Armin Hatje

Armin Hatje (born July 25, 1959 in Hamburg ) is a German legal scholar . His main research interests lie in the areas of European law and its relation to national constitutional and administrative law. A special focus is on institutional questions of the European Union and problems of its economic constitution.

Career

He attended the Walddörfer-Gymnasium in Hamburg and passed the Abitur examination there in 1978. From 1979 to 1984 he studied law at the Universities of Hamburg and Lausanne . In 1984 he passed the first state examination in law. He then became a research assistant at the University of Hamburg, Department for European Community Law. In 1987 he received his doctorate under Jürgen Schwarze with a thesis on legal protection in European civil service law. After completing his legal clerkship, he passed the second state examination in 1991. In 1991 he became a research assistant at the Law Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Under the supervision of Jürgen Schwarze, he completed his habilitation in 1996 with a thesis on the control of economic administration in European Community law for the subjects of public law and European law. This was followed by professorships at the universities of Bielefeld and Cologne . In 1997 he received offers from the universities of Bielefeld and Dresden . At the beginning of 1998 Hatje took over the chair for public law, European and international law at Bielefeld University. In 2006 he followed a call to the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg . There he holds the chair for public law and European law.

activities

Hatje is the managing editor of the journal Europarecht (together with the lawyer Ingo Brinker). He also publishes the compact EU commentary with Ulrich Becker, Johann Schoo and Jürgen Schwarze. With Jürgen Schwarze as a further editor, he is also responsible for a major commentary on EU law. Together with Peter-Christian Müller-Graff, Hatje is the general editor of the ten-volume encyclopedia of European law .

Hatje was a member of the board of directors of the Institute for German, European and International Business Law at Bielefeld University from 1998 to 2006. After moving to the University of Hamburg, he became a member of the board of directors of the Institute for European Integration at the Europa-Kolleg in Hamburg in 2007. In 2012 he took over the chairmanship of the German Scientific Society for European Law. At the same time, he became a member of the board of the Fédération International pour le Droit Européen , which holds its meetings every two years in a different EU country.

Since 2013 he has also been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg Foundation. In 2014 Hatje was appointed European Co-Dean by the Joint Managerial Committee of the China-EU School of Law (CESL). The CESL, founded in 2008, is financed by the European Union and the government of the People's Republic of China, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The teaching and research operations are carried out by a consortium of European and Chinese universities. CESL is based in Beijing, People's Republic of China.

Web links

• Literature by and about Armin Hatje in the catalog of the German National Library
• Armin Hatje Official website, Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg
• Armin Hatje on the CESL website