Torsten Stein

Torsten Stein ( born December 31, 1944 in Potsdam ) is a German jurist and was 1991-2012 Chair of European Law and European Public Law at the University of Saarland and Director of the European Institute, Department of Law of the University of Saarland.

Career

Torsten Stein made ​​from 1964 to 1966 the military service. Today, he is Colonel d R. From 1966 to 1970 he studied law at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin. After completing his doctorate on " assistance in foreign affairs " in 1974, he went as a consultant to the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He habilitated in 1983 ( "The delivery of the exception in political crimes: Normative limits application in practice and attempt a reformulation " ) for German and Comparative Public Law, Public International Law and European Law and was appointed professor at the University of Heidelberg in 1986, where his activity maintained at the Max Planck Institute. From 1991 to 2012, he was Chair of European Law and European Public Law at the University of Saarland and Director of the European Institute, law department.

Research

  • Institutional European Law
  • Foreign, Security and Defence Policy of the European Union
  • Prohibition of force, self-defense and peacekeeping in international law
  • International Humanitarian Law
  • International Criminal Court

With - Editorships

  • Journal of Legal Studies Europe ( ZEuS )
  • Writings of the Europa-Institut of Saarland University - Law
  • Saarbrücken studies on International Law

Memberships

Stone was chairman and rapporteur of international committees of the International Law Association ( ILA), is chairman of the German Society of International Law ( German National Association of the ILA) and Honorary Treasurer and member of the Executive Council of the ILA. He is a member eV in legal societies and CEO of the Association of Friends of the University of the Saarland, the chairman of the Hermann and Dr. Charlotte German Foundation. He is also Chairman of Heidelberger Society for Comparative Public Law and International Law Association and was for many years a member of the Trustees of the Academy of European Law Trier ( ERA ) and the Academy Advisory Board of the European Academy Otzenhausen.

Integrated Authority File
780567
de