Ralf Poscher

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Ralf Poscher is Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law where he is also Director of the Department of Public Law. Previously Dean of the Law faculty at the University of Freiburg, Poscher holds an honorary professorship at that institution. He has also held research professorships in the USA, Japan and France. Poscher’s main research interests include legal theory, constitutional law and national security law. The recipient of a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship from the European University Institute in 2013, Poscher is co-editor of the European Security Research Journal and a member of the Expert Council for the German Ministry for Education and Research on the integration of the social sciences and humanities in civil security research.