Burkhard Schöbener

Burkhard Schöbener (* 1961 ) is a German law scholar and professor at the University of Cologne .

life and work

After studying law , Schöbener passed his first state examination in law in 1987. In 1991 he was at the University of Würzburg Dr. iur. PhD. A year later he also passed his second state examination. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for International Law, European Law and International Business Law at the University of Würzburg. He worked there until he completed his habilitation in 1998 and received the venia legendi for the subjects of public law, international law and European law. Subsequently, worked as senior assistant at the aforementioned institute until 2002.

After substituting professorships at the Universities of Regensburg , Halle-Wittenberg , Würzburg and Cologne , Schöbener took up the full professorship for public, international and European law at the University of Cologne in the 2002/03 winter semester, which he has held since then.

Schöbener's research focus is primarily on international law. There he is primarily dedicated to investment protection, especially bilateral and multilateral investment protection agreements and arbitration, political and international legal functional conditions of the system of collective security as at the UN, as well as the constitutional and administrative requirements of state selection and award decisions. In September 2019 he was one of about 100 constitutional law teachers who, with the open appeal for the right to vote, Downsized the Bundestag! turned to the German Bundestag .

Fonts (selection)

• American occupation policy and international law . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 978-3-631-43967-8 (dissertation).
• with Dieter Blumenwitz : Stability Pact for Europe: Ensuring Member State Budget Discipline in European and International Law . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-631-31937-6 .
• with Ralf Jahn : Cases on public commercial law . 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59642-1 .
• with Jochen Herbst and Markus Perkams : International Business Law . CF Müller, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8114-9738-2 .
• with Matthias Knauff : Allgemeine Staatslehre . 4th edition. CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73498-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Burkhard Schöbener in the catalog of the German National Library
• Schöbener at his chair at the University of Cologne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .