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
Recent Publications (Selection)
- 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 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)