Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher

Director

Public Law
+49 761 7081-501

public-law@csl.mpg.de

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Curriculum Vitae

Spring 2022: Guest professor at the Factulté de Droit, Université Panthéon Assas, Paris 2, France
Since November 2019: Honorary professorship, University Freiburg
Since May 2019: Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg
October 2018 to May 2019: Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Freiburg
Spring 2018: Guest professor, Faculté de Droit, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon 3, France
October 2015 to September 2016: Rector’s Fellow, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg
Winter semester 2013: Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence
2013 to 2018: Managing director of the Centre for Security and Society, University of Freiburg
October 2009 to present: Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Freiburg, Institute for Political Science & Philosophy of Law, Department 2 (Philosophy of Law)
December 2003 to September 2009: Professor, Faculty of Law, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Chair of Public Law, Legal Sociology, and Legal Philosophy
2007 to 2008: Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
Spring 2007: Research fellow, University of Osaka, Japan
2002: Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2002: Postdoctoral degree ("Habilitation") with the venia legendi for public law, history of constitutional law, and legal philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Habilitation Title: Grundrechte als Abwehrrechte. Reflexive Regelung rechtlich geordneter Freiheit
1999 to 2002: Postdoctoral research fellow, Faculty of Law, Institute for Public Law, Chair Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schlink, Humboldt-University Berlin
1999: Humboldt Award, Humboldt-University Berlin
1999: Doctorate, Faculty of Law, Humboldt-University Berlin; Title of dissertation: Gefahrenabwehr. Eine dogmatische Rekonstruktion
1995 to 1999: Research associate, Faculty of Law, Institute for Public Law, Chair Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schlink, Humboldt-University Berlin
1995: Second state law exam
1992 to 1995: Judical clerkship, Superior Court of Justice, Berlin
1990 to 1992: Research assistant, Institute for Public Law, University of Bonn, Chair Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schlink
1990: First state law exam
1984 to 1990: Study of Law, University of Bonn; Université de Bourgone, Dijon; London School of Economics and Political Science

Projects

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Doctrine of Fundamental Rights in a Transnational Perspective

The project aims at a continuous doctrinal development of fundamental rights—with particular focus on fundamental rights especially impacted by public security measures—in a transnational perspective. Fundamental rights are central for the legal evaluation of public security… more

Doctrinal Structures of Public Security Law

This long-term project examines whether it is possible to develop a general doctrinal scheme for public security measures comparable to the general doctrinal schemes (Verbrechenssysteme) of substantive criminal law, how such a scheme would have to be conceptualized, and what… more

An Analytical Reconstruction of Legal Hermeneutics

This long-term project, begun about a decade ago, aims to provide a philosophically updated account of legal hermeneutics. Whereas legal hermeneutics has often been associated with continental philosophical approaches (e.g., Gadamer, Ricœur), the project addresses the… more

Handbook of Constitutional Law

German Constitutional Law from a Transnational Perspective more

Periodic Surveillance Barometer for Germany

State surveillance measures and their impact on constitutional freedoms have long been the subject of legal and political discourse. Building on prior, mainly theoretical, considerations about the need for realizing an “overall accounting” of surveillance, we began developing a… more

ZuRecht

Die Polizei in der offenen Gesellschaft more

Triage in Pandemics: Legal and Ethical Perspectives

During the Covid-19 pandemic, numerous countries have experienced a scarcity of life-saving resources, including equipment (i.e., ventilators) and free space in intensive care units. Such situations raise difficult ethical and legal questions. Which criteria should be applied to… more

Publications

Book (25)

Kingreen, T., & Poscher, R. (2022). Grundrechte. Staatsrecht II (38. Aufl.). Heidelberg: C.F. Müller.