PD Dr. Dana Burchardt

Dana Burchardt is a Heisenberg Fellow at WZB. She received funding in the context of the DFG's Heisenberg Programme and is pursuing a research project entitled “Interacting Legal Spaces”. Previously, she was a visiting professor at the University of Bremen and Humboldt University Berlin, a senior research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin in the context of the Berlin Potsdam Research Group “International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?” and an associated researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. She has also been an assistant professor at the China University of Political Science and Law and a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She received her doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin and completed her “Habilitation” at the University of Bonn. She has studied law in Potsdam and Paris and has completed her first and second State Exam as well as a maîtrise en droit. Her research interests include international law, European and domestic constitutional law, interdisciplinary approaches to law, law and technology and legal theory. She has recently published a co-authored monograph titled “The Rule of Law in Germany: Bringing the Rechtsstaat into the 21st Century” (Hart Publishing 2025, together with Hannah Birkenkötter) and a monograph on “The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Framework” is forthcoming with Hart Publishing.

Publications

Books

“The Authority of International Courts – A Behavioural Framework” (Hart Publishing, forthcoming)

“The Rule of Law in Germany - Bringing the Rechtsstaat into the 21st Century” (Hart Publishing 2025), 216 p., with Hannah Birkenkötter

“Cynical International Law? Abuse and Circumvention in International and European Law”, co-edited with Björnstjern Baade, Prisca Feihle, Alicia Köppen, Linus Mührel, Lena Riemer and Raphael Schäfer (Springer 2021), 369 p.

“Die Rangfrage im europäischen Normenverbund - theoretische Grundlagen und dogmatische Grundzüge des Verhältnisses von Unionsrecht und nationalem Recht“ (Mohr Siebeck 2015), 383 p.

Edited Special Issue

“The Impact of Digitalisation on International Law”, Special Issue German Law Journal 24/3 (2023).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“The ADBAT before the Human Rights Committee: Globalising Waite and Kennedy but failing to protect judicial independence effectively”, Heidelberg Journal of International Law/ZaöRV (forthcoming)

“Transnational Procedural Requirements: What do regional and domestic courts expect from the Court of Arbitration for Sport?”, International Sports Law Journal (2025), https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40318-025-00319-7

“A behavioural approach to judicial independence”, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2025), https://doi.org/10.1177/1023263X251363881

“Does Digitalisation Change International Law Structurally?”, German Law Journal 24 (2023), 438-460

“Transnational Procedural Guarantees – The Role of Domestic Courts “, King’s Law Journal 34/3 (2023), 562-578

- based on the following German article: “Transnationale Verfahrensgarantien – Die Entscheidung des BVerfG v. 22. 11. 2022 – 2 BvR 2480/10 u. a. (Europäisches Patentamt) im Kontext, JuristenZeitung (2023) 451-458

“The Concept of Legal Space – A Topological Approach for Addressing Multiple Legalities”, Global Constitutionalism 11 (2022) 518- 547

“Backlash against the Court of Justice of the EU? The Recent Jurisprudence of the German Constitutional Court on EU Fundamental Rights as a Standard of Review”, German Law Journal 21 (2020), 1–18

“The Functions of Law and Their Challenges: The Differentiated Functionality of International Law”, German Law Journal 20 (2019), 409-429

“The Relationship between the Law of the European Union and the Law of its Member States - A Norm-Based Conceptual Framework”, European Constitutional Law Review 15 (2019), 73-103

“The Twilight of Legal Order? On the Current Challenges Faced by the Concept of a Legal System”, Transnational Legal Theory 9 (2018) 110-146

“International Counter-Terrorism Regulation and Citizenship Stripping Laws”, Journal of Conflict & Security Law 23 (2018), 203–228 (with Rishi Gulati)

“Intertwinement of legal spaces in the transnational legal sphere”, Leiden Journal of International Law 30 (2017), 305-326

Other Journal Articles and Book Chapters

„Künstliche Intelligenz in der Justiz und ihre Auswirkungen auf die richterliche Unabhängigkeit“, Der Staat 63 (2024) 595

„Generelle Tatsachen in der verwaltungsgerichtlichen Rechtsprechung“, AöR 149 (2024) 643

