Walter Frenz

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Walter Frenz (born March 30, 1965 in Schwäbisch Hall ) is a German law scholar and university professor .

Career

Walter Frenz passed his Abitur in 1984 and studied law at the universities of Würzburg , Caen and Munich from 1985 to 1989 . He passed his first state examination in law in 1989. From 1989 to 1992 he completed his legal traineeship in the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court as well as in Speyer and Heidelberg. During this time he was at the University of Munich in 1991 with the dissertation The state liability in the mortgage lending facts to Dr. iur. doctorate and laid a year later on his second state exam. From 1994 to 1996 he was a research assistant at the University of Münster and from 1994 to 1997 professor for German law ( public law ) at the University of Nijmegen . In 1997 he followed a call to RWTH Aachen . There he heads the teaching and research area for mining , environmental and European law . The teaching and research area is organized within the Faculty of Georesources and Materials Technology and is part of the specialist group for raw materials and disposal technology. In addition to courses on general environmental law, European law and public law, students from various engineering sciences also attend lectures on raw materials and energy law as well as events on licensing issues. Alexander Schink and Hans-Jürgen Müggenborg, among others, also work as lecturers in the teaching and research area. With the latter, Frenz wrote a legal textbook for budding engineers. On February 22, 2018, he received a certificate from the then rector of RWTH Aachen, Ernst Schmachtenberg, for his 25th anniversary with the company, who thanked him for his work at RWTH Aachen.

He is co-editor of the journals Wirtschaft und Verwaltung, European economic and tax law, environmental and planning law and since 2015 editor of nature and law together with Michael Kotulla. He is also a member of the editorial board of the magazine Abfallrecht . He is the author of numerous comments on current decisions, which are regularly printed in the German Administrative Gazette (DVBl) . In addition to publications in specialist magazines, he is also regularly asked about environmental and mining law issues as an expert in daily newspapers or political magazines for public broadcasters. In 2016 Frenz was the country reporter for the FIDE Congress.

Research priorities

His main research areas are energy law, public commercial law and competition law. Current articles and legal comments on these topics include, in particular, digitization and Industry 4.0, for example in relation to procurement law or the energy industry. With regard to the latter subject area, he comments on EU state aid law for the six-volume loose-leaf work on energy law published by Wolfgang Danner and Christian Theobald.

He also publishes numerous articles on intensely discussed questions, for example on the subject of species protection and wind power in the journal Natur und Recht (NuR) , fracking, the energy transition , the reform of mining law, terrorism and human dignity as well as Industry 4.0. Frenz takes a legal view of current issues such as the migration crisis or drought aid in the event of drought.

Another main area of ​​work is the numerous comments by Frenz on environmental law in various publishers. So to the EEG, WHG, BNatSchG (Erich Schmidt Verlag), emissions trading law, BBodSchG (Beck Verlag) and waste law (publishing group Hüthig Jehle Rehm). A commentary on nuclear law published by him has been announced for publication by Nomos-Verlag for October 2018. He is also the author of a six-volume manual on European law (Springer Verlag), which is now gradually appearing in a second edition. The volume on antitrust law was also published in English at the beginning of 2016 under the title Handbook of EU Competition Law (see publications). His exam book on public law was published in the 7th edition by Vahlen-Verlag and is a valued standard work on exam preparation among students.

Colloquia

Together with Axel Preuße, Frenz is the scientific director of the Aachen Colloquium on Contaminated Sites and Mining Damage (ABK) and the Colloquium on Business and Environmental Law (KBU). The colloquia are jointly organized by the teaching and research area of ​​Mining, Environmental and European Law (BUR) and the Institute for Mine Surveying, Mining Damage and Geophysics (IfM) as institutions of RWTH Aachen University and by the Society of Metallurgists and Miners (GDMB). The speakers are mostly lawyers, engineers and representatives from authorities. The GDMB publishing house always publishes a conference volume with contributions from the speakers for the colloquia. Furthermore, conference reports appear regularly in legal journals.

