Christoph Gröpl

Christoph Gröpl (born January 3, 1966 in Erlangen ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

From 1986 to 1991 Gröpl studied law with additional training in economics at the Universities of Bayreuth , Geneva and Munich . After taking his first state examination, he completed his legal preparatory service in Regensburg, at the German University for Administrative Sciences in Speyer and at the London School of Economics and Political Science . Meanwhile, he was at Peter Lerche (University of Munich) with a dissertation on the Law of the German intelligence services doctorate . In 1987 he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Langobardia Munich to Bayreuth. Following the second state examination in law, Gröpl worked as a research assistant at the University of Würzburg in 1994/1995 and in 1996 switched to the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance as a consultant . As the winner of the Bavarian Habilitation Promotion Prize, he wrote his habilitation thesis on “Budget Law and Reform” under Udo Steiner , then a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court , in 1998/1999 . In 2000 the Law Faculty of the University of Regensburg awarded him the Venia legendi for the subjects " Constitutional and administrative law , in particular finance and tax law , as well as administrative theory ". After substituting professorships in Erlangen and Heidelberg , Gröpl was appointed university professor at Saarland University in 2003 and held the chair for constitutional and administrative law. In the summer semester of 2012, Gröpl spent a teaching and research stay as a visiting scholar at the School of Law at the University of Exeter (England). In 2013, the chair was dedicated to German and European finance and tax law. In the same year Gröpl turned down a call to the University of Trier.

Research priorities

Gröpl devotes himself to selected questions of constitutional and financial law (especially budget and tax law), Saarland state law and other areas of constitutional and administrative law.

Projects

• From 2003 to 2010, Gröpl was in charge of the media law department.
• In a joint project with the Saarland State Chancellery, the years 1947 to 1998 of the Saarland Official Journal were digitized; since 2007 they have been available free of charge on the Internet.
• Since 2010, Gröpl has been involved in the "key competencies for lawyers" certificate training at the Saarland Faculty of Law and Economics, since 2013 as its head. Through the certificate training, graduates acquire in-depth knowledge of the key competencies required in everyday legal work.
• As an agent for opposition factions in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Gröpl enforced the annulment of two unconstitutional budget laws by the constitutional court for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2011 and 2013.
• Since 2016 he has been the technical director of the distance learning master’s course "Tax Law for Business Practice" at the University of Saarland in cooperation with the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.

Publications (excerpt)

• The intelligence services in the regulations of the German security administration. Legitimation, organization and demarcation issues (= publications on public law. Vol. 646). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1993.
• Budget law and reform. Dogmatics and possibilities for the further development of budget management through flexibilization, decentralization, budgeting, economization and external financing (= Jus Publicum. Vol. 67). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001.
• Constitutional law I. State foundations, state organization. With an introduction to legal learning. Beck, Munich 2008; 7th edition 2015.
• Saarland state law. Study book [co-authors: Annette Guckelberger , Jürgen Wohlfarth], from it: Constitutional law, general administrative law, administrative procedural law, and media law. Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2nd edition 2012.
• Steps to Europeanise Budget Law. In: The State . Vol. 52 (2013), pp. 1-25.
• Commentaries on Articles 110 to 113 of the Basic Law (Budget Constitutional Law), in: Kahl / Waldhoff / Walter (ed.), Bonn Commentary on the Basic Law (first edition 2001–2003, second edition 2015).
• Commentary on § 8 EStG (income), in: Kirchhof / Söhn / Mellinghoff, Commentary on the Income Tax Act (2006 and 2015).
• Comments on Art. 89 and 90 GG (administration of federal waterways and federal trunk roads), in: Maunz / Dürig u. a., Commentary on the Basic Law (2007 and 2013).
• Commentaries on Art. 59a – 64, 98, 102–104 SVerf, in: Members of the Constitutional Court of the Saarland (ed.): Constitution of the Saarland : Commentary. Alma Mater, Saarbrücken 2009 ( online version ).
• Federal Budget Code / State Budget Code (BHO / LHO), State Budget Law: Comment. Beck, Munich 2011.
• Basic Law: Study Commentary [co-authors: Kay Windthorst and Christian von Coelln ], Beck, Munich, 2nd ed. 2015.

Editorships (excerpt)

• State and municipal law magazine for the states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland (LKRZ), Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, monthly. Frequency of publication, 2007–2015 (co-editors: Lars Brocker, Herbert Günther, Klaus-Ludwig Haus and others)
• Saarbrücker Schriften zur Rechtswissenschaft, series of publications by Alma Mater publishing house, Saarbrücken, for the publication of excellent legal dissertations at the Faculty of Law and Economics at Saarland University, since 2007 (co-editor: members of the Faculty of Law and Economics at Saarland University, Law Department) .
• Saarbrücker Writings on Public Law, series of publications by Alma Mater Verlag, Saarbrücken, on the publication of public law dissertations at the Faculty of Law and Economics at Saarland University, since 2009 (co-editors: Annette Guckelberger, Rudolf Wendt).
• Federal Budget Code / State Budget Code (BHO / LHO), State Budget Law, Commentary, Verlag CHBeck, Munich 2011.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Gröpl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the chair for constitutional and administrative law, German and European finance and tax law at the Saarland University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gröpl, Christoph , Gerhard Köbler's website , accessed on July 17, 2013.