Prof. Dr. tit. Benedikt Pirker, LL.M.

Senior Research Fellow Law

benedikt.pirker(at)liechtenstein-institut.li

Telephone +423 320 33 07

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Plus c’est la même chose, plus ça change – Schiedsverfahren im Rahmen des Pakets Schweiz-EU, Zeitschrift für Europarecht 2025 (im Druck).
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.

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