Plagiarism Controversy

In 2011 there was a plagiarism controversy in the teaching and research area of ​​Prof. Frenz. Around 40 pages of an employee's doctoral thesis matched an already published manual by Frenz, although it was unclear who was plagiarizing whom. The matter became known through an article in the Spiegel by Hermann Horstkotte , who continued to report on it.

At the end of June 2016, the press release “Suspected plagiarism against Prof. Frenz invalidated” was published on an official RWTH Aachen website, in which it was claimed that it was not Frenz who plagiarized, but his doctoral student. There was also to read that the University of Bonn had "carried out a review of all dissertations supervised by Prof. Frenz" and, according to the Bonn dean Rainer Hüttemann, "found no complaints regarding compliance with the rules of good scientific practice". However, Rainer Hüttemann subsequently made it clear that this was not true: by no means all of the dissertations supervised by Frenz had been checked, but only a selection and, in particular, not the dissertation in question. Thereupon the law faculty in Bonn ended the cooperation with Frenz.

It turned out that Frenz himself had launched this press release and published it on this page without the knowledge of the university. The rector of RWTH Aachen University, Ernst Schmachtenberg , then had the press release deleted. Subsequently, it became known that Frenz had tried with the falsified press release to induce various publishers to change or delete reports about him. However, these did not respond to his request.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Procurement law EU and national. Springer, Berlin 2018.
  • Public law. A presentation for exam preparation, arranged according to objectives . Heymann, Cologne 2001; 7th edition: Vahlen, Munich 2017.
  • Emissions trading law: Commentary on TEHG and ZuV 2020 . Springer, Berlin 2005; 3rd edition 2012.
  • European law. Springer, 2nd edition 2016.
  • Corporate responsibility in mining. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003.
  • Business commitments. Mohr Siebeck, Heidelberg 2001.
  • Mining Law and Sustainable Development. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001.
  • European environmental law. CH Beck, Munich 1997.
  • The polluter pays principle in public law, on the distribution of individual and state responsibility, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997.

European Law Manual

  • European fundamental freedoms, Vol. 1, Springer, Berlin 2004; 2nd edition 2012.
  • European Antitrust Law, Vol. 2, Springer, Berlin 2006; 2nd edition 2015.
  • State aid and procurement law, Vol. 3, Springer Berlin 2007.
  • European Fundamental Rights, Vol. 4, Springer, Berlin 2009.
  • Effects and legal protection, Vol. 5, Springer, Berlin 2010.

Editorships

  • Frenz: Nuclear law. Atomic Act and Atomic Phase-Out Acts . Nomos, Baden-Baden i. E.
  • Frenz / Müggenborg / Cosack / Schomerus: EEG. Renewable Energy Act. Comment . Schmidt, Berlin 2010; 5th edition 2018.
  • Berendes / Frenz / Müggenborg: WHG. Water Resources Act. Comment. Schmidt, Berlin 2011; 2nd edition 2017.
  • Frenz / Müggenborg: BNatSchG. Federal Nature Conservation Act. Comment. Schmidt, Berlin 2011; 2nd edition 2016.
  • Frenz / Müggenborg: Law for engineers. Civil law, public law, European law, criminal law, environmental law . Springer, Berlin 2008; 2nd edition 2016.
  • Frenz / Lülsdorf: EnEG, EnEV. Energy Saving Act, Energy Saving Ordinance. Comment. CH Beck, Munich 2016.
  • Frenz: EEG II - Appendices and Regulations - Comment. Schmidt, Berlin 2016.

Series of publications by the GDMB

  • Frenz / Preuße: Geothermal energy and nuclear repository search according to the Site Selection Act , GDMB series of publications, issue 144. GDMB-Medienverlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2018.
  • Frenz / Preuße: Rise in mine water and water protection , GDMB series of publications, issue 142. GDMB-Medienverlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2018.
  • Frenz / Preuße: Challenges for open- cast lignite mining , GDMB series of publications, issue 139. GDMB-Medienverlag. Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2016.
  • Frenz: Eternal Burdens in Coal Mining, GDMB series of publications, Issue 138. GDMB-Medienverlag. Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Institute for Mining, Environmental and European Law at RWTH Aachen University
  2. ↑ Section for Raw Materials and Disposal Technology : The Institutes of the FRE - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Section for Raw Materials and Disposal Technology - German. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Teaching and Research Area Mining, Environmental and European Law: Courses - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Teaching and Research Area Mining, Environmental and European Law - German. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Teaching and Research Area Mining, Environmental and European Law: Team - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Teaching and Research Area Mining, Environmental and European Law - German. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
  5. ^ Walter Frenz / Hans-Jürgen Müggenborg: Law for engineers. Civil law, public law, European law, criminal law, environmental law . 2nd Edition. Springer, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-50475-8 .
  6. ↑ Teaching and Research Area Mountain, Environmental and European Law: 25th anniversary of the service of Professor Frenz - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Teaching and Research Area Mountain, Environmental and European Law - German. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
  7. ↑ AbfallR - Journal of the Law of waste management. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Fracking: The creeping danger for the groundwater - WELT. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  9. ^ The first: Video "REPORT MAINZ asks Walter Frenz" - REPORT MAINZ. August 23, 2016, accessed on September 6, 2017 (German).
  10. ↑ Teaching and Research Area Mountain, Environmental and European Law: Research - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Teaching and Research Area Mountain, Environmental and European Law - German. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
  11. ^ Walter Frenz: EU and national procurement law . Springer, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-56193-5 .
  12. ^ Walter Frenz: Energy Industry 4.0 in the focus of data and competition law . In: RdE 2018 . S. 237-241 .
  13. ^ Wolfgang Danner / Christian Theobald: Energy law. Energy Industry Act with ordinances, EU directives, legal materials, laws and ordinances on energy saving and environmental protection as well as other legal regulations relevant to the energy industry . 97th edition. CH Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-36464-0 .
  14. ↑ z. B. Walter Frenz : Fracking discretion, UPR 2015, 88-92.
  15. ↑ Walter Frenz: State unterstuetze Reservekapazitaeten as aid? RdE 2016, 1-7.
  16. ↑ z. B. Walter Frenz : Paradigm shift in the EEG 2014: from the state to the market economy, RdE 2014, 465-470.
  17. ↑ Walter Frenz : Terrorist attack on human dignity and data protection, EWS 2016, 1 (issue 1/2016); Walter Frenz : Terrorism and Human Dignity, DÖV 2015, 305-309.
  18. ↑ z. B. Walter Frenz: Industry 4.0 and data protection in fair competition, EuZW 2016, 121-122. 
  19. ^ Walter Frenz : EU law against refugee misery - classification and conclusions from Lampedusa, ZAR 2014, 1-5.
  20. ↑ Walter Frenz: Drought aid for agriculture . In: AUR . S. 322-324 .
  21. ↑ Atomic Law | Frenz | Nomos publishing company. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
  22. ^ Frenz - Public Law, 6th Edition - Law Student Council of the University of Cologne . In: Law faculty of the University of Cologne . ( fachschaft.de [accessed October 5, 2018]).
  23. ^ GDMB events - GDMB. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Most recently Walter Frenz / Axel Preuße (eds.): Geothermal energy and nuclear repository search according to the Site Selection Act . GDMB Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-940276-85-8 .
  25. ↑ spiegel.de August 7, 2011: Professor versus PhD student - Who is stealing from whom?
  26. ↑ general-anzeiger-bonn.de August 31, 2016: Walter Frenz and the University of Bonn - A plagiarism drama in three acts
  27. ↑ Aachener Zeitung of September 13, 2016, p. 9: The continuation of an old plagiarism affair
personal data
SURNAME Frenz, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Hall