Public Law Assistant Conference

The Public Law Assistant Conference is an annual event for all academic staff and assistants in public law who have not yet completed their habilitation. With an average of 200 participants, it is the largest event of its kind in German-speaking countries and is often called the “small constitutional law teachers conference”.

The scientific conference takes place every spring at a different German, Austrian or Swiss university and is organized by the young scientists there. It offers young academics the opportunity to present doctoral or habilitation projects to the specialist public. It also serves to establish scientific contacts.

The first assistant conference took place in 1961. Since 1977 its scientific program has been subject to an annually changing general theme. The approximately 10 to 13 presentations are selected by the organizers in an open process (“ call for papers ”).

From 2021, after discussions at previous conferences, the conference will be called Young Conference on Public Law .

Previous organizers and topics

• 2020: University of Trier , "The digitized state"
• 2019: University of Frankfurt am Main , "Constitutions - their role in the course of time"
• 2018: University of Regensburg , "Judicial Dependency - Finding Law in Public Law"
• 2017: Distance University of Hagen , "Legal Culture and Globalization"
• 2016: University of Mainz , "Path dependency of sovereign regulatory models"
• 2015: University of Augsburg , "Legal Peace - Peace Law"
• 2014: University of Graz , “L'État, c'est quoi? - State power in transition "
• 2013: University of Bern , "The Last Word - Lawmaking and Legal Control in Democracy"
• 2012: University of Hamburg , Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg and Bucerius Law School , "Collectivity: Public law between group interests and the common good"
• 2011: German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer , "Administrative Law Area Europe"
• 2010: University of Greifswald and Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald , "Risk in law - law in risk"
• 2009: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and the University of Bonn , “Law and Market. Interrelationships between two orders "
• 2008: Heidelberg University and Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law , "Freedom - Security - Public"
• 2007: Free University Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin , "Networks"
• 2006: University of Vienna , "Law and Medicine"
• 2005: Bielefeld University , "The European Constitution - Constitutions in Europe"
• 2004: University of Jena , "Law and Economics"
• 2003: University of Lucerne , "Integration and Law"
• 2002: University of Hamburg , "The plurality of law - regulation in the field of tension between the legal levels"
• 2001: University of Potsdam , "Religion and worldview in the secular state"
• 2000: University of Giessen , "Functions and Control of Powers"
• 1999: University of Zurich, "Democracy and Freedom"
• 1998: University of Münster, "Peace and Law"
• 1997: University of Munich, "Federalism - Dissolution or the Future of Statehood?"
• 1996: University of Mainz, "Challenges to Information Society Law"

literature

• Helmuth Schulze-Fielitz : 25 years of assistant conference. About the history and function of the conferences of academic staff in the field of “Public Law” 1961–1985 . In: JöR 34 (1985), pp. 35-69.
• Dirk Heckmann: Between spontaneity and professionalism. Ten more years of assistant conference on public law (1986-1995) . In: JöR 44 (1996), pp. 237-254.
• Florian Groeblinghoff and Konrad Lachmayer: The assistant conference on public law on the way into the 21st century . In: JöR 55 (2007), pp. 429–454.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lukas C. Gundling: The 59th Assistant Conference on Public Law . In: ZLVR 2019, p. 46.
2. ↑ Conference announcement on uni-muenster.de (accessed on August 7, 2020).