Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Matthias Armgardt studied law at the universities of Bochum and Cologne with a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. After completing his state examinations in law, he earned his doctorate at the University of Cologne with a dissertation on the application of formal logic to law in the work of Leibniz.

After several years working as a lawyer specializing in business law and serving as a research assistant in Bochum, he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne in the field of ancient legal history.

From 2008 to 2009, he held a substitute professorship at the Leopold Wenger Institute of LMU Munich. He then served as a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Konstanz from 2009 to 2020, where he was a Principal Investigator at the Excellence Cluster Cultural Foundations of Integration, as well as Vice Rector for Teaching and Dean of the Faculty of Law.

His international research projects in the field of legal logic led to collaborations with the universities of Lille, Bologna, TU Vienna, and FU Berlin. He was also a chercheur associé at the Centre d’Histoire et d’Anthropologie du Droit at Université Paris X.

Since 2020, he has been a Nucleus Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg. His research and teaching visits have taken him to the universities of Bologna, UBC Vancouver, Harvard, Stanford and UC Berkeley.

Since 2023 he, together with two colleagues from Harvard Law School, organizes the annual Harvard-Hamburg Conferences on New Approaches to Legal Reasoning and is a permanent professor at the Summer School for Law and Logic in Florence, organized by Harvard Law School and the European University Institute.