PROFESSOR DR. RAINER GROTE, LL.M. (EDINBURGH) SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW Im Sand 3 A 69115 Heidelberg Tel.: 06221/482244 (office) e-mail: [email protected]

Curriculum vitae

September 18, 1961 Born in Halle/Westf., Germany 1972-1981 High school education in Halle/Westf. 1981 High school graduation 1981-1987 Study of law at the universities of Bielefeld (1981-83), Geneva (1983/84) and Göttingen (1984-87) 1987 First State Examination (Erstes juristisches Staatsexamen) 1987-1988 Research fellow and teaching assistant at the University of Geneva, Faculty of Law 1988-1989 Postgraduate studies in European Law and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Edinburgh/UK 1989 Degree of „Master of Laws“ (LL.M.) from the University of Edinburgh 1993 Second State Examination (Zweite juristische Staatsprüfung) 1993-1994 Judge at the Administrative Court in Berlin December 1993 Doctoral degree in law from the University of Goettingen („summa cum laude“) for a work on the constitutional theory and practice of the French System of government, which was awarded the „European Thesis Prize“ by the European Group of Public Law Since October 1994 Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Lecturer in Law (Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, European Law) at the University of Heidelberg) 2002 Habilitation at the University of Göttingen, Venia legendi in International Law, European Law, Comparative Law and German Public Law Fall 2002 – Spring 2003 Legal Advisor (ad interim) to the German Foreign Office, Berlin March/April 2003) Visiting Professor of International Law at Paris University (Paris II, Panthéon-Assas) 2002/2004 Work as independent expert for the GTZ (=German Technical Co-operation, a body associated with the German Ministry for Economic Co-operation which designs and implements various development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America) in the context of administrative law reform in South Africa Since 2002 Expert and consultant for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in the framework of the Foundation’s “Rule of Law” programmes; evaluation of the regional rule of law programmes of KAS in Latin America (2006) and in Subsaharan Africa (2012) 2003 – 2008 Expert on a project on the reform of the administration and of general administrative law on request of the Parliament of Mongolia Since 2003 Consultant and expert in a number of law reform and cooperation projects undertaken by the Max Planck Institute on behalf of the German Foreign Office in Afghanistan, the Middle East and North Africa, including administrative law and civil service reform in Afghanistan (2004, 2011), constitutional reform and reform of the justice sector in Iraq (since 2009), electoral reform in Egypt (2011), constitutional reform in Libya and Tunisia (2011-2012) 2005 Visiting Professor for Comparative Constitutional Law at Koç University, Istanbul/Turkey Since 2004 Supervisor of the LLM programme “International Law (LL.M.int.) -Investments, Trade and Arbitration” offered by the Faculties of Law of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and the Universidad de Chile Director of certificate courses (diplomados) on rule of law, administrative and judicial reform and human rights organized by the University of Heidelberg in cooperation with the Universidad de Chile, the Catholic University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (Mexico) 2005 Co-editor of the series Constitutions of the Countries of the World/Oxford Constitutions (OUP) 2006 Visiting Professor at Göttingen University 2006/07 Visiting Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara/Turkey 2010/11 Visiting Professor at TU Dresden 2010 Adjunct Professor at Göttingen University