Thomas Mann (lawyer)

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Thomas Mann (born February 12, 1963 in Oberhausen ) is a German lawyer and university professor .

Life

After graduating from the Novalis Gymnasium in 1982 and doing basic military service in 1982/83, Thomas Mann studied law at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1984 onwards . In April 1989 he graduated with distinction . He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Mining and Energy Law at the Ruhr University. At the same time he received a teaching position for environmental law at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1991 he was awarded a Dr. iur. ( summa cum laude ) doctorate. For his dissertation he received the Bochum University Prize for the best legal dissertation in 1991 . This was immediately followed by his legal clerkship including a six-month election at the Federal Constitutional Court ( Paul Kirchhof Department ), which he also completed with distinction in December 1993.

Mann then worked until 1997 as a research assistant at the chair for public law ( Peter Tettinger ) at the Ruhr University. He then worked from 1999 to 2001 as an academic advisor at the Institute for Public Law and Administrative Studies at the University of Cologne . In between, in 1998/99, he received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG).

He was also a lecturer for heads of state and administrative law at the administrative and economic Academies (VWA) in Wuppertal (until 1997), Dortmund (from 1998) and the Faculty of Economics at the Ruhr University (2001).

In the meantime, he was working on his habilitation thesis ( The public company. For the further development of the range of legal forms for public companies ). In January 2001 he completed his habilitation and received the venia legendi for “Constitutional and Administrative Law”.

In June 2001 he was appointed university professor ( C3 ) for "Economic Law (Public Commercial Law )" at the Faculty of Economics at the Ruhr University in Bochum. In April 2002 he accepted the chair for public law, in particular administrative law, at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . He declined offers to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (2007) and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2013).

His research focus in administrative law lies in economic administration , environmental and energy law , municipal and administrative procedural law as well as the law of the liberal professions . In addition, in constitutional law on the legislative process , state constitutional law and constitutional jurisdiction .

In the academic self-administration he worked from 2006 to 2008 as finance dean of the law faculty of the Georg-August-Universität .

From 2003 to 2013 Mann was a judge in the second main office at the Lower Saxony Higher Administrative Court in Lüneburg. Since 2009, Mann has been a full member of the cross-sectional research area of ​​social sciences at the Energy Research Center Lower Saxony (EFZN) in Goslar. Since 2013, Mann has also been chairman of the scientific working group on professional law at the German Scientific Institute for Tax Consultants (DWS) in Berlin.

Publications (selection)

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Social Sciences. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  2. Professional Law Working Group | dws-institut.de. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .