Martin Borowski

Martin Borowski (born May 12, 1966 in Meldorf ) is a German lawyer and university professor .

Life

After graduating from high school in Preetz in 1985 , Borowski studied law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel from the 1985 winter semester , where he passed the first state examination in 1991 . From April 1992 until the end of September 1993 Borowski worked as a research assistant with Robert Alexy at Kiel University. On April 18, 1997 Borowski received his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of fundamental rights as principles . This work received the Faculty Prize of the Law Faculty of Kiel University for 1997. In November of the same year Borowski passed the second state examination in law. From April 1998 to mid-2006 he worked again as a research assistant at Robert Alexy's chair at Kiel University. During this time, on January 28, 2004, Borowski completed his habilitation at the law faculty of the University of Kiel with the habilitation thesis The Freedom of Belief and Conscience of the Basic Law . The topic of his habilitation lecture was: The nullity action according to Art. 230 para. 4 EGV . The following month he received the license to teach public law, European law and legal philosophy from the Senate of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

Between 2005 and 2012 Borowski stayed, among other things, as part of a research fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation, primarily in the United States of America at the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis , Missouri, and in Great Britain at the School of Law at the University of Westminster , London and the Birmingham Law School at the University of Birmingham . In the winter semester of 2012, Borowski accepted a call from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität zu Heidelberg and has held the chair for public law, constitutional theory and legal philosophy, succeeding Winfried Brugger, who died in 2010 . From October 2014 to September 2016 he was the dean of studies at the law faculty there.

Works (selection)

• Fundamental rights as principles . 3. Edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018 (dissertation).
• The freedom of belief and conscience of the Basic Law . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-16-148565-3 (habilitation thesis).

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Borowski in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV on the homepage of Heidelberg University