Florian Hoffmann (legal scholar)

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Florian Fabian Hoffmann (* 1972 in Göttingen ) is a German law and political scientist as well as a university professor .

Life

Hoffmann grew up in the Black Forest and, after graduating from high school in 1993, attended the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he obtained a B.Sc. in Law and Government . Hoffmann completed further studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in 1999 with an LL.M. before starting his work Are Human Rights Transplantable? at the European University Institute in Florence in 2004 . - reflections on a pragmatic theory of human rights under conditions of globalization as Doctor of Laws . In 2005 he received the Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the best doctorate at the institution for his dissertation .

As early as 2003, Hoffmann took up a position at the PUC-Rio as Assistant Professor for International Law and Human Rights , and in 2008 he moved to London as a lecturer for law at the LSE . In 2010 he accepted a call to the Franz Haniel Chair of Public Policy at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the Political Science Faculty of the University of Erfurt . Hoffmann also works as a visiting professor at the PUC-Rio.

From 2012 to 2016 Hoffmann was also director of the Willy Brandt School in Erfurt. In 2016 he left the University of Erfurt. Since 2015 he has been Professor of Law at the PUC-Rio, where he deals with international law , human rights and legal theory.

Act

Hoffmann deals with the interface between law and politics, with a focus on international law and human rights. He is one of the founders of the European Society for International Law (ESIL-SEDI) and a member of the editorial team of the German Law Journal .

Hoffmann works as a consultant for the World Bank and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights .

Publications (selection)

  • with Anne Orford (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law , Oxford 2016.
  • Accountability for Social and Economic Rights in Brazil , with Fernando RM Bentes, in Varun Gauri and Daniel Brinks (eds.), Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, p 100-145.
  • Deadlines - Derrida and Critical Legal Studies , in Michel Rosenfeld, Peter Goodrich, Cornelia Vismann, Florian Hoffmann (eds.), Derrida Before the Law, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2008.
  • In Quite a State: trials and tribulations of an old concept in new times , in Russell Miller and Rebecca Bratspies, Progress in International Organization, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishing / Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007.
  • Shooting in the Dark: reflections towards a pragmatic theory of human rights (activism) , Texas International Law Journal, vol. 41, no.3, 2006.
  • The UN as a Human Rights Violator? Some Reflections on the UN's Changing Human Rights Responsibilities , with Frédéric Mégret, in 25 Human Rights Quarterly 2 (2003).

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Florian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann, Florian Fabian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen