Curriculum Vitae
Univ.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Paul Gragl
1. Personal Details
Date of Birth: 1982 Citizenship: Austria
E-Mail: paul.gragl@uni-graz.at
ORCID Researcher ID: 0000-0001-9830-6742
2. Current Academic Positions
Since 04/2021 Professor of European Law University of Graz
3. Previous Academic and Other Positions
10/2020-11/2020 Visiting Professor at the Institute for Public, International and European Law
Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg
10/2019-11/2019 Visiting Professor at the Institute for European Law University of Graz
10/2018-03/2021 Reader in Public International Law and Theory Queen Mary, University of London
10/2018 University of Vienna
Second place on the list in the appointment procedure:
Professorship for Fundamental and Human Rights
11/2017 Habilitation
University of Graz; Venia docendi: Public International Law, European Law, and Legal Theory
10/2016-09/2018 Senior Lecturer in Law
Queen Mary, University of London
03/2015-06/2020 Visiting Professor at the Institute of International Law and International Relations
University of Graz 09/2013-09/2016 Lecturer in Law
Queen Mary, University of London 10/2012-08/2013 Research Fellow
City University of London
05/2010-04/2012 University Assistant/Doctoral Candidate
Institute for International Law and International Relations
University of Graz
4. Education
Since 09/2019 Doctorate in Philosophy University of Vienna
11/2017 Habilitation
University of Graz; Venia docendi: Public International Law, European Law, and Legal Theory
2009-2012 Doctorate in law
University of Graz
2003-2009 Diploma in law
University of Graz
2001-2008 Diploma in Philosophy University of Graz
Further training in didactics
10/2019 PhD Supervision Training
Queen Mary, University of London
2014-2015 Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) (university didactic course; 60 credits; completed with distinction)
Queen Mary, University of London
5. Institutional Responsibilities & Journals
Since 12/2020 German Society of International Law Member
Since 03/2017 International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) Member
Since 07/2016 Queen Mary Human Rights Law Review Member of the Editorial Review Board
Since 06/2016 Higher Education Academy of the United Kingdom Member
Since 09/2013 Society of Legal Scholars
Member
7. Award Nominations
10/2015 Law Careers Lecturer of the Year Award 2015 Nomination by students
06/2015 Book Award Nomination for „The Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights”
Paul Guggenheim Prize; SLS Birks Prize; Inner Temple Prize
10/2014 Teacher of the Year Award 2014
Nomination by the Queen Mary Student Union
8. Language Skills
German: Mother Tongue
English: Fluent (written and spoken) Italian: Proficient (written and spoken)
French: Basic Skills
List of Publications
Univ.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Paul Gragl
1. Monographs
1. Legal Monism: Law, Philosophy, and Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2018).
- selected as part of the official bibliography of the 2019 ICON-S Conference for the Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law;
Reviews:
- Adis Selimi (2019) 27 Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik 719-721;
- Aphrodite Yiasemi (2020) 22 International Community Law Review 669-673.
2. The Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013).
Reviews:
▪ Joris Larik (2014) 51 Common Market Law Review 1542-1544.
▪ Tobias Lock (2013) 32 Yearbook of European Law 535-537.
▪ Eva Radlgruber in Wolfgang Benedek, Florence Benoît-Rohmer, Wolfram Karl, and Manfred Nowak (eds), European Yearbook on Human Rights 2014 (Wien: NWV, 2014).
▪ Marco Pacini (2014) 64 Rivista Trimestrale di Diritto Pubblico 247.
▪ Jean-Sylvestre Bergé (2014) 50 Revue trimestrielle de droit européen VI-VII.
2. Editorial Work
3. (with Malgosia Fitzmaurice) (eds), International Community Law Review: Special Issue on Customary International Law (2019).
4. (with Stephen Allen, Daniel Costelloe, Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Edward Guntrip (eds), The Oxford Handbook on Jurisdiction in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2019).
5. (with Violeta Moreno-Lax) (eds), Yearbook of European Law: Special Issue (2016) 35 Yearbook of European Law 455-711.
3. Contributions to Journals and other Periodicals
6. ‘Hegel’s Antigone: The Birth of the Constitution from the Spirit of Tragedy’ (2021) 15 ICL Journal 413-434.
7. ‘Kelsen’s Metaethics’ (2020) 107 Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 549-567.
8. ‘Special Issue Editorial: Dancing with Custom’ (2019) 21 International Community Law Review 227-228.
9. (with Malgosia Fitzmaurice), ‘The Legal Character of Article 18 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties’ (2019) 68 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 699-717.
10. ‘The Question of Applicability: EU Law or International Law in Nord Stream 2’ (2019) 44 Review of Central and East European Law 117-147.
11. ‘Self-Determination and Secession in the Case of Catalonia – The Interaction of Theory and Practice’ (2019) 22 Austrian Review of International and European Law) 189-217.
12. ‘Broken Promises or Fading Memories? – The Question of Unilateral Acts under International Law in the Context of NATO Enlargement’ (2018) 50 The George Washington International Law Review 101-144.
13. ‘Rechtsfragen einer möglichen Untersagungspflicht für völkerrechtswidrige Referenden – Zum türkischen Todesstrafen-Referendum und der Rechtslage in Deutschland und Österreich’ (2017) 72 Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht 673-698.
14. ‘In Defence of Kelsenian Monism: Countering Hart and Raz’ (2017) 8 Jurisprudence 287- 318.
15. (with Violeta Moreno-Lax), ‘The Quest for a (Fully-Fledged) Theoretical Framework: Co- Implication, Embeddedness, and Interdependency between Public International Law and EU Law’ (2016) 35 Yearbook of European Law 455-470.
16. ‘The Pure Theory of Law and Legal Monism – Epistemological Truth and Empirical Plausibility’ (2015) 70 Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht 665-736.
17. ‘The Silence of the Treaties: General International Law and the European Union’ (2015) 57 German Yearbook of International Law 375-409.
18. ‘A Giant Leap for European Human Rights? The Final Agreement on the European Union’s Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights’ (2014) 51 Common Market Law Review 13-58.
19. ‘(Judicial) Love is Not a One-Way Street: The EU Preliminary Reference Procedure as a Model for ECtHR Advisory Opinions under Draft Protocol No. 16’ (2013) 38 European Law Review 229-247.
20. (with Heike Montag), ‘Völkerrecht 2012 – Richterliche Praxis und politische Realität. 37.
Österreichischer Völkerrechtstag’ (2012) 25 Humanitäres Völkerrecht – Informationsschriften 163-164.
21. ‘Strasbourg’s External Review after the EU’s Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights: A Subordination of the Luxembourg Court?’ (2012) 17 Tilburg Law Review 32-62.
22. ‘Der rechtliche Status der EMRK innerhalb des Unionsrechts. Zu den Auswirkungen auf die Rechtsautonomie der Europäischen Union nach ihrem Beitritt zur EMRK’ (2011) 14 Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien 409-431.
23. ‘Der EMRK-Beitritt der EU. Eine kritische Darstellung zum Spannungsfeld von effektivem Rechtsschutz und Rechtsautonomie der EU’ (2011) 23 juridikum 178-186.
24. ‘Anwendungsbereich und Tragweite der Europäischen Grundrechte. Die Bedeutung der Grundrechtecharta für die Bindung der Mitgliedstaaten und den Verhältnismäßigkeitsgrundsatz’ (2010/2011) 21 Juristische Ausbildung und Praxisvorbereitung 47-51.
4. Contributions to Edited Volumes
25. ‘Rechtsphilosophische Elemente in Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft’ in Lore Hühn and Violetta L. Waibel (eds), Immanuel Kants Critik der Urteilskraft: Spekulation – Rezeption – Denkschule (2022) about 20 pages.
26. (with Malgosia Fitzmaurice), ‘Territory and Jurisdiction’ in Robert Kolb (eds), The Cambridge History of International Law X: Global International Law in the Era of the League of Nations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) approx 20 pages.
