Draft:Philipp Dann

Philipp Dann (1972) is a German legal academic, currently the chair of Public and Comparative Law at Humboldt University Berlin.

Career

Philipp Dann studied law at the Universities of Mainz, Jena and Berlin, graduating with the First State Examination in Law in 1997.[1] He then worked as a research assistant to Armin von Bogdandy at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1997 to 2000.[1] From 2000 to 2021, he completed an LL.M. degree at Harvard Law School and went on to be an Emile Noël Fellow at New York University with Joseph H. H. Weiler from 2001 to 2002.[1] Also in 2002, he received his doctorate from Goethe University with a thesis on parliamentary democracy in the European Union, which had been supervised by Armin von Bogdandy and Michael Stolleis.[1] After his legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal, he passed the Second State Examination in Law in 2004.[1]

From 2004 to 2010, Philipp Dann was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and a visiting researcher at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. from 2005 to 2006. [1] In 2008, he received a Schumpeter Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation, which he used to set up a research group on "Law and Governance of Development Cooperation" from 2009.[1] In 2010, he concluded his postdoc thesis (Habilitation) at Goethe University Frankfurt with a study on the law of development cooperation. This was translated into English shortly afterwards and published under the title ‘The Law of Development Cooperation’.[2]

Immediately after his postdoc, Philipp Dann became a professor of public and comparative law at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen. In 2014, he was appointed the Chair professor of public and comparative law at Humboldt University Berlin. Since 2010 he held visiting professorships in Kolkata, Bengaluru and in Paris. He was the co-director of the Law and Society Institute at Humboldt University.

Dann is editor of the journal "Verfassung und Recht in Übersee / World Comparative Law".[3] He is co-founder of the Law and Development Research Network[4] and a member of various academic networks, in particular the World Comparative Law Network [5] and the Indian-European Advanced Research Network[6].

Dann's work is spread across comparative constitutional law, international law and European constitutional law and integrates the contexts of law and interdisciplinary approaches to law.[7] His writings deal with questions of the legal structures of democracy and the relationship between the Global North and Global South in law.

Publications

Monographs •	„The Law of Development Cooperation. A comparative analysis of World Bank, EU and Germany“, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, 592 pages. •	„Parlamente im Exekutivföderalismus. Eine Studie zum Verhältnis von föderaler Ordnung und parlamentarischer Demokratie in der Europäischen Union“, Heidelberg 2004, 474 pages (This is my German-language PhD thesis. Its central thoughts in English can be found in: „Looking through the federal lens: The semi-parliamentary democracy of the EU“, Jean Monnet Working Paper No. 5/2002, 50 pages). Edited volumes (selection) •	“(Post-)Koloniale Rechtswissenschaft: Geschichte und Gegenwart des Kolonialismus in der deutschen Rechtswissenschaft”, Mohr Siebeck (2022), 649 pages (with Isabel Feichtner und Jochen von Bernstorff) [(Post)Colonial Legal Scholarship: Past and Present of Colonialism in German Legal Academia] Review: Jan Klabbers, ZaöRV / Heidelberg Journal of International Law 83 (2023), pp. 949-960.

•	“Democratic Constitutionalism in India and the European Union: Comparing the Laws of Democracy in Continental Polities”, Edward Elgar (2021) (with Arun Thiruvengadam) Review: Raeesa Vakil, ICON 21 (2023), pp. 713-715.

•	“Comparative Constitutional Law and the Global South”, Oxford University Press (2020) (with Maxim Bönnemann und Michael Riegner) Review: Theunis Roux, IACL Blog 2021 (https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/2021-posts/6-15-21the-global-south-and-liberal-constitutionalism-incommensurable-opposites ), Dinesha Samararatne ICON 20 (2022), pp. 534-542.

•	„The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era“, Oxford University Press (2019) (with Jochen von Bernstorff) Review: Book Symposium on the Völkerrechtsblog (https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/symposium/the-battle-for-international-law/ December 2020) and by Cait Storr, European Journal of International Law 31 (2020), pp. 1493. Articles (selection) •	„Southern Turn, Northern Implications: Colonial Legacies in Comparative Constitutional Law“, Comparative Constitutional Studies 1 (2023) •	„The Law of Development“, in: Buchanan, Eslava, Pahuja (eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development (2023) •	„Comparing Constitutional Democracy in the European Union and India: An Introduction“, in: Thiruvengadam / Dann (eds.), Constitutional Democracy in the EU and India, 2021, pp. 1-41 (with Arun Thiruvengadam) •	„The World Bank’s Environmental and Social Safeguards and the Evolution of Global Order“, Leiden Journal of International Law (2019), pp. 537-559 (with Michael Riegner) •	“Political Institutions of the EU”, in: v. Bog dandy / Bast (eds.), Principles of European Constitutional Law, 2010, pp. 237-274. •	„The Internationalized Pouvoir Constituant – Constitution-Making Under External Influence in Iraq, Sudan and East Timor“, Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law 10 (2006), pp. 423-463 (with Zaid Al-Ali)
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