Dr. Clemens Richter has studied law at the University of Leipzig (1999-2004) and graduated in 2004 with the first state examination (master equivalent). After his graduation he worked as a research fellow at the Institute of European Law, Public International Law and Comparative Public Law at the University of Leipzig starting from 2005. He received a PhD in law (Dr. iur.) in 2010 from the same institution. He was awarded a "Magister Legum Europaei" degree (LL.M.Eur.) as a continuing learning master specializing in European Union Law and International Law. Between 2009 and 2011 Dr. Richter completed his legal clerkship and took the bar exam (ass. iur.) in Hamburg. Since February 2012 Dr. Richter has held a position as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Hamburg before he was appointed European Executive Co-Dean of the China-EU Law School (CESL) at CUPL in Beijing in 2014. Since September 2017 he has been serving as the German Vice-Director of the Sino-German Institute of Law (CDIR) at CUPL.
In the course of his professional career, Clemens Richter was a visiting student and a visiting researcher at the University of Nanjing (China), the Xiamen Academy of International Law (China), the Hague Academy of International Law (The Netherlands) and the Erik Castren Institute of the University of Helsinki (Finland). He was a guest lecturer at Westbengal National University of Juridical Sciences/Kolkata (India) and worked as a guest lecturer in German procedural law at City University London between 2009 and 2012 on a regular basis.
Dr. Richter has experience as lecturer in the field of German public law, European Union law and public international law, he has been an examiner in the first state examination and a supervisor and examiner of master theses. Apart from his academic work he is registered as a lawyer with the bar of Saxony and is qualified as a mediator and negotiator. Clemens Richter is fluent in German and English as working languages and has a basic command of French and Chinese.
The research interests of Clemens Richter lay in the fields of European and German Public and Constitutional Law as well as Comparative Law.
"I very much enjoy working in an international environment. At CUPL, I met colleagues with diverse backgrounds who are truly inspiring. To my surprise, many Chinese colleagues at CUPL have studied in Germany and are familiar with German law. My students are very hard-working and they love academic debates with different views and opinions. "
