Emanuel V. Towfigh

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Emanuel Vahid Towfigh (born December 15, 1978 in Essen ) is a German legal scholar and professor of public law and legal theory . He is the son of an Iranian immigrant and a German mother, is married and has two children. Since March 2018 he has been dean of the law faculty of the EBS University of Economics and Law , the EBS Law School in Wiesbaden. He holds the Chair of Public Law, Empirical Legal Research and Legal Economics at the Law School and Professor of Legal Economics at the EBS Business School.

Career

Towfigh studied law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster from 1997 to 2002 . During his studies supported by the German National Academic Foundation in 1999/2000, a stay abroad supported by the Krupp Foundation took him to Nanjing , where he studied law and the Chinese language at Nanjing University and Nanjing Normal University (南京 师范大学) continued. After the first state examination in law, he became a research associate with Janbernd Oebbecke at the Municipal Science Institute of the University of Münster, where he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD. The work was funded by the German National Academic Foundation and was awarded the 2005 dissertation prize from the University of Münster. He completed his legal clerkship at Münster Regional Court in 2007 with the second state examination in law.

From 2007 to 2016 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn as a Senior Research Fellow under Christoph Engel , where he explored the fields of (behavioral) law & economics and empirical legal and social research. During this time he also did research stays in the USA: In 2011/12 he was a Global Fellow and Hauser Research Scholar at the NYU School of Law , in 2012/13 he taught as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. In December 2014 he completed his habilitation at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, where he was awarded the Venia legendi for public law and legal theory. His habilitation thesis was awarded the 2015 Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists from the University Society of Münster . This was followed by three substitute professorships at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (WS 2014/15), at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (SoSe 2015) and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (WS 2015/16). He is still associated with the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods as a Research Affiliate.

From 2011 to 2016 he was a member of the Junge Akademie at the Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , and in 2014/15 he was also the spokesman for the Presidium. Emanuel V. Towfigh is a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers .

research

His research interests lie in the inter- and intra-disciplinary governance -Research that his interests on state and constitutional law , to democracy and democratic theory , the constitutional law on religion , party law , municipal law and European law and the company law combines and the law of public enterprises. He works dogmatic, comparative law and with economic , especially empirical methods.

further activities

Towfigh has been a member of the Shareholders' Committee of Freudenberg & Co. KG and the Supervisory Board of Freudenberg SE since 2008 . He is also the managing director of Treuhand Weinheim Rechtsanwalts- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH. From 2014 to 2016 Towfigh was managing partner of Latest Thinking GmbH, a start-up in the field of science communication.

Towfigh has been Editor since 2011 and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the German Law Journal since 2016 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The party paradox. A contribution to determining the relationship between democracy and parties, Ius Publicum series, Vol. 244, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015 (plus Habil., University of Münster, December 2014) ISBN 978-3-16-153697-7
  • Economic Methods for Lawyers, Edward Elgar International Academic Publisher, Cheltenham 2015 (together with Niels Petersen, Markus Englerth, Sebastian J. Goerg, Stefan Magen, Alexander Morell and Klaus Ulrich Schmolke)
  • The legal constitution of religious communities: An investigation using the example of the Baha'i, Ius Ecclesiasticum series, Vol. 80, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006 (out of print, 2nd edition in preparation) (plus dissertation, University of Münster, July 2005) ISBN 978- 3-16-148847-4
  • Do direct-democratic procedures lead to higher acceptance than political representation? (together with Sebastian Goerg, Andreas Glöckner, Philip Leifeld, Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Sophie Bade, Carlos Kurschilgen), Public Choice, Vol. 167 (2016), Issue 1-2, pp. 47–65.
  • Gender and origin effects in the grading of state legal examinations (together with Christian Traxler, Andreas Glöckner), Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Rechtswissenschaft (ZDRW) 2018, issue 2, p. 115 (available online at https://www.nomos-elibrary.de /10.5771/2196-7261-2018-2-115/gender-and-herkunftseffekte-bei-der-gradung-juristischer-staatspruefungen- vintage-5-2018-heft-2?page=1 )
  • Complexity and clarity of norms - or: Laws are made for lawyers, Der Staat 48 (2009), Heft 1, pp. 29–73.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the person: Ready for the privilege check. The new EBS dean would like responsible lawyers, in: FAZ Rhein-Main v. April 10, 2018, p. 32
  2. ↑ https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=7727 (last accessed on January 27, 2017)
  3. ↑ http://www.coll.mpg.de/team/page/emanuel_towfigh (last accessed on January 27, 2017)
  4. ↑ https://www.diejungeakademie.de/lösungen/details/jamembers/show/member/144/ (last accessed on January 27, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Towfigh, Emanuel V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Towfigh, Emanuel Vahid (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and professor of public law and legal theory
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH eat