Germany
Brief description of the legal entity
The University of Bielefeld (UNIBI) was founded in 1969. It consists of 13 faculties for humanities, social and natural sciences, as well as the Faculty of Law. With 21 chairs and approximately 2,000 students, the Faculty of Law concentrates its teaching and research on European and international law, constitutional law, the protection of human rights and migration/refugees law, criminal law, social security law, environmental law and the theoretical foundations of jurisprudence.
Short profile of the team members
Christoph Gusy is the scientist in charge of the research team of the University of Bielefeld. He is Professor of Law at the University of Bielefeld with expertise in public and constitutional law, general theory of state and constitutional history. For the period 1998-2005, he was Vice Rector of the University. He taught as Visiting Professor at the University of Paris I (Panthéon/Sorbonne, 2000) and the University of Strasbourg (Robert Schuman, 2002-2004). He has participated in many interdisciplinary research projects, focusing amongst others on political communication and the implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. He is the author of more than 20 books and about 200 essays.
Title: Prof. Dr.
Position: Professor of Law
Tel: +49 521 106 4382
Fax: +49 521 106 8061
E-mail: christoph.gusy@uni-bielefeld.de
Address: Universität Bielefeld
Postfach 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Germany
Sebastian Müller is a Researcher at the Law Faculty of the University of Bielefeld. He holds a PhD in Law on non-judicial mechanisms in the field of human rights protection. Parts of his thesis analysed the necessary structures for democratic participation in human rights protection, examining the role of the media in this respect. As a researcher at the Law Faculty, Sebastian Müller has been involved in two collaborative research projects, one on political communication, another on human rights protection in Germany. Before joining the University, he worked for domestic human rights non-governmental organisations, the Federal Commissioner for Migrants and Refugees of the Federal Government of Germany and the German Institute for Human Rights in Berlin.
