Michael Riegner

Michael Riegner is Assistant Professor for International Administrative Law and Public International Law at the University of Erfurt's Faculty of Social and Governmental Sciences. He has held this Junior Professorship (W1 with tenure track to W3) since October 1, 2021, and serves as study advisor for both Bachelor's and Master's programs in Law. Additionally, he directs the Global Justice Clinic and leads the De-Globalization and Global Decoupling (DeGlobE) doctoral college.

Dr. Riegner's research focuses on the intersection of international law, constitutional law, and postcolonial theory. His work explores how global governance structures, international institutions, and constitutional frameworks interact across different geopolitical contexts, with particular attention to perspectives from the Global South. He examines issues of information governance, human rights implementation across regional systems, and the decolonization of legal frameworks.

His scholarly contributions reveal a consistent engagement with comparative constitutional law from a global perspective, particularly examining how constitutional ideas travel and transform across different legal cultures. His recent work has focused on corporate constitutionalism, postcolonial memory politics in German law, and the regionalization of business and human rights frameworks.

• 2024: "Canonizing the corporation: Liberal, social and transformative varieties of corporate constitutionalism"
• 2024: "Comparative Human Rights Law"
• 2022: "Postcolonial Memory Politics in German Law: From Decolonization of Public Space to Decolonial Democracy"
• 2021: "Comparative Foreign Relations Law between Centre and Periphery: Liberal and Postcolonial Perspectives"

Dr. Riegner advises students through the Global Justice Clinic and leads the DeGlobE doctoral college, fostering research on de-globalization phenomena. His work connects theoretical legal scholarship with practical applications in international justice and governance.

He is actively involved in building research infrastructure, including serving as co-editor of the journal "Verfassung und Recht in Übersee/World Comparative Law" where he has curated special issues on "The Right to Information," "The Directive Constitution in the Varieties of Constitutionalism," and "Varieties of Constitutionalism."