Philipp Renninger

Professor Renninger is a Global Professor of Practice, Law, at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Before joining Arizona, he held a Postdoc Mobility Fellowship and Visiting Scholarship at Harvard Law School, sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In addition, he is affiliated with the Max Planck “Chinese Legal Tradition” Working Group and with Nanjing University’s Sino-German Law Institute as an Honorary Research Fellow.

Professor Renninger’s first research focus lies on constitutional and administrative law, particularly federalism, individual rights, urban and local government, and environmental law. He has a second key interest in jurisprudence, exploring the foundations of law through the lens of legal theory, philosophy, history, and methodology. Throughout those research areas, Professor Renninger adopts a both domestic and global, comparative and international, perspective: In addition to English, he publishes in three foreign languages (German, Chinese, and Spanish); and in addition to the U.S., he has gained extensive expertise in and on Asia (China) as well as in and on Europe (EU, UK, Switzerland, and his native Germany).

Professor Renninger holds a dual-degree PhD in law from the Universities of Freiburg and Lucerne. Previously, he read law as well as Chinese in Freiburg and Nanjing, graduating with the German First Exam in Law (JD equivalent). Professor Renninger has held visiting research and adjunct teaching appointments at the University of Oxford, King’s College London, NUS Singapore, the China University of Political Science and Law, and the Max Planck Institutes.