Claus Dieter Classen

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Claus Dieter Classen (born May 13, 1960 in Hamburg ) is a German legal scholar and currently a professor at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald .

Life

Claus Dieter Classen, the son of the philologist Carl Joachim Classen (1928–2013), graduated from the Max Planck Gymnasium in Göttingen in 1977 . From 1978 to 1979 he studied law at the University of Würzburg , from 1979 to 1980 at the University of Tübingen , 1980/81 at the University of Aix-Marseille III in Marseille and from 1981 to 1983 again at the University of Tübingen. He passed his first state examination in 1983 in Tübingen. This was followed by military service until 1984. After that, Classen was a research assistant to Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum at the University of Tübingen between 1984 and 1986 . There he obtained his doctorate in law in 1987 . From 1986 to 1989 he did his legal preparatory service in the district of the Tübingen Regional Court before taking the second state examination in 1989 in Stuttgart . From 1986 to 1994 he was also a research assistant to Thomas Oppermann , also at the University of Tübingen. In 1993, he completed his habilitation in public law (including international and European law) from the law faculty of the University of Tübingen, which was followed by a position as a representative of a C3 professorship for public law at the law faculty of the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1994 he became professor (C3) for public law in the law department of the University of Trier , after having been a professor there; in the same year Classen was then a call for a professorship (C4) of Public Law, European and International Law at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Greifswald .

From 1996 to 2000 Classen was a member of the ethics committee of the State Medical Association at the University of Greifswald; 1999 to 2000 also vice dean of the law and political science faculty of the University of Greifswald and from 2000 to 2001 dean there.

From 2003 to 2007 Classen was Vice Rector of the University of Greifswald. On September 1, 2016, he was appointed judge at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Higher Administrative Court in the second main office. On March 7, 2017 he was elected by the state parliament as a member of the state constitutional court of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

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 .

Work (selection)

  • Remote sensing and international law: international law problems of remote sensing of the earth from space (=  Tübingen writings on international and European law . Volume 16 ). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-06322-8 (dissertation, 283 pages).
  • Academic freedom outside the university: on the significance of Article 5 Paragraph 3 of the Basic Law for non-university research and research funding (=  Tübingen jurisprudential treatises . Volume 77 ). Mohr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-16-146248-3 (Habil.-Schrift, 396 pages).
  • Religious freedom and state church law in the system of basic rights: on the special significance of the guarantees of religious and constitutional law in the light of the general doctrine of basic rights (=  Jus publicum . Volume 100 ). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-16-148129-1 (195 pages).
  • Religious law . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-16-149034-7 (273 pages).
  • Democratic legitimation in the open rule of law: to influence the principle of democracy through the rule of law and international openness . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-16-149870-1 (145 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University professor appointed judge at the Higher Administrative Court on the website of the University of Greifswald, accessed on September 30, 2016.
  2. ^ Dpa: New judges elected for the state constitutional court. In: Abendblatt.de . March 8, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .
personal data
SURNAME Classen, Claus Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg