Gernot Sydow has held the Chair of European Administrative Law at the University of Münster since 2015. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Pamplona (Universidad de Navarra) and Lyon (Université Jean Moulin Lyon III) and regularly teaches at the German-Turkish University of Istanbul.

Gernot Sydow conducts research on German and European public law, particularly from a comparative law perspective, as well as on legal history. The research projects of his doctoral candidates are predominantly comparative law-oriented and are often supervised by him in cotutelle with foreign partner faculties. He regularly enables young foreign academics to spend research periods in Münster as part of their doctoral studies or for the entire duration of their doctorate.

Conference Future-Proofing in Public Law

From September 19^th to 21^st, 2024, the second Münster Conference on International and Comparative Public Law took place on the topic of “Future-Proofing in Public Law”. It was organized by the postdocs Dr. Nicholas Otto and Dr. Nicole Hövelmeyer together with Prof. Dr. Gernot Sydow in Münster. Further information can be found here.

Concours Cassin enters the next round

The Moot Court Concours Européen des droits de l'Homme René Cassin is the oldest French-language competition on the topic of the ECHR. We are pleased to announce that it will enter a new round next winter semester. Further information can be found here.