Profile 
Prof. Dr. Mattias Kumm
mail: kumm [at] wzb [dot] eu
D-10785 Berlin
Since 08 2010
Research Professor: “Rule of Law in the Age of Globalization” at the Social Science Research Center Berlin and Humboldt University. The research professorship is funded by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation.
Since 06 2000
Professor at the New York University School of Law (since 2010 only in the Fall Semester): European Law, International Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and Legal Philosophy
Appointments:
2000 Assistant Professor of Law
2003 Associate Professor of Law
2006 Professor of Law (Tenure)
2011 Inge Rennert Professor of Law
Other Appointments:
2001-2005: Director of the J.S.D.-Program
2004 - 2010: Director of the LL.M.- J.S.D. Program in International and Comparative Law
2000
Appointments: Cornell Law School, Pennsylvania Law School, Texas Law School, und NYU School of Law
1998 - 2010
Lectureships:
Harvard Law School, Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization (Fall 2009)
National University of Singapore (Summer 2007/2008)
Bucerius Law School, Commerzbank Visiting Professor
of Law (Fall 2003)
University of Navarra (Pamplona) 2006/2007/2008
Central European University (Budapest) 2007
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts) 1999/2000
European University Institute (Florence) 1998
1997 - 2000
Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Program
Title of the dissertation: “Policing the Leviathan: Constitutional Democracy, National Courts and the Enforcement of Supranational Law”.
Emile Noelle Fellow (1998), Ethics Fellow (Kennedy School of Government 1999/2000), several scholarships and awards
1994/95 and 1996/97
Legal Clerkship in Kiel & Hamburg & 2nd Bar Exam
1995/1996
Harvard Law School, LL.M. Program; New York Bar Exam
2012
Alexy's Theory of Constitutional Rights and the Problem of Judicial Review, in: Institutionalized Reason, ed. Mathias Klatt, Oxford: OUP, 201 - 217.
Rethinking Constitutional Authority. On the Structure and Limits of Constitutional Pluralism, in: Constitutional Pluralism in the European Union and Beyond, eds. Matej Avbelj and Jan Komárek, Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law Series, 39 - 65.
The Idea of Thick Constitutional Patriotism and its Implications for the Role and Structure of European Legal History, in: Dialogues on Justice, eds. Helle Porsdam and Thomas Elholm, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 108 - 137.
2011
European legality and jurisdictional justification. How the ECJ should determine the legality of legislation unter Art. 114 TFEU, in: Hope, Reluctance or Fear?, eds. Flavia Carbonell, Agustín José Menéndez and John Erik Fossum, Oslo: Arena Report Series No 5/11, 115 - 165.
Comment: Contesting the Management of Difference. Transnational Human Rights, Religion and the European Court of Human Rights' Lautsi Decision, in: Difference and Democracy, eds. Kolja Raube, Anika Sattler and Saskia Mestern, 245 - 259.
How Does European Union Law Fit into the World of Public Law? Costa, Kadi and Three Models of Public Law, in: Political Theory of the European Union, eds. J. Neyer/ A. Wiener, Oxford 2011, 111 - 138.
2010
"Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, Nold" and the New Human Rights Paradigm, in: The Past and Future of EU Law: The Classics of EU Law Revisited on the 50th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty, eds. M. Maduro/ L. Azoulai, Oxford 2010, 106 - 119.
The Idea of Socratic Contestation and the Right to Justification: The Point of Rights Based Proportionality Review, in: Law and Ethics of Human Rights, 4 (2) (2010), 141 - 175.
2009
The Cosmopolitan Turn in Constitutionalism: On the Relationship Between Constitutionalism in and Beyond the State, in: Ruling the World? International Law, Global Governance, Constitutionalism, eds. J. L. Dunoff /J. P. Trachtman, Cambridge 2009, 258 – 326.
Various articles on jurisprudential and doctrinal aspects of “Constitutional Pluralism” in Europe and Beyond.
Book Project: European Legal Exceptionalism: The New Ius Publicum Europeaeum and the Cosmopolitan Turn in Constitutionalism: (under contract with Oxford University Press).
From Human Dignity to Total Rights: On the function and limits of rights discourse – A global and comparative perspective (book project).
Rethinking Global Law: The Cosmopolitan Turn in Constitutionalism (book project).
