Michael Sachs (legal scholar)

Michael Sachs

Michael Sachs (born June 12, 1951 in Duisburg ) is a German legal scholar .

school

Sachs attended the Catholic elementary school from 1957 to 1961 and the Humanist State Landfermann Gymnasium in Duisburg from 1961 to 1967 and 1968 to 1969 . In 1967/68 he was an exchange student at high schools in San Francisco and Chicago in the USA. On June 14, 1969, he received his secondary school leaving certificate.

Education

Sachs studied from 1969 in Cologne eight semesters of Law and put his first state law exam on December 11 1973rd On July 14, 1976, he received his doctorate at the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne under Klaus Stern with his dissertation on the subject of "The binding of the Federal Constitutional Court to its decisions". From February 1, 1976 to July 31, 1978 a legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne followed ; On July 31, 1978, he passed the second state examination in law before the State Judicial Examination Office in North Rhine-Westphalia.

job

On August 1, 1978, Sachs was appointed research assistant at the University of Cologne ; since April 1, 1980 he worked at the Institute for Public Law and Administrative Studies with Klaus Stern .

Sachs' Habilitation for heads of state and administrative law on 4 July 1985 at the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne. His habilitation thesis on the “Limits of the Ban on Discrimination” defends a rigid line on the limitation of the legal position conceived by Sachs as a right of defense under Article 3 Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Basic Law.

In the summer semester of 1986 a teaching position at the University of Kiel followed , in the winter semester of 1986/87 a substitute professor at the University of Saarland and in the summer semester of 1987 a professor at the University of Augsburg . There Sachs was appointed university professor for public law on July 2, 1987.

further activities

This was followed by positions at the University of Potsdam , the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and, from October 1, 2001, at the University of Cologne, where he held the chair for constitutional and administrative law until February 2020, as well as managing director with Bernhard Kempen and Christian von Coelln of the Institute for German and European Science Law.

Private life

Sachs is married and has two children. His son is the actor Moritz A. Sachs .

Fonts

• (Ed.): Basic Law. Comment. 8th edition. Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-70974-6 .
• Constitutional Law II - Fundamental Rights: 3rd edition. Springer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-50363-8 .

• with Paul Stelkens , Heinz Joachim Bonk : Administrative Procedure Act. Comment. 8th edition. Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-59711-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Sachs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Sachs on the website of the University of Cologne
• Institute for German and European Science Law