Prof. Dr. jur. Ingolf Pernice

Ingolf Pernice was born July 6, 1950 in Marburg/ Lahn. After studies in Marburg , Geneva , Bruges and Friburg he served as research assistant at the University of Augsburg , where he finished his doctorate. He was appointed and worked as administrator at the European Commission at the DG Competition (1980-83) and later as a Member of the Legal Service (1983-1992). He got his PhD at Bayreuth University in 1987, prepared during a special leave for research 1985-87.

He was appointed as Professor for Public, European and International Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt in 1993. Since 1999 he is the editor of "Schriftenreihe Europäisches Verfassungsrecht" (Nomos, Baden-Baden), and member of the Advisory Board des Columbia Journal of European Law. In 1996 he was appointed as Professor et the Humboldt-Universität of Berlin, where he got the chair for public law, international and european law. From 1997 to 2001 he served as a member of the "European Forum for Environment and Sustainable Development".

He founded the Walter Hallstein-Institut for European Constitutional Law of the Humboldt-University Berlin in 1997 and is managing director of this Institute since its foundation. Since 1998 he is the Dekan for international relations of the Humboldt-University Law Faculty. He was guest professor at Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales in 1998.

In 1999 he became a Member of the Europa-Kommission of the Bertelsmann-Foundation, and a member of the Scientific Directorate of the Institut für Internationale Politik, Berlin . As the co-ordinator of the European Constitutional Law Network (www.ecln.net) he is also the editor of the series in which the results of the annual symposia of this network are published: ECLN-series (Nomos, Baden-Baden).

He has published a great number of articles dealing with European competition law, European environmental law and, above all, with the constitutional process of the European Union, including on fundamental rights, competencies, institutions, based on his concept of "multilevel constitutionalism".

For further information on the Institute including some publications on European Constitutional Law see: www.whi-berlin.de

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