27. ‘Legal Pluralism’ in Christina Binder, Manfred Nowak, Jane A. Hofbauer and Philipp Janig (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Edward Elgar, 2022) approx. 14 pages.
28. ‘Lawless Extravagance: The Primacy Claim of Politics and the State of Exception in Times of Corona’ in Matthias C. Kettemann and Konrad Lachmayer (eds.), Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments, and People in Times of Covid-19 (Hart Publishing, 2021) approx 25 pages.
29. ‘Customary International Law in the EU Legal System: The Substantive Rules Invoked and Applied’ in Fernando Bordin, Andreas Müller and Francisco José Pascual Vives (eds), The EU and Customary International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) 40 pages.
30. ‘Rückzug aus Verträgen: Völkerrechtliche Flexibilität als Stabilität’ in August Reinisch et al. (eds), Beiträge zum 44. Österreichischen Völkerrechtstag (Peter Lang, 2021) 37-66.
31. ‘Die europäische Union im Geflecht von völkerrechtlichen Verträgen und Staatenverantwortlichkeit: Die interne Dimension’ in Andreas Kumin, Kirsten Schmalenbach, Lorin Wagner and Julia Schimpfhuber (eds), Außen- und sicherheitspolitische Integration im Europäischen Rechtsraum. Festschrift für Hubert Isak (Wien: Jan Sramek, 2020) 85-97.
32. ‘Jurisdictional Immunities of the State in International Law’ in Stephen Allen, Daniel Costelloe, Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Paul Gragl and Edward Guntrip (eds), The Oxford Handbook on Jurisdiction in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2019) 228-250.
33. ‘Interne Homogenisierung und externe Desintegration – Dogmatische und theoretische Bemerkungen zum Beitritt der EU zur EMRK nach dem Gutachten 2/13’ in Hans-Peter Folz, Hubert Isak, and Andreas Kumin (eds), Beiträge zum Österreichischen Europarechtstag 2015 (Wien: Facultas, 2017) 570-580.
34. ‘Of Tangled and Truthful Hierarchies: EU Accession to the ECHR and its Possible Impact on the UK’s Relationship with European Human Rights’ in Katja Ziegler, Elizabeth Wicks, and Loveday Hodson (eds), The UK and Human Rights: A Strained Relationship?
(Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015) 275-297.
35. ‘The Reasonableness of Jealousy: Opinion 2/13 and EU Accession to the ECHR’ in Wolfgang Benedek, Florence Benoît-Rohmer, Wolfram Karl, and Manfred Nowak (eds), European Yearbook on Human Rights 2015 (Wien: NWV, 2015) 27-50.
36. ‘Kelsenian Reflections on the Unity of Domestic and International Law: The Practice of Consistent Interpretation of the Court of Justice of the EU’ in Luis I Gordillo (eds), Constitutionalism of European Supranational Courts (Pamplona: Thomson-Reuters Aranzadi, 2015) 137-191.
37. ‘Marine Scientific Research’ in David Attard, Malgosia Fitzmaurice and N. Martinez (eds), IMLI Manual on International Maritime Law – Vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) 396-439.
38. ‘Obsolete Dichotomie? Die Europäische Union zwischen Monismus und Dualismus’ in Wolfgang Benedek, Hans-Peter Folz, Hubert Isak, Matthias C. Kettemann and Renate
Kicker (eds), Bestand und Wandel des Völkerrechts: Beiträge zum 38. Österreichischen Völkerrechtstag 2013 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2014) 229-267.
39. ‘A Reminiscence of Westphalia: Inter-Party Cases After the EU’s Accession to the ECHR and the EU’s Potential as a Human Rights Litigator’ in Tobias Lock, Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Theodore Konstadinides and Noreen O'Meara (eds), Human Rights Law in Europe: The Influence, Overlaps and Contradictions of the EU and ECHR (London:
Routledge, 2013) 35-54.
