Hermann Pünder (lawyer)

Hermann Pünder (born January 26, 1966 in Cologne ) is a German legal scholar . He holds a chair for public law , administrative sciences and comparative law at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.

family

Hermann Pünder is the son of Tilman Pünder , the former city ​​director of Münster , and a grandson of the politician Hermann Pünder , whose sister was the economist Marianne Pünder and his brother the lawyer Werner Pünder . Through his grandparents he is also related to Reinhard Pünder , bishop of the Brazilian diocese of Coroatá , as well as to Erich Klausener and Leo Statz .

Life

Pünder studied law and political science at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the University of Geneva and the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . He was a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk Episcopal Study Fund and the German Academic Exchange Service . He passed the first state examination in law in 1992 in Freiburg. From 1992 to 1993 he studied at the University of Iowa , where he worked as a research assistant with John C. Reitz and completed his studies with a Master of Laws .

1995 Pünder was at Münster University with a thesis on "Executive standard-setting in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany" at Dieter Birk doctorate . In 1996 he passed the second state examination in law at the Cologne Higher Regional Court. Pünder then worked as a research assistant to Dirk Ehlers at the Institute for Public Commercial Law at the University of Münster.

In 1999 Hermann Pünder was appointed head of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Institut, the scientific research center of the district council of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was also honorary managing director of the Center for Foreign Trade Law. From 1999 to 2002 he was a “knowledgeable citizen” in the Economic and Employment Promotion Committee of the Münster City Council .

In June 2002 , Pünder completed his habilitation in Münster with the thesis “Budget law in transition”. He was awarded the venia legendi for public law, European law, administrative science and comparative law. In July 2002, he received a call to the chair of Public Law, Administrative Sciences and Law at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. Before the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers, Pünder gave a lecture in 2012 on the subject of "Suffrage and parliamentary law as conditions for the success of representative democracy". From 2014 to 2017 he was spokesman for the “Administration” working group.

At the Bucerius Law School, Hermann Pünder represents the entire breadth of public law, including international and European law, in teaching. His research focuses on German, foreign, European and international public commercial law (especially public procurement law ), state modernization (reform of representative democracy, finance and debt management, citizen participation in administrative proceedings), general administrative law and police and regulatory law. In 2018, Pünder and his employees were recognized by the Claussen Simon Foundation in the “Our Universities” competition for their teaching videos.

Teaching and research stays at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2005, 2006) as well as at Oxford University (2007, 2009), the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires (2009), Stanford University (2012) and the Istanbul Bilgi University (2014, 2016) and Waseda University in Tokyo (2018).

Hermann Pünder represented the Thuringian state government before the Thuringian Constitutional Court in a municipal constitutional complaint against the reform of the water supply and wastewater disposal (2008), the German Bundestag before the Federal Constitutional Court in the proceedings on the limits of the federal government's information procurement when granting financial aid to the states ( 2010) and the Hamburg citizenship before the Hamburg Constitutional Court with regard to the referendum on the school reform (2011).

Hermann Pünder is a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers , the International Academy of Comparative Law (associated), the Society for Comparative Law , the Societas Iuris Publici Europaei , the German Section of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences , the Görres Society , the Freiherr-vom -Stein Society , the State Judicial Examination Office at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg and the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Bucerius Law School. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Center for Foreign Trade Law in Münster and the board of trustees of the Freiherr vom Stein Institute at the University of Münster. Pünder takes part in the selection process of the Cusanuswerk and is a liaison professor of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . Since 1986 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Ripuaria Freiburg im Breisgau in the Cartell Association .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Executive standard-setting in the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany. Duncker & Humblot, 1996, ISBN 3-428-08479-9 .
• Budget law in transition. Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-555-01289-4 .

As editor

• with Hans-Günter Henneke, Christian Waldhoff: Law of municipal finances. Taxes, budget, financial equalization, legal status: January 2006. Beck Juristischer Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-406-54263-8 .
• with Christian Waldhoff: Debates in German Public Law. Hart Publishing, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-1-84946-472-7 .
• with Martin Schellenberg: Procurement law hand commentary. Nomos, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-2681-6 .
• with Dirk Ehlers: General Administrative Law, De Gruyter, 15th edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-036835-2 .
• with Dirk Ehlers, Michael Fehling: Special administrative law. Volume 1–3, CF Müller, 2012/2013, ISBN 978-3-8114-9680-4 .

Commentaries and essays

• Public debt , in: Isensee / Kirchhof, Handbuch des Staatsrechts , Vol. 5, 3rd edition 2007, pp. 1323-1393.
• Democratic Legitimation of Delegated Legislation - A Comparative View on the American, British and German Law , International and Comparative Law Quarterly 58 (2009), pp. 353–378.
• The contribution of the administration to the consolidation of public finances , Die Verwaltung 45 (2012), pp. 1–42.
• Procurement law , in: Ehlers / Fehling / Pünder, special administrative law, vol. 1, 2012, pp. 489–569.
• Suffrage and parliamentary law as conditions for the success of representative democracy, in: Publications of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers, Vol. 71, De Gruyter, 2013, pp. 191–267.
• German Administrative Procedure in a Comparative Perspective - Observations on the Path to a Transnational “Ius Commune Proceduralis” in Administrative Law , in: International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2013, pp. 940–961.
• Administrative proceedings , in: Ehlers / Pünder (Ed.), General Administrative Law , 15th edition 2015, pp. 405–567.

literature

• Felicitas v. Aretin: July 20 - a marginal topic: Hermann Pünder and the CDU co-founder Hermann Pünder , in: dies., Die Enkel des July 20, 1944, Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2004, pp. 321–328.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Pünder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website from Hermann Pünder