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.

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).

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.

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