Leon Züllig, LL.M.

Leon Züllig is a Research Associate and doctoral candidate in the MeDiMi project “Territoriality, Public Authority, and Rights: the Border Regimes of the EU”. In his doctoral project, he focuses on the legal regime of the EU’s internal borders and aims to understand, among other things, the scope, forms, and consequences of the expansion of fundamental and human rights within this legal regime. Leon Züllig has studied law in Germany, Brazil, and Belgium. After the First State Examination in Law at the University of Passau with a year abroad at the University of São Paulo (USP), he completed a bilingual Master of Laws program at the College of Europe in Bruges as a scholarship-holder of the State of Baden-Württemberg. In the course of this, he specialized in European law with a focus on European constitutional law, EU external relations law, data protection law, fundamental and human rights protection, and migration law. His research interests lie in the areas of German and European constitutional law, international law, European and international protection of fundamental and human rights and migration law.

Contact: Leon.Zuellig@recht.uni-giessen.de