Dr. von Bernstorff is the professor of Faculty of Law, Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen. He is a Senior Fellow of the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Hidelberg and a Lecturer at the University of Mannheim. From 2003-2007 he worked in the UN Department of the German Foreign Office and was a member of the German delegation at the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva in 2004 and 2005 and the UN Human Rights Council in 2006. He was also a member of the German delegation at the UN General Assembly in New York in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Dr. von Bernstorff specializes in constitutional law and public law. He will teach the course “Seminar on International Human Right Law” as a visiting professor in College of Law, National Taiwan University in 2015.