Ralf Poscher
Ralf Poscher (* 1962 ) is a German legal scholar , constitutional historian , legal sociologist and legal philosopher .
Life and accomplishments
Poscher studied law from 1984 to 1990 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon and the London School of Economics and Political Science . After the first state examination in law in 1990, he worked as a research assistant for Bernhard Schlink in Bonn until 1992 . Poscher then completed the legal preparatory service at the Higher Regional Court ( Berlin ). After the second state examination in 1992, Poscher returned to Schlink, who had meanwhile moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin . Poscher received his doctorate there in 1999 with a dissertation on police law security. The treatise was awarded the Humboldt Prize. Until his habilitation with a paper on basic rights as defense rights , Poscher continued to work as a research assistant at Schlink. In 2002 the Humboldt University granted Poscher the license to teach in the subjects of public law , constitutional history and legal philosophy. From 2003 to 2008 he was professor at the chair for public law, legal sociology and legal philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Before the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers, Poscher gave a lecture in 2007 on constitutional law before the challenges of globalization . In the same year he was a research professor at the Faculty of Law at Osaka University in Japan , and in 2007/2008 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , USA.
In 2008 he was offered a professorship for constitutional and administrative law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg .
In 2018 he was elected dean of the law faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
Since May 1, 2019, he has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research into Crime, Security and Law (formerly the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law ) in Freiburg, where he heads the public law department he recently founded.
Works
Monographs
- Security. A dogmatic reconstruction. Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-09869-2 (dissertation).
- Fundamental rights as defensive rights. Reflexive regulation of legally ordered freedom. Mohr Siebeck , Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-16-147867-3 (habilitation).
Treatises
- Truth and right. The Truth Questions of Law in the Light of Deflationary Truth Theory. In: Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy (ARSP). Vol. 89 (2003), pp. 200-215.
- Symposium Spinoza's Law: Spinoza and the Paradox of Toleration. In: Cardozo Law Review. Vol. 25, H. 2 (December 2003), pp. 715-728.
- "Human dignity is inviolable". In: Juristentung (JZ). 2004, pp. 756-762.
- Functional order of the Basic Law. In: Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem , Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann , Andreas Vosskuhle (eds.): Basics of administrative law. Volume I: Methods, standards, tasks, organization. CH Beck , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-53912-2 , pp. 493-532.
- Human dignity in a state of emergency. In: Petra Bahr , Hans Michael Heinig (ed.): Human dignity in the secular constitutional order: legal and theological perspectives. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-16-149021-5 , pp. 215-231.
- Constitutional law facing the challenges of globalization. In: The performance of the science of public law (= publications of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers . Vol. 67). De Gruyter , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89949-437-2 , pp. 160-200.
Lexicon contributions
- Freedom. In: Werner Heun , Martin Honecker , Martin Morlok , Joachim Wieland (eds.): Evangelisches Staatslexikon. Kohlhammer , Stuttgart 2006, pp. 634-642
- Fundamental rights. In: Werner Heun, Martin Honecker, Martin Morlok, Joachim Wieland (eds.): Evangelisches Staatslexikon. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, pp. 910-922
Web links
- Literature by and about Ralf Poscher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ralf Poscher on the website of the Max Planck Institute for Research into Crime, Security and Law
- Ralf Poscher on the Princeton University website
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Poscher, Ralf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |