Mattias Kumm

Mattias Kumm ( born August 15, 1967 in Bremen ) is a German - American legal scholar and university teacher.

Life

Kumm put 1986 Abitur at the German School in London now and then did his military service. He studied from 1987 to 1994 law, political science and philosophy at the Christian -Albrechts- University, Kiel, and law at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne and philosophy at the Institut Catholique de Paris. His clerkship he graduated in Kiel and Hamburg with the 2nd state examination. At Harvard Law School, he was with the dissertation Policing the Leviathan: PhD Constitutional Democracy, National Courts and the Enforcement of Supranational Law. From 1998 to 2000 he held several visiting professorships and Lecturerships, including at Harvard Law School, the National University of Singapore, the 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 Science Center Berlin (WZB ) and a research professor at the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University to Berlin. He was also a 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 focuses on fundamental issues of international and European law and comparative public law. It analyzes the close analytical Combining law, the claim to legitimate rule and practical reason and ask for the institutional, normative and sociological conditions under which this claim can be redeemed. He argues for the need to reconstruct the liberal- democratic constitutional tradition cosmopolitan and pluralistic. His work is among others influenced by Hans Kelsen, Robert Alexy and Ronald Dworkin.