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Abstract
Fabian Michl has been Junior Professor of Public Law and the Law of Politics (tenure track to full professor) at the Faculty of Law at Leipzig University since 2021. He studied law at the University of Regensburg (2007-2012) and history and philosophy of law at the University of Edinburgh (2014/15). In 2017, he received his doctorate in Regensburg with a dissertation on the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. He was then a PostDoc at the Faculty of Law at the University of Münster, where he habilitated in 2025 with the monograph ‘Paradigms of Electoral Law’ (venia legendi for public law, European law, constitutional history and philosophy of law). His research fields include German and European constitutional law with a particular focus on the law of politics (party, electoral and parliamentary law), constitutional and contemporary legal history and constitutional theory.
Professional career
- since 11/2021
Junior Professor for Public Law and the Law of Politics at the Law Faculty of the University of Leipzig - 09/2017 - 10/2021
Senior researcher at the Chair of Public Law and Constitutional Theory (Prof. Dr. Oliver Lepsius), University of Münster - 04/2016 - 08/2017
Researcher at the Chair of Public Law and Public International Law (Prof. Dr. Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack) and the Chair of Public Law, in particular German and European Administrative Law (Prof. Dr. Gerrit Manssen), University of Regensburg - 08/2015 - 03/2016
Research assistant at the Chair of Public Law, in particular German and European Administrative Law (Prof. Dr. Gerrit Manssen), University of Regensburg
Education
- 01/2025
Qualification as a professor ("Habilitation") at the Faculty of Law of the University of Münster and conferral of authorisation to teach public law, European law, constitutional history and philosophy of law - 12/2023
Positive interim evaluation as a junior professor - 12/2017
Doctor of Laws, Law Faculty, University of Regensburg - 11/2015
Master of Laws (by Research) in History and Philosophy of Law, The University of Edinburgh - 08/2015 - 06/2017
Doctoral student at the University of Regensburg with a scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation - 09/2014 - 07/2015
Postgraduate student in History and Philosophy of Law at the University of Edinburgh with a scholarship of the ZEIT-Foundation (Buceris Jura Programme) - 05/2014
Second State Examination (Bavaria) - 04/2012 - 05/2014
Legal trainee at the Higher Regional Court in Nuremberg and the Bavarian Higher Administrative Court in Munich - 01/2012
First State Examination (Bavaria) - 10/2007 - 01/2012
Undergraduate student in law at the University of Regensburg with a scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
- show detailsMichl, F.Das Sondervotum zum Apothekenurteil. Edition aus den Akten des BundesverfassungsgerichtsJahrbuch des öffentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart. 2020. pp. 323–407.
- show detailsMichl, F.; Kaiser, R. (Eds.)Landeswahlrecht. Wahlrecht und Wahlsystem der deutschen LänderBaden-Baden: Nomos. 2020.ISBN: 978-3-8487-6455-6
- show detailsMichl, F.Unionsgrundrechte aus der Hand des GesetzgebersTübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2018.ISBN: 978-3-16-156022-4
- show detailsMichl, F.; Kaiser, R.Wer hat Angst vorm Gerrymander? Manipulative Wahlkreiszuschnitte in DeutschlandJahrbuch des öffentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart. 2019. pp. 51–105.
- show detailsMichl, F.Situativ staatsgleiche Grundrechtsbindung privater Akteure. Zugleich Besprechung von BVerfG, Beschluss vom 11. 4. 2018 – 1 BvR 3080/09Juristenzeitung. 2018. 73 (19). pp. 910–918.DOI: 10.1628/jz-2018-0249
Research fields
Suffrage, Constitutional law, Law, Public law
Specializations
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