Profile
Abstract
Stephanie Schiedermair has been professor of European, International and Public Law at the Law Faculty since 2014. She is head of the master' programme "Law of the European Integration". Since 2017 she has been the international exchange and Erasmus coordinator of the faculty. She studied Law, German Philogy, Political Science and History in Dresden and Mainz. She received her doctorate as well as her habilitation at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. In her academic teaching and research, Professor Schiedermair focuses on Public Law as part of multilevel governance. Research stays took her to Yale Law School and Monash University (Melbourne). She is Liaison Officer of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes). Professor Schiedermair is a member of the editorial board of the Leipziger Schriften zum Völkerrecht, Europarecht und ausländischen öffentlichen Recht and the European Review of Digital Administration & Law.
Professional career
- 05/2020 - 12/2020
Digital Fellowship (senior research fellow in the field of „digitial teaching“) - since 05/2018
Director, Institute of International Law, University Leipzig - since 05/2018
Organized and supported the faculty's team for the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition - 02/2018 - 05/2018
Counsel of the German Federal Government before the Federal Constitutional Court in the constitutional complaint procedure - Right to be forgotten II - since 10/2017
International exchange and Erasmus coordinator of the faculty - since 10/2017
Liaison Officer of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) in Leipzig - since 04/2016
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Institute for Europaen Politics (IEP) - since 04/2015
Mentor in the promotion programme for female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers (T.E.A.M.) of the Equal Opportunities Office, University Leipzig - since 10/2014
Lecturer, master’s programme "International Energy Economics and Business Administration", University Leipzig - since 06/2014
Mentor in the mentoring programme for female postdoctoral researchers of the Unibund (Inter-university alliance) Halle-Jena-Leipzig - since 04/2014
Full Professor (W 3), Chair of European, International and Public Law at University of Leipzig - since 04/2014
Head of the Schwerpunktbereich (focus area) Public European Law - Public International Law - Human Rights Law Head of the master's programme "Law of the European Integration" - since 04/2014
Provides legal advice to national and international academic organizations and foundations - 10/2013 - 03/2014
Interim professorship, Chair of European, International and Public Law at University of Leipzig - 05/2013 - 10/2013
Senior Research Fellow, Chair of Public Law, International an European Law, Media Law (Prof. Dr. Dieter Dörr), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz - 08/2012 - 04/2013
Interim professorship, Chair of European Law, International Law and Public Law at University of Leipzig - 09/2011 - 10/2011
Research stay at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia - 09/2010 - 10/2010
Research stay at Yale Law School, New Haven, USA - 03/2008 - 08/2016
Lecturer, master's programme "Media Law" at Media Institute Mainz - 07/2007 - 07/2012
Senior Research Fellow, Chair of Public Law, International an European Law, Media Law (Prof. Dr. Dieter Dörr), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz - 09/2006 - 06/2007
Senior Research Fellow, Chair of Public Law, Governmental Studies and Comparative Law (Prof. Dr. Karl-Peter Sommermann) German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer - since 09/2006
Referee of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) - 05/2002 - 12/2017
Provided legal advice regarding media and data protection to the Deutsche Welle, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Zweite Deutsche Fernsehen, Sächsische Staatskanzlei (Saxon State Chancellery) - 05/2002 - 05/2003
Research Fellow, Chair of Public Law, International an European Law, Media Law (Prof. Dr. Dieter Dörr), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz - 03/2002 - 04/2002
Research Fellow at Media Institute Mainz - 04/2001 - 03/2002
Research Fellow, Chair of Public Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law (Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Hufen), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Education
- 01/2012
Habilitation at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz Venia legendi for Public Law, International Law, European Law and Media LawHabilitation thesis: The Right to Privacy as an International Human Right - 05/2006
Second Legal State Examination (10,08 points – „fully statisfactory“) - 05/2005
Doctorate Law Degree as Dr. iur. Doctoral thesis: “International Peace and the Constitution“ („Der international Frieden und das Grundgesetz“)(summa cum laude) - 04/2004 - 05/2006
Legal Clerkship at District Court MainzElective Trainee Stage at Federal Constitutional Court (Prof. Dr. Udo Steiner)Legal Advice Stage at the Legal Department of FAZ Administrative Law Stage at German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer - 06/2003 - 03/2004
Holder of a doctoral scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) - 02/2001
First Legal State Examination (11,66 points - „good“) - 03/1999
Magister-Intermeditate Examination in German Philology and Political Science (Graduation: 1,0 – „very good“) - 10/1996 - 02/2001
Scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) - 10/1996 - 12/2001
Study of Law, German Philology, Political Science and History in Dresden and Mainz - 07/1994 - 09/1994
Summer School at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA - 09/1987 - 07/1996
German Baccalaureate (Abitur) at Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Heidelberg (Mark: 1,0)
Professor Schiedermair´s research focuses on the following topics:
Public European and International Law:
- International and European Human Rights
- International and European Media and Data Protection Law, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Right to Privacy, legal issues related to artificial intelligence
- European Constitutional Law, Constutional Review in Europe
- European spatial planning law
- General issues related to multilevel governance
Constitutional Law:
- Right to be Forgotten
- Relations between German Constitutional Law and European/International Law
- National Human Rights Protection
- Constitutional History of the Weimar Republic
Administrative Law
- Issues in Administrative Law related to artificial intelligence
- Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Internationalization und Europeanization of Administrative Law
A list of publications as well as a list of lectures and interviews can be found on the website of the chair under the heading „Personen - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schiedermair“.
Professor Schiedermair teaches law at the faculty with a focus on public law as part of multilevel governance. She offers a broad variety of classes, lectures and seminars on European, international and public law, including courses in English like a Reading Course on ICJ Judgements and a Master´s class on European Law.
Professor Schiedermair organizes a Human Rights Summer School (2019 in Leipzig; currently in preparation for 2021 in Dresden).
Professor Schiedermair organizes and supports the faculty's team for the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition. She participated herself as judge in the German National Round 2020.
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LEO: Constitutional Law III / Public European Law
Im Rahmen der völkerrechtlichen Lerneinheit sollen Bezüge des (nationalen) Staats- und Verfassungsrechts zum Völkerrecht sowie das Verhältnis des Unionsrechts zum nationalen Recht anhand ausgewählter Judikate wiederholt und vertieft werden. Im Rahmen der europarechtlichen Lerneinheit des Repetitoriums sollen Grundfragen des Unionsrechts anhand aktueller und klassischer Entscheidungen des EuGH vertieft werden.
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Public International Law II (Law of International Organisations)
Der Lehrveranstaltung liegt der Befund einer sich schrittweise verfassenden Völkerrechtsgemeinschaft zugrunde. Sie befasst sich mit den Aufgaben, dem Aufbau und der Wirkungsweise internationaler Organisationen.
Behandelt werden überdies Verfahren und Zuständigkeiten des Internationalen Gerichtshofs (IGH) sowie das Recht der internationalen Organisationen einschließlich der supranationalen Gemeinschaften.
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Seminar on Public International and European Law
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Seminar on Public International and European Law - „Der Rechtsstaat in der Krise“ ("The Rule of Law in Crisis")