T. Nowak, Dr

Dr. Tobias Nowak

Tobias Nowak studied political science, sociology and public law at the University of Tübingen, Germany. At the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen he gives the courses Law, Power and Politics, Legal Research Methods, and International Publishing. At the University College Groningen he teaches Policy Making in the EU, Introduction to Legal Reasoning and Critical Argumentation (with colleagues), and the Human-Animal project (with Tiago Medeiros). At the Faculty of Law he was the coordinator of the Bachelor Colloqium, gave Decision making in the EU and Politics and Government in the EU. At the University College Groningen he taught the courses Models of Democracy, the Seventh Scenario project on the future of the EU (with prof. Bressand), and the Mars project (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 was/is part of the FRiCoRe and JuLiA projects which offer post-academic training for EU judges.