Florian Becker

Florian Becker (* 1971 ) is a German law scholar and professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Life

Becker studied law at the University of Bonn from 1990 . There he passed his first state examination in law in 1995. He then worked as a research assistant for Joachim Burmeister at his chair at the University of Cologne . Becker received his doctorate there in 1997. In the same year he obtained the title of Master of Laws at the University of Cambridge , for which this university awarded him the Clive Parry Prize (Overseas) for International Law. After returning to Germany, Becker passed his second state examination in 1999. He then worked as a research assistant for Christoph Engel at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. In 2004 Becker completed his habilitation at the University of Bonn and received the Venia legendi for the subjects of constitutional and administrative law, including comparative law and European law.

From 2004 to 2008 Becker was a professor at the Law School of the University of Aberdeen . Since 2008 he has held the chair for public law at the University of Kiel . In 2013 he was involved in founding the Institute for Public Commercial Law. He was also dean of the Kiel Faculty of Law from 2014 to 2016. Becker turned down a call to the University of Münster in 2013.

Works (selection)

Becker's research focuses in particular on fundamental rights and public commercial law, as well as comparative and international public law.

• The networking of the Landesbanken. An investigation into constitutional conditions and limits of capitalization and partial takeover of Landesbanken / Girozentralen as well as the establishment of transnational institutes . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-428-09224-6 (dissertation).
• with Joachim Burmeister: The merger of public banks as an act of administrative organization. Constitutional requirements for the transfer and evaluation of an institution under public law . CF Müller, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 978-3-8114-2141-7 .
• Cooperative and consensual structures in standard setting . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-16-148572-5 (habilitation thesis).
• with Sebastian Mock: Financial Market Stabilization Act (FMStG): Comment . Heymanns, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-452-27068-9 .
• with Mihail Danov and Paul Beaumont (Eds.): Cross-Border EU Competition Law Actions . Hart Publishing, Oxford / Portland 2013, ISBN 978-1-78225-160-6 .
• with Christoph Brüning (publisher): Textbook on Public Law in Schleswig-Holstein . CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-63882-4 .
• with Klaus Stern (publisher): Basic rights commentary - The basic rights of the Basic Law with their European references . 2nd Edition. Heymanns, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-452-28265-1 .
• with Juliane Hilf, Martin Nolte and Dirk Uwer (publisher): Gambling regulation. State Treaty on Gambling and Additional Laws, Commentary . Heymanns, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-452-28697-0 .

Web links

• Becker at his chair at the University of Kiel