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Dr. Jakob Hohnerlein

Senior Researcher

Main Focus

  • Legal and political philosophy
  • Constitutional law
  • Police and assembly law
  • Environmental law

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2022: Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department of Public Law

2008–2014: Law studies in Konstanz, Freiburg and Madrid (First state examination)

2009–2015: Political science and history studies in Freiburg and Madrid (B.A.)

2014–2019: Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher, Institute for constitutional theory and legal philosophy, University of Freiburg

2011–2014: Student assistant, ibid.

2019: Ph.D. “Law and democratic reversibility. Binding democratic majorities to entrenched law as a question of consti­tutional theory and constitutional law” at University of Freiburg Law Faculty, awarded with the Werner-von-Simson prize of the University

2021: Assistant to a lawyer in Berlin

2018–2020: Legal clerkship (“Referendariat”) at the higher regional court of Berlin (Second state examination) with stages at German ministry of economic co-operation and development, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte and European Court of Human Rights

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