Main Focus
International and transnational law, transnational economic law, international environmental law, human rights, German constitutional and administrative law.
Legal theory: philosophical/sociological foundations of normative orders, critical and postcolonial approaches, legal challenges in Posthumanism, Anthropocene, new political economy of law.
Curriculum Vitae
Johan Horst studied law in Berlin, Paris and at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (LL.M.). He worked as a researcher at the chair of Andreas Fischer-Lescano, completed his PhD (supervisors: Andreas Fischer-Lescano and Gunther Teubner) and headed the subproject Lex Financiaria in the ERC-project Transnational Force of Law at the Universität Bremen. Subsequently, he held a position as a post-doctoral researcher at the Integrated Research Institute 'Law & Society' at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and is now a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.