​René Brosius, PhD Candidate

René Brosius, PhD Candidate

Afilliations

1. Metro-Institute for Administrative Science, Metropolitan University of Somalia, Mogadishu
2. Lecturer University of Applied Science, Hochschule für Polizei und Verwaltung

Biography

René Brosius is currently a PhD student in law at the University of Bayreuth. He first studied Modern and Contemporary History, Sociology and Political Science at the Humboldt University to Berlin and later changed to Law at the same university. He passed his 1st and 2nd state examinations in Berlin. While still a student, he worked in the German Bundestag as a research assistant at the interface between politics and administration. During this time, he specialised in the areas of special administrative law and European law. After his studies, he joined the judicial service of the State of Hesse in 2009. Since February 2020, he has been working in the Hessian State Chancellery.

Thesis

The transferability of the German basic Law's state structure principles to clan-based societies, using the example of the Federal Republic of Somalia  

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thoko Kaime

Year of Entry: 2020

Research

Within the framework of my research, I am examining the question of the extent to which principles of state structure of the German constitution can be transferred to Somalia. Somalia's current constitution has been drafted since 2004 with the support of the Global Knowledge Transfer Working Group of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and was adopted in October 2012. As a result, there are clear parallels between the German and Somali constitutions. Article 1 of Somalia's provisional constitution is almost identical in wording to Article 20 of the German Basic Law. The dissertation project explores the question of what effects the transfer of structural principles achieves. One of the hopes, for example, was to strengthen state stability and political cooperation by introducing federalism. But questions of democracy and the rule of law are also discussed. In the case of the latter in particular, the work deals with questions of legal pluralism and structures of order beyond the state. 

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