Christoph Möllers

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Christoph Möllers (born February 7, 1969 in Bochum ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

Möllers began studying law and philosophy at the University of Tübingen in 1989 ; from 1991 he studied law and comparative literature at the University of Munich . He passed his state exams in Munich in 1994 and in Berlin in 1997 . He obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the University of Chicago in 1995 . After his legal clerkship, he worked as a research assistant at Hartmut Bauer's TU Dresden from July 1997 . In 1999 he was at the University of Munich with its working state as an argument at Udo Di Fabio and Peter Lerche to Dr. jur. PhD . In 2000, Christoph Möllers became a research assistant at the Institute for German and European Administrative Law at the University of Heidelberg with Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann . In 2002 he was an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center at New York University .

In 2004 he completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the division of powers and received the Venia Legendi for public law , international law, European law and legal philosophy. After a substitute professor at the University of Hamburg in the summer of 2004, Möllers was appointed professor for public law (C3) at the University of Münster in November 2004 ; from October 2005 to September 2009 he held the chair for public law, in particular constitutional law, at the University of Göttingen . In 2006 and 2007 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

In September 2009, Christoph Möllers changed to the chair of public law and legal philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin, succeeding Bernhard Schlink .

Möllers has been co-editor of the specialist journal Der Staat since 2006 .

Act

Moller laid in May 2007 on behalf of the BDI a study that the proposed model of privatization of Deutsche Bahn criticized as unconstitutional and accounting legally untenable.

Möllers was the representative of the federal government in the proceedings on data retention before the Federal Constitutional Court and actively defended data retention in the public discussion afterwards. He is u. a. also authorized representative of the federal government in proceedings against the BKA law . and, together with Christian Waldhoff, the Federal Council's authorized representative in the NPD ban proceedings. He classifies himself as politically “liberal”. Möllers was initially a supporter of the Greens and is now a member of the SPD .

Möllers is one of the initiators of the Charter of Digital Fundamental Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

Awards

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • State as an argument. Dissertation University of Munich 1999. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46860-8 .
  • Division of powers. Legitimation and dogmatics in national and international comparative law. Habilitation thesis University of Heidelberg 2004. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-16-148670-6 .
  • Constituent power - constitution - constitutionalization. Concepts of the constitution in Europe. In: Armin von Bogdandy , Jürgen Bast (Ed.): European Constitutional Law. Theoretical and dogmatic basic features. 1st edition 2003. 2nd edition Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-73809-1 .
  • The missing Leviathan. Legal state theory in the Federal Republic. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-12545-8 .
  • Democracy - Impositions and Promises. Wagenbach, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8031-2580-4 .
  • The Basic Law - history and content. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-56270-9 .
  • together with Matthias Jestaedt , Oliver Lepsius and Christoph Schönberger : The court with no boundaries: A critical assessment after sixty years of the Federal Constitutional Court. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-12638-7 .
  • The Three Branches: A Comparative Model of Separation of Powers. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-960211-7 .
  • The possibility of norms: Via a practice beyond morality and causality. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-58611-2 .

literature

  • David Thiele (pseudonym): Leviathan's legacy. Comments on a new font by Christoph Möllers . In: myops . tape 3 , no. 5 , 2009, p. 34-40 .
  • Heinrich Wefing: A portrait of the scientist: the legal scholar Christoph Möllers . In: The time . No. 29/2011 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Christoph Möllers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Together with Carsten Schäfer ; see. u. a. Gammelin, Cerstin: “ Finale Weiche ”, in: Die Zeit from May 3, 2007.
  3. ↑ Warning of a dam breach. taz.de, accessed on December 15, 2009 .
  4. ↑ a b Data retention: Freedom in the network is not a question of technology
  5. ↑ Network security: data storage as a service pistol
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Heinrich Wefing: Portrait of a scientist: the legal scholar Christoph Möllers . In: The time . No. 29/2011 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Schader Prize 2019 for Christoph Möllers. In: Information Service Science. Schader Foundation, December 21, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  9. ↑ To this: Reinhard Müller: Anonymous Science: Freedom - Where did you disappear to? In: FAZ.NET . January 29, 2009, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed November 3, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Möllers, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum