i. current position ii. experience iii. publications

 Gabriel N. Toggenburg
Member of the Institutes'
Ring of Friends
contact:
[email protected]
I. CURRENT POSITION
Since April 2009 Gabriel N. Toggenburg is working as a Programme Manager (Legal Research) at the
Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union.
II. EXPERIENCE
Toggenburg studied law at the University of Innsbruck and gained his LL.M. (Eur.Law) at the Danube
University. He holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence (EUI). Between 1998
and 2008 he was working at the European Academy Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC) as a Senior Researcher
at the Institute for Minority Rights where he was responsible for the area of EU law. Gabriel
Toggenburg has widely published in the field of human rights, the protection of minorities, language
policy, the topic of European diversity managment and general issues of EU constitutional law (see list
below). He was the initiator of the Bolzano/Bozen Declaration and provided expertise to various EUinstitutions and NGOs at European level. He is a member of the editorial board of the European Law
Reporter (St. Gallen/Luxembourg) and co-founded the European Diversity and Autonomy Papers
(EDAP) and the European Yearbook on Minority Issues (Nijhoff: Boston/Leiden). Toggenburg coinitiated the postgraduate Master in European Intergration and Regionalism (MEIR). He has been
teaching in this and other postgraduate programmes as for instance the Executive M.B.L. in St. Gallen
(Switzerland). In 2008 Toggenburg was a Visiting Professor in the Department of International Studies
at the University of Miami (USA). In 2008/2009 he was a Guest Professor in the Department of
political science at the University of Innsbruck (A).
III. PUBLICATIONS
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The European Union vís-à-vís minorities: a play in three parts and an open end,
in Csaba Tabajdi (ed), Pro Minoritate Europae - Minorities of Europe Unite, 2009 (study book
for the 25th anniversary of the Minorities-Intergroup of the European Parliament; the above
link leads to an online version published slightly earlier)
Menschenrechtspolitik 2008,
in Weidenfeld/Wessels (eds.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2008, Nomos, BadenBaden 2008, pp. 177-182
Festung Familie oder Festung Europa? Die kritisierte Weichenstellung des EuGH in der
Rechtssache Metock,
in European Law Reporter 11(2008), pp. 375-380
Der Menschenrechts- und Minderheitenschutz in der Europäischen Union,
in Werner Weidenfeld (ed.), Die Europäische Union. Politisches System und
Politikbereiche(5. ed.), Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2008, pp. 294-313
Die ersten Schritte der EU-Grundrechteagentur in Wien,
in Volkmar Deile et al. (eds.), Jahrbuch Menschenrechte 2009, Böhlau Verlag, Wien 2008, pp.
274-285
The Protection of Minorities at the EU-level: a Tightrope Walk Between (Ethnic)
Diversity and (Territorial) Subsidiarity,
in Emma Lantschner, Joseph Marko and Antonija Petričušić (eds.), European Integration and
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its Effects on Minority Protection in South Eastern Europe, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2008, pp.
83-115
A Remaining Share or a New Part? The EU's Role vis-a-vis Minorities after the
Enlargement Decade,
in Marc Weller, Denika Blacklock and Katherine Nobbs (eds), The Protection of Minorities in
the Wider Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2008, pp. 95-127
The role of the new EU Fundamental Rights Agency: Debating the "sex of angels" or
improving Europe's human rights performance?,
in European Law Review, June 2008, pp. 385-398
"LGBT" go Luxembourg: on the stance of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender
Rights before the European Court of Justice,
in European Law Reporter, 5(2008), pp. 174-185
Die Europäische Dimension des Gruber-Degasperi-Abkommens: Versuch einer
Annäherung,
in Lorenzo Zalla/Marco Pontoni (ed.), Die Europäische Dimension des Gruber-DegasperiAbkommens, Landesregierung der Autonomen Provinz Trient, Trient 2008, pp. 26-50
Discrimination by association: a notion covered by EU-equality law?
in European Law Reporter, 3(2008), pp. 82-88
La dimensione europea dell'Accordo Degasperi-Gruber: tentativo di approfondimento,
in Federalismi, Anno VI
Regional autonomies providing minority-rights and the law of European Integration:
experiences from South Tyrol,
in Joseph Marko et al. (eds.), Tolerance established by Law. The Autonomy of South Tyrol:
Self-Governance and Minority Rights, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague 2008, pp. 177-200
The Debate on European Values and the case of Cultural Diversity,
in Minorities Research, 10(2008), pp. 109-130 [reprint of the 2004 EDAP paper]
Die Grundrechteagentur der Europäischen Union: Perspektiven, Aufgaben, Strukturen
und Umfeld einer neuen Einrichtung im Europäischen Menschenrechtsraum,
in MenschenRechtsMagazin Heft 1(2007), pp. 86-104
Introduction: Europe and the Integration of Integration,
in Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, Volume 6 (2007)
Menschenrechtspolitik 2007,
in Weidenfeld/Wessels (eds.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2007, Nomos, BadenBaden 2007, pp. 167-172
The EU Fundamental Rights Agency: Satellite or Guiding Star? Raison d'être, tasks and
challenges of the EU's new agency,
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik SWP Comments 2007 / C 05
Die EU-Grundrechtsagentur: Satellit oder Leitstern?,
Siftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Aktuell C05(2007)
Dreimaldrei des Verhältnisses zwischen (dem Recht) der Europäischen Union und dem
Phänomen der Religion,
in EALIZ (ed.), Atheismen und Säkularisierung oder Wie religiös sind noch die
Bürgergesellschaften Europas, Waidhofen 2007, pp. 45-62
Die Europäische Union und die Rechte ihrer Menschen: Ein Blick auf die jüngsten
Entwicklungen in der EU-Menschenrechtspolitik,
in EALIZ (ed.), Globalisierung und Neoliberalismus im Spiegelbild der Zukunft der
Bürgergesellschaften Europas, Waidhofen 2007, pp. 103-114
Menschenrechtspolitik 2006,
in Weidenfeld/Wessels (eds.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2006, Nomos, BadenBaden 2006, pp. 187-190.
A remaining share or a new part? The Union's role vis-à-vis minorities after the
enlargement decade,
European University Institute Florence, Working Papers 15(2006)
Marke, Markt und Sprache: Zur markenrechtlichen Stellung fremdsprachlicher
Begriffe im vielsprachigen Binnenmarkt,
in European Law Reporter, 4(2006), pp. 163-168
Die regionale Dimension des EU-Verfassungsvertrages: Betrachtungen im Dreieck
zwischen Mitbestimmung, Identität und Subsidiarität,
in Simon Laimer (ed.), Euregio-Quo vadis?, Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag,
Graz/Bozen/Wien 2006, pp. 27-47
Die Sprache und der Binnenmarkt im Europa der EU: eine kleine Beziehungsaufstellung
in 10 Punkten, in Gerte Reichelt (ed.), Sprache und Recht unter besonderer Berücksichtigung
des Europäischen Gemeinschaftsrechts, Manz, Wien 2006, pp. 43-69. Published also in a
slightly updated version as Die Sprache und der Binnenmarkt im Europa der EU: eine
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kleine Beziehungsaufstellung in 10 Punkten, in European Diversity and Autonomy Papers
1( 2004).
Menschenrechtspolitik 2005,
in Weidenfeld/Wessels (eds.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2005, Nomos, BadenBaden 2005, pp. 145-148.
Who is managing ethnic and cultural diversity within the European Condominium? The
moments of entry, integration and preservation,
in Journal for Common Market Studies, 4(2005), pp. 717-737
Europas Integration und Südtirols Autonomie: Konfrontation - Kohabitation Kooperation?,
in Joseph Marko et al. (eds.), Die Verfassung der Südtiroler Autonomie, Nomos, BadenBaden 2005, pp. 451-494.
Grundrechte, Grundfreiheiten, Grund zum Nachfragen anlässlich der Rechtssache
Omega,
in European Law Reporter, 1(2005), pp. 2-6.
Minority Protection in a Supranational Context: Limits and Opportunities,
in Gabriel N. Toggenburg (ed.), Minority Protection and the enlarged European Union: The
way forward, LGI Books, Budapest 2004, pp. 1-36.
The Debate on European values and the case of cultural diversity,
in European Diversity and Autonomy Papers 1(2004)
The EU's "Linguistic diversity": Fuel or brake to the mobility of workers,
in Andrew P. Morriss and Samuel Estreicher (eds.), Cross-Border Human Ressources, labor
and Employment Issues: Proceedings of the New York University 54th Annual Conference on
labor, Kluwer International 2004, pp. 675-721. This article will also be published as
"Diversity of Languages and Mobility of Persons" in Bruno de Witte and Miriam Aziz (eds.),
European Law and Linguistic Diversity, Antwerpen, Intersentia.
Der (dritte) Weg zur (v)erfassbaren Religionsidee der EU,
in Politik und Religion in Europa, Basler Schriften zur Europäischen Integration 68(2004)
Minority protection and the enlarged European Union: the way forward,
LGI Books, Budapest/New York 2004
Some reflections on the "treaty establishing a constitution for Europe",
together with Orsolya Farkas, in Vojtech Mastny, Sergio Ortino and Mitja Zagar (eds.),
Changing faces of federalism, Manchester University Press, Manchester 2004, pp. 246-273.
