Michael Kilian (German academic)

This article is about the German legal academic and former justice of the Constitutional Court of Saxony-Anhalt. For the journalist, see Michael Kilian.

Michael Kilian (born 13 February 1949) is a German legal scholar and a former justice of the Constitutional Court of Saxony-Anhalt. Until 1982 he was the private secretary of Walter Hallstein, who was the President of the Commission of the European Economic Community.

Life

Kilian was born 13 February 1949 in Geislingen an der Steige.[1]

In 1985 Kilian was awarded his doctorate (Dr jur.) on the basis of a dissertation on "Environmantal Protection by International Organizations" (Umweltschutz durch Internationale Organisationen), supervised by Thomas Oppermann and Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum.[1] In 1990, he obtained his habilitation in public finance law at the University of Tübingen based on a dissertation on the topic "Parallel Budgets of the Federal Government" (Nebenhaushalte des Bundes), supervised by Thomas Oppermann und Ferdinand Kirchhof.[1] In 1990 he was appointed a full professor at the University of Heidelberg.[1] Since 1992 Kilian has taught at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, where he holds the chair for Public Law, Public International and European Law, Financial and Environmental Law. [1] From 1993 to 2000 Kilian was a justice at the Constitutional Court of Saxony-Anhalt.[1]

Kilian is joint editor-in-chief of the journal Zeitschrift zum Stiftungswesen and a member of the board of the Leucorea Foundation in Wittenberg.[1] As well as topics from his legal field, he has published works on political and legal topics related to the state of Saxony-Anhalt and connections of his subject to literature, aesthetics, and history. He writes himself that he attempts to draw attention to the state's little-known artistic and cultural treasures".[2]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Prof. Dr. Michael Kilian" (in German). Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  2. Michael Kilian: Das Land ohne Gesicht. Gestaltungsarmut und Formenlosigkeit der deutschen Republik. In: Otto Depenheuer (editor): Staat und Schönheit. Möglichkeiten und Perspektiven einer Staatskalokagathie. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 145–178, hier S. 165, Fn. 77.
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