Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bast

Jürgen Bast is the spokesperson of the Research Group MeDiMi, head of its coordination unit, and Principal Investigator of the legal research project “Territoriality, Public Authority, and Human Rights: the EU’s Border Regimes”. Since 2013, he is Professor of Public Law and European Law at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU). Jürgen is the academic director of the Refugee Law Clinic, a clinical education program at Giessen law school, and convener of the interdisciplinary “Research Network Migration and Human Rights” (FMM) at JLU.
Earlier, he was a Full Professor of International and European Law at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Jürgen has both studied sociology and law in Frankfurt and Berlin. His postdoctoral lecture qualification comprises public law, European law, public international law, and sociology of law.
His main research interests are in migration law and European constitutional law. He has co-authored the REMAP study on “Human Rights Challenges to European Migration Policy” (2022) with Frederik von Harbou and Janna Wessels, and conducted research on the Global Compact for Migration in the interdisciplinary research project “Protect”. Beyond MeDiMi, Jürgen has collaborated with Armin von Bogdandy on a new volume on “Union Constitutional Law” (2025, in German). They are currently working on the English edition, which will be published by OUP.

Contact: Jurgen.Bast@recht.uni-giessen.de