Wolfgang Schulz (lawyer)

Wolfgang Schulz (* 1963 ) is a German lawyer. He is a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg . He is also director of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research │ Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) in Hamburg . Since 2011 he has held a professorship for “media law and public law including its theoretical foundations”. It is a joint occupation by the University of Hamburg and the Hans Bredow Institute.

Career / research

Schulz studied law and journalism at the University of Hamburg until 1991, after which he worked on projects at the Hans Bredow Institute on the subject of media regulation. In 1997 Schulz passed his second state examination and received his doctorate a year later. With his habilitation in 2009 he received the venia legendi for public law, media law and legal philosophy. Since 2011 he has also been director of the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin.

His research focuses primarily on legal regulation with regard to media content as well as issues relating to the law of new communication media, which among other things led to his membership in the Internet and Digital Society Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag. He is also chairman of the “Communication and Information” committee of the German UNESCO Commission .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.hans-bredow-institut.de/de/node/25
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ http://www.hans-bredow-institut.de/de/node/25

Web links

• Homepage of the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research
• Homepage of the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society