Michael Kotulla

Michael Kotulla (born June 19, 1960 in Hanover ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

Kotulla left secondary school in 1976 and trained as a car mechanic until 1979 . He then attended a vocational school in 1979/1980 and a vocational high school from 1980 to 1983. This was followed by basic military service in the Bundeswehr from 1983 to 1984 .

After high school, he studied 1984-1989 Law and 1985-1993 partially parallel Historical Sciences at the University of Marburg . He passed his first state examination in law in 1989; He completed his history studies in 1993 as a Magister Artium (M.A.). To the Dr. jur. He received his doctorate in Marburg in 1991 ; In 1993 he also passed his second state examination in law. In 1999 he completed his habilitation at the University of Lüneburg . In the same year, Kotulla was appointed to the newly established "Chair for Public Law , in particular Environmental Law " from Bielefeld University. Since April 10, 2002, Kotulla has been director of the Institute for Environmental Law, and since January 2009 a member of the University Council of Trier University . Kotulla was Dean of the Law Faculty at Bielefeld University from 2010 to 2012 . Already 2009-2010 and again 2012-2013 he held the office of Vice-Dean .

In addition to environmental law, Kotulla's research focuses on German constitutional history from 1806.

He is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

• The scope of the fundamental rights of the revised Prussian constitution of January 31, 1850. Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1992 (also Diss., Univ. Marburg 1991).
• Legal instruments for groundwater protection. A systematic analysis of EC, federal and state law. Berlin [u. a.] 1999 (also habilitation thesis groundwater protection as a legal problem , Lüneburg 1998).
• The constitutional work of Prussia (1848–1918). A collection of sources with a historical introduction. Heidelberg 2003.
• German constitutional law 1806–1918. A collection of documents and introductions . So far three volumes:
  • Vol. 1: Germany as a whole, Anhalt states and Baden. Berlin 2005.
  • Vol. 2: Bavaria and Berg. Berlin 2007.
  • Vol. 3: Braunschweig, Bremen, Alsace-Lorraine and Frankfurt a. M. Berlin 2008.
  • Vol. 4: Bremen and Alsace-Lorraine (forthcoming).
• German constitutional history. From the Old Reich to Weimar (1495–1934). Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-48705-0 .
• Environmental Law and Policy (Environmental Sciences). Series of publications by the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Process Engineering at the BTU Cottbus. Heidelberg 1998.
• Environmental protection officer. 2001.
• Water Resources Act. 2003.
• Wastewater Tax Act. Comment (since 2005).
• Current changes in the Water Resources Act. 2006.
• Environmental law. 5th edition, Stuttgart 2010.
• Federal Immission Control Act. Comment (loose-leaf).

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Kotulla in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Kotulla's website (Bielefeld University) at jura.uni-bielefeld.de