Laurids Hempel
Research Fellow
hempel@mpil.de
Main Fields of Research:
EU Law | German Constitutional Law | General International Law | Protection of Democracy
Academic Career:
Since August 2024: Research Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the Max Planck Research Group ENSURE
June 2024: First State Exam in Law, Heidelberg
10/2022-06/2024: Student Research Assistant at the MPIL, Max Planck Research Group ENSURE
10/2018-06/2024: Study of Law at the University of Heidelberg
- Special focus on Public International Law
- 2021-2022: Two ERASMUS semesters at the Université de Montpellier, France
Recent Publications
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Referendarexamensklausur - Öffentliches Recht: Verfassungsrecht - Verspätete Verfassungsänderung?
In: Juristische Schulung (JuS) 3, 269-275 (2026) (with
Max Auwärter).
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Is the EU Foreign-Interference-Proof? — Interwoven Internal and External Action in the Face of New Threats. In: Musk, Power, and the EU: Can EU Law Tackle the Challenges of Unchecked Plutocracy?,
Alberto Alemanno,
Jacquelyn Veraldi (eds.). Verfassungsbooks, Berlin 2025,
133-145 (with
Carolyn Moser).
Blogposts
Presentations
01 Sep 2025
Positive Obligations to Counter Election Interference: The ECtHR’s Ruling in Bradshaw and Others v the UK
Monday Round, MPIL, Heidelberg
09 Dec 2024
Assessing the Iranian Missile Strikes of October 1 under the jus ad bellum
Monday Round, MPIL, Heidelberg
Teaching
Winter Term 2025/26
Tutorial Public International Law
Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg - Together with Felix Herbert, Helena Kaim, Andreas Knecht, Bernadette Lumbela and Philipp Rothkirch.
Winter Term 2025/26
Tutorial for International First-Year Students ("Tandem-AG")
Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg - Tutorial for international first-year students in the state examination programme in law.
Summer Term 2025
Composition and Discussion of a Mock Exam for Exam Candidates in Constitutional Law
Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg - HeidelPräp-Klausurenkurs, together with Max Auwärter.
Summer Term 2025
International Law Colloquium
Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg - Lecture on the topic of "Foreign Electoral Interference Under International Law: A Retrospective of the Recent German Federal Election Campaign".
Summer Term 2025
Tutorial Public International Law
Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg - Together with Felix Herbert, Annika Knauer, Andreas Knecht, Philipp Rothkirch and Leon Seidl.
Summer Term 2025
Tutorial Constitutional Law
Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg - Together with Leon Seidl.
Winter Term 2024/25
Tutorial Public International Law
Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg - Together with Felix Herbert, Annika Knauer, Philipp Sauter, Leon Seidl and Valentin von Stosch.
Winter Term 2024/25
Tutorial Criminal Law I (General Part)
Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg.
Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad
Max Planck Law Conference 2025, presentation of the PhD project in the 9th Max Planck Law PhD Workshop, 20.10.2025 - 22.10.2025
12th Max Planck Masterclass in International Law with Bruno de Witte and Floris de Witte on the topic of "EU Law in a Changing Europe", MPIL, Heidelberg, 10.06.2025 - 13.06.2025
Supranational Democracy Dialogue, Brindisi, Italy, 29.04.2025 - 30.04.2025
ICON-S Germany annual conference, Chair of the panel "Courts in challenging geopolitical times - an ongoing (re-) vision?", University of Mannheim, 27.09.2024
Honours
Since 2025: Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Doctoral Scholarship)
2019-2024: Scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (University Studies)
Miscellaneous
PhD Representative at the MPIL (since September 2024)
