Rainer Wahl

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Rainer Wahl (born July 4, 1941 in Heilbronn ) is a German legal scholar .

Wahl studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bonn . He received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1969 and completed his habilitation in Bielefeld in 1976 . Following a professorship in 1977/78 at the University of Bonn, he taught since 1978 at the University of Freiburg on the Institute for State and Administrative Law , Public Administration and Modern Constitutional History . In 1983/84 he was dean and from 1985 to 1987 prorector at the University of Freiburg.

Rainer Wahl is a member of the working group for environmental law . From 1993 to 1996 he was a member of the Senate Committee for Environmental Research of the German Research Foundation . In 1996 he founded the research center for German and international environmental law, of which he is spokesman. He retired after the 2006 summer semester . Johannes Masing was appointed to the chair as his successor .

In 1983 he represented the complainants in the lawsuit against the dissolution of the Bundestag through a vote of confidence.

His oldest doctoral student was Harry Siegmund .

In September 2019 he was one of about 100 constitutional law teachers who, with the open appeal for the right to vote, Downsized the Bundestag! turned to the German Bundestag .

Fonts (selection)

  • Constitutional state, Europeanization, internationalization. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2003.
  • Challenges and Answers: Public Law of the Last Five Decades. De Gruyter Recht, Berlin 2006.

literature

  • Ivo Appel (Ed.): Mensch, Staat, Umwelt. Rainer Wahl on his 65th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2008.
  • Ivo Appel (Ed.): Public Law in the Open State. Festschrift for Rainer Wahl on his 70th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011.
  • Christoph Schönberger : Rainer Wahl on his 70th birthday. In: JuristenZeitung 66 (2011), p. 683 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .
personal data
SURNAME Choice, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn