Prof. Dr. Mattias Wendel, Maîtr. en droit (Paris 1)

Mattias Wendel serves as a professor of public law and European law at the University of Hamburg. The primary focus of his research is public law in its European, international and comparative dimensions. He co-editor-in-chief of the journal Europarecht and serves on the editorial boards of the European Constitutional Law Review and the Cahiers de droit européen.

Mattias Wendel studied law at the University of Passau, Humboldt University Berlin, and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and was an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford. He earned his doctorate in 2010 from Humboldt University with a comparative study on the permeability of both national and EU constitutional law, for which he was awarded the Faculty’s Doctoral Thesis Prize. Together with his co-authors he received the 2016 Franco-German Parliamentary Prize from the Assemblée nationale and the Bundestag for a comparative study on French and German constitutional law. In 2017, he completed his habilitation with a work on administrative discretion in multilevel legal systems, focusing on migration and regulatory law. Prior to his current appointment, he served as a professor at Bielefeld University from 2018 to 2020 and at Leipzig University from 2020 to 2025. He declined a call for a professorship at the University of Freiburg in 2021. In March 2025 he was guest professor at the Université Paris 2 – Panthéon/Assas.