Mattias Kumm
Mattias Kumm (born August 15, 1967 in Bremen ) is a German-American law scholar and university professor.
Life
Kumm graduated from the German School in London in 1986 and then did his military service. From 1987 to 1994 he studied law, political science and philosophy at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel as well as law at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and philosophy at the Institut Catholique de Paris . He completed his legal clerkship in Kiel and Hamburg with the 2nd state examination . He received his PhD from Harvard Law School with a dissertation on Policing the Leviathan: Constitutional Democracy, National Courts and the Enforcement of Supranational Law . From 1998 to 2000 he held various visiting professorships and lectureships, including at Harvard Law School, the National University of Singapore , Bucerius Law School and the Universidad de Navarra . Since 2000 he has held a professorship at the New York University School of Law and since 2010 a research professorship for “Rule of Law in the Age of Globalization” at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and a research professorship at the Law Faculty of Humboldt University to Berlin . He was also visiting professor at the European University Institute in Florence.
Kumm lives and works in Berlin and New York City .
Teaching and Research
Kumm's research and teaching focus on fundamental questions of international and European law as well as comparative public law. He analyzes the close analytical connection between law, the claim to legitimate rule and practical reason and asks about the institutional, normative and sociological conditions under which this claim can be fulfilled. He argues for the need to reconstruct the liberal-democratic constitutional tradition in a cosmopolitan and pluralistic way. His work is influenced, among others, by Hans Kelsen , Robert Alexy and Ronald Dworkin .
Web links
- Mattias Kumm on the NYU School of Law website
- Mattias Kumm on the WZB website
- Mattias Kumm on the website of the Humboldt University of Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kumm, Mattias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American law scholar and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th August 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |