M. Arne Peter Wegner

Doctorant

Affectation(s)

EDDS : École doctorale de droit de la Sorbonne

ISJPS : Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103)

Domaines d'expertise

Droit constitutionnel comparé · Droit de l’Union européenne · Droit international public

Recherche

Sujet de thèse

La promesse constitutionnelle de bonheur – une étude comparée de la pursuit of Happiness aux États-Unis, du bonheur de tous en France et du bien-être des peuples de l’Union européenne (submitted)

Directeur de Thèse

David Capitant (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) et Christian Calliess (Freie Universität Berlin).

Enseignements

Teaching

His teaching includes constitutional and EU law at Bucerius Law School and commercial, company and employment law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Enseignement

Ses activités d’enseignement comprennent le droit constitutionnel et le droit de l’Union européenne à la Bucerius Law School ainsi que le droit commercial, le droit des sociétés et le droit du travail à la Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Publications

 

Selected works · Updated 27 September 2026

GitHub  ·  SSRN  ·  Google Scholar

 

 

PUBLICATIONS OF PUBLIC INTEREST

  • The pursuit of Happiness and the Supreme Court, software project developed as part of the doctoral dissertation, GitHub.
  • Das K.I.-Gesetz der EU: Normativität und verfassungsrechtliche Steuerung [The EU AI Act: Normativity and Constitutional Governance], presentation at the 18th Franco-German Annual Meeting of Early Career Researchers in Comparative Public, European and International Law, Como, Italy, June 2024 (SSRN).
  • Arne Wegner, juriste allemand : « Ne vous inquiétez pas, former une coalition gouvernementale peut prendre du temps » [Arne Wegner, German Jurist: ‘Don’t Worry: Forming a Coalition Government Can Take Time’], Le Monde – Idées, 30 August 2024 (interview by David Kirchner; SSRN).
  • iur.reform: Digitales Level up für das Jurastudium [iur.reform: A Digital Upgrade for Legal Education], Contemporary Technology Review & Law 1/2024, pp. 41–52 (with Dahmen; SSRN).
  • A Resolution to the Ukraine Conflict? A Legal Inquiry, Cambridge International Law Journal Blog, 3 April 2024 (SSRN).
  • Ausbildung reloaded: 44 Thesen zur Reform des Jura-Studiums [Education Reloaded: 44 Proposals for Reforming Legal Education], Deutschlandfunk – Campus & Karriere, 14 January 2022 (radio interview with Ann-Kathrin Jeske).
  • Zur aktuellen Debatte um die Resilienzarchitektur der NATO [The Current Debate on NATO’s Resilience Architecture], Archiv des Völkerrechts 59 (2021), pp. 476–505 (with Westphal, Heinisch and Schmidt; SSRN).
  • Was bisher nicht geschah (und warum) [What Has Yet to Happen (and Why)], FAZ Einspruch, 25 February 2020 (with Bußmann-Welsch and Suchrow).

 

 

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS (Selected)

  1. Zehn Vorschläge zur Entwicklung digitaler Kompetenzen zwischen juristischer Ausbildung und Anwaltschaft [Ten Proposals for Developing Digital Skills in Legal Education and Practice], Legal Tech Verzeichnis Magazin 1/2024, pp. 36–37 (with Dahmen).

  2. iur.reform: Digitales Level up für das Jurastudium [iur.reform: A Digital Upgrade for Legal Education], Contemporary Technology Review & Law 1/2024, pp. 41–52 (with Dahmen; SSRN).

  3. „Weiter so“ in der Ausbildung ist keine Option: iur.reform-Studie und sofortige Handlungsmöglichkeiten [‘Business as Usual’ Is Not an Option in Legal Education: The iur.reform Study and Immediate Steps for Reform], Rethinking Law 4/2023 (with Krautz, Ahmed and Dinçer; SSRN).

  4. iur.reform – Diskurs zur Reform der juristischen Ausbildung: Ein Update [iur.reform – The Debate on Reforming Legal Education: An Update], Rethinking Law 2/2022, pp. 80–81 (with Bußmann-Welsch, Hilpert, Krukenberg, Pollmann and Wenzel; SSRN).

  5. Zur aktuellen Debatte um die Resilienzarchitektur der NATO [The Current Debate on NATO’s Resilience Architecture], Archiv des Völkerrechts 59 (2021), pp. 476–505 (with Westphal, Heinisch and Schmidt; SSRN).

    Listed in the bibliography of: Markus Thiel, Selbstbehauptung durch Gesetz? Zu den rechtlichen Sicherungsstrukturen und -mechanismen für die öffentliche Verwaltung [Self-Assertion through Law? Legal Structures and Mechanisms Safeguarding Public Administration], dms 19 (2026), pp. 18–37.

  6. iurReform – Belastbare Zahlen für einen gemeinsamen Diskurs [iurReform – Reliable Data for a Shared Debate], Rethinking Law 6/2020, pp. 15–19 (with Bußmann-Welsch, Dahmen, Moslehi, Remé and Suchrow; SSRN).

    Cited in: Adrian Hemler and Malte Krukenberg, iur.reform – Es ist Zeit für eine neue juristische Ausbildung. Reformbedarfe, erste Erkenntnisse und Aufruf zu einem Loccum 2.0 [iur.reform – Time for a New Approach to Legal Education: The Need for Reform, Initial Findings and a Call for Loccum 2.0], ZDRW 10 (2023), pp. 1–25, at p. 2 nn. 4 and 7, p. 8 n. 48 and p. 16 n. 110.

 

 

COMMENTARY AND BLOG POSTS (Selected)

  1. Canada in the EU’s Orbit – What Associate Membership Could Mean in EU Law, Verfassungsblog, 20 September 2026.

    Featured in: LTO Press Review, 21 September 2026, ‘EU/Kanada’ [EU/Canada].

  2. Freiwillig heute, Pflicht morgen: Frankreich und Deutschland – zwischen Wehrdienst und Pflichtvorbehalt [Voluntary Today, Compulsory Tomorrow: France and Germany between Military Service and the Option of Conscription], Verfassungsblog, 16 January 2026.

    Featured in: LTO Press Review, 19 January 2026, ‘Wehrpflicht’ [Conscription].

  3. Starker Präsident, verschlissene Minister: Bayrous Scheitern und Macrons Vermächtnis [A Strong President, Worn-Out Ministers: Bayrou’s Fall and Macron’s Legacy], Verfassungsblog, 10 September 2025.

    Featured in: LTO Press Review, 11 September 2025, ‘Frankreich – Vertrauensfrage’ [France – Vote of Confidence].

  4. Der Preis der Deeskalation: Die EU-Verfassungsordnung und der US-Zollkompromiss [The Price of De-escalation: The EU Constitutional Order and the US Tariff Compromise], Verfassungsblog, 31 July 2025.

    Featured in: LTO Press Review, 1 August 2025, ‘Zoll-Einigung mit den USA’ [Tariff Agreement with the US].

  5. Kommt da noch was, liebe JuMiKo? [Any Progress, Justice Ministers?], Legal Tribune Online, 3 December 2024 (with Schollmeier and Dahmen; SSRN).

  6. Konfrontation, Kohabitation, Koalition: Frankreich nach den Wahlen [Confrontation, Cohabitation, Coalition: France after the Elections], Verfassungsblog, 8 August 2024 (SSRN).

    Featured in: LTO Press Review, 9 August 2024, ‘Frankreich – Regierungsbildung’ [France – Formation of a Government].

  7. A Resolution to the Ukraine Conflict? A Legal Inquiry, Cambridge International Law Journal Blog, 3 April 2024 (SSRN).

  8. Utopien für das System [Utopian Visions for the System], in Jurastudium 2028 – Zukunftsperspektiven für die juristische Ausbildung. Beiträge zum fünfjährigen Bestehen der Landesfachschaft Jura Nordrhein-Westfalen e. V. [Legal Education 2028 – Future Perspectives for Legal Education: Contributions Marking the Fifth Anniversary of the North Rhine-Westphalia Association of Law Student Councils], December 2023, pp. 12–13 (SSRN).

  9. Die Zukunft des Jurastudiums [The Future of Legal Education], Beck’scher Studienführer Jura 2023, pp. 40–43 (with Ahmed, Dahmen, Krukenberg and Suchrow; SSRN).

  10. Die juristische Ausbildung ergebnisoffen reformieren – jede Stimme zählt [Reforming Legal Education with an Open Mind – Every Voice Counts], Berliner Anwaltsblatt 6/2022, pp. 211–212 (with Dahmen, Pollmann and Bußmann-Welsch; SSRN).

  11. iur.reform – Es wird Zeit für eine neue juristische Ausbildung! [iur.reform – Time for a New Approach to Legal Education!], Karriere im Recht 1/2022, pp. 23–24 (with Suchrow, Pollmann, Hilpert, Dahmen and Bußmann-Welsch; SSRN).

  12. Was bisher nicht geschah (und warum) [What Has Yet to Happen (and Why)], FAZ Einspruch, 25 February 2020 (with Bußmann-Welsch and Suchrow).

    Cited in: Sarah Rachut, Recht ohne Wirklichkeit? Ein rechtswissenschaftlicher Ausblick ins Jahr 2035 [Law without Reality? A Legal Perspective on 2035], Ordnung der Wissenschaft 2023, pp. 191–208, at p. 199 n. 62.

 

 

CASE NOTES AND EXAMINATION PROBLEMS (Selected)

  1. Urheberrechtliche Einordnung der Memorisierung von Trainingsdaten in generativen KI-Modellen [The Copyright Implications of Memorisation of Training Data in Generative AI Models], jurisPR-ITR 24/2025, note 4 (with Bußmann-Welsch).

    Cited in: Einsatz von KI und algorithmischen Systemen in der Justiz [The Use of AI and Algorithmic Systems in the Judiciary], 2026 report of the Presidents of the Higher Regional Courts, the Kammergericht, the Bavarian Supreme Regional Court and the Federal Court of Justice, at p. 68 n. 188 and p. 72 nn. 206–207.

  2. Neue Massenverfahren im Mietrecht? – Das AG Berlin-Mitte weitet den Schutzbereich der Mietpreisbremse aus [New Mass Litigation in Tenancy Law? The Berlin-Mitte Local Court Extends the Scope of Rent Control], jurisPR-ITR 2/2023, note 5 (with Bußmann-Welsch; SSRN).

  3. (Referendar-)Examensklausur: Haftung für den Ministerpräsidenten? [Practice Examination Problem: Detaining the Minister-President?], ZJS 3/2020, pp. 249–255 (with Bußmann-Welsch; SSRN).

  4. (Referendar-)Examensklausur: Freie Dächer für freie Bürger [Practice Examination Problem: Free Roofs for Free Citizens], ZJS 2/2020, pp. 133–139 (with Bußmann-Welsch; SSRN).

 

 

MONOGRAPHS AND THESES

  1. Das verfassungsrechtliche Glücksversprechen – ein Rechtsvergleich zwischen dem US-amerikanischen pursuit of Happiness, dem französischen bonheur de tous und dem Wohlergehen der Völker der Europäischen Union / La promesse constitutionnelle de bonheur – une étude comparée de la pursuit of Happiness aux États-Unis, du bonheur de tous en France et du bien-être des peuples de l’Union européenne [The Constitutional Promise of Happiness: A Comparative Study of the Pursuit of Happiness in the United States, Bonheur de Tous in France and the Well-Being of the Peoples of the European Union], Freie Universität Berlin/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, doctoral dissertation, submitted in 2026; publication anticipated in 2027.

  2. La protection de la vie privée – l’impact de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme [The Protection of Private Life: The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights], University of Geneva, 2017.

  3. Die Unabhängigkeit der Deutschen Bundesbank und der Europäischen Zentralbank. Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede [The Independence of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank: Similarities and Differences], GRIN Verlag, Munich 2016 (SSRN).

  4. Glück und seine Bedingungen. Ein interkultureller Vergleich der Philippinen und Deutschlands [Happiness and Its Conditions: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Philippines and Germany], bachelor’s thesis, 2013; GRIN Verlag, Munich 2015 (SSRN).

 

 

INTERVIEWS AND MEDIA (Selected)

Arne Wegner, juriste allemand : « Ne vous inquiétez pas, former une coalition gouvernementale peut prendre du temps » [Arne Wegner, German Jurist: ‘Don’t Worry: Forming a Coalition Government Can Take Time’], Le Monde – Idées, 30 August 2024 (interview by David Kirchner; SSRN).

 

Ausbildung reloaded: 44 Thesen zur Reform des Jura-Studiums [Education Reloaded: 44 Proposals for Reforming Legal Education], Deutschlandfunk – Campus & Karriere, 14 January 2022 (radio interview with Ann-Kathrin Jeske).

 

Kommunikation in Zeiten der Pandemie: Eine App als Schwarzes Brett [Communication during the Pandemic: An App as a Noticeboard], Die Reserve, 23 April 2020 (article by Detlef Schachel, quoting Arne P. Wegner).

 

Politiker auf Probe [Trying Out Life as a Politician], campus.leben – Freie Universität Berlin’s online magazine, 10 March 2017 (profile by Annika Middeldorf).

 

 

RESEARCH SOFTWARE

The pursuit of Happiness and the Supreme Court, software project developed as part of the doctoral dissertation, GitHub.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS AND TEACHING (Selected)

Public Law examination preparation and intensive revision course: constitutional law, the organisation of the state and fundamental rights, with reference to European law and the European Convention on Human Rights, Bucerius Law School.

 

Chair, Career Information Event, University of Geneva, Geneva, December 2017, December 2021, December 2023 and April 2025.

 

Das K.I.-Gesetz der EU: Normativität und verfassungsrechtliche Steuerung [The EU AI Act: Normativity and Constitutional Governance], presentation at the 18th Franco-German Annual Meeting of Early Career Researchers in Comparative Public, European and International Law, Como, Italy, June 2024 (SSRN).

 

Der AI Act – ChatGPT und Datenschutz im Lichte der juristischen Ausbildung [The AI Act: ChatGPT and Data Protection in Legal Education], presentation at the 8th Workshop of the Franco-German Doctoral College, Strasbourg, January 2024 (SSRN).

 

Ein europäischer Verfassungsvergleich zwischen Grundgesetz, Constitution de la Ve République und Charta der Grundrechte der Europäischen Union – enthalten die europäischen Verfassungen ein Glücksversprechen im Sinne des „pursuit of Happiness“ der amerikanischen Declaration of Independence? [A European Constitutional Comparison of Germany’s Basic Law, the Constitution of the French Fifth Republic and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Do European Constitutions Contain a Promise of Happiness in the Sense of the ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ in the American Declaration of Independence?], presentation at the 17th Franco-German Meeting of Early Career Researchers in Comparative Public, International and European Law, Strasbourg, 2023 (SSRN).

 

Tutorials and lectures in commercial, company and employment law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020⁠–⁠2021.

 

Die Unabhängigkeit der Deutschen Bundesbank und der Europäischen Zentralbank. Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede [The Independence of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank: Similarities and Differences], presentation, Freie Universität Berlin, 2016.

 

 

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

Genf-Gesellschaft / Geneva Society (2017, 2019, 2020, 2022–2026), member of the programme committee; events involving Professor Thomas Kadner Graziano (University of Geneva; 2017 and 2022), Professor Andreas Paulus (at the Federal Constitutional Court in 2020), Professor Christian Walter (LMU Munich; 2023), Professor Mehrdad Payandeh (Bucerius Law School; 2024) and Professor Clemens Ladenburger (European Commission; 2025).

 

State-level Policy Committee on European and Foreign Affairs: Wo steht die Europapolitik der Bundesregierung [Where Does the Federal Government’s European Policy Stand?], with Gunther Krichbaum, Minister of State for Europe at the Federal Foreign Office (chaired discussion at Schöneberg Town Hall).

 

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (Selected)

Representation in two proceedings before the German Federal Constitutional Court.

 

Co-founded and led the AI Working Group Germany at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

Curriculum Vitae (format texte)

Arne P. Wegner is a lawyer working in constitutional law, European Union law and public international law. His research focuses on comparative constitutional law, EU external relations and international security.

 

At a major U.S. Law firm, he drafted constitutional complaints to Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court at the intersection of constitutional, EU and competition law. His earlier experience includes a clerkship at Freshfields in Brussels and work as a research associate at Linklaters.

 

During his clerkship at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, he worked on the AI Act. At the German Federal Chancellery, he prepared analyses of international and EU law for Chancellor Angela Merkel. He also completed placements in the cabinet of Advocate General Kokott at the Court of Justice of the European Union, at Germany’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva and at the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

 

Hu studied psychology and law in Berlin, Cambridge, Geneva and Manila as a military staff officer (i. R.) and  ranked first in his studies.

 

His double doctoral thesis (submitted) between Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Freie Universität Berlin, examines constitutional promises of happiness in the United States, France and the European Union. Supervised by David Capitant and Christian Calliess, his doctoral research has been supported by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) and the Franco-German University.

 

His teaching includes constitutional and EU law at Bucerius Law School. He is also a reserve officer in the German Armed Forces, with experience in its situation centre.