Professor Dr. Dr. h.c.
Jörn Axel Kämmerer
Chair of Public Law I – Public Law, Public International and European Law
Chair
Jungiusstr. 6, 20355 Hamburg, Germany
Tel.: +49 40 3 07 06 – 190 (Sekretariat)
Fax: +49 40 3 07 06 – 195
E-Mail: axel.kaemmerer(at)law-school.de
Research focus
Constitutional Law, EU Business Law, Privatisation and Regulation, Law of the European Monetary Union and Financial Markets Law, Law of the Professions, Public International Law
Other offices
Vice President of Bucerius Law School (since 1 January 2026)
Recent Publications (Selection)
- Foundations of Supervision and ESMA/NCA Powers in a ECMC, in: Veil (Hrsg.), Regulating EU Capital Markets Union, Volume II: Market Conduct and Corporate Disclosure in a European Code, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025, pp. 119 - 219
- The EU Reexamined: A Governance Model in Transition, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham/Northampton, 2024, 338 pp. (edited together with Hans-Bernd Schäfer and Kaushik Basu)
- Neue öffentliche Aufgaben in Spannungszeiten – New public tasks in times of tension – Nouvelles missions publiques en période de tension, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2024 366 pp. (edited together with Vasco Pereira da Silva and Diana-Urania Galetta)
- Playing the “Constitutional Wild Card” – Future-Shaping by Central Banks, in: Arnold/Fickentscher (Hrsg.), The Responsibility of a Constitution for the Future, Cham, Springer, 2024, pp. 127 - 134
- European Capital Markets Code: The Treaty Framework, in: Veil (ed.), Regulating EU Capital Markets Union, Volume I: Fundamentals of a European Code, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2024, pp. 53 - 69
Biography
| Since January 2026 | Vice President of Bucerius Law School, Department for International Affairs |
| Since June 2022 | President of the Societas luris Publici Europaei (SIPE) |
| 8/2017 – 4/2018 | Managing Director of the Institute for Corporate and Capital Markets Law (ICCML) at Bucerius Law School |
| 2016 – June 2022 | Secretary-General of the SIPE |
| Since 2007 | Director of the ICCML at Bucerius Law School |
| Since 2000 | Professor at Bucerius Law School – Chair of Public Law I – Public Law, Public International and European Law |
| 1999 | Habilitation and venia legendi for Public Law, European Law and Public International Law, Tübingen Law Faculty |
| 1995 | Second State Examination |
| 1993 | Doctoral degree in Law, Tübingen Law Faculty |
| 1992 | Parlimentary advisor, Parliament of Saxony |
| 1991 – 2000 | Research assistant, Tübingen Law Faculty |
| 1991 | First State Examination |
| 1988 | Maîtrise en Droit, Aix-en-Provence-Marseille University |
| 1984 – 1991 | Law studies in Tübingen and Aix-en-Provence |
Memberships
- Association of German Constitutional Law Professors (Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer)
- German-Argentine Lawyers Association (Argentinisch-Deutsche Juristenvereinigung)
- Societas luris Publici Europaei
- International Association of Constitutional Law
- German Society of International Law (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht)
- German Comparative Law Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung)
- German Society for Military Law and Humanitarian Law (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wehrrecht)
- Förderverein Society for Legal Policy (Förderverein Gesellschaft für Rechtspolitik)
