The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law

Armin von Bogdandy is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and Professor for Public Law at the University in Frankfurt/Main. He graduated in law and philosophy before obtaining a Ph.D. in Freiburg (1988) and qualifying as a professor at the FU Berlin (1996). He has been President of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal as well as a member of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) and the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. Professor von Bogdandy received a Dr. h.c. from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina (2020), the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Ungarn (2020), and the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina (2017). He specializes in the general features of public law, with a focus on its structural changes, be they theoretical, doctrinal, or practical. Peter M. Huber is Justice of the German Federal Constitutional Court and full Professor for Public Law and State Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). Following his studies at the LMU and the University of Geneva he graduated in law (1984), obtained a Ph.D. (1987), and habilitated at the LMU (1991). He previously held, among others, the Chair for Constitutional and Administrative Law, European law, Public Commercial and Environmental Law at the University of Jena (1992-2001), where he also served as dean (1994-1996). Professor Huber served numerous public offices and functions, including being a judge at the Thuringian Higher Administrative Court (1996-2002), a member of the State Court of Bremen (2007-2009), and Minister of the Interior of the Free State of Thuringia (2009-2010). Sabrina Ragone is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Department of Political and Social Sciences for which she holds the post of Coordinator for International Relations. She is also Senior Research Affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), where she pursued her research between 2015 and 2017. Previously, she was García Pelayo Fellow at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid (2012-2015) and researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (2011-2012). She specializes in comparative methodology, constitutional adjudication, European and Latin American constitutionalism.