Volker Neumann (legal scholar)

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Volker Neumann (* 13. April 1947 in Pethau in Zittau) is a German national and social law teacher .

Life

After graduating from the Bunsen-Gymnasium in Heidelberg , he studied law in Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg, where he passed the first state examination in 1971 . He completed his traineeship in the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court district, which included a six-month elective position at the Franco-German Chamber of Commerce in Paris , in 1975 with the second state examination in law .

From 1976 to 1980 he worked as a director of studies at the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst . In 1979 he received his doctorate from the University of Giessen with a dissertation on the state theory of Carl Schmitt , supervised by Helmut Ridder . After accepting a professorship for law at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt am Main , he mainly taught social law until 1992. During this time he worked on a post- doctoral thesis , supervised by Michael Stolleis , on the position of free welfare in the welfare state; the topic is an interface between social law and constitutional law including state church law . The habilitation at the University of Frankfurt am Main was successfully completed in 1991. In 1992 he was appointed University Professor for Public Law and Social Law at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1995 he was appointed to the Faculty of Law at the University of Rostock , where he taught until he accepted a chair for public law, social law and state theory at the Humboldt University in 2003. He has been retired since 2012.

His main research interests include the interfaces between social law and constitutional law, in particular the right to provide social benefits and guarantee the subsistence level, basic rights, the principle of democracy and the history of German constitutional law in the 19th and 20th centuries. Together with Dieter Giese, he was the editor of the 1988 series of publications entitled “Contributions to the Law of Social Services and Institutions” (RsDE), from 1996 to 1999 chairman of the arbitration board according to Section 76 SGB XI of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and from 1997 a member of the main committee for four years of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare. He is a member of the German Social Law Association and the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers. His book "Carl Schmitt als Jurist", published in 2015, was included in the reading recommendation "Legal Books of the Year". He is one of the constitutional law teachers who signed the appeal to “Make the Bundestag smaller”.

Fonts (selection)

  • The state in civil war. Continuity and change in the concept of the state in Carl Schmitt's political theory . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1980, ISBN 3-593-32667-1 (dissertation).
  • Endangering freedom in the cooperative welfare state. Legal bases and legal forms of financing the voluntary welfare service . Heymann, Cologne / Berlin / Bonn / Munich 1992, ISBN 3-452-22350-7 (habilitation thesis).
  • with Dörte Nielandt and Albrecht Philipp: Provision of social benefits according to public procurement law? (= Publications on German and European social law ; Volume 5). Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2004, ISBN 3-8329-0896-X .
  • Carl Schmitt as a lawyer . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 3-16-153772-6 .
  • Popular will. The democratic principle in constitutional law from Vormärz to today . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen (to be published).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Zimmermann, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 43 (2016), pp. 3142–3146.
  2. ↑ https://welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article200600266/Staatsrechtler-schreiben-offenen-Brief-Verkleinert-den-Bundestag.html.
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Pethau