T. Nowak, Dr

Dr. Tobias Nowak

Tobias Nowak studied political science, sociology and public law at the University of Tübingen, Germany. At the Department of Transboundary Legal Studies of the University of Groningen he gives the courses Politics and Government in the EU and Decision making in the EU. At the University College Groningen he teaches Policy Making in the EU, Models of Democracy and the Human-Animal project (together with Esther Scheele). At the University College Groningen he taught the Seventh Scenario project on the future of the EU (togehter with prof. Bressand) and the Mars project (together with dr. Hofstee). At the Department of Sociology of the University of Groningen he taught the course Overheid (Government). At the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, he taught  Introduction to Political Science (Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft). He supervises theses on European Union politics/law and international relations/law. In his research he focuses on the interaction between politics and law in the EU. In 2011 he finished a post-doc research project financed by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law on how national private law judges perceive, experience and apply EU law. He was the co-promotor (with prof. Dyevre) of Monika Glavina at the University of Leuven, Belgium, who investigated the application of EU law in Slovenia and Croatia. He is also a fellow at the Centre for Law, Administration and Society, the research institute of the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, and a research fellow at the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law. He was/is part of the FRiCoRe and JuLiA project team. He is the coordinator of the Washington D.C. internship programme of the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen.