Director

© Ulrich Fastenrath

Professor Dr. Ulrich Fastenrath

Professional activities

• since 2017 Director of the Research Center for International Legal and State Theory at the Institute of International Law, Intellectual Property and Technology Law at Technische Universität Dresden
• 2014 - 2020 Senior professor at Technische Universität Dresden
• 2008 - 2014 Academic director of the Center for International Studies at Technische Universität Dresden
• 2006 - 2009 Vice Dean of the Law School at Technische Universität Dresden
• 2005 - 2008 Deputy director of the Center for International Studies at Technische Universität Dresden
• 2004 - 2005 As a Fulbright scholar, research and teaching activities in the USA (Senior Emile-Noël-Fellow at New York University; visiting professorships at the University of Michigan and Tulane University [New Orleans])
• 2002 Co-founder of the Center for International Studies at Technische Universität Dresden (as the responsible institution for the interdisciplinary study program "International Relations", together with the professors Monika Medick-Krakau, Reiner Pommerin and Sabine von Schorlemer)
• 2000 - 2003 Dean of the Law School at Technische Universität Dresden
• 1998 Co-founder of the highly selective interdisciplinary study program "International Relations" at Technische Universität Dresden (together with Monika Medick-Krakau [Chair of International Politics] and Reiner Pommerin [Chair of Modern and Contemporary History]); at the same time chairman of the examination board and the study commission of this study program (until 2004)
• 1996 - 1997 Vice Dean and Dean of Studies of the Law School at Technische Universität Dresden
• 1993 - 2014 Professor of Public Law, European Union Law and Public International Law at Technische Universität Dresden
• 1991 - 1993 Leave for visiting professorships at the universities of Potsdam, Berlin (Humboldt University) and Frankfurt (Oder)
• 1989 - 1993 Professor of Public Law, Public International Law and European Union Law at the University of Cologne
• 1988 - 1989 Visiting Professor at the universities of Augsburg, Tübingen, Frankfurt (Main)
• 1977 - 1988 Research Assistant at the Institute for International Law, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich

Qualifications

• 1988 Habilitation at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (venia legendi for the subjects German Public Law, in particular Constitutional Law, Public International Law and European Union Law as well as Philosophy of Law)
• 1985 Doctorate of Law at Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich
• 1974 - 1976 Law internship (Hesse)
• 1969 - 1974 Studies at the universities of Frankfurt (Main), Tübingen, Lausanne and Marburg

Memberships

• United Nations Association of Germany (since 2008 Member of the Presidium of the Regional Chapter of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia)
• German Society of International Law (2009-2017 member of the Council)
• Dresdner Juristische Gesellschaft (Dresden Law Society) (2000-2003 member of the executive board)
• Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung (Society for Comparative Law)
• Österreichischer Völkerrechtstag (Austrian Society of Public International Law)
• Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer (Association of German Lecturers in Constitutional Law)

Participation in committees

• Member of the Board of Trustees for the Award of the "Dag-Hammerskjöld-Ehrenmedaille" of the United Nations Association of Germany (since 2016)
• Advisory Council on Public International Law of the German Federal Foreign Office (1999-2016)
• Evaluation of the proposal for the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio 138: Dynamiken der Sicherheit (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung) 2013, continuation proposal 2017; on behalf of the German Research Foundation
• Evaluation of the Europa-Institut Saarbrücken in the context of the system accreditation of Saarland University on behalf of the Akkreditierungs-, Certifizierungs- und Qualitätssicherungs-Institut (ACQUIN), 2012
• Diakonie Dresden (non-profit social welfare organization of Protestant churches) : member of the executive board (2000-2010), vice chairman of the supervisory board (2010-2014)