Prof. Dr. tit. Benedikt Pirker, LL.M.
RESEARCH PROFILE
RESEARCH FOCI
EU law
- EEA law
- EU constitutional law
- EU internal market law
- EU external relations
- Swiss-EU relations
Public international law
- International economic law
- International environmental law
- General public international law (treaty interpretation, law and language)
Recent Publications
- Plus c’est la même chose, plus ça change – Schiedsverfahren im Rahmen des Pakets Schweiz-EU, Zeitschrift für Europarecht 8/2025, H 1-H 23.
- Free Movement of Workers and Persons, in Graham Butler (Hrsg.), Research Handbook on EEA Internal Market Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2025 46-69.
- The “EEA Docking” Proposal in Swiss-EU Relations – Requiem for a Dream, in Astrid Epiney et al. (Hrsg.), Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Europarecht 2023/2024, Zürich/Basel/Bern 2024, 499-516.
Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen
- Vorlesung «Völkerrecht und Europarecht I», Teil Völkerrecht, HS 2025, Universität Freiburg i. Üe.
- Kurs «Interdisziplinäre Fallbearbeitung im Öffentlichen Recht», HS 2025, Kalaidos Law School
Curriculum Vitae
| Education and Training | |
| 2017 | Habilitation at the Faculty of Law, University of Fribourg (venia legendi in international law, European law and general constitutional law) |
| 2012 | PhD in international law, Graduate Institute Geneva |
| 2010 | B.A. in translation studies, Spanish/Russian, University of Innsbruck |
| 2008 | LL.M. in EU law, College of Europe, Bruges |
| 2007 | Mag. iur., University of Innsbruck |
| Career | |
| since Sept. 2025 | Senior Research Fellow Law, Liechtenstein Institute |
| since July 2023 / February 2024 | Titularprofessor / associate lecturer, University of Fribourg |
| 2015–2024 | Senior Lecturer, University of Fribourg |
| 2021–2022 | Visiting professor, University of Ottawa |
| 2020 | Visiting professor (replacing Prof. Jörg Künzli), University of Bern |
| 2015–2019 | Visiting professor, University of St. Gallen |
| 2015, 2016, 2017 | Visiting researcher, MPIL Heidelberg, Hebrew University Jerusalem, EUI Florence |
| 2012–2015 | Postdoctoral researcher, University of Fribourg |
| 2011–2012 | Visiting researcher, University of Michigan |
| 2009–2011 | SNSF research assistant, University of Fribourg |
| 2008–2009 | Teaching and research assistant, College of Europe, Bruges |
