Torsten Stein (legal scholar)

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Torsten Stein (born December 31, 1944 in Potsdam ) is a German legal scholar and from 1991 to 2012 held the chair for European and European public law at Saarland University and director of the Europa-Institut , Law Section of Saarland University.

Career

Torsten Stein did military service from 1964 to 1966. Today he is Colonel d. R. From 1966 to 1970 he studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin . After receiving his doctorate on "Administrative Assistance in Foreign Affairs" in 1974, he went to the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg as a speaker . He completed his habilitation in 1983 ("The extradition exception in political offenses: Normative limits, application in practice and attempt to reformulate") for German and foreign public law, international law and European law and was appointed professor at Heidelberg University in 1986, where he worked at the Max Planck Institute. From 1991 to 2012 he held the chair for European law and European public law at Saarland University and director of the Europa-Institut , law section.

Research areas

  • Institutional European law
  • Common foreign, security and defense policy of the European Union
  • Prohibition of violence, self-defense and peacekeeping in international law
  • International humanitarian law
  • International Criminal Court

Co-editorships

  • Journal for European Law Studies (ZEuS)
  • Writings of the Europa-Institut of Saarland University - Law
  • Saarbrücken studies on international law

Memberships

Stein was chairman and reporter of international committees of the International Law Association (ILA), is chairman of the German Association for International Law (German national group of the ILA) and honorary treasurer and member of the Executive Council of the ILA. He is a member of legal societies and managing director of the Association of Friends of Saarland University as well as chairman of Hermann and Dr. Charlotte Deutsch Foundation. He is also chairman of the Heidelberg Society for Foreign Public Law and International Law and was for many years a member of the board of trustees of the European Academy of Law Trier (ERA) and the academy council of the European Academy of Otzenhausen. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Academy for Security Policy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Administrative assistance in foreign affairs (= contributions to foreign public law and international law . Vol. 67). Springer, Berlin a. a. 1975, ISBN 3-540-07088-5 .
  • The extradition exception for political offenses. Normative limits, application in practice and attempt to reformulate (= contributions to foreign public law and international law . Vol. 82). Springer, Berlin a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-540-12132-3 .
  • (Ed.): The authority of law. Constitutional law, international law, European law. Lectures and contributions to discussions at the scientific colloquium on the occasion of Karl Doehring's 65th birthday on March 17, 1984 in Heidelberg (= Heidelberg Forum . Vol. 29). v. Decker, Heidelberg 1985, ISBN 3-8114-8384-6 .
  • with Jochen Abraham Frowein : Legal aspects of the participation of the Federal Republic of Germany in United Nations peacekeeping forces. Materials from the colloquium on August 17/18, 1989 (= contributions to foreign public law and international law . Vol. 101). Springer, Berlin a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-540-52928-4 .
  • with Knut Ipsen , Christian Raap , Armin A. Steinkamm (eds.): Defense law and peacekeeping: Festschrift for Klaus Dau on his 65th birthday . Luchterhand, Neuwied u. a. 1999, ISBN 3-472-03023-2 .
  • with Markus Rauber : Legal Limits of Combating Tobacco Consumption in the Multi-Level System (= publications of the Europa-Institut of Saarland University - jurisprudence . Vol. 81). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6231-9 .
  • with Christian von Buttlar : Völkerrecht (= Academia iuris ). 13th revised edition, Vahlen, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8006-3913-7 .

literature

  • Christian Calliess (ed.): External security in transition - new challenges to an old state task (= writings of the Europa-Institut of Saarland University - jurisprudence . Vol. 61). Scientific colloquium on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Prof. Dr. Torsten Stein, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2005, ISBN 3-8329-1642-3 .
  • Christian Calliess (ed.): Challenges to the state and the constitution. International Law - European Law - Human Rights. liber amicorum for Torsten Stein on his 70th birthday (= writings of the Europa-Institut of Saarland University - jurisprudence . Vol. 100). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1347-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Stein, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam