FRIDE - Hofmann, Rainer

Rainer Hofmann

Professor of Constitutional and International Law at the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Professor of Constitutional and International Law at the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany since October 2004. Rainer Hofmann has been Visiting Scholar in several universities, amongst them Université de Montpellier I (1978-1979), University of Sidney (1988), and University of Alcalá de Henares (1990). He has also lectured in Constitutional and International Law at the University of Cologne and Kiel where, between 1997 and 2004, he was Director of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law.
He holds a PhD iuris utriusque from the University of Heidelberg.
Between 1988 and 1994, Rainer Hofmann was Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. From 1992 to 2000 he was Rapporteur in the Committee on Internally Displaced Persons at the International Law Association and he is currently Co-Rapporteur in the Committee on Compensation for Victims of War.
Since October 1996, he is a Member of the Board of the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, and since November 2001, Member of the Advisory Council on Public International Law of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He has authored several publications in the fields of German and Comparative Public Law and Public International Law, especially human rights, law of refugees and internally displaced persons and minorities.