Matthias Klatt

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Matthias Klatt (* 1973 ) is a German  legal scholar  and professor at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz .

Life

In 1993 Klatt began studying law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He completed this in 1999 with the first state examination. He then did his doctorate at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel under Robert Alexy and obtained his doctorate in early 2003 . From 2002 he completed his legal clerkship ; In 2004 he passed the second state examination in law. This was followed by a position as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court from 2004 to 2005 and a research stay at the New College of Oxford University from 2005 to 2008. From 2007 to 2012 he was a member of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina .

In 2008 Klatt took over a junior professorship in public law at the University of Hamburg . Here he completed his habilitation in 2013 with Stefan Oeter on the question of the extent to which assignments of competencies can be understood as principles and weighed against each other in cases of conflict. In 2015 he was appointed full professor at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. There he holds the chair for legal philosophy , legal sociology and legal policy .

Klatt lives with his family in Graz .

research

Klatt's research and teaching focuses on fundamental questions of constitutional law and legal methodology . In the first-mentioned area he develops Robert Alexy's principle theory in his publications and examines to what extent it is possible to weigh up competencies, combinations of fundamental rights or despite uncertain factors.

He already devoted his dissertation to methodology, in which he defended the wording limit as an objective criterion for delimiting interpretation and legal training against skeptical arguments. Furthermore, in recent years he has once again focused on this area by dealing with questions relating to elementary structures of law. Among other things, he assumes the dual nature of law, which, like Dworkin and Alexy, he sees in the fact that the law not only spans a positive order (real dimension), but at the same time necessarily makes a claim to moral correctness (ideal dimension) .

Klatt's work is influenced by Robert Alexy and Ralf Dreier , among others .

Awards

  • European Award for Legal Theory (2002) for his dissertation on the theory of word boundaries
  • Prize of the Doctores Iuris in Kiel (2003) for his dissertation on the theory of word boundaries
  • Young Scholar Prize (2003) of the International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR)
  • Hamburg Teaching Award (2010) from the Hamburg Science Authority for outstanding and innovative teaching achievements at Hamburg universities

Publications

Matthias Klatt's scientific work comprises over 60 publications, many of which have been translated into English and Spanish, among others. A complete list of his publications can be found on the website of his chair at the University of Graz. His most important works include:

  • Theory of the wording limit: Semantic normativity in legal argumentation (dissertation), Baden-Baden 2004, ISBN 978-3-8329-0539-2 .
  • Scope in Public Law: On the Theory of Balancing Principles, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150564-5 .
  • The Constitutional Structure of Proportionality, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-1996-6246-3 .
  • The practical concordance of competencies: Developed on the basis of the conflicts of jurisdiction in the European protection of fundamental rights (habilitation thesis), Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-1615-3017-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c University of Graz: CV of Matthias Klatt. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .
  2. ^ University of Graz: Klatt, Matthias, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Thorsten Kingreen: Book Review . In: Legal journal 70 . 2015, p. 302 .
  4. ^ Jan-Reinard Sieckmann: Book review: Klatt, Matthias. Theory of the wording limit . In: Argumentation 19 . 2005, p. 509-518 .
  5. ^ Matthias Klatt: Integrative jurisprudence. Methodological and epistemological implications of the dual nature of law . In: The State 54 . 2015, p. 469-499 .
  6. ^ Winner of the EALT Award. legaltheory.eu, accessed June 27, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Azur-Online: Excellent work! Awards to lawyers. Retrieved June 27, 2017 .
  8. ^ University of Hamburg: Prize winners: Hamburger Lehrpreis. Retrieved June 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Klatt, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1973