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Prof. Dr. Mahulena Hofmann
Full professor of the SES Chair in Satellite Communication and Media Law
Forschungsthemen International law, European law, Space communications law, Media law, Eastern European law
Fakultät oder Zentrum Fakultät für Recht, Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Finanzwirtschaft
Department Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft
Postadresse Weicker Building, Université du Luxembourg
4, rue Alphonse Weicker
Büroadresse C204
Telefon (+352) 46 66 44 6174
10 May 1957 born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
1976 - 1980 Law studies at the Law Faculty of the Charles University, Prague.
1981 "Rigorosum" examination (international law), degree JUDr.
1980 – 1984 "Aspirantura" = post-graduate studies in the field of international law, Czechoslovak Academy of Science.
1984 Defense of the thesis "Remote Sensing of the Earth from Space - Legal Aspects", research degree CSc. (candidate of sciences) in international law.
1984 - 1992 Research Fellow at the Institute of State and Law of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague (space and telecommunications law, international law, law of mass media).
Since 1986 Member, International Institute of Space Law of the International Astronautical Federation (IISL).
1990 - 1992 Scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany.
1992 – 2006 Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg; major fields of research: comparative constitutional law, legal developments in the Eastern European Countries, human rights law, telecommunications and space law.
Since 1996 Alternate Member of the Space Law Committee of the International Law Association.
Since 2000 Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic: Public International Law, Constitutional Law of the Transformation Countries; Transformation Countries and International Law.
2001-2005 Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University Bielefeld: Introduction into the Legal Order of the Russian Federation.
2002- 2008 Member of the Committee on Human Rights and Practice of the International Law Association.
2004- 2005 Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University Heidelberg: European Law.
Since 2004 Member of the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL).
2005: Submission of the "habilitation thesis" on "Position of International and European Law in the Legal Systems of the Transformation Countries of Central and Eastern Europe" to the Faculty of Law, University of Cologne.
2006: degree "Privatdozentin"; venia legendi in European, Public International, Comparative Constitutional and Eastern European Law.
2006- 2011 Professor at the Faculty of Law, University Giessen in European Law and Transition Studies; courses taught on European Law, International Law and Comparative Constitutional Law.
Since October 2006 corresponding, since 2010 full member of the International Astronautical Academy.
Since 2007 Member of the Committee of Experts under the Council of Europe Charter for Regional and Minority Languages, on behalf of the Czech Republic.
Since 2009 Honorary professor at the University Giessen.
Since 1 September 2011 Professor at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg, SES Chair in Satellite Communications and Media Law.
Since 2011 Member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Space Law.
Since 2012 Arbitrator with the Permanent Court of Arbitration for disputes related to space activities.
Since 2013 on the list of ad hoc judges of the European Court of Human Rights.
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Last updated on: Dienstag, den 27. Januar 2015
Ownership of Satellites
Hofmann, Mahulena; Loukakis, Andreas
4th Luxembourg Workshop on Space and Satellite Communication Law
Click here to see the details of the book on the editor's web page.
Dispute Settlement in the Area of Space Communication
2nd Luxembourg Workshop on Space and Satellite Communication Law
2015, 202 pp.
International Regulations of Space Communications - Current issues
Edited by Mahulena Hofmann, the book gathers contributions from Francis Lyall, Mark Williamson, Frans von der Dunk, Yvon Henri, Peter Stubbe, Elina Morozova-Zaytseva, Gerry Oberst, Mark D. Cole, Marco Ferrazzani, Roland Thurmes, Shree Krishna Sharma, Björn Ottersten and Symeon Chatzinotas.
This book aims at covering the current developments in the field of space communications. It brings together different viewpoints of authors, specializing in both the legal and technical areas, but also provides a valuable survey of the difficulties encountered in telecommunications. Unprecedented in the field, this text is aimed at private companies dealing with international communications, as well as for universities and academics.
Last updated on: 18 Apr 2017
Luxembourg Completing its Space Legislation
Hofmann, Mahulena
in Hofmann, Mahulena (Ed.) Luxembourg Completing its Space Legislation (2022, September)
Space Legislation of Luxembourg: A Commentary
Hofmann, Mahulena; Blount, PJ; Leterre, Gabrielle; Salmeri, Antonino; Zarkan, Laetitia
Book published by Kluwer - 1st (2022)
Entered into Force: The 2020 Space Law of Luxembourg
in Air and Space Law (2021), 46(4-5), 587-602
Telecommunication Law
in Read, Peter (Ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science (2021)
The Geostationary Ring: Practice and Law, Martha Mejia-Kaiser, Nijhoff/ Brill, Leiden 2020
Hofmann, Mahulena; Blount, Percy
in Air and Space Law (2021), 46(3), 475-478
Building Blocks for the Development of an International Framework for the Governance of Space Resources Activities: A Commentary
de O. Bittencourt Neto, Olavo; Hofmann, Mahulena; Masson-Zwaan, Tanja; Stefoudi, Dimitra
Book published by Eleven - 1st (2020)
Penetration of Union Law into the Space Sector
in Petrlik, David; Bobek, Michal; Passer, Jan; Masson, Antoine (Eds.) Evolution des rapports entre les ordres juridiques de l'union européenne, international et nationaux (2020)
Space Resources Activities from the Perspective of Sustainability: Legal Aspects
Hofmann, Mahulena; Bergamasco, Federico
in Global Sustainability (2020)
Dispute Resolution in Space
in Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (2020)
ITU Framework: A Model for an International Regime of Space Resources?
in Hofmann, Mahulena (Ed.) Proceedings of the 61th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space (2019, November)
Mining in Outer Space: Legal Aspects
in Tams, Christian; Bungenberg, Marc; Krajewski, Markus (Eds.) European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2018 (2019)
Introduction to Space Law
Masson-Zwaan, Tanja; Hofmann, Mahulena
Book published by Kluwer - revised (2019)
Space Resources: Regulatory Aspects
in Hofmann, Mahulena; Blount, Percy (Eds.) Innovation in Outer Space: International and African Legal Perspectives (2018)
Space-Based Services Supporting Refugees: Legal Aspects
Hofmann, Mahulena; Aloisio, Gerome; Rinaldis, Loredana
in Masson-Zwaan, Tanja; Blount, Percy; Moro-Aguilar, Rafael; Schrogl, Kai-Uwe (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law (2018)
Innovation in Outer Space: International and African Legal Perspective
Book published by Nomos/ Hart - 1st (2018)
Emerging Commercial Uses of Space: Regulation Reducing Risks
in Journal of World Investment and Trade (2018)
Commentary of Article 9 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
Hofmann, Mahulena; Rautz, Günther
in Hofmann, Rainer; Malloy, Tove; Rein, Detlev (Eds.) The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (2018)
Ownership of Satellites: A Simple Legal Fact with Complex Consequences
in Hofmann, Mahulena; Loukakis, Andreas (Eds.) Ownership of Satellites (2017)
COSPAR Recommendations in a New Context? Environmental Aspects of Space Mining
in Blount, Percy; Masson-Zwaan, Tanja; Moro-Aguilar, Rafael; Schrogl, Kai-Uwe (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law 2016 (2017)
Book published by Nomos/ Hart - 1st. (2017)
Humanitarian Law Implemented: Space Communication in the Service of International Humanitarian Law
Hofmann, Mahulena; Florey, Loren Francois
in Moro-Aguilar, Rafael (Ed.) Humanitarian Law implemented: Space Communication in the Service of International Humanitarian Law (2016)
Frans von der Dunk (ed.), Handbook on Space Law
Hofmann, Mahulena; Loukakis, Andreas; Spassova, Simona
in Journal on Space Law (2016), 40(1-2), 233-248
Book published by Nomos (2015)
Central and Eastern European Member States of the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights
in von Bogdandy, Armin (Ed.) Constitutional Crisis in the European Constitutional Area (2015)
in Harmful interference in Regulatory Perspective (2015)
Introduction; Space Communication in the Jurisprudence of the ECHR
in Dispute Settlement in the Area of Space Communication (2015)
Harmful Interference in Regulatory Pespective
Space Activites in the Jurisprudence of International dispute Settlement Institutions
in Proceedings of the IISL (2015)
in Hofmann, Mahulena (Ed.) Harmful Interference in Regulatory Perspective (2015)
Harmful Interference in Regulatory Perspective
Book published by Nomos/ Ashgate - Luxembourg Legal Studies (2015)
in Masson-Zwaan, Tanja; Blount, Percy (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law (2015)
Allgemeiner Teil - Europarat
Hofmann, Mahulena; Rautz, Günter
in Hofmann, Rainer (Ed.) Rahmenübereinkommen zum Schutz nationaler Minderheiten (2015)
Artikel 9: Allgemeiner Teil - Europarat
in Hofmann, Rainer; Angst, Doris (Eds.) Rahmenübereinkommen zum Schutz nationaler Minderheiten (2015)
ITU Instruments under the Perspective of General International Law
in Jorgenson, Corinne (Ed.) Proceedings of the IISL (2014)
European Court of Human rights Decides about Space Communication
in Sturma, Pavel; Faix, Martin (Eds.) Lidskopravni dimenze mezinarodniho prava (2014)
International Regulations of Space Communications: Current Issues
Book published by Larcier (2013)
Optical Communications in a Legal Vacuum?
in Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (2013), 2012
Vladimír Mandl
Hofmann, Mahulena; Kopal, Vladimír
in Hobe, Stephan (Ed.) Pioneers of Space Law (2013)
Pioneers of Space Law: Vladimir Mandl
Kopal, Vladimir; Hofmann, Mahulena
Sustainability of Medium-Sized Language Communities in the age of Globalization: The Czech language
in Language Law and Legal Challenges in Medium-Sized Language Communities: A Comparative Perspective (2012)
in European Convention on Human Rights (2012)