Member

Stefan Kadelbach

Projects and positions at the research center
Principal Investigator

Funding period 2019-2021
Project management: The State as Arbitrator – From Fundamental Rights as Defense Rights to a Strengthening of the Objective Dimension of Fundamental Rights | Research focus 4 – Overstretched Orders: Global Governance between De- and Renationalization
Project management: The State as Arbitrator of Disputes – From Fundamental Rights as Defensive Rights to a Strengthening of the Objective Dimension of Fundamental Rights | Research focus 1 – Contested Orders: The Future of Democracy

Funding period 2012-2017
Project management: Legitimation through International Law and Legitimization of International Law | Research Field 3
Coordination Research Field 3

Funding period 2007-2012
Project management: The Normativity of Law in Transition | Research Field 1

Fields of study
Law

Main areas of research
Public law, European law, international law

  • Biografische Angaben

    Prof. Dr. Stefan Kadelbach, LL.M., has been a university professor at the Faculty of Law of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Chair of Public Law, European Law and International Law; Co-Director of the Wilhelm Merton Centre for European Integration and International Economic Order since winter semester 2004/05.

    Curriculum vitae:
    Born 1959.
    1979-84 Studied literature, then law in Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main.
    1986 Hague Academy of International Law; Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften in Speyer.
    1987/88 University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
    1984-87 Legal clerkship.
    1991 Dr. jur., 1996 Habilitation in Frankfurt.
    1997-2004 o. Professor of Public Law, International and European Law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
    Since 2004 at Goethe University.
    Visiting professorships and lectureships at the University of Virginia (1999), the European University Institute in Florence (2000), the Institute for State and Law in Moscow (2002/03) and Chuo University in Tokyo (2004), among others. Since October 1, 2004 Professor of Public Law, European Law and International Law and Managing Director of the Wilhelm Merton Center for European Integration and World Economic Order at the University of Frankfurt am Main.

    Other activities:
    Dean of Studies (2005-2007).
    Member of the Board of Directors and Coordinator of Research Field 4 of the Cluster of Excellence 243 (Formation of Normative Orders).
    Liaison Lecturer of the German National Academic Foundation.
    Managing Director of the Institute for Public Law.

News from the research center

Event
20.10.2026 | Frankfurt

Dr. h.c. Gerhard Wiese – Wirken als Ankläger im Auschwitz Prozess

Movie, Panel Discussion

Der Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess von 1963 bis 1965 gilt als ein zentraler Wendepunkt in der juristischen und öffentlichen Auseinandersetzung mit den nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Dr. h.c. Gerhard Wiese, der als junger Staatsanwalt zum Anklägerteam des Prozesses gehörte, berichtet aus seiner Perspektive auf die damaligen Ermittlungen und die Hauptverhandlung. Im Gespräch mit der Historikerin Dr. Katharina Rauschenberger (Fritz Bauer Institut) wird die Bedeutung des Prozesses für die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung der NS-Verbrechen in den Blick genommen.

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Publication
21.09.2026 | Working Paper

Dimensionen wehrhafter Demokratie in unsicheren Zeiten

Abich, Leon; Adams, Cosima; Biebricher, Thomas; Britz, Gabriele; Daase, Christopher; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Dönges, Jan; Krause, Leon; Nitzschner, Patrick; Siebert, Hannes; Siefert, Julian; Stephanblome, Isabelle (2026): "Dimensionen wehrhafter Demokratie in unsicheren Zeiten". DemoReg Working Paper 3.1.

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Event
10.02.2027 | Frankfurt am Main

Shifting Visions of Peace and Security

Panel Discussion, Lecture Series

Podiumsdiskussion im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times” mit Lisbeth Zimmermann (Goethe University/Normative Orders), Antonia Witt (PRIF), Siddarth Tripathi (University of Erfurt). Moderation: Jonas Wolff (Goethe University/PRIF/Normative Orders).

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Event
03.02.2027 | Frankfurt am Main

AI, War, and Big Tech

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Ingvild Bode (University of Southern Denmark)im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.

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Event
16.12.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

International arms control in a world of uncertainties

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Malte Göttsche (TU Darmstadt/PRIF) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.

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Event
02.12.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Enabling Authoritarianism: UN Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.

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Event
25.11.2026 | Frankfurt

Deterrence in “Post-Liberal Times“

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Maria Mälksoo (Copenhagen University) (Goethe-Universität/PRIF/Normative Orders) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.

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Event
18.11.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

The Case for (Neo)colonialism: Neotrusteeship in International Relations as the ‘Imperial Mind’ of the ‘Colonial Present’

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Nick Lemay-Hébert (Manchester University) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.

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Event
28.10.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Postliberal vs. liberal Perspectives on Peace and Security and Crises

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase (Goethe-Universität/PRIF/Normative Orders) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.

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