Rainer Hofmann

Professor Rainer Hofmann studied Law at the Universities of Freiburg, Lausanne and Heidelberg. He worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Public Law and clerked at the German Federal Constitutional Court. He holds a doctor iuris degree from Heidelberg University and a docteur d'université en droit degree from Université Montpellier I.

He was Professor of German Public Law, Public International Law and European Law at the universities of Cologne (1993-1997) and Kiel (1997-2004) and is, since 2004, Professor of German Public Law, Public International Law and European Law at Frankfurt. He is a member of the Advisory Council on Public International Law of the German Ministry for Foreign Affairs (since 2001). Professor Hofmann was Rapporteur of the International Law Association Committee on Internally Displaced Persons (1992-2000) and is, since 2004, Rapporteur of its Committee on Reparations for Victims of Armed Conflict. He is also Secretary-General of the German Branch of the International Law Association. He was President of the Advisory Committee on the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities from 1998-2004 and was re-elected in 2010. His publications deal, in particular, with issues of general public international law and human rights law, including refugee law and rights of national minorities.