Bardo Fassbender (born 1963) studied law, history and political science at the University of Bonn and Yale Law School. He received his doctorate and post-doctoral habilitation at Humboldt University, Berlin. After teaching and researching law at Yale University, Florence, Milan, Frankfurt/Oder, Turin and Munich, he was full professor of international law at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich from 2008 – 2013, specializing in international human rights protection. Since 2013 he has been full professor of International, European and Public Law at the University of St. Gallen.
Select publications:
The self-evidence of human rights, origins and limits of an idea (2019); Die Schweiz und Deutschland als “offene Bundesstaaten”, zur schwindenden Bedeutung der Völkerrechtssubjektivität der Kantone und Länder (2015); “Völkerrecht und Landesrecht”, Zur Genese und heutigen Bedeutung der Konfrontation zweier Rechtsordnungen (2014); Securing human rights? achievements and challenges of the UN Security Council (Hrsg., 2011); The United Nations Charter as the constitution of the international community (2009); Der offene Bundesstaat, Studien zur auswärtigen Gewalt und zur Völkerrechtssubjektivität bundesstaatlicher Teilstaaten in Europa (Habil., 2007); Die Gegenwartskrise des völkerrechtlichen Gewaltverbotes vor dem Hintergrund der geschichtlichen Entwicklung (2004); UN Security Councel reform and the right of veto, a constitutional perspective (Diss., 1998)