Institute for German, European and Public International Law Chair for Public Law, Public International Law and Human Rights
Patricia Wiater holds the Chair of Public Law, Public International Law and Human Rights at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. She is a member of the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) and the Director of the CHREN Human Rights Clinic. Patricia Wiater received a Franco-German doctorate in law from the University of Strasbourg and the University of Leipzig awarded for a monograph on European human rights. She also completed a doctorate in political science at the University of Freiburg and published a monograph on the protection of critical infrastructure. Patricia Wiater’s human rights expertise relates, inter alia, to the comparison of regional human rights systems and the field of business, sport and human rights. She is a member of the Human Rights Advisory Board of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and regularly advises on sports and human rights, both in relation to war-related sanctions and to human rights-informed approaches to major sporting events. She is also an expert on regional economic integration systems, WTO law and investment protection law. Her third academic monograph (Habilitation thesis, completed at LMU Munich) includes a comprehensive comparison of rights of action and standing requirements in international economic law. Before joining academia, Patricia Wiater was a member of the German bar and worked for the Bavarian government in the field of EU law.
Professor Wiater (born 1982) is married and mother of two daughters and a son.
06/2019
Habilitation at the Faculty of Law of LMU Munich (Venia legendi for Public Law, European Union Law, Public International Law, Legal Theory and Comparative Law)
08/2012
Doctorate in Political Sciences, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
10/2004 – 02/2011
Master Studies in Political Sciences, German Literature, Public and Public International Law, University of Augsburg
10/2008 – 10/2010
Legal clerkship at the regional court of Freiburg
10/2008
French-German Doctorate in Law (Cotutelle de thèse), University of Strasbourg, France, and University of Leipzig, Germany
10/2001 – 02/2005
Certificate of Legal English and Legal French, University of Augsburg
10/2001 – 01/2006
Law studies at the University of Augsburg
since 08/2021
Chair for Public Law, Public International Law and Human Rights at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen Nürnberg
10/2018 – 07/2021
Tenure Track Professor for Public Law, in particular Fundamental Rights and Human Rights at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen Nürnberg
10/2016 – 09/2018
Academic Councillor (“Akademische Rätin/Oberrätin“) at the Institute for Politics and Public Law (“Institut für Politik und Öffentliches Recht”), Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Faculty of Law
since 04/2012
Lecturer at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Faculty of Law
2012/2013
Lecturer at „Hochschule für Politik“ Munich
10/2011 – 10/2016
Councillor at the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Sciences and the Arts
09/2008 – 07/2010
Research Assistant at the Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law (Professor T. Würtenberger) at Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, collaboration in multidisciplinary research projects on security technologies and civil security (“AISIS” and “ILOV”)
04/2008 – 08/2008
Research Assistant at the University of Strasbourg (Professor C. Grewe), France
04/2007 – 06/2007
Traineeship at the European Court of Human Rights (Research Division)
09/2006 – 10/2006
Traineeship at the European Court of Human Rights (German Division)
The main research interests of Professor Wiater are Constitutional Law, EU Law and Public International Law as well as the Didactics of Law Teaching.
Professor Wiater is co-publisher of the “Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Rechtswissenschaft” (ZDRW).
The magazine is available via the Nomos eLibrary here.
2023
Awarded the “Preis für gute Lehre” by the Bavarian Ministry of Science for outstanding teaching
2020
DFG publication grant for the printing of the habilitation „Internationale Individualkläger“
2019
FAU Teaching Innovation Fund (funding of the “FAU Human Rights Talks”)
10/2013 – 12/2016
Habilitation scholarship funded by “Bayerische Gleichstellungsförderung”
since 2012
Habilitation scholarship funded by the Excellence-Programme “LMU Mentoring”
12/2009
Dissertation prize „Marc Otto“ by „Fondation Saint-Thomas“ (law thesis)
11/2008
Dissertation prize by Dr. Feldbausch- Stiftung (law thesis)
2008
Funding for printing costs by VG-Wort (law thesis)
06/2007 – 10/2008
Doctoral scholarship by European Doctoral College, Straßburg
03/2007 – 09/2007
Doctoral scholarship by Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst
02/2007 – 10/2008
Doctoral scholarship by Deutsch-Französische Hochschule
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