Christoph Schönberger

Christoph Schönberger (* 1966 in Saarlouis ) is a German lawyer . He is Professor of Public Law , European Law , Political Science and Constitutional History at the University of Konstanz .

Life

After graduating from high school , Schönberger completed his military service . He then studied law and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1987 to 1992 . From 1993 to 1999 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Public Law ( Bernhard Schlink ) at the Humboldt University in Berlin . There he became in 1996 with the work The Parliament in the Institution State. Doctorate on the theory of parliamentary representation in constitutional law in the German Empire (1871–1918) . From 1999 to 2001 Schönberger worked as a lawyer , from 2001 to 2005 as a research assistant at the Institute for Public Law ( Rainer Wahl ) at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . There he completed his habilitation in 2005 with the thesis: Union Citizen. Europe's federal citizenship in a comparative perspective.

Since 2006 he has held the chair for public law, European law, comparative political science and constitutional history at the University of Konstanz. From October 2017 to 2018 he was also dean of the Politics-Law-Economics section at the University of Konstanz , which brings together the three departments of Politics and Public Administration, Law and Economics.

Schönberger is a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers , at whose meeting in Münster in 2011 he was a reporter on the subject of “Higher judges' finding and interpreting court decisions”. From 2014 to 2018 Schönberger was chairman of the Association for Constitutional History . 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 .

Schönberger has been married to the constitutional lawyer Sophie Schönberger since 2016 .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The parliament in the institution state. On the theory of parliamentary representation in the doctrine of constitutional law of the German Empire (1871–1918). Klostermann , Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-465-02920-8 .
• Union citizen. Europe's federal citizenship in a comparative perspective. Mohr Siebeck , Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-16-148837-7 .
• with Matthias Jestaedt , Oliver Lepsius , Christoph Möllers : The dish without borders. A critical assessment after sixty years of the Federal Constitutional Court. Suhrkamp , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-12638-7 .
• The "German Approach". German constitutional law in a scientific comparison. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-154205-3 .

Editorships

• with Ivo Appel , Georg Hermes , Rainer Wahl : Public Law in the Open State. Festschrift for Rainer Wahl on his 70th birthday. Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-428-13382-X .
• with Susanne Baer , Oliver Lepsius, Christian Waldhoff and Christian Walter : Yearbook of Contemporary Public Law (JöR) , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, ISSN 0075-2517.

Web links

• Homepage of Christoph Schönberger's chair at the University of Konstanz
• Page from Christoph Schönberger on the research platform of the University of Konstanz
• Christoph Schönberger's blog
• About the roots of the citizens of the Reich and the thin ice under our legal system - Schönberger in an interview with Henry Bernhard 2020 (audio, 36 min)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the website of the University of Konstanz, accessed on April 13, 2017.
2. ↑ Directory of members on the website of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers. V., accessed on April 28, 2017.
3. ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .