Jochen von Bernstorff

Jochen Graf von Bernstorff (* 1970 in Celle ) is a German legal scholar , diplomat and professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

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Bernstorff studied law at the University of Marburg from 1991 . After a stay abroad in 1995 at the University of Poitiers , he passed his first state examination in law in June 1997. He then worked until 1999 as a research assistant to Michael Stolleis at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt . From August 1999 until his second state examination in July 2001 he did his legal clerkship in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Meanwhile Bernstorff was in February 2000 by the University of Mannheim with that of yew Riedel supervised work "The belief in the universal law. On the international law theory of Hans Kelsen and his students “ to the Dr. iur. PhD. At the same time, Bernstorff obtained the title Master of Laws after completing a corresponding degree at the European University Institute in Florence .

After completing his legal training, Bernstorff received special diplomatic training from the Foreign Office between 2002 and 2003 . After completing this training, he worked as a consultant in the Foreign Office in the diplomatic service and was appointed to the working group for multilateral human rights policy. As such, he was a member of numerous German delegations to the United Nations and was, among other things, the German negotiator in the negotiations on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities . In April 2007, Bernstorff moved to the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg as a research fellow . At the end of 2010, Bernstorff completed his habilitation at the University of Frankfurt am Main with the publication “Core contents in fundamental and human rights protection” supervised by Armin von Bogdandy . Since the summer semester 2011 he has been the successor of Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum in the full professorship for constitutional law, international law, constitutional theory and human rights at the University of Tübingen .

Bernstorff's research focuses primarily on international law and its theoretical and historical references, with a focus on the prohibition of violence and war bans, human rights and development issues as well as the United Nations. In view of current events, he is also dedicated to international environmental law, particularly in relation to the global management of common goods such as climate, air and water.

Fonts (selection)

• Belief in universal law: on the international law theory of Hans Kelsen and his students . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 978-3-7890-7649-7 (dissertation).
• Responsibility under international law for actions of transnational companies that violate human rights: Company-related human rights protection obligations in the practice of international law . INEF, Duisburg 2010.
• "Land Grabbing" and Human Rights: The FAO Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure . INEF, Duisburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-939218-35-7 .
• In a democratic constitutional state, disputes about regulation of investors for the common good belong before the national courts . Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 2014.
• German international law and the “postcolonial turn” . Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 2014.
• Restitution and Colonialism: Who Owns the Witbooi Bible? Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 2019.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jochen von Bernstorff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jochen von Bernstorff at his chair at the University of Tübingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Newly appointed: Professor Dr. Jochen von Bernstorff, Professorship for Public Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Constitutional Doctrine and Human Rights (Faculty of Law) , Newsletter Uni Tübingen aktuell No. 4/2012: People, accessed on August 24, 2019.