2026-2027

Fritz Thyssen Senior Fellows

  • Johanna Hey

    Prof. Dr. Johanna Hey has been Director of the Institute for Tax Law at the University of Cologne since 2006 and Vice Dean for International Affairs since 2024. From 2002 to 2006, she held the Chair of Corporate Tax Law at the University of Düsseldorf. From 2010 to 2021, she was Academic Director of the […]

    Research Project:

    Tax Multilateralism and national tax legislation. Taxes play a central role in economic competition between countries. On the one hand, […]

  • Silvia von Steinsdorff

    Prof. Dr. Silvia v. Steinsdorff is Professor for Comparative Politics and the Political Systems of Eastern Europe at the Institute of Social Sciences and co-director of the Integrated Research Institute Law&Society (LSI, together with Prof. Dr. Anna-Bettina Kaiser from the Faculty of Law) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Since 2019, she serves as Vice Dean […]

    Research Project:

    (How) should judges talk to the public? Court communication strategies in times of ‘rule of law backsliding.’ Wherever liberal democracy […]

Senior Emile Noël Fellows

  • Edoardo Chiti

    Edoardo Chiti (1969) is Professor of Administrative Law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy. His research focusses on the institutional and legal dynamics of European administrative integration, the new frontiers of regulation in the regional/transnational European horizon, the diversity of the overall paradigms of administrative law, all approached from a ‘law in context’ […]

    Research Project:

    Explaining, Conceptualizing and Assessing Administrative Power in the EU.  This project isolates one specific element of EU administration and law, […]

  • Issachar (Issi) Rosen-Zvi

    Issachar (Issi) Rosen-Zvi is a Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law and Director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. Between 2018-2022 he served as the and the Vice Dean of the Faculty. Professor Rosen-Zvi obtained his LL.B. (magna cum laude) from Bar-Ilan University, his […]

    Research Project:

    Presidential Immunity and Liberal Democracy. A Qualified Defense of Trump v. United States My project examines the relationship between presidential criminal […]

  • Ming-Sung Kuo

    Dr Ming-Sung Kuo is a reader in law at University of Warwick in the United Kingdom where he teaches public law and international law. He received his LLB and first LLM from National Taiwan University. Following a one-year law clerkship at Taiwan’s Constitutional Court, he started his academic journey as a PhD student at National […]

    Research Project:

    Articulated Governance: The Constitutional Project of Progress. Theories of constitutionalism seem to be thriving as scholars extend the gene pool […]

  • Peter Huber

    I held chairs at the Universities of Augsburg, Jena, Bayreuth and – since 2002 – Munich where I became an emeritus in 2025. From 1996 – 2002 I served as a judge at the High Court of Administration in Weimar, from 2007 – 2009 at the State Constitutional Court of Bremen. From 1998 – 2008 […]

    Research Project:

    The State of European Integration. A debate between von Bogdandy and Huber. Until today it has been impossible to find a […]

  • Wojciech Sadurski

    Wojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and Professor of the University of Warsaw, Centre for Europe. He has previously held a professorship at the European University Institute in Florence from 1999 to 2009 (where he served as head of the Department of Law from 2003 to 2006), and he has […]

    Research Project:

    “Post-populism: Constitutional and Political Dilemmas.” What happens when post-populists – leaders and parties who defeat authoritarian populist incumbents in elections […]

Emile Noël Fellows

  • Aurélie Villanueva

    Aurélie Villanueva is a legal scholar specializing in the intersection of culture and EU law. She is an assistant professor at the University of Groningen and holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute. Her PhD dissertation ‘Culture in EU Law: Between Market and Society’ (2023) was awarded a prize by the European […]

    Research Project:

    Law and culture in EU law: Towards a conceptual framework. Culture defines who we are, unites us, and extends beyond […]

  • Carl Jauslin

    Carl Jauslin studied philosophy (BA, 2014) and law (BLaw, 2017; MLaw, 2019) at the University of Basel, Switzerland. After completing his studies, he worked for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (2019-2022) and the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (2022-2025). Following his experience as a civil servant, he pursued a postgraduate LL.M. in European […]

    Research Project:

    Effects and Effectiveness: Impact Assessments in European and International Law. The research project explores the role of effectiveness in legal […]

  • Eirini Tsoumani

    Dr. Eirini Tsoumani is a Postdoctoral CIVICA Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence for 2025-2026. She holds a PhD in Law from Sciences Po Paris, where her doctoral research examined constitutional adjudication during the Greek sovereign debt crisis. Her work lies at the intersection of constitutional law, legal theory and legal semiotics, […]

    Research Project:

    Judges Under Constraint: Genealogies of Judicial Reasoning and the Making of European Legal Culture. Eirini’s project examines how judicial reasoning […]

  • Silvia Rizzuto Ferruzza

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  • Umberto Lattanzi

    Umberto Lattanzi is Teaching Fellow at Bocconi University, where he obtained his PhD in Comparative Constitutional Law in June 2025. During his PhD, he was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Public International Law in Heidelberg. Contact: ul2042@nyu.edu

    Research Project:

    The regulation of the export of weapons jointly developed by EU Member States under the EU Defence Omnibus: towards mutual […]