40. ‘Europäische Jurisdiktionsgrenzen und Dublin II: Straßburgs M.S.S.-Urteil und dessen Folgen für die Europäische Union’ in Matthias Kettemann (eds), Grenzen im Völkerrecht (Wien: Jan Sramek, 2013) 107-130.
41. ‘The Shortcomings of Dublin II: Strasbourg’s M.S.S. Judgment and its Implications for the European Union’s Legal Order’ in Wolfgang Benedek, Florence Benoît-Rohmer, Wolfram Karl and Manfred Nowak (eds), European Yearbook on Human Rights 2012 (Wien: NWV, 2012) 123-139.
42. ‘Accession Revisited: Will Fundamental Rights Protection Trump the European Union’s Legal Autonomy?’ in Wolfgang Benedek, Florence Benoît-Rohmer, Wolfram Karl and Manfred Nowak (eds), European Yearbook on Human Rights 2011 (Wien: NWV, 2011) 159-172.
5. Commentaries
43. ‘Art. 1’ in Doris Angst and Emma Lantschner (eds), Handkommentar ICERD (Baden- Baden: Nomos, 2020) 193-220.
44. ‘Agreement on the Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights’ in Steve Peers, Tamara Hervey, Jeff Kenner and Angela Ward (eds), The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – A Commentary (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014) 1727-1823.
6. Case Reviews
45. ‘Avotinš v Latvia: An Olive Branch from Strasbourg? Interpreting the ECtHR’s Resurrection of Bosphorus and Reaction to Opinion 2/13 in the Avotiņš Case’ (2017) 13 European Constitutional Law Review 551-567.
46. ‘The Right to Secondary Industrial Action under the ECHR and International Human Rights Law’ (2014) 1 Journal of International and Comparative Law 101-110.
7. Book Reviews
47. Torben Bührer: Das Menschenwürdekonzept der Europäischen
Menschenrechtskonvention (2020) 57 Common Market Law Review 2003-2005.
48. ‘Judith Ellen Sild: Der Beitritt der Europäischen Union zur Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention. Long Walk to Accession oder Die unendliche Geschichte 2.0’ (2016) 71 Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht 797-800.
49. ‘Geert de Baere and Jan Wouters (eds): The Contribution of International and Supranational Courts to the Rule of Law’ (2016) 18 International Community Law Review 177-180.
50. ‘Maurice Adams, Henri de Waele, Johan Meeusen, and Gert Straetmans (eds): Judging Europe’s Judges’, European Law Blog, 10 December 2013 (http://europeanlawblog.eu/?p=2106).
51. ‘Christopher P. Schmidt: Grund- und Menschenrechte in Europa’ (2014) 51 Common Market Law Review 1025-1028.
52. ‘Jens Meyer-Ladewig: Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention. Handkommentar’ in Wolfgang Benedek, Florence Benoît-Rohmer, Wolfram Karl and Manfred Nowak (eds), European Yearbook on Human Rights 2012 (Wien: NWV, 2012).
53. ‘Dirk Ehlers: Europäische Grundrechte und Grundfreiheiten’ Wolfgang Benedek, Florence Benoît-Rohmer, Wolfram Karl and Manfred Nowak (eds), European Yearbook on Human Rights 2011 (Wien: NWV, 2011).
54. ‘Giacomo di Federico: The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: From Declaration to Binding Instrument’ Wolfgang Benedek, Florence Benoît-Rohmer, Wolfram Karl and Manfred Nowak (eds), European Yearbook on Human Rights 2011 (Wien: NWV, 2011).
8. Blog Posts
55. (with Tarcisio Gazzini, Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Attila Tanzi, Jean d’Aspremont and Richard Gardiner) ‘Excessive Multilingualism in EU Trade Agreements’, EJILTalk!, 15.
Februar 2018, https://www.ejiltalk.org/excessive-multilingualism-in-eu-trade- agreements/
56. ‘“Brexit Means Brexit“? Das Urteil des UK Supreme Court in der Rechtssache Miller und seine Folgen‘, JuWiss-Blog, 26. Jänner 2017, http://www.juwiss.de/10-2017/
