Ulrike Müßig

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Ulrike Müßig (* July 8, 1968 in Würzburg as Ulrike Seif ) is a German legal scholar and legal historian and holder of the chair for civil law and German and European legal history at the University of Passau .

Life

Ulrike Müßig studied law at the Universities of Würzburg and Cambridge (GB) and as a guest at the Université Paris II, Panthéon-Assas in France. After her legal traineeship in 1993, she received a doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung at the Institute for Comparative Law at the University of Würzburg and at the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law , until she received her doctorate in German and English law in 1995 with the comparative law thesis The Best Sellers of Property Security . After completing the legal clerkship with the assessor exam in 1996In Würzburg, Brussels and Paris, Ulrike Müßig was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for German and Bavarian Legal History at the University of Würzburg from 1996 to 1999 .

In 2000 she completed her habilitation with a legal history thesis at the Law Faculty of the University of Würzburg in the fields of European and German legal history, civil law , comparative law and private international law . In 2000 Ulrike Müßig was appointed to the chair for civil law and German and European legal history at the University of Passau. A simultaneous offer of appointment from Bielefeld University was rejected . In 2003 she turned down an offer from the University of Bern .

Ulrike Müßig has been a corresponding member abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) since April 22, 2015 .

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Her academic work focuses on the European constitutional history from the 12th to the 21st century including the contemporary history of European integration, the history of supreme jurisdiction, Roman canonical inheritance law in medieval German legal records and the history of ideas of the 18th century . She has contributed to the concise dictionary on German legal history, the Encyclopedia of Modern Times and the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. Together with Horst Dreier and Michael Stolleis , she publishes the series foundations of jurisprudence at Mohr Siebeck and is on the International Board of the Journal of Constitutional History (Giornale di Storia Costituzionale) and on the advisory board of the journal Articles on the Legal History of Austria .

An essay by Müßig on Open Access publication obligations in the context of research funding programs in the JuristenZeitung contained plagiarism . The University of Passau has examined the accusation and finally given a legal assessment. The JuristenZeitung blocked access to the article in its electronic archive and published an apology from Müßig. In 2016, the management of the University of Passau and the Austrian Academy of Sciences expressed their disapproval with regard to the established violation of the rules of good scientific practice. The incident had no academic consequences and the disciplinary proceedings have now been concluded. The results were not published.

Honors

For her scientific achievements, Ulrike Müßig was awarded the Bavarian Habilitation Promotion Prize in 1996 , the Lower Franconian Memorial Year Foundation Prize in 1997 and the Heisenberg Prize of the DFG in 2000. In 2008 she was nominated for the Gerda Henkel Prize . In 2013, Müßig received an ERC Advanced Grant from the 7th Research Framework Program of the European Research Council worth 1.9 million euros for her research project on European constitutional history. Since 2014 she has been a corresponding member of the Andalusian National Academy of History and Law (Ilustre Sociedad Andaluza de Estudios Histórico-Jurídicos). In April 2015 she was elected to the historical-philosophical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Fonts (selection)

Publications were published until 2005 under the maiden name Seif , from 2006 under the married name Müßig :

  • Reconsidering Constitutional Formation I - National Sovereignty. Springer, Cham, 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-42405-7 .
  • European constitutional history. (Ed. together with Dietmar Willoweit), Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49825-6 .
  • The legal judge without the rule of law? A historical-comparative search for traces. de Gruyter Recht, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89949-404-4 .
  • The European Constitutional Discussion of the 18th Century. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-149796-4 .
  • Law and jurisdiction, the legal judge in a historical comparison from canon law to the European Convention on Human Rights, with special consideration of the legal development in Germany, England and France. Extended and improved 2nd edition, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-42-813016-0 .
  • El juez legal - Una comparación, desde el Derecho canónico hasta la Convención Europea de los Derechos Humanos, con especial énfasis en el desarollo del derecho en Alemania, Inglaterra y Francia. 1st edition, Editorial Dykinson en colaboración con el Instituto de Estudios Jurídicos Internacionales, Madrid 2014, ISBN 978-84-9031-981-9 .
  • "A knob as a door": Obligation to open access through research funding vs. Public freedom boundaries of digital science communication, JuristenZeitung 2015, pp. 221–232.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OeAW elects 40 new members , website of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, April 22, 2015, accessed on May 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ "A knob as a door": Obligation to open access through research funding vs. Public freedom boundaries of digital science communication, JuristenZeitung , 2015, pp. 221–232.
  3. ↑ Note, Ulrike Müßig, JuristenZeitung , 70 (19), October 2015, p. 936 [1]
  4. ^ Austrian Academy of Sciences: Statement by the Academy on scientific misconduct by a foreign member. April 2017 (accessed March 5, 2018).
  5. ↑ University of Passau Scientific misconduct at the University of Passau: Statement by the University Management November 2015 (accessed on March 21, 2018).
  6. ^ Passau legal scholar receives ERC Advanced Grant , University of Passau website, November 15, 2013, accessed on March 1, 2014.
  7. ↑ OeAW elects 40 new members , website of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, April 22, 2015, accessed on May 4, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Idle, Ulrike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muessig, Ulrike; Seif, Ulrike (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg