Members of the
Merton Centre have been active for many years as experts and advisors for
various European and state institutions.
Rainer Hofmann
was an external advisor to the Council of Europe and the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on the drafting of laws in Central
and Eastern European states (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Ukraine),
and also on the evaluation of such laws as an external member of the Council of
Europe's European Commission for Democracy and Law (Venice Commission).
From 2001 to
2020, he was a member of the Advisory Council on International Law of the
Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, which advises the ministry and the respective
heads of the office on day-to-day political events and related issues of
international law.
Stefan Kadelbach has acted, among other things, as an expert
in hearings and as a litigation representative in the area of the European
financial architecture for the German Bundestag and as an advisor in the area
of European internal market law. In addition, written and oral opinions in the
area of European law as well as protection against discrimination and electoral
law were repeatedly prepared for the Hessian State Parliament (Rainer Hofmann,
Stefan Kadelbach, Alexander Heger, Moritz Malkmus), the Thuringian State
Parliament (Rainer Hofmann, Sascha Gourdet, Alexander Heger) and the
Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament (Stefan Kadelbach).
