Visiting Faculty 2011/2012

Giuliano Bonoli is Professor of social policy at the Swiss graduate school for public administration (IDHEAP), Lausanne. He also teaches at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He previously worked at the Universities of Fribourg Bern, and at the University of Bath in Britain.  He received his PhD at the University of Kent at Canterbury for a study on pension reform in Europe. He has been involved in several national and international research projects on various aspects of social policy. His work has focused on pension reform, labour market and family polices, with particular attention paid to the politics of welfare state transformation. He has published some forty articles and chapters in edited books, as well as a few books. [more]

Burkard Eberlein is an Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Schulich School of Business at York University (Toronto). His research interests include comparative public policy and international governance, with a regional focus on the EU and Canada.  Areas of expertise are economic regulation and the multi-level governance of markets, especially in energy and climate policy; globalization of standard-setting; and transnational business regulation.
Current funded research projects deal with: the legitimacy of global governance through private standard-setters in the area of corporate reporting; the setting and implementation of international accounting standards; and the dynamics of interaction between private and public in transnational business regulation. [more]

Michael C. Herron is Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA. He will be a visiting professor at the Hertie School of Governance for the Academic Year 2011/2012. Professor Herron's areas of expertise include election politics, term limits, legislative government, statistical methods and political economy. [more]

Joachim Wehner is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a member of the Political Science and Political Economy (PSPE) research group. He obtained a PhD in Government from the LSE in 2007, following studies at the Free University Berlin, and the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch. Joachim previously worked at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa), and as a consultant for the World Bank and the OECD. At Hertie, he works with Prof. Mark Hallerberg on a study of the “competence” of economic policymakers in OECD countries. Further current research interests include the politics and economics of fiscal gimmickry in Europe, and the effect of democratisation on service delivery in South Africa. [more]

The newly established Radbruch-Kantorowicz Visiting Professor title has been conferred to Joseph H.H Weiler, one of the most influencial academics in the field of International and European Law. Weiler is University Professor at NYU, serves as the Joseph Straus Professor of Law and holds the European Union Jean Monnet Chair at NYU School of Law. In addition to being the director of NYU’s Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, he is affiliated with a number of international universities and organizations. Weiler’s research focuses on issues of European integration, globalization and democracy. As of September 2011 he joined the Hertie School as Radbruch-Kantorowicz Visiting Professor. Professor Weiler is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. His recent publications include Un’Europa Cristiana and The Constitution of Europe, both translated into many languages. [more]