Thomas Giegerich

Thomas Giegerich (born March  15, 1959 in Wiesbaden ) is a German legal scholar . He is professor for European law , international law and public law at Saarland University and co-director of the Europa-Institut Saarbrücken .

biography

Thomas Giegerich studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1978 to 1984 . From 1984 to 1985 he completed a year of study at the University of Virginia on a Fulbright Scholarship , where he earned an LL.M. degree . During his subsequent legal internship in Mainz, he also worked as an assistant at Eckart Klein 's international and European law chair . In the 1987 summer semester, he studied as a trainee lawyer at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer .

After the second legal state exam he moved to the 1989 Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and a year later to the also in Heidelberg -based Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law . In 1991 he was at the University of Mainz with a thesis on private effect of fundamental rights in the United States doctorate . Until 1993 he was a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court in Judge Paul Kirchhof's department . From 1993 to 2001 he worked again at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, where he worked on his habilitation thesis on European constitutional law and its relationship to the German constitution under the supervision of Helmut Steinberger . In 2001 he completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg . From 1996 to 2002 he was the representative of the scientific staff of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society .

After taking over a professorship at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in the 2001/2002 winter semester , he became professor for public law with a focus on European and international law at the University of Bremen in the 2002/03 winter semester . In the 2006 summer semester he switched to a professorship for public law with a focus on international law and European law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , where he also became co-director of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law . He was co-editor of the German Yearbook of International Law and representative of the Kiel Faculty of Law for the Erasmus program and for questions of internationalization. In 2007 he spent a research semester at the Lauterpacht Center for International Law at the University of Cambridge . In 2011/12 he taught international law as a visiting professor at the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh . As a co-opted board member, he organized the 72nd annual meeting of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers in October 2012 in Kiel . Since the winter semester 2012/13 he has held the chair for European law, international law and public law at the Saarland University and at the same time co-director of the Europa-Institut Saarbrücken , law section. There he publishes the journal for European law studies and two series of publications. In 2016 he was a visiting fellow in the Law Department of the European University Institute in Fiesole near Florence.

Thomas Giegerich regularly gives lectures and lectures at foreign universities (France, Italy, Japan, Russia, Turkey, USA, United Kingdom and People's Republic of China). From 2008 to 2014 he worked as an independent expert on the independence and impartiality of the judiciary for the European Commission as part of the accession negotiations with Turkey .

From 2013 to 2016 Thomas Giegerich held a Jean Monnet Chair for European Law and European Integration. He is currently coordinating the DAAD- funded “South East European-EU Cluster of Excellence in European and International Law” (2015–2018). In 2017 he was again awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, Anti-Discrimination, Human Rights and Diversity. In 2017 he worked for the Federal Republic of Germany in the Ilnseher v. Germany (No. 10211/12 and 27505/14) before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice for Human Rights .

Research areas

Thomas Giegerich's research focuses on EU law (in particular the relationship between European and national constitutional law, protection of fundamental rights, external action by the EU), international law (protection of human rights, international treaty law and peaceful settlement of disputes) and comparative constitutional studies. In teaching, he is primarily responsible for training in international and European law, including references to German law. He runs the Jean-Monnet-Saar blog.

Fonts (selection)

As an author

• Private effect of fundamental rights in the USA: the State Action Doctrine of the US Supreme Court and the civil rights legislation of the federal government (= contributions to foreign public law and international law. Vol. 104). Springer, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-540-55483-1 (revised dissertation, University of Mainz, 1991).
• European constitution and German constitution in the transnational constitutionalization process: mutual reception, constitutional evolution and federal interdependence. Springer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-540-00361-4 (habilitation thesis, University of Heidelberg, 2001).

As editor

• with Rüdiger Wolfrum : Immigration law - national and international: State law, European and international law. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-810-03181-X .
• The EU accession of Cyprus: Key to the political and legal solution of an "insoluble" ethnic conflict? Proceedings of the international and interdisciplinary conference held in Bremen on 14th and 15th May 2004. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1798-5 .
• with Andreas Zimmermann : Economic, social and cultural rights in the global age (= publications by the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. Vol. 170). ' Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-428-12882-6 .
• A wiser century? Judicial dispute settlement, disarmament and the laws of war 100 years after the Second Hague Peace Conference (= publications of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. Vol. 173). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-428-13040-5 .
• with Alexander Proelß : Preservation of the ecological balance through international and European law (= publications of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. Vol. 174). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13293-5 .
• with Alexander Proelß: Trouble Spots in the Focus of International Law (= publications by the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. Vol. 176). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13420-5 .
• The "open constitutional state" of the Basic Law after 60 years: the claim and reality of a great achievement (= publications by the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. Vol. 177). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13418-2 .
• International economic and financial law in times of crisis (= publications by the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. Vol. 179). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-13679-7 .
• Challenges and perspectives of the EU (= publications of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. Vol. 181). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-13936-1 .
• With Oskar Josef Gstrein and Sebastian Zeitzmann: The EU Between “an Ever Closer Union” and Inalienable Policy Domains of Member States , Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8452-5132-5 .
• With Kerstin Odendahl: Spaces in International and European Law, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-428-14591-1 .
• With Marc Bungenberg and Torsten Stein: Asylum and Migration in Europe - Legal Challenges and Perspectives , Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-3111-4 .
• With Desirée C. Schmitt and Sebastian Zeitzmann: Flexibility in the EU and Beyond - How Much Differentiation Can European Integration Bear ?, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8487-3436-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Giegerich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Giegerich on the website of Saarland University