Andreas Paulus
Andreas L. Paulus ( born August 30, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German legal scholar and Chair of Public Law, especially international law, at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen. Since March 2010 he is a member of the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court.
Life
Andreas Paul grew up in Eppstein - Vockenhausen, where the family had moved mid-1970s. In Eppstein he went to primary school and the school of Bishop Neumann School in Königstein im Taunus.
Academic career
Andreas Paul studied law at the universities of Göttingen, Geneva, Munich and Harvard. In 1994 he presented his first, in 1996 his second state examination in law.
In 2000, he put his dissertation before about " The international community under international law " at the University of Munich. In September 2003, he was awarded the Bavarian Habilitation Award. In the academic year 2003/ 04 he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School, in July 2005 at the Duke - Geneva Institute in Transnational Law. Since July 2006, he was Associate Professor of Public Law, International and European Law, Constitutional History and Philosophy of Law at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University Munich, Chair of Bruno Simma and Georg Nolte.
He also was an intern at the UN Office of the Legal Counsel ( Office of the Legal Adviser in the Office of Legal Affairs ) and the Chief Prosecutor of the International Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
On 25 February 2010 it was announced that Paul was proposed by the FDP as new judges of the Constitutional Court. The election committee of the Bundestag elected him on March 5, 2010 in this office, which he took after leaving Hans -Jürgen paper on 16 March 2010. He is a member of the first Senate of the court.
He is Liason Study Foundation of the German people.
Profession
Paul was Counsel of the Federal Republic of Germany in the LaGrand case ( Germany / USA) and Adviser of the German team in Certain Property ( Liechtenstein / Germany ) before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Political Activities
Andreas Paul is a member of the FDP in Göttingen. He currently does not hold any political office. Previously, he was a member of the FDP Bayern, where he held various positions. Among other things, he was a member in a district of Munich Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Munich Bavarian FDP and Chairman of the Bylaws Committee.