Prof. Dr. Johannes Rux studied law at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1989 to 1992.
Between 2005 and 2008 he was, among other things, a research associate, and from 2007 on he was Academic Senior Councillor at the Institute for Social Law of the Faculty of Law at the Ruhr University Bochum.
Since 2008, Dr. Rux has held a leading position in the legal editing department of Nomos Verlag in Baden-Baden, where he is responsible for Open Access. In addition, he was appointed adjunct professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in 2012.