Professor Dr. iur. Christoph Möllers
Christoph Möllers, Professor of Public Law and Jurisprudence at Humboldt-Universität Berlin, has been Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg since September 2026. He is a recipient of the Leibniz Prize and the Tractatus Prize, and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German Academy for Language and Literature. He has been a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg since 2012. As a legal representative before the Federal Constitutional Court, he has also repeatedly represented the Bundestag, the Bundesrat and the Federal Government.
Curriculum Vitae
- 2011–2014: judge at the Supreme Administrative Court for Berlin Brandenburg
- since 2009: chair of Public Law and Philosophy of Law at Humboldt University in Berlin
- 2005–2009: chair of Public Law, in particular Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory and Comparative Law, at the Georg-August University of Göttingen
- 2004/2005: professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster
- habilitation at the University of Heidelberg; venia legendi in public law, philosophy of law, European law and international law
- 2000–2004: research assistant to Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann at the Institute for German and European Administrative Law, University of Heidelberg
- 1997–2000: research assistant to Hartmut Bauer at Dresden University of Technology
- 1999: was awarded a doctorate under Peter Lerche in Munich
- 1997: second state examination in Berlin
- 1995: Master of Laws from the University of Chicago Law School
- 1994: first state examination in Munich
- 1989–1994: studied law, philosophy and comparative literature in Tübingen, Madrid and Munich
Awards and Memberships
- since 2022: member of the German Academy of Language and Literature
- 2021: Thomas Mann Fellow, Thomas Mann House, Pacific Palisades
- 2021: Tractatus-Prize
- 2019: Schaper-Prize
- 2016: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation
- since 2012: Permanent Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- since 2008: Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- 2006–2007: Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Paris I and II, at Princeton University, the Central European University and the London School of Economics. As a legal representative before the Federal Constitutional Court, he has also represented the Bundestag, the Bundesrat and the Federal Government.