Prof. Dr. Mattias Wendel - Chair of Public and European Law

Mattias Wendel holds the Chair of Public Law and European Law at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on public law in its European, international, and comparative dimensions. He is editor-in-chief and managing co-editor of the journal Europarecht and serves on the editorial boards of the European Constitutional Law Review and Cahiers de droit européen.

Mattias Wendel studied law at the University of Passau, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Université Paris 1 – Panthéon/Sorbonne, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford. He completed his legal clerkship at the Kammergericht Berlin, with placements including the European Commission and the unit within the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs responsible for representing the Federal Republic of Germany before the European courts (today Unit EA6). In 2010, he received his doctorate at Humboldt University under Ingolf Pernice with a study on the mutual permeability of constitutional law at the European and national levels, for which he was awarded the Faculty of Law’s Doctoral Prize. Together with his co-authors, he received the Franco-German Parliamentary Prize from the Assemblée nationale and the Bundestag in 2016 for the book Französisches und Deutsches Verfassungsrecht – Ein Rechtsvergleich. In 2017, he completed his habilitation at Humboldt University with a study on administrative discretion in multilevel systems.

After serving as a substitute chair at the University of Freiburg and the Free University of Berlin, Mattias Wendel held a professorship in Public Law, International Law, European Law, and Comparative Law at Bielefeld University from 2018 to 2020, and a professorship in Public Law, European Law, International Law, Migration Law, and Comparative Law at Leipzig University from 2020 to 2025. He declined a call to the University of Freiburg in 2021.