Dirk Ehlers

Dirk Ehlers (born May 18, 1945 in Flensburg ) is a German legal scholar .

After graduating from high school in 1965 at the Katharineum in Lübeck , Ehlers studied law at the Universities of Kiel and Freiburg . He passed his first state examination in Schleswig in 1970 . He then completed postgraduate studies in social sciences at the University of Konstanz ; After his legal internship in Baden-Württemberg, he passed the second state examination in law in Stuttgart in 1975. In 1973 he had received his doctorate from the University of Konstanz ; In December 1981 he completed his habilitation at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1982 he was appointed to the University of Münster.

Until August 2013, Ehlers was a full professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and managing director of the Institute for Public Commercial Law there (previously the Institute for Commercial Administrative Law). He has turned down calls to the universities of Vienna, Munich and Freiburg. Today he is the chairman of the Center for Foreign Trade Law affiliated to the University of Münster, which regularly organizes foreign trade law days and export control days and has its own series of publications.

Ehlers had held numerous legal positions in the course of his professional career. He was Dean of the Faculty of Law in Münster (1994–1996) and a part-time judge at the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia. He has often worked as a visiting professor or lecturer abroad (e.g. in the USA, Russia, Japan, China, Taiwan and Thailand). Since 2009 he has been co-organizer and current consortium leader of the German-Southeast-Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance in Bangkok. In 2010 and 2011 he was chairman of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers . 2014, Chuo University Tokyo granted him the degree of Doctor honoris causa .

Scientifically, Ehlers is primarily concerned with national, European and international public business law (e.g. as co-author and co-editor of the three-volume textbook Ehlers / Fehling / Pünder, Special Administrative Law, 3rd edition 2012.) and general administrative law (Erichsen / Ehlers , General Administrative Law, 14th edition 2010), European law (Ehlers, European Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 4th edition 2014), procedural law (Ehlers / Schoch, legal protection in public law, 2009) and religious law (e.g. Commentary on Art. 140 GG in the commentary by Sachs, Basic Law Commentary by Sachs, 7th edition 2014). He should also be known to the students as a former co-editor of the legal education journal (JURA).

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 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dirk Ehlers in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .