Walter Leisner

Walter Leisner (born November 11, 1929 in Munich ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

After graduating from the humanistic Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich, she was accepted into the Maximilianeum Foundation . From 1949 to 1958 Walter Leisner studied at the universities of Munich, Paris and Rome. He received his doctorate from them in law, economics and philosophy. After completing his legal clerkship , he completed his habilitation in public law at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in 1960 .

From 1961 to 1998 Walter Leisner was full professor for constitutional, administrative and international law in the law faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . He turned down calls to the law faculties of the Universities of Göttingen, Cologne, Berlin (FU) and Augsburg.

From 1966 to 1969 Walter Leisner was a member of the planning staff in the Federal Chancellery . From 1970 he continuously advised the Federal Government, the Bavarian State Government as well as private individuals, especially companies, on legal issues relating to constitutional and administrative law, in particular public commercial law.

Between 1975 and 2013 he worked - with short interruptions - as a lecturer at the Munich School of Politics and at the LUISS ( Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali ) in Rome. From 1974 to 2001 he was Scientific Director of the Economic Adolf Weber Foundation in Munich. He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

Walter Leisner is a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers .

He is married and has two children.

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Leisner published a large number of papers on constitutional and administrative law, general political theory and legal history:

Until 1999 cf. the listing of 65 independent writings as well as 199 articles in magazines and compilations, in Josef Isensee (Ed.), Freiheit und Eigen, Festschrift für Walter Leisner, 1999, pp. 1040-1055.

From 2000 onwards, numerous other individual entries and up to 2017 a total of 17 monographs were published, including in particular:

• The people, real or fictional sovereign? Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-428-11831-1 .
• Napoleon's state thought on St. Helena . Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-428-12227-1 .
• Contracting State: Agreement - a basic form of public law . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-428-13102-0 .
• State-remote privacy in antiquity. Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77612-9 .
• Institutional Evolution: Basics of a General State Doctrine. Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-83889-9 .
• Tradition and Constitutional Law. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-14070-1 .
• Plato's ideal state and the state law of the present . Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-428-84473-9 .
• Personalism, individual ethics in constitutional law . Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-428-14792-2 .
• Death in constitutional law . Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-14953-7 .
• The infinite in constitutional law: Validity, dimensions, dynamics of the democratic constitution , Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-428-15141-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Leisner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Leisner Lawyers. Retrieved November 20, 2017 .