Dr. Gabriel Nikolaij TOGGENBURG Senior Legal Advisor, FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna
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Studied law at the University of Innsbruck and gained his LL.M. (Eur.Law) at the Danube University. He holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence (EUI) | |
1998-2008 | Senior Researcher at the Institute for Minority Rights (responsible for the area of EU law), European Academy Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC). Initiator of the Bolzano/Bozen Declaration; provided |
expertise to various EU-institutions and NGOs at European level. He also co-initiated the postgraduate Master in European Intergration and Regionalism (MEIR). He has been teaching in this | |
and other postgraduate programmes as for instance the Executive M.B.L. in St. Gallen, Switzerland | |
2008 | Visiting Professor, Department of International Studies, University of Miami, USA |
2008-2009 | Guest Professor, Department of political science, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck |
since 2009 | Programme Manager (Legal Research), Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union, Vienna |
Mitgliedschaften
Member, Editorial board, European Law Reporter, St. Gallen, Luxembourg | |
Co-founder, European Diversity and Autonomy Papers (EDAP) and the European Yearbook on Minority Issues, Boston, Leiden |
Publikationen
Has published widely in the field of human rights, the protection of minorities, language policy, the topic of European diversity managment and general issues of EU constitutional law: | |
In Csaba Tabajdi (ed.): Pro Minoritate Europae - Minorities of Europe Unite, 2009 | |
Menschenrechtspolitik 2008, in Weidenfeld/Wessels (eds.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2008, Nomos, pp. 177-182, Baden-Baden, 2008 | |
Festung Familie oder Festung Europa? Die kritisierte Weichenstellung des EuGH in der Rechtssache Metock, in European Law Reporter 11, pp. 375-380, 2008 | |
Der Menschenrechts- und Minderheitenschutz in der Europäischen Union, in Werner Weidenfeld (ed.), Die Europäische Union. Politisches System und Politikbereiche(5. ed.), Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, pp. 294-313, 2008 | |
Die ersten Schritte der EU-Grundrechteagentur in Wien, in Volkmar Deile et al. (eds.), Jahrbuch Menschenrechte 2009, Böhlau Verlag, pp. 274-285, Wien, 2008 |