Dr. Christian Behrendt

Biography

Christian Behrendt was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1974. He completed his studies in law at the University of Liège, graduating with high distinction in 2000. Following a stay at Oxford, he earned a Magister Juris in 2001 and went on to complete his doctorate at Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2005, with a thesis titled 'Le juge constitutionnel, un législateur-cadre positif.' This work received high honors, praised unanimously by the jury, and was awarded the French Constitutional Court's thesis prize. After obtaining an LLM from Yale Law School, he joined the University of Liège in 2006, where he was appointed to teach General State Theory and Comparative Constitutional Law. By 2008, he held a position as a full professor specializing in Belgian Constitutional Law and served as head of the Chair of Public and Constitutional Law. In addition to his teaching at the University of Liège, he became a part-time full professor at KU Leuven in February 2017, where he teaches Constitutional Law and Comparative Constitutional Law. He is also an expert on constitutional issues at both national and international levels, collaborating with various institutions such as the Defence College of the Royal Military Academy and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law in Heidelberg.

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