Professor emerita Brenda Almond
Humanities, Philosophy: Moral and Social Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Bioethics
European Research Council (Advanced Grantee)
Humanities, Law
European Constitutional History from the Early Middle Ages to the 20th century, Legal History, Civil Law
Comparative constitutional history, Comparative legal history
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 2021
Nomination for the Balzan Prize, 2020
ERC Advanced Grant 2013, ReConFort – Reconsidering Constitutional Formation (https://www.reconfort.eu)
Nomination for the Gerda Henkel Prize, 2008
"Heisenberg Price" of the DFG (German Research Foundation), 2000
Bavarian Habilitation Award, 1996 – 1999 of the Bavarian Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts
English, French, German, Latin, Spanish
Müßig, U.: Reason and Fairness. Constituting Justice from Medieval Canon Law to ECHR, Brill 2019, https://brill.com/view/title/39332.
Müßig, U. (ed.): Reconsidering Constitutional Formation I – National Sovereignty. A Comparative Analysis of the Juridification by Constitution, Studies in the History of Law and Justice 6, Springer: Cham 2016.
Müßig, U. (ed.): Reconsidering Constitutional Formation II – Decisive Constitutional Normativity, Studies in the History of Law and Justice 12, Springer: Cham 2018, forthcoming.
Müßig, U.: El juez legal – Una comparación, desde el Derecho canónico hasta la Convención Europea de los Derechos Humanos, con especial énfasis en el desarollo del derecho en Alemania, Inglaterra y Francia, 1a edición en Espana, Editorial Dykinson en colaboraión con el Instituto de Estudios Jurídicos Internacionales, Madrid, 2014.
Müßig, U.: Recht und Justizhoheit. Historische Grundlagen des gesetzlichen Richters in Deutschland, England und Frankreich (Habilitation, Würzburg 2000), Berlin 2003, (extended and improved 2nd edition, Berlin 2009).
Transparency by court organisation. Judicial independence "in front of" the German Courts in the 19th and 20th century, in: Danuta Janicka (Hrsg.), Judiciary and Society between Privacy and Publicity. 8th Conference on Legal History in the Baltic Sea Area, 3rd-6th September 2015, Toruñ 2016, 463-505.
The natural judge before the French Revolution: estate opposition against commissionary justice of the crown, Historia et ius, num. 7 (2015), paper 6.
La lucha por la consolidación de la independencia judicial en el ámbito interno de los tribunales en la organización del poder judicial de Alemania en los siglos XIX-XX, Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español, Tomo LXXXV (2015), 307-342.
Reconsidering Constitutional Formation The Polish May Constitution 1791 as a masterpiece of constitutional communication, CPH 67 (2015), 75- 93.
Reconsidering Constitutional Formation. Desafíos en la Investigación de la Historia del Derecho comparado, Codex Boletín de la Ilustre Sociedad Andaluza de Estudios Histórico-Jurídicos. VI-VII (2014-2016), 247-277.
La compétence judiciaire dans le droit canonique médiéval : Le juge savant et la complémentarité de la justice procédurale et matérielle, Revue historique de droit français et étranger 92 (2014), 517 – 539.
In the Advanced Grant ReConFort (Reconsidering Constitutional Formation, Constitutional Communication by Drafting, Practice and Interpretation in 18th and 19th century Europe) seven graduated historians and legal scholars from Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Italy and Spain conduct research under the supervision of Ulrike Müßig on constitutional formation in 18th and 19th century Europe. The project aims at investigating the cross-border interplays between constitutional process and public debates and understands constitution as an evolutionary achievement assessing the interplay of the constitutional text, societal context, political practice and constitutional interpretation. For ReConFort historic constitutions are not only the body of text, but rather the consensus of those to be ruled by the constituted sovereignty.
The guiding principle of ReConFort is to find “discourse”-related explanation models for the rather paradigmatic experimental nature, ambiguity or indetermination of constitutional texts with regard to state-organisational core elements (i.e. power-balance of the pouvoirs constitutés, monarchical or popular sovereignty). The legal implications of the circulation of ideas and constitutional notions become more evident for the first time at the interface of legal and historical sciences.
After the emergence of the American Constitution (1787), the genesis of constitutional semantics was accompanied by an immense public interest and participation in Continental-Europe. ReConFort concentrates on the public “discourses” by selecting five constitutional case studies, i.e. the Polish Sejm (1788-1792), the Spanish Cortes (1812), the Belgian National Congress (1830-1831), the Frankfurt Parliament (1848-1849) and the Italian Parlamento Subalpino (1861).
The reconsidering of the constitutional processes of the late 18th and 19th centuries is based on the exploration of mainly still unknown primary sources (cross-border correspondences and publicist activities of major constitutional protagonists (including exile literature) and regional/national and cross-border constitutional journalism in leading public media). The interconnected synchronic and diachronic comparative approach of ReConFort sheds light on the complex mechanisms of constitutional formation and their generalisation. This is meant to contribute to the contemporary overall debate about the future of the EU integration process.
Portrait "ERC – Preisträgerin Prof. Dr. Ulrike Müßig" (European Research Council funding recipient Prof. Dr. Ulrike Müßig) aired on the BR-alpha (Bavarian Broadcasting channel) programme "Campus"
Accessible at: https://univideo.uni-passau.de/2020/01/br-alpha-on-17th-june-2014/
ReConFort Image Film
Accessible at: http://www.reconfort.uni-passau.de/en/reconfort-video/
Wikipedia EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrike_Müßig
Wikipedia FR: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrike_Müßig
ReConFort Website
https://www.reconfort.eu
Diploma in legal studies from the University of Cambridge, UK, 1990 – 1991
Peer reviewing and coordinating European research projects
Policy debates on constitutionalisation and legitimation issues related to the integration processes of the European Union
Scientific communication of legal history
Expert opinions relating to legal history
Designing historical exhibitions
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Humanities, Philosophy: Moral and Social Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Bioethics
Humanities, Prehistoric archaeology
Humanities, Media and communication in relation to race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, minorities, majorities and power.
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences