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Yiannopoulos Professor in Comparative and International Law Co-Director, Eason-Weinmann Center for International and Comparative Law Director, Berlin Summer Program on Intercultural Negotiation and Mediation  \nTulane Law School  \nChair of Common Law  \nUniversity of Passau  \nFebruary 2025  \nBiography  \nJörg Fedtke has held senior academic positions in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He is currently A.N. Yiannopoulos Professor in Comparative and International Law at Tulane Law School (New Orleans, USA) and holds the Chair of Common Law at the University of Passau (Passau/Germany) .  \nProfessor Fedtke was educated at schools in Zambia, the Philippines and Germany, where he went on to study law and political science at the University of Hamburg. He took the German bar exam in 2000 and earned a Ph.D. summa cum laude for an analysis of legal transplants in South Africa’s post-apartheid constitutional transition (supervised by Professor Dr. Ingo von Münch at the Institute for International Affairs) . His first academic appointment was a position as full-time researcher at the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law and Law of Procedure (Professor Dr. Ulrich Magnus) . The focus of Professor Fedtke’s work in Hamburg was comparative tort law and legal harmonization in Europe. He collaborated closely with the European Group on Tort Law and is a Fellow of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) in Vienna.  \nProfessor Fedtke joined University College London (UCL) two years later, where he moved from a DAAD/Clifford Chance Lectureship in German Law to a regular (tenured) Lectureship in 2002 and a Readership in 2004. He was appointed Professor of Comparative Law in 2007. At UCL, Professor Fedtke was for many years involved in the admission of students and the development of academic ties with universities in Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He was Director of the Institute of Global Law from 2002 to 2008. In addition to his work in London, Professor Fedtke was a regular Visiting Professor at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) from 2003 to 2008, where he taught upper class courses on the European Union (EU) and comparative constitutional law.  \nProfessor Fedtke joined Tulane Law School (New Orleans) as A.N. Yiannopoulos Professor in Comparative and International Law and Co-Director of the EasonWeinmann Center for International and Comparative Law in January 2009. He subsequently became Director of Tulane’s Summer Program in Intercultural Negotiation and Mediation in Berlin/Germany and Director of the LLM in International and Comparative Law.  \nProfessor Fedtke joined the University of Passau in May 2014 , where he holds the newly created Chair of Common Law. At central university level, he was Vice President for Quality Management and Diversity from 2017 to 2020. At the Faculty of Law, Professor Fedtke subsequently served as Vice Dean (2020–2022) and Dean (2022–2024) .  \nProfessor Fedtke’s main research interests are constitutional law, societies in transition, election law, transnational law, the European Union, alternative dispute resolution, torts, comparative methodology and questions of law reform. He has provided advice on federalism, judicial review and human rights protection to members of the Iraqi National Assembly, and has on a number of occasions served as a foreign expert for UN-and EUfunded projects on various aspects of constitutionalism in the Arab region. He was key advisor to the initiative Kirkuk and Beyond – Strengthening Multi-Level Governance and Service Provision in a Challenging Environment funded by the German Foreign Office in Kirkuk/Iraq and assisted the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral  \nAssistance (IDEA) on missions supporting the constitution drafting processes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. 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