Amnon Lev

CV

Academic degrees

2000: Cand.jur., University of Copenhagen
2004: Cand.phil., University of Copenhagen
2009: Ph.D., University of Copenhagen  

Work history

2001-2003: apprentice lawyer, Jonas Bruun Law Firm
2005-2008: Ph.D.-scholar, University of Copenhagen
2008-2009: Research assistant, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
2009: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

Appointments as visiting scholar

2006: Gastforscher, Philosophisches Seminar, Albert Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
2007: Chercheur invité, Centre Raymond Aron, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
2010: Chercheur invité, Centre Normes, Société, Philosophie, Sorbonne

2015/2018/2021: Professeur invité, Université Panthéon-Assas

Fellow of the Orville J. Scheel Jr. Center International Human Rights, University of Yale

External funding

2010-2012: From Universe to Europe: An Analysis of the Emergence of Europe as a Separate Legal Order within the Structure of International Law, FSE

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Primary fields of research

Sovereignty, foundations of public law/public international law, political morality, hegemony, cultural materialism, intersectionality 

Knowledge of languages

Danish, English, French, German, Greek (ancient), Italian

Teaching

Suverænitet, retsfilosofi, forfatningsteori, politisk tænkning

Short presentation

Amnon Lev’s work focuses on how authority is constructed on the basis of formal relationships of subjection. He is especially interested in the ways ideas and public law theorems are adapted to changing historical circumstances and used to justify public power. This is a question he has researched extensively, first as part of a study of the role of natural law in the emergence of the sovereign state, and subsequently in the context of studies of federalism and post-sovereign forms of political organisation.

His current research looks at the generation of precarity and interlocking forms of oppression in law based government.