Chair for Political Science and the Political System of Germany at the Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces of Germany.

Martin Lieberich studied North-American Studies and Political Science (B.A.) in Hamburg (2007-2011) and European Studies (M.A.) in Berlin (2011-2012). Since 2014 he is a Scientific Assistant at the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg – Institute for European Integration.

Introduction to European Union Policies (Module G1-G3); The Political External Relations of the EU (Module S5, WSP B)

Markus Kotzur studied law at the universities in Freiburg and Bayreuth. After the first state examination in law he successfully completed master studies at the Duke University in Durham (USA). In 1996 he passed the second state examination in law and joined the chair held by Peter Häberle at Universität Bayreuth as research assistant. In 2000 he received his doctorate on “Theorieelemente des Internationalen Menschenrechtsschutzes. Das Beispiel der Präambel des Internationalen Paktes über bürgerliche und politische Rechte” (Theoretic elements in international human rights law. The example of the preamble of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights). An analysis of the “cooperation between border neighbours in Europe (Grenznachbarschaftliche Zusammenarbeit in Europa) led to his habilitation in 2002. Starting in 2002 he was interim professor at the universities in Cologne, Dresden, Würzburg, Münster and Leipzig. In 2005 he became full professor at Universität Leipzig. Since 2012 he is professor at Universität Hamburg for public international and European law. He is deputy director of the Institute for International Affairs at Universität Hamburg, managing director of the Institute for European Integration (Europa-Kolleg Hamburg) and director of studies of the Master Programme “European and European Legal Studies”.

Stefan Middendorf studied law at Universität Bayreuth from 1991 to 1996, before successfully completing his legal traineeship (Rechtsreferendariat) in Düsseldorf. He received his doctorate from Humboldt-Universität Berlin. He was admitted to the bar in 2000 and has since worked with Clifford Chance (including previous companies) and since 2008 with KMPG Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft in Düsseldorf. He specialises in labour law, pensions and social security law.

Karsten Nowrot received his legal education at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Surrey (UK), Halle-Wittenberg and the Indiana University School of Law (USA). He holds both state examination degrees with distinction from 1997/2001 and was awarded the degree of Master of Laws in 1998 as well as doctorate in 2005, both with distinction. In addition, he received the degree of Dr iur. habil. in 2012 and he now holds the chair for public, European and international economic law at the school of economics and social Sciences at Universität Hamburg. His primary research interests lie in the areas of international economic law, public international law and European Union law.

Matthias Ross studied mathematical economics at Universität Hamburg until 1993. In 1997 he completed an advanced studies program for international economic policy research at Kiel Institute for the World Economy and received a doctorate in economics. Afterwards he worked at Universität Hamburg, Department for Trade and Economic Integration (1997 to 2003), Hamburg State Ministry for Economic and Labour Affairs (2003 to 2005) and Hamburg Port Authority (2005 to 2007), before becoming a professor at FOM University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg in 2007. His areas of research and teaching lie in European economic integration, monetary policy and European monetary integration, regional economics, labour markets and general economics.

Fabian Stancke is professor for antitrust, corporate, banking and insurance law at the Brunswick European Law School (BELS). Before he became a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel, he practiced antitrust and insurance supervisory law in the Hamburg office of Latham & Watkins LLP since 2007. Before that he was in-house counsel at the group legal department of Allianz SE in Munich (2001 to 2007) and worked as research assistant at Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr in Hamburg. He studies law at Universität Hamburg from where he received his doctorate in law. During his legal traineeship he worked in Lübeck, Hamburg, Rome and Sydney.

Georg Koopmann studied economics, sociology and political science in Cologne and Hamburg from 1965 to 1971. He worked from 1971 to 2006 as trade expert at the Hamburgischen Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv (Hamburg Archive of International Economics, HWWA). He is senior economist at the Institute for external trade and economic integration at Universität Hamburg and research associate at Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsinstitut (Hamburg Institute of International Economics, HWWI). His main research areas are international trade, multi-national companies, World Trade Organisation, European external economic policy and industrial economics.

Cord Jakobeit studied political science, economics and public law at Technische Universität Hannover, Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris), Universität Hamburg, London School of Economics and Harvard University. He received his doctorate from Universität Hamburg in 1987. In 1988 he graduated from Harvard University as Master of Public Administration. From 1988 to 1993 he worked as research assistant at Freie Universität Berlin. His habilitation at Universität Hamburg took place in 1998. From 1997 to 1990 he was lecturer at the Stanford Study Center in Berlin. Since 2000 he is professor for political science at Universität Hamburg with a focus on international politics. From 2000 to 2002 he was director at the Institute for African studies. He is member and vice president of the Akademie der Wissenschaften (Academy of Sciences and Humanities) in Hamburg.

Dietmar Nickel studied law in Hamburg and Lausanne until 1973. He successfully completed his judicial apprenticeship in Hamburg in 1976. From 1973 to 1976 he worked as a research assistant at Universität Hamburg and received his doctorate from there in 1978. In 1976 he became assistant professor at the law department of the European University Institute in Florence. Since 1978 he worked with the European Parliament in various positions. He was director general for committees and delegations from 1999 to 2003 and director general for external policies of the European Union from 2004 until his retirement in 2010.

Andreas Grimmel studied political science and philosophy at Universität Hamburg (2001 to 2007). He received his doctorate after several academic research periods at Harvard University, University of Cambridge, the Court of Justice of the European Union and Sciences Po from Universität Hamburg on the basis of a thesis dealing with the European Court of Justice: rationality and integration in the context of law. From 2012 to 2013 he was a postdoctoral guest research at the ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo. In 2013 he became research fellow at the Institute for European Integration (Europa-Kolleg Hamburg).

In 2012 Jörg Phillip Terhechte became Professor at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (chair of Public Law, European and International law as well as Regulation and antitrust law) and managing director of the Leuphana Competition & Regulation Institute. He studied law and philosophy at Universität Bielefeld. Before taking up his judicial apprenticeship (Rechtsreferendariat) he received his doctorate in law in 2003. Afterwards he worked as a scientific assistant at the university in Bielefeld and Hamburg. For research purposes he spent time amongst others at the George Washington University Law School, at the Georgetown Law Center and at the University of Oxford. He became a professor of Public Law (Constitutional and Administrative law) at Universität Siegen in 2011. His main research interests are Public Law (in particular Constitutional and Administrative law, Economic Administrative, Antitrust and Regulation law and Raw Materials law), European law (in particular Competition and Regulation law, the Common Commercial Policy, Customs law, European Administrative Law and the External Relations of the EU) as well as Public International law (in particular WTO law, international Competition and Antitrust law, Investment Protection law, State Immunity and International Administrative law).

In 2013 Jasper Finke became Junior Professor for Public Law, International and European Law at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. Before that he worked as a research assistant at the Graduate School Global Financial Markets at Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg and the Walther-Schücking Institute at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. He studied law at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, from where he also received his doctorate in law on the basis of his dissertation on the parallelism of international dispute settlement mechanisms. After that he successfully finished a Master Programme (LL.M.) at the Columbia University of Law, New York.

From 2007 to 2009, Tobias Bender was a lawyer at Graf von Westphalen, a leading German law firm in international trade law located in Hamburg. Since September 2009, he serves as a judge at the Administrative Court in Hamburg. From 2001 to 2005, he worked as a research and teaching assistant for M. Hilf at Universität Hamburg and Bucerius Law School. In 2002, he was a research fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law (Georgetown University, Washington). He has been teaching international trade law since 2002 at various institutions in Hamburg and throughout China. Bender publishes on EU trade and customs law and WTO law; he also contributed to a German textbook on WTO law. His doctoral thesis dealt with trade-offs between trade and environmental and consumer protection in WTO law.

Christa Randzio-Plath studied law and sociology in Kiel, Bonn and Strasbourg. Furthermore she trained as a journalist. In 2001 she was granted a doctorate honoris causa and in 2005 she became a professor at Universität Hamburg. After completing her legal traineeship (Rechtsreferendariat) in Hamburg, she worked as an editor from 1970 to 1972. From 1972 to 1974 she worked as a lawyer and afterwards from 1974 to 1976 as well as from 1978 to 1989 as a tax-lawyer at Oberfinanzdirektion in Hamburg. In between she spent two years in Strasbourg as Deputy Chief of Cabinet at the Council of Europe. Before becoming a member of the European Parliament in 1989, Randzio-Plath was a member of the Hamburg City Parliament and chairwoman of the legal affairs committee (1986 to 1989). During her tenure at the European Parliament she was president of the subcommittee on monetary affairs from 1992 to 1999 and president of the committee on economic and monetary affairs from 1999 to 2004. She was a consultant for the European Commission from 2004 to 2010. Since 2004 she works as a lawyer in Hamburg and holds lectures at Universität Hamburg. In addition to this she holds several honorary office, such as presidency of the Marie-Schlei-Association, Vice-President of VENRO, member of the advisory committee of Lawaetz-Foundation, President of Landesfrauenrat Hamburg e.V, chairwoman of SPD Control Committee. Her work focuses on Europe, monetary integration, Eastern Europe, women, and development policy.

Armin Hatje studied law in Hamburg and Lausanne from 1979 to 1984. After his first state examination in law he joined Universität Hamburg as a research assistant and received his doctorate in law there in 1987. Before joining the European University Institute in Florence he successfully finished legal traineeship (Rechtsreferendariat) in Hamburg in 1990 (second state examination). Afterwards he became scientific assistant at Universität Freiburg where he qualified as professor in 1996. Before taking up full professorship duties at Universität Bielefeld in 1998 he worked as interim professor in Bielefeld and Cologne. In 2006 he joined Universität Hamburg as full professor and managing director of the department of EU law. Hatje is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Foundation Europa-Kolleg Hamburg and director of the Institute for European Integration at the Europa-Kolleg. The focus of his teaching and research lies in public law, EU law, German and European administrative law, European competition law, international economic law and comparative law.