development Cooperation. A comparative analysis of World Bank, EU and Germany“, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, 592 pages
- „Parlamente im Exekutivföderalismus. Eine Studie zum Verhältnis von föderaler Ordnung und parlamentarischer Demokratie in der Europäischen Union“, Heidelberg 2004, 474 pages (This is my German-language PhD thesis. Its central thoughts in English can be found in: „Looking through the federal lens: The semi-parliamentary democracy of the EU", Jean Monnet Working Paper No. 5/2002, 50 pages.)
Edited volumes (selection)
- “(Post-)Koloniale Rechtswissenschaft: Geschichte und Gegenwart des Kolonialismus in der deutschen Rechtswissenschaft”, Mohr Siebeck (2022), 649 pages (with Isabel Feichtner und Jochen von Bernstorff) [(Post)Colonial Legal Scholarship: Past and Present of Colonialism in German Legal Academia]
- Review: Jan Klabbers, ZaöRV / Heidelberg Journal of International Law 83 (2023), pp. 949-960.
- “Democratic Constitutionalism in India and the European Union: Comparing the Laws of Democracy in Continental Polities”, Edward Elgar (2021) (with Arun Thiruvengadam)
- Review: Raeesa Vakil, ICON 21 (2023), pp. 713-715.
- “Comparative Constitutional Law and the Global South”, Oxford University Press (2020) (with Maxim Bönnemann und Michael Riegner)
- Review: Theunis Roux, IACL Blog 2021 , Dinesha Samararatne ICON 20 (2022), pp. 534-542.
- „The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era“, Oxford University Press (2019) (with Jochen von Bernstorff)
- Review: Book Symposium on the Völkerrechtsblog (December 2020) and by Cait Storr, European Journal of International Law 31 (2020), pp. 1493.
Articles (selection)
- „The Southern turn and its Northern Implications: Colonial Legacies in Comparative Constitutional Law“, Comparative Constitutional Studies 1 (2023)
- „The Law of Development“, in: Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava, Sundhya Pahuja (eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development (2023)
- „Comparing Constitutional Democracy in the European Union and India: An Introduction“, in: Arun Thiruvengadam and Philipp Dann (Hrsg.), Democratic Constitutionalism in India and the European Union: Comparing the Law of Democracy in Continental Polities, Cheltenham 2021, pp. 1-41 (together with Arun Thiruvengadam)
- „The World Bank’s Environmental and Social Safeguards and the Evolution of Global Order“, Leiden Journal of International Law (2019) (together with Michael Riegner)
- „Political Institutions of the EU“, in: v. Bogdandy / Bast (eds.), Principles of European Constitutional Law, 2010, pp. 237-274
- „The Internationalized Pouvoir Constituant – Constitution-Making Under External Influence in Iraq, Sudan and East Timor“, Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law 10 (2006), pp. 423-463 (together with Zaid Al-Ali)
- „Looking through the federal lens: The semi-parliamentary democracy of the EU“, Jean Monnet Working Paper No. 5/2002, 50 S.