Luke Dimitrios Spieker is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, where he researches on transversal issues of EU and German constitutional law. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and has won numerous awards, such as the Common Market Law Review Prize for Young Academics. He holds degrees from Goethe University Frankfurt (PhD), Humboldt University Berlin (Erstes Staatsexamen), Université Panthéon Assas (Maîtrise en droit), and King's College London (LL.M.).