„Looking behind the façade of monism, dualism and pluralism”, in: H. Aust, H. Krieger and F. Lange (Hrsg.), Research Handbook on International Law and Domestic Legal Systems (Edward Elgar 2024) 262-279

“Strukturelle Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf das öffentliche Recht” , Die Öffentliche Verwaltung (2023) 935-945

“Amendments of EU Treaties”, in Garben/Gormley (eds), Oxford Encyclopaedia of European Union Law (2023), https://opil.ouplaw.com/display/10.1093/law-oeeul/law-oeeul-e193?rskey=…

“Auswirkung von Sprache auf das Verhältnis von Europarechtswissenschaft und Forschung zum inter- und transnationalen Recht“, European Papers 8 (2023) 77-80

“Der Grundsatz richterlicher Unabhängigkeit im verfassungsrechtlichen Gefüge: Wie sind Kollisionen mit anderen Verfassungswerten zu lösen?“ , Der Staat 61 (2022), 665–689

“Der Grundsatz richterlicher Unabhängigkeit: eine verhaltensbezogene Perspektive“, Jahrbuch des öffentlichen Rechts 70 (2022), 453-511

“‘Digital sovereignty’ and Multilevel Constitutionalism: Whose Standards for the Right to Be Forgotten?”, in Federico Fabbrini, Edoardo Celeste and John Quinn (eds), Data Protection Beyond Borders - Transatlantic Perspectives on Extraterritoriality and Sovereignty (Hart 2021), 63-79.

“The Relationship between Legality and Legitimacy: A Double-Edged Sword - A Comment on Thilo Marauhn”, in Heike Krieger, Georg Nolte and Andreas Zimmermann (eds), The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline? - Approaching current foundational challenges (OUP 2019), 302-310

“Kehrtwende in der Grundrechts- und Vorrangrechtsprechung des EuGH? - Zum Urteil des EuGH in der Rechtssache M.A.S. und M.B. („Taricco II“, C‑42/17)”, Europarecht (2018), 248 – 263

“Die Ausübung der Identitätskontrolle durch das BVerfG - Zugleich Besprechung des Beschlusses 2 BvR 2735/14 des BVerfG vom 15.12.2015 (Solange III/Europäischer Haftbefehl II)“, Heidelberg Journal of International Law/ZaöRV (2016), 527-551

“Zukünftige Generationen – Träger kollektiver Rechte?“, in Junge Wissenschaft im Öffentlichen Recht e.V. (Hrsg.), Kollektivität – Öffentliches Recht zwischen Gruppeninteressen und Gemeinwohl (Baden-Baden 2012), pp. 187-208

“La hiérarchisation des normes nationales et internationales par les ordres juridiques internes – Une question fonctionelle“, Annales de Droit 6 (2012), pp. 9-29

“Formelle und materielle Abweichungsrechte der Bundesländer zwischen europa- und bundesrechtlichen Vorgaben – Überlegungen am Beispiel der Regelungen zur UVP-Pflichtigkeit wasserrechtlicher Vorhaben“, Jahrbuch für Umwelt- und Technikrecht, Berlin 2011, pp. 7-47 (with Christian Calliess)

“Kompetenzgrenzen im deutschen und europäischen Vermittlungsverfahren“, Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung (2011), pp. 68-91 (with Max Putzer)

Blogs and Book Reviews

„Human Rights Committee Globalises Waite and Kennedy – But Fails to Protect Judicial Independence Effectively“, EJIL Talk 22/10/2024, https://www.ejiltalk.org/human-rights-committee-globalises-waite-and-ke…

“Besprechung: Franziska Knur, Individuelle Rechtspositionen gegenüber internationalen Organisationen und Institutionen, Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 2020”, Archiv des Völkerrechts 58 (2020), 504-507

“Book Review: Jean d’Aspremont, International Law as a Belief System”, European Journal of International Law 29 (2019), 1440-1447

“Book Review: Andrea Bianchi, International Law Theories – An Inquiry into Different Ways of Thinking, OUP 2016”, British Yearbook of International Law 87 (2018) 270–272

“Belittling the Primacy of EU Law in Taricco II”, Verfassungsblog, 2017/12/07, available at https://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20171207-180534