Wolfram Cremer

Wolfram Cremer (born January 9, 1963 in Dorsten in the Münsterland ) is a German legal scholar and professor of public law and European law at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Life

Cremer studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1984 to 1990 . Between 1990 and 1994 he did his doctorate at the University of Hamburg as part of the graduate school “Integration Research”. In 1994 the thesis entitled “Research Subsidies in the Light of the EGV” was accepted as a dissertation. Between 1993 and 1994 he was a research assistant at Thomas Bruha, University of Hamburg. He completed his legal preparatory service from 1993 to 1996 in Hamburg and Vancouver , Canada. From 1996 to 2002 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Rostock with Bernd Jeand'Heur and Wolfgang März . In 2002 he completed his habilitation with the thesis “Fundamental Freedom Rights - Functions and Structures”. He was awarded the license to teach public law, European law and international law.

From 2002 to 2004 he was senior assistant at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg . Between 1997 and 2008 he worked as a lecturer at Saarland University (Europa-Institut).

After a substitute for a chair at the University of Leipzig in the 2003/04 winter semester, he has held the chair for public law and European law at the Ruhr University in Bochum since the 2004 winter semester.

Since 2005 he has been director at the Institute for Mining and Energy Law at the Ruhr University Bochum and since 2010 Scientific Director of the Institute for Educational Research and Education Law (IfBB, affiliated institute of the Ruhr University Bochum). Since 2011 he has been leading the joint master’s course in German, Turkish and international business law at the Kültür University of Istanbul and the Ruhr University in Bochum.

His main areas of work and research focus are national constitutional law, in particular fundamental rights, European law with a focus on European business law and legal protection as well as energy, environmental and education law, first and foremost school law . He has written numerous articles and monographs in these areas.

Fonts (selection)

• Research subsidies in the light of the EGV. At the same time a contribution to the possibilities of legal protection under Community law against subsidies, Nomos, Baden-Baden 1995 (dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1994).
• Fundamental Freedom Rights - Functions and Structures, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003 (habilitation thesis, University of Rostock, 2002).
• Art. 80 para. 1 sentence 2 GG and parliamentary reservation - dogmatic discrepancies in the case law of the Federal Constitutional Court, AöR 122 (1997), pp. 248–267.
• Residence bans and open drug scene: legal precedence, parliamentary reservation and constitutional competency order, NVwZ 2001, pp. 1218–1223.
• Compensation suits for serious human rights violations and state immunity before national civil jurisdiction, AVR 2003, pp. 137–168.
• The programmed constitutional conflict: on the binding of the member states to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union according to the draft convention for a European constitution, NVwZ 2003, pp. 1452-1457.
• The pursuit of profit as a public enterprise legitimizing purpose: The Answer of the Basic Law, DÖV 2003, pp. 921–932.
• Public procurement as aid i. S. v. Art. 87 I EC - in particular regarding the consideration of non-awarding criteria as an aid element, in: Peter Behrens / Ellen Braun / Carsten Nowak (eds.), European Competition Law in Umbruch, 2004, pp. 143–164.
• Community law and German administrative procedural law - on decentralized legal protection against EC secondary law, Die Verwaltung 2004, pp. 165–192.
• Justification of legislative interventions in fundamental rights of the Basic Law and fundamental freedoms of the EGV according to objective purposes - Simultaneously with the obligation to give reasons for laws, NVwZ 2004, pp. 668–674.
• The legal protection of the individual against secondary legal acts of the Union acc. Art. III-270 para. 4 draft convention, EuGRZ 2004, 577.
• Unwritten legislative competences due to factual context? On the tension between constitutional competence titles and realities of life in the federal state, in: Journal for Legislation 2005, pp. 29–44.
• Negative and positive integration: The European Community as a social and educational union, in: Armin Hatje / Peter M. Huber (Eds.), Union Citizenship and Social Rights, EuR 2007, Supplement 1, pp. 75–94.
• State-sponsored climate protection and community law - have the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) and the Combined Heat and Power Act (KWKG) been in violation of Community law since July 1, 2007 ?, EuZW 2007, 591-596.
• Fundamental rights and the principle of the welfare state: Freedom of contract and the (partial) welfare state impregnation of the fundamental rights obligation to protect, in Hermann Butzer / Markus Kaltenborn / Wolfgang Meyer (eds.), Organization and procedures in the social constitutional state. Festschrift for Friedrich E. Schnapp on his 70th birthday, 2008.
• The proportionality test for the fundamental rights obligation to protect - weighing up reason and counter-reason instead of guaranteeing an appropriate level of protection, DÖV 2008, pp. 102-108.
• Lisbon Treaty and Basic Law, JURA 2010, pp. 296–307.
• La protection juridique de l'individu contre les actes relevant du droit dérivé de l'Union selon le traité de Lisbonne, in Abdelkhaleq Berramdane / Wolfram Cremer / Adelheid Puttler / Jean Rosetto (eds.), Quel avenir pour l'intégration européenne ?, 2010.
• Basic principles of European environmental constitutional law, in: Die Verwaltung 2010, Supplement 11, pp. 9–26.
• Commentary on Articles 107–109, 258–261, 263–266, 268, 272, 273, 277 TFEU, in: Christian Calliess / Matthias Ruffert (eds.), Commentary on the EUV and TFEU, 4th edition, CH Beck, Munich 2011.
• Fundamental rights boundaries and fundamental rights dimensions according to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in: EuGRZ 2011, pp. 545–554.
• The binding transition recommendation to the secondary level between constitutional mandate and unconstitutionality, in: Cremer u. a. (Ed.), Selection and Justice in School, Writings on Education and School Law, Volume 1, Nomos, 2012, pp. 79-108.
• The school relationship between executive responsibility, legal determination and judicial control - parliamentary scrutiny and access to the court if a student is not admitted to a public school, Die Verwaltung 2012, 359–388.
• The Basic Right to free development of the personality (Art. 2 sec. 1 Basic German Law) - Limited protection of the personality versus General freedom of action, in: Pünder / Waldhoff (Eds.), Debates in German Public Law, Hart Publishing , 2013, pp. 57-74.
• Employment of teachers as a constitutional requirement, in: Institute for Educational Research and Educational Law eV / German Institute for International Educational Research (Ed.), On the Legal Status of Teachers - Today, Proceedings for the 1st German School Law Day, Nomos, 2013, pp. 11–38.
• Review of Ulrich Haltern / Andreas Bergmann (eds.), The ECJ in criticism, in: DVBl 2014, 298–299.

Web links

• Wolfram Cremer's curriculum vitae on the Ruhr University Bochum website