Bernhard Kempen (lawyer)

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Bernhard Kempen (born January 31, 1960 in Saarbrücken ) is a German lawyer and professor of constitutional law, international law and international business law. Kempen has been President of the German University Association since 2004 .

Life

Kempen studied law at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . During the first (1983) and second legal state examinations (1986), Kempen was a legal clerk at the Saarbrücken Higher Regional Court and a research assistant at the chair for constitutional law, administrative law and international law at the Saarland University with Wilfried Fiedler . From 1986 to 1994 Kempen was a research assistant at the Institute for International Law and Foreign Public Law at the University of Cologne with Hartmut Schiedermair , who was university professor at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken from 1976 to 1983.

1988 Bernhard Kempen was at the University of Cologne with the work The shape freedom of choice of the administration: public administration between public and private law and the honors summa cum laude doctorate . In 1988, the dissertation was awarded the Cologne University Prize. In 1994 Kempen completed his habilitation at the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne. This was followed by the granting of the venia legendi for the subjects of public law and international law .

In 1994, he was a substitute professor for legal philosophy, constitutional and administrative law at the law faculty of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg ; 1995 a substitute professor for constitutional and administrative law at the law faculty of the University of Konstanz . In 1995 he was appointed a full professor for public law and international law at the University of Würzburg. In 2001, Kempen accepted a professorship for public law and international law at the University of Cologne. At the same time as he was appointed professor, Bernhard Kempen is also Managing Director of the Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law at the University of Cologne and Managing Director of the Institute for German and European Scientific Law at the University of Cologne.

In 1995/96 Kempen was a member of a four-person international commission (Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany) to evaluate the Eurofaculty program of the Baltic Sea Conference in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

Since February 2000 Kempen has been editor of the series of publications Kölner Schriften zu Recht und Staat and since 2005 co-editor of the journal Wissenschaftsrecht, Wissenschaftsverwaltung, Wissenschaftsförderung .

Bernhard Kempen is a member of the board of directors of the investment protection law research center “International Investment Law Center Cologne (IILCC)” at the University of Cologne and a member of the board of trustees of the Democracy Foundation of the University of Cologne.

Bernhard Kempen became President of the German University Association (DHV) in 2004, succeeding Hartmut Schiedermair , his doctoral supervisor and habilitation supervisor and predecessor of his professorship in Cologne; since then, like Hartmut Schiedermair, who was President of the DHV from 1980 to 2004, he has been re-elected as President several times on DHV Day. As such, he takes a critical look at the Bologna Process and Open Access. As President of the University Association, he announces further lawsuits and model lawsuits if scientists are forced to open access by legal order, employment contract or supposedly voluntarily by means of individual target agreements.

Publications

  • The intervention of the state in property: requirement, compensation and defense by the citizen. Heymann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-452-22199-7 .
  • The German-Polish border after the peace settlement of the Two-Plus-Four Treaty. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-631-31975-4 .
  • Land reform 1945–1949: a constitutional reassessment. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-631-52669-5 .
  • with Christian Hillgruber: International Law. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54904-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://demokratiestiftung.uni-koeln.de/20829.html?&L=6
  2. ↑ “We are fighting for the Bologna goals. But as Germany is currently persecuting them, they cannot be reached, regrets Bernhard Kempen, Head of the University Association ” , interview in NRZ on Sunday (November 9, 2008); DSW-Journal (April 22, 2008) on studis-online.de
  3. ^ Bernhard Kempen: The new compulsion to open access . In: FAZ . January 25, 2018, p. 6 .
personal data
SURNAME Kempen, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken