Thomas Giegerich

Thomas Giegerich ( born March 15, 1959 in Wiesbaden ) is a German legal scholar. He is Professor of European Law, International Law and Public Law at the University of Saarland and co-director of the European Institute Saarbrücken.

Biography

Thomas Giegerich studied from 1978 to 1984 law at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. From 1984 to 1985 he spent a Fulbright scholarship for one academic year at the University of Virginia and earned an LL.M. degree there. During his subsequent legal internship in Mainz, he was also a teaching assistant at the international and European law oriented chair of Eckart Klein. In the summer semester 1987, he studied as a law clerk at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer.

After the second legal state exam in 1989, he moved to the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg and a year later also to the Heidelberg-based Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. In 1991 he earned his doctorate at the University of Mainz with a thesis on the private effect of fundamental rights in the United States. Until 1993 he was a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court in the Department of judge Paul Kirchhof. From 1993 to 2001 he was again at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, where he worked under the supervision of Helmut Steinberger in his habilitation thesis on the European constitutional law and its relationship to the German constitution. He habilitated at the University of Heidelberg in 2001. From 1996 to 2002 he was a representative of the academic staff of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society.

After he had taken in the winter semester 2001/2002 a professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, he was the winter semester 2002/ 03 Professor of Public Law with a focus on European Law and International Law at the University of Bremen. For the summer semester 2006 he joined as a professor of public law with a focus on international law and European law at the Christian -Albrechts- University of Kiel, where he was also co-director of the Walther- Schücking Institute of International Law. He was also co-editor of the German Yearbook of International Law and Commissioner of Kiel Faculty of Law of the Erasmus program, as well as for issues of internationalization. At the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge in 2007 he spent a sabbatical. 2011/12 he taught as a visiting professor at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh international law. As a co-opted member of the board, he organized the 72th Annual Meeting of the Association of the German constitutional lawyer in October 2012 in Kiel. Since the winter semester 2012/ 13, he is Chair of European Law, International Law and Public Law at the University of Saarland and at the same time co- director of the European Institute Saarbrücken, law department.

2004, 2005 and 2007, he held guest lectures on basic freedoms and fundamental rights in the EU at the Law Faculty of Yeditepe University in Istanbul. Also in 2007 he held an English-language international law guest lecture at the College of Law, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China. Since 2008, Giegerich operates within the framework of the accession negotiations with Turkey as an independent expert on the independence and impartiality of the judiciary for the European Commission.

Research

  • European Law: The relationship between European and national constitutional law, European Convention on Human Rights, the EU 's external action
  • International law: human rights protection, international treaty law, peaceful settlement of disputes
  • Amendments International: Federal systems, protection of fundamental rights

Writings (selection )

As the author

  • Private effect of fundamental rights in the United States: the State Action Doctrine of the U.S. Supreme Court and the civil rights legislation of the Federation ( = contributions to foreign public law and international law Vol 104. ). Springer, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-540-55483-1 ( revised dissertation, University of Mainz, 1991).
  • European Constitution and German Constitution in the transnational constitutionalisation: Mutual Reception, constitutional evolution and federal integration. Springer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-540-00361-4 ( Habilitation thesis, University of Heidelberg, 2001).

As editor

  • Rüdiger Wolfrum with: Immigration Law - nationally and internationally: State law, European law and international law. Leske Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-810-03181- X.
  • The EU accession of Cyprus: Key to the political and legal solution of an " insoluble " ethnic conflict? Proceedings of the international and interdisciplinary conference held in Bremen on 14th and 15th May 2004. Nomos, Baden -Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1798-5.
  • Andreas Zimmermann: Economic, social and cultural rights in the global era '(= Publications of the Walther- Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel, Vol 170. ). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-428-12882-6.
  • A wiser century? Judicial dispute settlement, disarmament and the laws of war 100 years after the Second Hague Peace Conference ( = Publications of the Walther- Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. Vol. 173). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-428-13040-5.
  • Alexander Proelß: preservation of the ecological balance by international law and European law ( = Publications of the Walther- Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel, Vol 174. ). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13293-5.
  • Alexander Proelß: flashpoints in the focus of international law = Trouble Spots in the Focus of International Law ( = Publications of the Walther- Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel, Vol 176. ). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13420-5.
  • The "open constitutional state " of the Basic Law after 60 years: expectations and reality a great achievement ( = Publications of the Walther- Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel, Vol 177. ). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13418-2.
  • International Economic and Financial Law in the crisis ( = Publications of the Walther- Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. Vol. 179). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-13679-7.
  • Challenges and prospects for the EU ( = Publications of the Walther- Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. Vol. 181). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-13936-1.
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