Simon Kempny

Simon Kempny at Bielefeld University in September 2019

Simon Kempny (* 1982 in Leverkusen ) is a German law scholar and professor at Bielefeld University . His main research interests are public law, finance and tax law and constitutional history.

Career

After graduating from high school in 2002, Kempny studied law (including subject-specific foreign language training in English) at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and passed the first state examination in 2007 in Hamm.

From 2003 to 2011 he worked initially as a student and later as a research assistant for Dieter Birk at the Institute for Tax Law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. Under his supervision, he was awarded his dissertation in 2011 on the subject of “State Financing according to the Paulskirche constitution. A study of the financial and tax constitutional law of the constitution of the German Empire of March 28, 1849 ”doctorate.

From 2007 Kempny took the postgraduate course “European Business Law” at the University of the West of England (Bristol) and graduated in 2008 with the degree “Master of Laws”.

As part of his legal clerkship at the Münster District Court, which ended in 2012 with the second state examination , Kempny completed positions at the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Constitutional Court .

From 2012 to 2018 he worked initially as a research assistant, later as an academic advisor and senior councilor a. Currently at the Institute for Constitutional Law at the University of Cologne with Wolfram Höfling , who supervised Kempny's habilitation.

In 2014, Kempny worked together with Ekkehart Reimer as an expert at the 70th German Legal Conference in the Public Law department on the subject of “Task-based financial distribution between the federal, state and local authorities”.

After completing his habilitation in 2016 at the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne with a paper on the subject of “Administrative Control. In order to systematize the means to ensure administrative rationality with special consideration of the courts and audit offices ”- he received the venia legendi for public law, finance and tax law and constitutional history - Kempny took over a professorship for public law, finance and tax law at the University of Hamburg .

In the 2017/18 winter semester he accepted an appointment at Bielefeld University, where he has been a full professor of public law and tax law since February 2018.

engagement

Kempny is a founding member of the Young Research Group on Sustainability, which was launched in 2015 at the University of Cologne. At his instigation, the Ostwestfälisch-Lippische Steering Committee was founded at Bielefeld University in 2018. He is also a board member of the Institute for Family Businesses Ostwestfalen-Lippe (iFUn). Kempny is a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers , the Association for Constitutional History and the German Tax Law Society .

Awards

For his dissertation, Kempny received the Harry Westermann Prize 2011 from the Universitätsgesellschaft Münster e. V.

In 2015 he was awarded the Hans Kelsen Prize for Young Scientists from the University of Cologne.

Selected Works

• The state financing according to the Paulskirchenverfassungs , Mohr Siebeck 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150814-1 .
• The equality clauses. Attempt of an overarching dogmatic description of their facts and their legal consequences , Mohr Siebeck 2012, ISBN 978-3-16-152230-7 . (with Philipp Reimer)
• Administrative control. To systematize the means to ensure administrative rationality with special consideration of the courts and the audit offices , Mohr Siebeck 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-154945-8 .
• Equality Law Doctrine Today. Contributions and results of the equality working discussion from April 3 to 5, 2016 in the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung , Cologne, Mohr Siebeck 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-155491-9 . (ed. with Philipp Reimer)

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Simon Kempny, LL.M. - Chair homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Winner of the Harry Westermann Prize. Retrieved September 5, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Awarding of the Future Prizes 2015. Accessed on September 5, 2019 .