The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law
Volume I: The Administrative State
Edited by Sabino Cassese, General Editor Armin von Bogdandy, and Peter Huber
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Edited by Sabino Cassese, Judge (retired), Constitutional Court of Italy, General Editor Armin von Bogdandy, Director, Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law, and General Editor Peter Huber, Judge, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
Peter M Huber is a Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, and holds the Chair of Public Law and Constitutional Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. He was a member of the Commission on Media Concentration Control (2002-09), head of the German Law Faculties Association from 1999-2009, and has been a member of various parliamentary commissions, in addition to a role as Minister of the Interior of Thuringia (2009-10). He is the co-editor of Current Problems in the Protection of Human Rights: Perspectives from Germany and the UK (with K Ziegler, 2013) and of Legal Challenges in the Global Financial Crisis: Bail-outs, the Euro and Regulation (with W-G Ringe, 2014).
Armin von Bogdandy is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Professor for Public Law at the University in Frankfurt/Main. He has been President of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal as well as a member of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) and the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights; he has held visiting positions at the NYU School of Law, the European University Institute, the Xiamen Academy of International Law, and the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, among others. Von Bogdandy is the recipient of the Leibniz Prize, the prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of legal and economic foundations by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Premio Internacional 'Hector Fix Zamudio', and the 'Mazo' (gavel) of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights. His research centres on the structural changes affecting public law.
Sabino Cassese is Justice Emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court and Emeritus professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. He teaches at the Luiss University School of Government, Rome. He was assistant professor at the Universities of Pisa and Rome and, since 1961, has served as professor at the Universities of Urbino, Naples, and Rome. In 1993-94 he was a member of the Italian Government; from 2005 to 2014, he served as a Justice on the Italian Constitutional Court. Justice Cassese has received a doctor honoris causa degree from seven universities: Aix-en-Provence, Cordoba, Paris II, Castilla-La Mancha, Athens, Macerata, and the European University Institute. His recent publications include: When legal orders collide: the Role of Courts (2010); The Global Polity: Global Dimensions of Democracy and the Rule of Law (2012); New Trends in Italian Public Law (ed, with L. Torchia, 2012); and Research Handbook on Global Administrative Law (ed, 2016).
Contributors:
Jean-Bernard Auby, Professor and Director of the Center on Changes in Governance and Public Law, Sciences Po, Paris, France.
Giovanni Biaggini, Professor of Constitutional, Administrative, and European Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Michal Bobek, Advocate General, European Court of Justice.
Armin von Bogdandy, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany.
Sabino Cassese, Justice Emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court and Emeritus Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy.
Michel Fromont, Professor Emeritus, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
Luc Heuschling, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, University of Luxembourg.
Stephan Hinghofer-Szalkay, postdoctoral researcher, Institute for European Legal Developments and Austrian Legal History, University of Graz, Austria.
Peter Michael Huber, Justice, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and Professor of Constitutional Law and Constitutional Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich.
Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta, head of Studies, Library, and Documentation Services, Constitutional Tribunal of Spain.
Herbert Küpper, Lecturer of Public Law at several universities of Central and Eastern Europe, including Munich, Regensburg, Szeged, and Vienna.
Martin Loughlin, Professor of Public Law, London School of Economics, United Kingdom.
Bernardo Giorgio Mattarella, Professor of Administrative Law, University of Siena and National School of Public Administration, Italy.
Marcel Morabito, Professor of Law, Sciences Po, Paris.
William J. Novak, Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, United States.
Benjamin Schindler, Professor of Public Law, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
J.H.H. Weiler, Joseph Straus Professor of Law, New York University Law School, United States.
Ewald Wiederin, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, University of Vienna, Austria.