Gregor Novak

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I am a lawyer, legal scholar, and EU official with 10+ years of experience in law and international affairs, currently serving as a Member of the Legal Service of the European Commission.

As an EU official, I have previously served the Council of the EU, the European Council, the European External Action Service, and the European Commission (DG for Competition). I am also a graduate of the EU Diplomatic Academy, a residential professional development program run by the College of Europe. 

I currently also serve as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Brussels School of Governance, where I teach the 'Procedural Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals'.  I further serve on the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. 

My first monograph, "Global Lawmaking and Social Change", was published by Hart Publishing in late 2024.

My research interests include the study of lawmaking in different contexts, international dispute settlement, the interaction between international and domestic law, the law of the sea and international environmental law, the laws of war, migration and the law, human rights, and the law of international organizations.

Earlier, I served as an Associate Legal Officer (P2) and a Judicial Fellow at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), an adviser before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in the ARA Libertad case, and a Fox International Fellow in Canada, where I was a visiting Fellow at the Outer Space Institute of the University of British Columbia. I have also served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Yale University’s History Department and the Jackson Institute (now School) for Global Affairs.

I was awarded a doctorate (J.S.D.) from Yale University in 2021 and my dissertation won the Yale Law School‘s Ambrose Gherini Prize for best written work in public international law. In 2019, I received the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law and hold further degrees from the Yale Law School (LL.M.) and the University of Vienna (Mag. Iur.). I am an alumnus of the Fulbright Program, the Fox International Fellowship, and Green College.