Paul Gragl

Dr Paul Gragl joined Queen Mary in September 2013. Prior to arriving at QM, he worked as a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Institute of International Law and International Relations of the University of Graz, Austria (2010-2012), where he alsocompleted his doctoral thesis on EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). From 2012 to 2013, he held the post of Research Fellow at City University London, starting his current research on the relationship between legal orders, especially between public international law, EU law, and national law.

Paul Gragl’s research interests include: (1) legal theory, in particular the philosophical foundations of legal monism as envisaged by the Pure Theory of Law; its practical applicability and falsifiability; and its normative consequences in terms of democracy theory and cosmopolitanism; (2) EU constitutional law, EU fundamental rights law, and the relationship between the law of the EU and the ECHR (particularly EU accession to the ECHR) as well as between EU law and Member State law; (3) public international law, and in particular the law of treaties, secession and self-determination, jurisdiction and State immunity, and the reception of international norms in domestic legal orders; (4) and legal philosophy, especially epistemological questions of law and morality.