Research

Since 2015, Gernot Sydow has held the Chair of European Administrative Law at the University of Münster. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Pamplona (Universidad de Navarra) and the University of Lyon (Université Jean Moulin Lyon III), and regularly teaches at the German-Turkish University in Istanbul.

Gernot Sydow conducts research on German and European public law, primarily from a comparative law perspective, as well as on the historical foundations of law. The research projects of his doctoral candidates are predominantly comparative in nature and are often supervised by him in Cotutelle with foreign partner faculties. He regularly facilitates research stays in Münster for young foreign scholars as part of their doctoral studies or even for the duration of their entire doctoral program.

Teaching

In the summer semester of 2026, Prof. Dr. Gernot Sydow will offer the following courses:

Seminars:

Deutsches und europäisches Recht als verschränkte Rechtsordnungen

Lectures: 

Religionsverfassungsrecht II (as part of the Licentiate program in Canon Law; may also be taken as part of the legal specialization track)

Recht der deutschen und europäischen Politik

UNIREP:

Staatsorganisationsrecht

News

Textbook on Constitutional Law in Turkish Translation

On February 26, 2026, Prof. Dr. Gernot Sydow presented the Turkish translation of an innovative textbook on constitutional law at Istanbul University. The original German edition, “Deutsches und europäisches Verfassungsrecht I – Prinzipien, Institutionen, Verfahren” by Gernot Sydow and Fabian Wittreck, is published by Beck-Verlag and is now in its 4th edition. The University of Münster’s Faculty of Law has been teaching constitutional law using this approach, which links German and European law, since 2017.

The Cassin Competition Moves into the Next Round

The René Cassin European Human Rights Moot Court Competition is the oldest French-language competition on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). We are pleased to announce that it will enter a new round next winter semester. Further information can be found here.

Recent Publications

• Kommentierung des Art. 21 GG, in: Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf (Hg.), Dreier – Grundgesetz-Kommentar, Band 2, Mohr Siebeck, 4. Auflage 2026 (im Druck).
• Comparative European Law. Plädoyer für eine rechtsvergleichende Methodik in der Europarechtswissenschaft, in: JZ 2026, 227 – 235 (gemeinsam mit Vanessa Ritter).
• Future-Proofing in Public Law, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2026 (260 Seiten; gemeinsame Herausgeberschaft mit Nicole Koblenz und Nicolas Otto).
• Alman ve Avrupa Anayasa Hukuku, On İki Levha Yayıncılık A.Ş., Istanbul 2025 (türkische Übersetzung des gemeinsam mit Fabian Wittreck verfassten Lehrbuchs Deutsches und Europäisches Verfassungsrecht I – Prinzipien, Institutionen, Verfahren, C. H. Beck, 4. Aufl. 2024).