Meinhard Hilf

Meinhard Hilf (born December 11, 1938 in Eberswalde ) is a legal scholar and taught from 1982 to 2007 at the Universities of Bielefeld , Hamburg and at the Bucerius Law School . His research focuses on and has had a significant influence on the development of German constitutional law , European law and the law of the World Trade Organization .

Life

Meinhard Hilf studied law in Geneva , Munich and Hamburg and passed the first state examination in 1965 and the second in 1968 . From 1965 to 1972 he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg . In 1972, Hilf started work at Heidelberg University with a thesis on the subject of “The interpretation of multilingual contracts . A study on international law and the constitutional law of the Federal Republic of Germany ”.

In 1973 he was a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court , 1974–1976 and again 1980–1982 member of the legal service of the EC Commission in Brussels . 1977–1980 was assistant assistant at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg. The habilitation followed in 1981 at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on " The Organizational Structure of the European Communities ".

In 1982 he was appointed professor for public law , European and international law at Bielefeld University. In 1993, Hilf represented the federal government in the Maastricht trial before the Federal Constitutional Court. In 2000 he was special advisor to the Council of the European Union on the drafting of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights . From 1991 to 2004, Hilf held a professorship at the University of Hamburg and was director of the department for the law of the European Communities. In 2004 he was appointed to the Bucerius Law School. There he retired in 2007 .

Meinhard Hilf has written a large number of essays and monographs on German constitutional law, European law and international law. He is the editor of one of the most important commentaries on European law, which was established by Eberhard Grabitz . In 2005, together with Stefan Oeter, he published a compendium on WTO law, the second edition of which will appear in early 2010.

Web links

• Meinhard Hilf's website with a list of publications
• Literature by and about Meinhard Hilf in the catalog of the German National Library