Human Rights and membership of the European Union,
together with Bruno de Witte in Steve Peers and Angela Ward (eds.), The EU Charter of
Fundamental Rights, Hart Publishing, Oxford 2004, pp. 59-82.
"Unity in diversity": searching for the regional dimension in the context of a somewhat
foggy constitutional credo,
in Roberto Toniatti et al. (eds.), An ever more complex Union. The regional variable as
missing link in the European Constitution, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2004, pp. 27-56.
Unification via Diversification - what does it mean to be "united in diversity"?,
in EUMAP feature "Enlargement Day", 1 may 2004.
Streitpunkt Ökopunkte: Aussterbende Vermittler zwischen europäischem Verkehr und
regionaler Umwelt,
in European Law Reporter, 10(2003), pp. 371-380
Cultural Diversity at the Background of the European Debate on Values: an
Introduction,
in Francesco Palermo and Gabriel N. Toggenburg (eds.), European Constitutional Values and
Cultural Diversity, 2003, pp. 9-23 (out of print). For a an online review of the book see the
German Law Journal (Vol. 5 No. 4).
Minorities (...) the European Union: is the missing link an 'of' or a 'within'?
in Journal of European Integration, 2003, Vol. 25 (3), September, pp. 273-284.
Der Status von Amts- und Minderheitensprachen in der Europäischen Union - Sprachen
im Rechtskonflikt zwischen kultureller Vielfalt und effizientem Binnemarkt,
in J. Bester-Dilger et.al (eds.), Mehrsprachigkeit in der erweiterten Union, Drava, 2003, pp.
266-268
O orientare aspră într-o relaţie delicată: străduinţele Uniunii Europene pentru
minorităţi(-le sale),
in Integrarea si statutul minoritatilor (special focus of ALTERA 20/21, 2003)
Vertragsänderung im Tandem: Regierungskonferenz und Europäischer Konvent
in European Law Reporter, 11(2002), pp. 398-402
Familienangehörige aus Drittstaaten: der Schutz des Familienlebens als trompe d´oiel
Tor zum Binnenmarkt?,
in European Law Reporter, 9(2002), pp. 319-328
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The Race Directive: A New Dimension in the Fight against Ethnic Discrimination in
Europe,
in European Yearbook on Minority Issues 2002, Kluwer Law International, The Hague 2002,
pp. 231-244
Egy kényes kapcsolatrendszer: az Európai Unió és a kisebbségi jogok,
in Pro Minoritate, 2002/Tavsaz, pp. 14-50.
Sprache versus Markt: ist die EFTA vielfalts- oder einfallslos?,
in European Law Reporter, 6(2002), pp. 217-223
Aufblühende Biotechnik-Richtlinie: welkendes Harmonisierungskonzept?,
in European Law Reporter, 2(2002), pp. 51-58
Politische Zugehörigkeit in Europäischen Fraktionen,
in European Law Reporter, 12(2001), pp. 387-395
Diritto comunitario e tutela delle minoranze in provincia di Bolzano. Due aspetti
inconciliabili di un (unico) sistema?,
in Joseph Marko et al. (eds.), L'ordinamento speciale della provincia autonoma di Bolzano,
Cedam, Verona 2001, pp. 139-195
La crisi austriaca: delicati equilibrismi sospesi tra molte dimensioni,
in Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo, 2(2001), pp. 735-756
A rough orientation through a delicate relationship: the European Union's endeavours
for (its) minorities,
in SneznanaTrifunovska (ed.), European Minorities and Languages, Asser, The Hague 2001,
pp. 205-235, online version in European Integration online Papers (EioP) Vol. 4 (2000), n. 16
Horizontale Drittwirkung der Personenfreizügigleit vor dem Hintergrund der Südtiroler
Autonomie,
in European Law Reporter, 7/8(2000), pp. 242-247
Chi di ricorso lacunoso ferisce, di sentenza lacunosa perisce,
in Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo, 1(2000), pp. 237-239 (together with Michael
Hofstötter)
Handlungsspielraum nationaler Behörden im Verfahren zum Inverkehrbringen
genetisch veränderter Organismen,
in European Law Reporter, 5(2000), pp.199-203
Recht der Parteien auf Stellungnahme zu den Schlussanträgen des Generalanwaltes?,
in European Law Reporter, 2(2000), pp. 57-60
WTO: Unmittelbare Anwendbarkeit weiterhin unanwendbar!
in European Law Reporter, 1(2000), pp. 46-51
Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung und Flughafenerweiterung: Neues zur Richtlinie
85/337/EWG,
in European Law Reporter, 10(1999), pp. 472-476 (together with Michael. Hofstötter)
Flughafen Bozen in Luxembourg-Ein Blick auf den europarechtlichen Hintergrund,
in INFORMATOR, 4(1999), pp. 89-121
Position des Parlamentes im Europäischen Aussenhandel,
in European Law Reporter, 11(1999), pp. 483-485
Der Kompetenzfriede zwischen Landwirtschaft und Umwelt
in European Law Reporter, 6(1999), p. 278
Sprachliche Vielfalt versus industrielle Entfaltung,
in European Law Reporter, 4(1999), p.150-153
L'Austria: Tentativi di istituzionalizzare la partecipazione dei Länder,
Elaborazione e attuazione del diritto comunitario. Valutazione delle esperienze comparate e
proposte per l`Italia, European Academy, Bolzano/Bozen 1999, pp. 15-26
Ausweisung von EU-Bürgern nach einer Verurteilung im Strafverfahren,
in European Law Reporter, 2(1999), pp. 65-67 (together with M. Hofstötter)
Der EuGH und der Minderheitenschutz,
in European Law Reporter, 1(1999), pp. 11-15
IV. Essays, comments and interviews in non-scientific journals and
the press
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Alles eine Sache des Vertrauens, essay in ACADEMIA 49 (2009), pp.44 and 45
Nur fähige Köpfe schicken, comment in Dolomiten, 19 February 2009, p. 3
Train fantome pour Lisbonne, essay in European current affairs magazine CAFE
BABEL, 09 July 2008
Amerika wählt, die Welt schaut zu und Europa dümpelt vor sich hin, essay in
ACADEMIA, 47(2008), pp. 40-41
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Old Europe and young Europeans: The EU's approach to children's rights, interview
given to ACADEMIA, 46(2008), pp. 42-45
In Zukunft kann man mehr Klarheit erwarten, interview given to KURIER, 14 December
2007 2007, p. 5
Der Europäische Haftbefehl, analysis in PANEUROPA, 5(2007), pp. 14-16
Menschenrechte sind nicht nebulos, interview given to KURIER, 14 July 2007, p. 5
Verengt sich die Erweiterung?, interview given to EURAC-FOCUS, 13 June 2007
Was hat denn die EU mit Regionen zu tun?, interview in ACADEMIA 43(2007), pp. 15-17
Die EU-Menschenrechtsbrille, essay in DIE FURCHE, 15 February 2007, p. 5
Grundrechtsagentur: In sieben Punkten vom Schattensatellit zum Leitstern, essay in
DER STANDARD, 6 December 2006
"Hüfts nix, schods nix", essay on the South-Tyrol-clause in the Austrian constitution, in FF
40(2006), 5 October 2006, pp. 42-43.
Es gibt ein Leben jenseits der Menschenrechtsagentur, interview in ACADEMIA 41
(2006), pp. 7-9 (initially published with DER STANDARD, 28 July 2006
Europa - ein Pferd auf das niemand mehr setzen will?, essay in DER STANDARD, 9 May
2006
Die EU benützt die Menschenrechte um einen Mythos zu schaffen, interview given to
DER STANDARD, 2 May 2006
Reisepass, Identität und Sprache, comment in DOLOMITEN, 26 November 2005, p. 2
Was tun gegen die Eurosklerose? Zur Kritik am "Pathos der EU-Ideologen", essay in
DER STANDARD, 8 September 2005, p. 31
Is there an EU approach towards religion?, interview given to ACADEMIA 38 (2005), pp.
11-13
Verliebt, verlobt, verheiratet, essay in ACADEMIA 38 (2005), pp. 4-7
EU schafft Grundrechte Agentur, comment in DOLOMITEN, 6 July 2005
L'Europe, une Tour de Babel : avantage ou inconvénient ?, essay in the European current
affairs magazine "CAFE BABEL", 20 June 2005
Kleine Sprachen, grosser Durchbruch?, comment in DOLOMITEN, 21 June 2005
Ist das Europa der EU am Ende?,
interview given to DOLOMITEN, 1 June 2005, p. 3
Abrahamische Ökumene, interview on the EU accession of Turkey given to DOLOMITEN,
14 February 2005
Ein Marshallplan für den Ost-Tourismus, interview given to ACADEMIA 36 (2004), pp.
44-45
Zwischen Recht und Politik, comment in DOLOMITEN, 13 October 2004
Das Kreuz mit der Abaya im Schwimmbad, essay in FF, 23 September 2004
Gott auch für Nichtgläubige, essay in DIE FURCHE, Nr 25, 17 June 2004, p. 4
Licht und Schatten der EU25, interview given to ACADEMIA 35 (2004), pp. 6-9
Oh, quante belle lingue, Mamma UE, interview given to ACADEMIA 35 (2004), pp. 20-22
Interview zur Gottesfrage in der EU-Verfassung, interview given to DOLOMITEN, 28
June 2004
Una (nuova) Costituzione per l'Europa, interview given to ACADEMIA 35 (2004), pp. 1516
Interview zur Bozner Erklärung, in FF 17 June 2004
Die Grenz-Radler, essay (impressions from Cyprus) in ACADEMIA 35 (2004), pp. 30-34
EU: Minority Protection - Initiative Seeks To Set Higher Standards (part I), interview
given to RADIO FREE EUROPE, 16 June 2004
EU: Minority Protection - Bloc's Policies could influence friends to the East (part II),
interview given to RADIO FREE EUROPE, 17 June 2004
Cyprus: failure of referndum means headache for the EU, interview given to RADIO
FREE EUROPE, 26 April 2004
Turkey: EU entry as far away as ever, interview given to RADIO FREE EUROPE, 9 April
2004
EU: The Big Three meet amid concerns for the Union's cohesion, interview given to
RADIO FREE EUROPE, 17 February 2004
Les minorités de l'UE et leurs langues en 2004! A quoi ressemble l'ordre du jour de
l'UE?, essay in CONTACT BULLETIN, Vol. 19, No. 3, May 2003
Zankapfel Zypern, comment on Cyprus, in DOLOMITEN, 3/4 April 2004
EU Parliament pay rates rejected, stalling key reform ahead of enlargement, interview
given to RADIO FREE EUROPE, 27 January 2004
Sparks will fly at Rome conference to finalise EU-constitution, interview given to RADIO
FREE EUROPE, 2 October 2003
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Leaders seek to heal wounds at enlargement summit in Athens, interview given to RADIO
FREE EUROPE, 23 April 2003
Zeit für neue Ansätze, essay in DOLOMITEN, 4 March 2003
Souveränitätsschale verletzt, interview given to TAGESZEITUNG, 20 March 2003
Central Asia: conference asks what lessons can region learn from EU, interview given to
RADIO FREE EUROPE, 10 March 2003
Split highlighted as eight European leaders back US on Iraq, interview given to RADIO
FREE EUROPE, 31 January 2003
Turkey: New leadership faces difficulties in addressing Cyprus issue, interview given to
RADIO FREE EUROPE, 24 January 2003
EU:France and Germany agree on how reformed organization should be run, interview
given to RADIO FREE EUROPE, 16 January 2003
EU: Can cultural diversity survive in an expanded Union?, interview given to RADIO
FREE EUROPE, August 2002
Schwarzbau Europa, essay in FF, March 2002, pp. 34-35
EU: Preserving Cultural Identity Causes Dilemma in Era of Globalization, interview
given to RADIO FREE EUROPE, 18 March 2002 (published by Governance Worldwatch,
3(2002), p. 10)
Una rivoluzione che mangierá i propri figli, essay in ACADEMIA 27, October 2001, see
also: Der Terror wird seine eigenen Kinder fressen, in ZETT, 23 September 2001
Südtirol auf europäischem Prüfstand, in DOLOMITEN, 3 September 2002
Was ist Krieg?, essay in FF, 27 September 2001, pp. 40-41
Österreich raus, EU rein, essay in ACADEMIA 22, March 2000
Der EuGH als unverhoffter Anwalt der Minderheiten, essay in ACADEMIA 18 (1999),
pp. 7-9
V. PERSONAL BACKGROUND
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GEOGRAPHY: Born 1970 in Munich. Grew up in Thiersee, Salzburg and Bozen. Studied in
Innsbruck, Krems, Saarbrücken and Florence. Thus rooted in the German-Austrian-Italian
triangle.
BIOGRAPHY: Enthusiastic father of the two most notable creatures named Leonie and
Antonia and proud husband of "Doctor Julia".
AFFINITY (things he likes): to sit on a terrasse and do a bit of reading, a BBQ with good
friends, armadillos, the spring and the autumn, water in all its forms, elefants, biking, hot
Chinese soup, books, traveling, the process of European integration (why Europe?), observing
Darth Vader when he orders "penne all'arrabiata" in the cantine of his Death Star and many
more things.
ANTIPATHY (things he does not like): inter alia to get up too early, to be amongst too many
people on a too small space, the VAT, searching for a parking lot, too many words about
nothing, absence of modesty or humour, cold coffee.