Dirk Heckmann

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Dirk Heckmann (born September 15, 1960 in Remscheid ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

academic career

Heckmann studied law at the University of Trier from 1978 to 1983. He then worked as a research assistant at Hans Wieling's chair at the University of Trier. After the second state examination in 1986, he became a research assistant at the chair for public law at the University of Trier with Thomas Würtenberger . Heckmann followed the latter to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he continued his assistantship at the Institute for Public Law, Dept. of Constitutional Law.

After receiving the Carl von Rotteck Prize for his doctorate in 1991 by the law faculty of the University of Freiburg and his habilitation in 1995 by the same, he was offered a professorship at the University of Passau after he had worked in the 1995/96 winter semester represented a chair for public law at the University of Augsburg.

From the summer semester 1996 until September 30, 2019, Heckmann is a full professor at the University of Passau , where he succeeded Ferdinand O. Kopp , whose chair he was appointed to the chair for public law, security law and after being rejected from the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen in 2004 Reallocated Internet Law. On October 1, 2019, he moved to the newly established Chair for Law and Security of Digitization at the Technical University of Munich .

Since 2001 he has been a member of the legal, economic and social sciences committee at the ACQUIN accreditation agency . In 2003 the Bavarian State Parliament elected him as a part-time judge at the Bavarian Constitutional Court , he was re-elected in 2008, 2013 and 2018. Since 2005, Heckmann has headed the research center for legal issues relating to university and administrative modernization ReH..Mo, which was rededicated in 2011 to the research center for IT law and network policy For..Net. Since 2006 he has also been Deputy Head of the Institute for IT Security and Security Law . In 2006 he was appointed to the founding senate of the German Police University in Münster. In 2007 the internet lawyer became a member of the board and in 2014 chairman of the German Society for Law and Informatics . Since 2007 he has been a member of Working Group 9 ( E-Justice ) at the National IT Summit. At the beginning of 2009, Heckmann took over the management of the Center for IT Compliance and Trust at the Deutsche Telekom Institute for Connected Cities (TICC) at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. In 2015 he was appointed to the main jury of the German Computer Game Award . Since September 2016 he has been a member of the ethics committee on automated driving of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, and since September 2018 director at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation in Munich.

Heckmann is network policy advisor to the CSU . As an expert for the German Bundestag , he prepared an opinion on the so-called Access Difficulty Act in 2010 .

Main areas of activity

In his teaching, Heckmann represents public law with special attention to e-government , police and security law, internet law , legal informatics and data protection law .

Heckmann has been a member of the Federal Government's Data Ethics Commission since July 2018 .

Innovations in Legal Education

In addition to the events within the framework of the Virtual University of Bavaria, Heckmann also offers materials, discussions and other services on the online platform ClixLaw , which further developed the lecture website www.vorlesung-verwaltungsrecht.de, which was the first legal information platform to accompany lectures in the winter semester 2000/01 of its kind in Germany. With her, the Heckmann chair was able to place itself in the main field as a participant in the international media didactic competition MEDIDA-PRIX 2001. The project was called "Lim-bo" (teaching in mass subjects supervised online). He also maintains the VERiGO platform , a wiki-based information point on electronic administration law and a blog on e-justice and IT law (rehmoblog).

Publications (excerpt)

Monographic publications (excerpt)

  • Immediate execution of state monetary claims. A contribution to the justification of the citizen's obligation to perform in advance in the mirror of constitutional, procedural and substantive law. Duncker & Humblot, 1992 (dissertation)
  • Validity and loss of validity of legal norms. Elements of a theory of the termination of authoritative norms. Mohr Siebeck, 1997 ( habilitation thesis )
  • Police law in Baden-Württemberg. (together with Würtenberger and Riggert), CF Müller, 1st edition 1993, 7th edition 2017 (together with Würtenberger and Tannenberger)
  • Police and Security Law. In: Becker, Kempen, Manssen, Heckmann: Public Law in Bavaria. CH Beck, 1st edition 2000, 7th edition 2017
  • juris Practice Commentary on Internet Law. juris, 1st edition 2007, 4th edition 2014 (last print edition), 5th edition 2017 (online and e-book)

Other publications (excerpt)

Heckmann also comments on the provisions on enforcement in the administrative court order as well as some of the final and transitional provisions in the major commentary on the administrative court order published by Helge Sodan and Jan Ziekow (5th edition 2018). He is editor of the commemorative publication for his chair predecessor Ferdinand O. Kopp , which was published in 2007 by Boorberg Verlag under the title "Modernization of Justice and Administration".

Also to be emphasized are numerous articles on e-government as well as the judgment notes in the juris PraxisReport IT law published by him .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckmann - University of Passau. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ New chair at the interface between IT and law. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Dirk Heckmann re-elected as constitutional judge - University of Passau. Retrieved December 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ List of members of the ethics committee for automated driving. Retrieved September 30, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Home - BIDT. Retrieved October 28, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ Legal opinion on the Access Difficulty Act ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 290 kB)
  7. ↑ Data Ethics Commission. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs, July 18, 2018, accessed on September 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Heckmann, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid