Markus Böckenförde
Job Title: Programme Officer
Joined International IDEA in January, 2009.
Nationality: Germany
Programme: Design of Democratic Institutions and Processes (Constitution-Building Processes)
Office: Stockholm (HQ)
Phone: +46 8 698 37 00 (switchboard)
Email: m.boeckenfoerde@idea.int
Expertise at International IDEA:
- Comparative constitutional law
- International law, Human Rights
- Support in constitution building
- Support in implementing constitutions
Experience:
- Head of Africa Projects and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL), Germany (2002-2006; 2008)
- Legal Expert of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission, Sudan (2006-2007, on secondment of the German Foreign Office)
- Consultancies for UNDP, GTZ, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, German Foreign Office on several occasions relating to rule of law, constitution building, implementation of the constitution for Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan (2002-2008)
- Research Fellow at the German Advisory Council to the National Government on Global Change, Duesseldorf (1998-1999)
- Research Assistant to the Chair of Justice Prof. Dr. H. Steinberger, Germany`s representative to the Venice Commission (1995-1997)
- Development Aid Worker at the German Afghanistan Committee (1990-1992)
Education:
- University of Heidelberg (PhD, 2003)
- University of Minnesota (LL.M., 2000)
- University of Heidelberg (law degree, eq. to MA, 1999)
- University of Freiburg (political science examination, eq. to BA, 1995)
- Several Research stays at the University of Cambridge (UK), London School of Economics (UK), University of Geneva / Graduate Institute of International Studies / Graduate Institute of Development Studies (CH)
Languages: German, English, French
Publications:
(selection)
- The Sudanese Interim Constitution of 2005: A Model to Establish Co-Existence between an Islamic and a Secular Legal Regime. In: B. Krawietz / H. Reifeld (eds), Islam and the Rule of Law - Between Sharia and Secularization, Berlin 2008, 81-90.
- Constitutional Engineering and Decentralization - Federal Structures as a means for Peace-Building in Sudan. In: H. Eberhard, K. Lachmayer, G. Thallinger (eds), Transitional Constitutionalism, Vienna University Press / Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007, 25-48
- Constitutional Referendum in Germany, in: R. Wolfrum / E. Riedel (eds), Recent Trends in German Constitutional Law and European Law, Springer Publisher, Heidelberg 2006, 48-66
- Grüne Gentechnik und Welthandel - Das Biosafety Protokoll und seine Auswirkungen auf das Regime der WTO, Springer Publisher, Heidelberg 2004
- Author and Co-author of several Max Planck Manuals used as training materials for Max Planck projects (see http://edoc.mpg.de)