Gregor Novak

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I am a lawyer, legal scholar, and author with a background in government service, international and EU law, and academic research and teaching. My first monograph, "Global Lawmaking and Social Change", is forthcoming with Hart Publishing in 2024.

Currently, I am an EU official supporting the work of the Council of the European Union and the European Council in areas including international law, UN affairs, and EU external relations. I previously served in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and the European External Action Service. I was also a member of the European Union Diplomatic Academy, a professional development program run by the College of Europe in conjunction with the European External Action Service.

My academic research asks how the design of lawmaking institutions affects social change and vice versa. I try to leverage comparative insights from the study of lawmaking in different contexts. Thematically, I focus on areas where domestic, transnational, and international forms of lawmaking intersect.

I serve on the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law and as an Associate Editor of the Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts. 

Previously, I served as an Associate Legal Officer 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 and a member of Green College at 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 and the Fox International Fellowship.