Kay Windthorst

Kay Windthorst (born March 2, 1961 in Heidelberg ) is a German law scholar and professor at the University of Bayreuth .

Life

After graduating from high school in Stuttgart in 1980, Windthorst, son of the manager Elmar Windthorst , initially studied economics at the University of Hohenheim , but broke off this course in 1981 and did his military service. He then started studying law at the University of Munich in the 1982 winter semester , which he completed in 1988 with the first state examination in law. After the subsequent legal clerkship in Bavaria and the second state examination in 1992, Windthorst initially worked as a lawyer for administrative law in Munich and Berlin until 1995. At the same time he worked from 1994 to 1995 as a research assistant at the chair for constitutional and administrative law at the University of Potsdam . In July 1997, Windthorst completed his doctorate at the University of Munich. iur. from. From 1996 to 2001 he worked as a research assistant at the chair for constitutional and administrative law and at the institute for legal questions in medicine at the University of Düsseldorf . In 2001 he was granted a habilitation grant from the DFG , so that in January 2002 he started the habilitation process at the University of Cologne . He graduated in 2008, with which he was awarded the Venia legendi for the subjects of constitutional law, administrative law, telecommunications law, European law, comparative law, legal theory and social law.

After a substitute for a chair at the University of Cologne, Windthorst accepted a call from the University of Bayreuth to the chair for public law, which he held from October 2009 to April 2011. In April 2011 he changed to the chair for public law, legal dogmatics and legal didactics at the University of Bayreuth, which he has held since then. Since July 26, 2011 he has also been the managing director of the law and economics research center for family businesses at the University of Bayreuth, and from 2011 to 2014 he was the dean of studies of the law department at the Bayreuth Faculty of Law and Economics. He is represented on both the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Family Business Foundation .

Works (selection)

Windthorst's research focuses primarily on German administrative law and German and international business law. Another focus is on researching the economic and legal principles of family businesses.

• Constitutional Law I - Basics . CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-406-38536-0 .
• The universal service in the field of telecommunications - a public law consideration including American law . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-428-09300-7 (dissertation).
• Integrated care in statutory health insurance . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 978-3-7890-7754-8 .
• The administrative court interim legal protection . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-16-149828-2 (habilitation thesis).
• with Christoph Gröpl and Christian von Coelln : Basic Law: GG - study commentary . 3. Edition. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-71258-6 .
• State liability law . 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich, ISBN 978-3-406-55192-5 (will appear in 2018).

Web links

• Windthorst at his chair at the University of Bayreuth
• Windthorst at the Family Business Foundation
• Author profile at Beck-Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board | Family Business Foundation. Retrieved January 23, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Board of Trustees of the Family Business Foundation | Family Business Foundation. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .