Christian Calliess

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Christian Calliess on the occasion of the event: "Subsidiarity as building principle of the European Union" in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria on November 16, 2018.

Christian Calliess (born November 5, 1964 in Düsseldorf ) is a German legal scholar and professor of public law and European law at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Calliess studied law at the Saarland University and the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In Saarbrücken, he also completed a degree in “ European Integration ” at the Europa-Institut . In 1990 he passed his first state examination in law in Göttingen. From 1990 to 1991 he was a scholarship holder in the postgraduate course at the College of Europe in Bruges, which he completed with a diploma and master’s degree (LL.M. Eur).

Between 1991 and 1995 he completed his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Berlin with a position in the legal service of the EC Commission and at the Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg , from which he was given leave in 1993 to complete his dissertation with the support of a scholarship. In 1995 he passed the Second State Examination in Berlin. In the same year he received his doctorate at the University of Saarbrücken with a thesis on the principle of subsidiarity and solidarity in the EU under the supervision of Georg Ress at the European Institute there.

From 1995 to 2000 Calliess was a research assistant at the European Institute of Saarland University at Torsten Stein's chair . 2000 followed his habilitation with a thesis on the rule of law and the environment State - the same time a contribution to basic legal doctrine under multipolar constitutional law relationships . Under the supervision of professors stone and Ress The work was in 2001 with the ausgelobten occasion of its 25th anniversary Environmental Award of the Society for Environmental Law excellent in Berlin. Calliess received the Venia legendi for constitutional and administrative law, European law and international public law.

In 2000/01 he took on a substitute professorship at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 2001 he was offered a position at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz , where he also became director of the Institute for European Law in 2002. In 2003 he received offers to the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Georg-August University Göttingen. At the latter he held the chair for public law and European law from 2003 to 2008 as well as director of the Institute for International Law and European Law and the Institute for Agricultural Law.

In 2008 Calliess accepted a position at the Free University of Berlin, where he has held the chair for public law and European law there since the summer semester of 2008. In addition, since 2001 he has been a lecturer in the postgraduate course in European Integration at the Europa-Institut at Saarland University, Law Section and since 2003 lecturer in the postgraduate course in EURO-JUS Legal Studies of Excellence at Danube University Krems .

On July 1, 2008 Calliess was appointed as a legal member of the Advisory Council for Environmental Issues (SRU). The SRU, which was set up in 1971, advises the Federal Government and evaluates current political initiatives in all important areas of environmental policy. In July 2009 Calliess was awarded a personal Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission .

He is a part-time judge at the Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court.

Christian Calliess' father is the criminal lawyer Rolf-Peter Calliess . His brother Gralf-Peter Calliess teaches as a professor for civil law at the University of Bremen .

Research priorities

European and environmental law form a focus of his academic work. He has published numerous articles on both areas, including a. the respective articles in various legal manuals. Another focus of his work is constitutional law (including treatises on external violence ) and the protection of fundamental and human rights (including obligations to protect and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights ).

Fonts

As an author
  • Subsidiarity and solidarity principle in the European Union: Requirements for the application of Art. 3b of the EC Treaty using the example of Community competition and environmental policy. Baden-Baden 1996 (dissertation, Saarland University, 1995); 2nd, updated and revised edition 1999, ISBN 3-7890-5946-3 .
  • Rule of law and environmental state: At the same time a contribution to the dogmatics of fundamental rights in the context of multipolar constitutional relationships. Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147578-X (habilitation thesis, Saarland University, 2000).
  • European law: over the heads of states and municipalities? Burgwedel 2006, ISBN 3-9808773-2-9 .
As editor
  • With Matthias Ruffert : EUV / EGV: Commentary on the treaty on the European Union and the treaty establishing the European Community. Neuwied 1999; 4th, updated and revised edition: EUV, TFEU: The constitutional law of the European Union with a European Charter of Fundamental Rights. Comment. Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61449-1 .
  • With Matthias Ruffert: Constitution of the European Union: Commentary on the basic provisions. Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54717-6 .
  • Constitutional change in the European state and constitutional association. Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-149503-8 .

Habilitations

At Calliess completed their habilitation

  • Stefan Korte , professor at the Technical University of Chemnitz

Web links

Commons : Christian Calliess  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Environmental award for Dr. Christian Calliess. In: uni-protocol.de. November 14, 2011, accessed October 3, 2016 .
  2. ↑ ad personam Jean Monnet Chair European Citizenship: From Rights To Identity. In: Web portal for public law and European law. Free University of Berlin, accessed on October 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ EC environmental law in: K. Hansmann / D. Sellner, Grundzüge des Umweltrechts , 3rd completely revised and expanded edition 2007, pp. 51–121; Requirements for an environmental code: European law in: Michael Kloepfer (Ed.), Das kommende Umweltgesetzbuch , Berlin 2007, pp. 35–75; Keyword European law in: Werner Heun et al. (Ed.), Evangelisches Staatslexikon , 2006, pp. 506–516.
  4. ↑ Foreign violence, § 83 in: Josef Isensee / Paul Kirchhof (eds.), Handbuch des Staatsrechts , Volume IV, 3rd edition, Heidelberg, 2006, pp. 589–631.
  5. ↑ Protection obligations § 44 in: Detlef Merten / Hans-Jürgen Papier (eds.), Handbuch der Grundrechte in Deutschland und Europa , Volume II, Heidelberg, 2006, pp. 964–991.
  6. ↑ The European Charter of Fundamental Rights in: Dirk Ehlers (Ed.), European Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Freedoms , Berlin a. a., 2nd edition 2005, § 20, pp. 531–552.
personal data
SURNAME Calliess, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf