Henning Tappe

Henning Tappe (* 1975 in Münster ) is a German law scholar and professor at the University of Trier .

Life

Tappe studied law at the University of Münster , where he passed his first state examination in law in 2000. He then worked as a research assistant at Dieter Birk's chair in Münster . At the same time, Tappe completed his legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal , which he completed in 2004 with the second state examination. In 2008 he became a Dr. iur. PhD. Four years later he also completed his habilitation with a thesis on the establishment of tax laws and received the venia legendi for the subjects of public law, finance and tax law.

In 2013, Tappe became a full professor for public law at the Institute for Finance and Tax Law at the University of Osnabrück . In 2014 he moved to the chair for public law, German and international finance and tax law at the University of Trier, which he has held since then.

Works

Tappe's main research interests are tax law, especially its constitutional and international aspects, and financial law. Here, in turn, he focuses primarily on budget law, national debt law and the law of financial equalization. For example, he comments on large parts of the specialist commentary on the federal budget regulation published by Christoph Gröpl .

• The budget law as a time law. On the importance of time constraints for budgetary law and national debt law . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-428-12807-5 (dissertation).
• The establishment of tax laws - normative discretion in tax law between legality and freedom of design . Münster 2012 (habilitation thesis).
• with Rainer Wernsmann : Public Finance Law . CF Müller, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8114-9376-6 .
• with Dieter Birk and Marc Desens : Examination course in tax law - a case and repetition book . 4th edition. CF Müller, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8114-4404-1 .
• with Dieter Birk and Marc Desens: Tax Law . 21st edition. CF Müller, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8114-5621-1 .

Web links

• Tapping at his chair at the University of Trier
• Author profile at Beck-Verlag