Yew Riedel

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Eibe Riedel (born January 26, 1943 in Zwittau ) is a German professor of public law , best known in the field of international law . Until his retirement on January 31, 2008, he taught at the University of Mannheim , where he held the chair for German and Foreign Public Law, International Law and European Law .

Life

After attending King's College School in Wimbledon, Riedel studied law and theology at the University of London from 1963 , where he completed a Bachelor of Laws and an additional theological exam in 1967 . In that year he began studying at Christian-Albrechts-Universität , which he completed in 1971 with the first state examination.

In 1974 he received his doctorate with the thesis “Control of Administration in the English Legal System” , for which he received the State Prize of Schleswig-Holstein in 1975 . In the same year, he passed the second state examination in law in Hamburg .

In 1983 Riedel completed his habilitation with the Venia legendi for public law. The subject of his habilitation thesis was the “Theory of Human Rights Standards. Function, mode of operation and justification of economic and social human rights with exemplary representation of the rights to property and work in different legal systems ” .

From 1983 he was professor for public law and international law at the University of Mainz , and from 1986 he was appointed to the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1993 he was appointed to the University of Mannheim, where he remained until his retirement in 2008.

additional

Since 1993 Riedel has been a member of the board of the German Society for Comparative Law, head of the specialist group on comparative public law and since 1996 a member of the German UNESCO Commission. From 1997 until today he has been a member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations in Geneva, where he has also been teaching at the University of Geneva for some time .

Riedel is considered an expert in international law and has contributed to numerous commentaries, textbooks and essays on this topic.

Honors

Publications

  • Expert opinion on the effect of the international convention on the rights of people with disabilities and its optional protocol on the German school system , provided to the state working group "Living Together" North Rhine-Westphalia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lag-bw.de ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (39 kB, April 15, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Riedel, yew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, professor of public law, international law
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwittau