Christian von Coelln

Christian von Coelln (* 1967 in Düsseldorf ) is a German lawyer and has been Dean of Studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne since January 2013 , where he has held a chair for constitutional and administrative law as well as scientific law since April 2008 and one since the 2011/2012 winter semester Chair of constitutional and administrative law as well as scientific law and media law.

Career

He attended the Humboldt Gymnasium in Düsseldorf until his Abitur in 1987 . From 1990 to 1995 von Coelln studied law at the University of Passau , received a scholarship and passed the first state examination in law in 1995 with the grade “good”. After a legal traineeship in the higher regional court district of Munich , the second state examination followed in 1997, also with the rating “good”, and in 2000 the dissertation on the subject of “Application of federal law in accordance with the state's fundamental rights?” And in 2004 the habilitation on the subject of “On the media public of the third power ”. After working at the chair for constitutional and administrative law as well as commercial administrative law and media law as a research assistant, research assistant and senior assistant, he represented the chair for public law and administrative sciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from October 2006 to September 2007 . In 2007 he accepted the position of professor for constitutional and administrative law as well as scientific law at the University of Cologne and has been a university professor there since 2008, and since 2012 at the chair for constitutional and administrative law as well as scientific law and media law. He is also director of the Institute for German and European Science Law.

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 .

Awards and other activities

Prices

• 2002: Award of the dissertation with the Culture Prize East Bavaria 2001 from E.ON Bayern AG
• 2003: Award for good teaching 2002 from the Free State of Bavaria

Other activities

• Since 1998 member of the selection committee of the German National Academic Foundation
• 2000–2004 lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Justice in Bavaria (formerly: Bavarian Civil Service College), Department of General Internal Administration, Hof
• 2005–2007 examiner for the first state examination in law and for the university examination in law in Passau and Munich
• 2006–2008 mentor for the Max Weber program of the German National Academic Foundation at the University of Passau
• WS 2007/08 Lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne
• Since SS 2008 deputy chairman of the local branch Cologne of the DHV
• Since winter semester 2009/10 member of the scientific advisory board of the Association for the Promotion of German and International Science Law
• Since November 2010 member of the board of the study group for press law and press freedom eV
• 2011–2013 litigator of the Union-governed federal states in the judicial review procedure before the Federal Constitutional Court about the constitutionality of the ZDF State Treaty, which was initiated at the beginning of 2011 and in which the oral hearing took place in November 2013.

Memberships

• Association of German constitutional law teachers
• German University Association
• Study group for press law and press freedom eV
• Cologne Legal Society
• Görres Society for the Care of Science

Publications (selection)

• Dissertation: Application of federal law in accordance with state fundamental rights? For the control of federally determined acts of the states by the state constitutional courts of Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2001, studies and materials on constitutional jurisdiction, vol. 84
• Habilitation: On the media public of the third power. Legal aspects of media access to justice in the constitutional state of the Basic Law Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2005, Jus Publicum, vol. 138, p. 566
• Legislative scope for expanding newspaper publishers' access to broadcasting in Bavaria , Frankfurt am Main, Lang, 2006, Studies and materials on public law, vol. 28

Web links

• von Coelln on the website of the University of Cologne (accessed on May 26, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .
2. ^ Max Steinbeis: ZDF State Treaty Constitutional. Press release of the Saxon State Chancellery of July 7, 2011, accessed on November 8, 2013