Profile
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
Gute Lehre ist Professor Wendel ein zentrales Anliegen. Thematisch haben sich seine Lehrveranstaltungen in engster Verzahnung zu seinen Forschungsinteressen entwickelt. Die von ihm bisher angebotene Lehre erstreckt sich auf den gesamten Bereich des Öffentlichen Rechts. Dazu gehören Pflichtfachvorlesungen (u.a. Europarecht, Staatsrecht III, Grundrechte, Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht) ebenso wie Vorlesungen im universitären Schwerpunktbereich zum Europa- und Völkerrecht (u.a. Vertiefungsvorlesung Europarecht, Europäischer und internationaler Grund- und Menschenrechtsschutz, internationales Wirtschaftsrecht) und zum Migrationsrecht (u.a. Europäisches Migrationsrecht, Asylrecht, Einwanderungs- und Freizügigkeitsrecht), Seminare (Pflicht- und Schwerpunktbereich zu diversen europarechtlichen und migrationsrechtlichen Themen), Verhandlungssimulationen (insbes. des Europäischen Gerichtshofs), Übungen (u.a. Europarecht, Große Übung im Öffentlichen Recht) sowie Examinatorien (u.a. Europarecht, Polizei- und Allgemeines Ordnungsrecht) und Klausurenkurse. In seiner Zeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter hat Mattias Wendel zudem eine Vielzahl von Arbeitsgemeinschaften angeboten (u.a. Europarecht, Staatsrecht III, Grundrechte, Staatsorganisationsrecht, Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht, Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht).