Marco Schendel

Marco Schendel

Postdoctoral Researcher

Institute of Political Science
Chair of Human Rights and Human Rights Policy

Room: Room 4.029

Marco Schendel studied political science, philosophy and German language and literature in Erlangen, Bologna and Göttingen. He is currently a research associate at the Chair of Human Rights and Human Rights Politics at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. In his dissertation, he works on the philosophical foundations of the human right to freedom of religion or belief. The dissertation was funded by the Studienstiftung (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) and submitted in March 2023. Schendel is a member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte (Journal of Human Rights), formerly a policy advisor at the German Bundestag, and an expert for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). He has also served as a lecturer at the Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Göttingen.

 

Curriculum Vitae

since 09/2023
Research Associate, Chair of Human Rights and Human Rights Politics, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

01/2022 – 08/2023
Policy Advisor, Deutscher Bundestag

08/2019 – 09/2020
Expert, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Project  „Implementing Human Rights in Development Cooperation“

10/2018 – 02/2022
Lecturer, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and University of Göttingen

since 07/2018
Member of the Editorial Board of the Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte (Journal for Human Rights), Review Section

since 10/2017
PhD thesis on „Religious Freedom in the Liberal Constitutional State. Systematic Considerations in View of Kant, Lessing, Mendelssohn and Hegel“, funded by the Studienstiftung (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)

10/2014 – 03/2017
M.A. Studies in Global Politics: Structures and Boundaries and Philosophy, University of Göttingen

05/2011 – 09/2014
B.A. Studies of German Language and Literature and Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, semester abroad at Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna

Fields of Research

Human Rights, Political Theory and History of Ideas, Practical Philosophy
Systematically: Freedom of Religion or Belief, Assisted Dying
Historically: Enlightenment Philosophy, in particular Kant, Mendelssohn, Hegel

Publications

Edited Volumes

  • Die Freiheit der Menschenrechte. Festschrift für Heiner Bielefeldt zum 65. Geburtstag. Frankfurt/Main 2023. 488 pp. (with Michael Krennerich and Michaela Lissowsky).

Articles (*peer review)

  • Rechte des ganzen Menschen. Zur Unteilbarkeit der Menschenrechte aus anthropologischer Sicht. In: Michael Krennerich/Michaela Lissowsky/Marco Schendel (eds.): Die Freiheit der Menschenrechte. Festschrift für Heiner Bielefeldt zum 65. Geburtstag. Frankfurt/Main 2023. pp. 81-101.
  • *Dialektik der Religionsfreiheit? Zur aktuellen Krisendiagnose eines liberalen Rechts. In: Zeitschrift für politische Theorie. Schwerpunktheft ‚Dialektik des Liberalismus‘ 11, 2 (2020). pp. 255-271.
  • Das Menschenrecht auf Religions- und Weltanschauungsfreiheit und das ambivalente Erbe der Aufklärung. In: Cornelia Hildebrandt/Jürgen Klute/Helge Meves/Franz Segbers (eds.): Die Linke und die Religion. Geschichte, Konflikte und Konturen. Hamburg 2019. pp. 63-73.

Other Works

  • Conference Report: Sterben auf Rezept? Gegen die „Normalisierung“ von Suizidassistenz. Online-Veranstaltung des Erlanger Gesprächskreises zu medizinethischen Grundsatzfragen. In: Zeitschrift für Palliativmedizin 23, 3 (2022). p. 126.
  • Commentary: Die fragwürdige Autonomie von Karlsruhe. Zum Sterbehilfe-Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 26. Februar 2020. In: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte 14, 1 (2020). pp. 173-180; published before in modified form on VerfBlog 2020/3/06, online: verfassungsblog.de/die-fragwuerdige-autonomie-von-karlsruhe/.
  • Review: Pettit, Philip: Just Freedom. A Compass for a Complex World. New York 2014. In: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 69, 4 (2015). pp. 603-606.
  • Conference Report: Autonomie und Menschenrechte am Lebensende. In: Zeitschrift für Palliativmedizin 16, 3 (2015). p. 98.
  • Conference Report: Human Rights in Healthcare. In: Ethik in der Medizin 27, 2 (2015). pp. 171-173.

Teaching

  • „Thomas More: Utopia“, B.A. Seminar, Institute of Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Winter Term 2023/24 and Summer Term 2020
  • „Political Theory“, Introductory Seminar for Teachers‘ Education, Institute of Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Winter Term 2023/24
  • „Human Rights – Critique and Countercritique“, B.A. Seminar, Institute of Political Science, University of Göttingen, Winter Term 2021/22
  • „Jürgen Habermas: Politics Between Faith and Knowledge“, B.A. Seminar, Institute of Political Science, University of Göttingen, Winter Term 2020/21
  • „Tolerance in Enlightenment Philosophy“, B.A. Seminar, Institute of Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Winter Term 2018/19