Thomas von Danwitz

Thomas von Danwitz (born May 2, 1962 in Bedburg / Erft ) is a German legal scholar and has been a judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union since 2006 .

Life

After graduating from high school, von Danwitz studied law, political science and modern history at the universities of Bonn and Geneva from 1981 to 1986 . In December 1986 he passed the first and in January 1992 the second state examination.

After obtaining his doctorate in 1988, he studied from 1989 to 1990 at the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in Paris with practical training at the Préfet de la Haute-Marne , at the Conseil d'Etat , Paris and in the cabinet of the French judge at the Court of Justice of the EC in Luxemburg. In 1990 he obtained the Diplôme International d'Administration Publique.

In 1996 , von Danwitz completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Bonn , where he had worked as a research assistant since 1992. In the same year he followed a call to the Ruhr University Bochum to the chair for public law and European law. At the same time he worked there as director of the Institute for German and European Environmental Law. From 1998 to 2001 von Danwitz was also the managing director of the University Institute for Mining and Energy Law. In the 2001/02 academic year he held the post of Dean of the Faculty of Law.

In 2002, von Danwitz turned down an offer at the LMU Munich and in 2003 he accepted a chair for public law and European law at the Institute for Media and Communication Law at the University of Cologne . In 2006 he changed to the chair for public law , European law, economic constitutional and economic administrative law and became director of the Institute for Public Law and Administrative Doctrine . Von Danwitz has been on leave of absence from his duties at the University of Cologne since October 7, 2006. From 2008 to 2012, he was one of the program coordinator for the German-French graduate program law Cologne / Paris I worked.

In 2000, Von Danwitz was visiting professor for international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University / Medford , MA, USA. From 2001 to 2006 he was visiting professor at the Université François Rabelais in Tours and from 2005 to 2006 at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) . In 2005, von Danwitz completed a teaching and research stay at the University of California at Berkeley .

On October 7, 2006, von Danwitz was appointed judge at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, where he was President of the 8th Chamber from October 2008 to October 2009. He has been President of the 5th Chamber of the Court of Justice since October 11, 2012.

He was honored with the National Order of Merit of France in 2004 for his special services to Franco-German relations, and in 2010 he was awarded the academic degree of doctor honoris causa from the Université François Rabelais de Tours .

He is married and has a son and a daughter.

Fonts

• The freedom of design of the legislator - on the control density of regulatory decisions , Duncker & Humblot publishing house, publications on public law, Volume 554, Berlin 1989, 227 pp., ISBN 978-3428065738 (dissertation).

• Administrative system and European integration , Verlag JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), series JuS Publicum, Volume 17, Tübingen 1996, 560 pages, (habilitation thesis) ISBN 978-3-16-146629-8 .

• European administrative law , encyclopedia of law and political science, Springer-Verlag Berlin 2008, 720 pp. ISBN 978-3-540-79877-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas von Danwitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• European Court of Justice Presentation of the members
• Report of the Financial Times Deutschland on the appointment of Danwitz. ( Memento of March 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )