Academic Education

2007

Habilitation, license to teach Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Law on state-church-relations, Canon Law and History of the Constitutions of the Modern Era

2001

Dissertation at the Faculty of Law of the University of Augsburg

1993 – 1998

Study of Law at the Universities of Göttingen, Hannover und Freiburg

Positions

since 2018

Director of the Institute for Municipal Science

since 2018

Director of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Institute

since 2013

Professorship for Public Law, Sciences of Administrations, Constitutional Law concerning Culture and Religion

2008 – 2012

Professorship for Public Law, Economic Law, Constitutional Law concerning Culture and Religion at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bayreuth

2012

Calls to the Universities of Gießen and Münster

2007 – 2008

Interim Professor at the Universities of Göttingen and München

2002 – 2007

Assistant Lecturer at the University of Augsburg (Professorship Prof. Dr. Masing)

1999 – 2002

Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Celle, at the same time Research Assistant at the Bucerius Law School Hamburg

1998 – 1999

Research Assistant at the University of Augsburg (Professorship Prof. Dr. Masing)

External Functions

since 2018

Chairman of the Senate of the University of Münster

since 2013

Person of trust for the foundation “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”

2013 – 2016

Committee of the State Parliament of the land North Rhine-Westphalia for the reformation of the state constitution

since 2010

Member of the chamber for theology of the Evangelical Church in Germany

since 2000

Member of the selection committee for the foundation “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”