Andreas Knecht
Maîtrise en droit (Paris II), LL.M. (King's College London), Research Fellow
knecht@mpil.de
Main Fields of Research:
EU Constitutional Law; EU Administrative Law
Academic Career:
| Since 3/2024 |
Research Fellow at MPIL |
| 6/2023 - 2/2024 |
Research associate to an attorney at the Federal Supreme Court |
| Since 4/2023 |
PhD Candidate under the supervision of Prof. von Bogdandy
Title: The European Union’s power of the purse: The operationalisation of three conditionality instruments and their federalising effect
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| 1/2023 - 4/2023 |
Visiting Associate Boston Consulting Group (BCG) |
| 7/2020 - 7/2022 |
Legal Trainee at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main
Assignments to, among ohters, HengelerMueller and the European Commission
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| 7/2020 - 6/2021 |
Research assistant to Prof. Langenbucher (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) |
| 2019 - 2020 |
King's College London, LL.M. (International Financial Law) as student of the European Law School
Dissertation on: "Whatever it takes" for climate change? Legal obstacles for a green quantitative easing programme by the European Central Bank |
| 07/2019 |
Intern Financial Law Division, European Central Bank |
| 2018 - 2019 |
Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), Maîtrise en droit européen |
| 10/2014 - 2018 |
Humboldt-University Berlin, First German State Examination
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Recent Publications
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Breaking with Lisbon: The German Federal Constitutional Court’s New Approach to EU Democracy and Responsibility for Integration.
In: European Constitutional Law Review 21(3), 528-553 (2025).
doi:10.1017/S1574019625100862
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Tilting the Federal Balance? Rule of Law Jurisprudence Beyond Crisis Mode.
In: European Public Law Volume 31, Issue 2 , 145-166 (2025). doi: httpss://doi.org/10.54648/euro2025022.
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100 Jahre MPIL: Ordnung durch Recht im Wandel der Zeit.
In: EuZW Heft 9, 422-424 (2025).
Blogposts
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European Society Strikes Back: The Member States Embrace Article 2 TEU in Commission v Hungary. VerfBlog, 26 November 2024. doi: 10.59704/00f6c17a (with
Lena Kaiser,
Luke Dimitrios Spieker).
https://verfassungsblog.de/european-soci...
Working Papers
Presentations
26 Sep 2025
Macht des Geldes
Potsdam, 65. Junge Tagung Öffentliches Recht (JTÖR)
03 Jul 2025
Rule of Law Jurisprudence Beyond Crisis Mode
Vortrag im Rahmen des Young European Lawyers Workshop am King's College London
London
15 May 2025
Safeguarding Democracy: The Role of EU Spending Conditionality Against Democratic Backsliding
Presentation at the ENGAGE.EU Doctoral Seminar on Constitutional Identity
Vienna
20 Dec 2024
European Society Strikes Back
together with Lena Kaiser
Arbeitskreis Unionsrecht
Teaching
Wintersemester 2025/2026
Arbeitsgemeinschaft im Völkerrecht
Themenbereich: Staatsrecht III sowie internationale Organisationen
Die Veranstaltung wurde gemeinsam mit Laurids Hempel, Felix Herbert, Bernadette Lumbela, Philipp Rothkirch und Helena Kaim abgehalten.
Sommersemester 2025
Arbeitsgemeinschaft im Völkerrecht
Topics: Staatsrecht III and international organizations
The course was given together with Laurids Hempel, Felix Herbert, Annika Knauer, Philipp Rothkirch and Leon Seidl.
Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad
Autumn School "Unpacking the Rule of Law in Europe", organized by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), 06.10.2024 - 09.10.2024
70 Years of EU Law: Continuity and Discontinuity, Heidelberg, MPIL, 01.02.2024 - 03.02.2024
Honours
| Since 4/2024 |
PhD Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
| 2019 - 2020 |
Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
| 2016 - 2020 |
Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
| 2014 - 2018 |
Scholarship of the Heinrich Böll Foundation |
Miscellaneous
Languages
German, English, French
