Niels Petersen (legal scholar)

Niels Petersen (* 1978 ) is a German lawyer .

Life

From 1998 to 2003 he studied law in Münster and Geneva . From 2004 to 2006 he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law . From 2003 to 2005 he completed his legal clerkship at the Wiesbaden Regional Court . In 2006 he was legal advisor at the GIZ Advisory Service to the Legal Reform in China, Beijing. From 2006 to 2007 he was a visiting doctoral researcher at the New York University School of Law. From 2007 to 2015 he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods . After completing his doctorate (2005–2008) at Goethe University , he was a Hauser Research Fellow and Emile Noel Fellow at the New York University School of Law from 2012 to 2013. From 2009 to 2010 he earned an MA in Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences from Columbia University . After completing his habilitation (2010–2014) at the University of Bonn , he has held the chair for public law, international and European law and empirical legal research at the University of Münster since 2015 .

His main research interests are international human rights and national fundamental rights, international and European business law, comparative constitutional studies and constitutional theory, influencing factors of judicial decisions and economic analysis of law.

Fonts (selection)

• Democracy as a teleological principle. On the legitimacy of state authority in international law . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-92173-8 .
• Proportionality as a control of rationality. A legal empirical study of constitutional case law on fundamental freedoms . Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-153510-9 .
• with Emanuel V. Towfigh : Economic Methods in Law. An introduction for lawyers . Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-155192-5 .
• German and European constitutional law II. Fundamental rights and freedoms. A study book . Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73707-7 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Niels Petersen