Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kühling, LL.M.

The research at the Chair concentrates on public law aspects of the broad, dynamic, and innovative areas of Public Real Estate Law, Regulated Network Industries, and Information Society Law. The focus of this research is placed on cross-sectoral problems such as issues in the aftermath of privatizations or conflicts in the multi-level system of the European constitutional area. We also analyse individual challenges of general Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and European Union Law.

·         Public Real Estate Law

·         Infrastructure Law

·         Information Society Law

EDUCATIONAL GOALS

The Chair puts a special emphasis in its teaching on the newly created pathway “Real Estate Law”, within the law school’s optional studies programs. These courses are complemented by lectures from the entire spectrum of basic legal training as well as classes in the pathways “Information Society Law”, “Economic Law”, and “European and International Law”.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Dr. iur. Jürgen Kühling, married, two daughters

EDUCATION/EMPLOYMENT

• Member of the Monopolies Commission (since July 2016)
• Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Regensburg (since 2017)
• Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Regensburg (2015 - 2017)
• 2008 – 2010 Research Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Regensburg

• since April 2007 Professor of Law and Chair for Public Law, and Real Estate Law, Infrastructure Law, and Information Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Regensburg and Member of the IRE|BS Department of Real Estate
• September 2004 - March 2007 Professor for Public Law, Media- and Telecommunications Law, and Data Privacy Law at the Center for Applied Jurisprudence (ZAR) at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Director at the Institute for Information Law
• Summer term 2004 Acting Chair for Public Law, Media- and Telecommunications Law and Data Privacy Law at the Center for applied jurisprudence (ZAR) at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Winter term 2003/2004 Acting Chair for Public Law, Media- and Telecommunications Law at the University of Hamburg, Germany (Prof. Dr. Hans-Heinrich Trute) and member of the Legal Examination Authority at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court (Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht)
• February 2003 Postdoctoral lecture qualification ("venia legendi") for Public Law, including Comparative Law; European Law; German and European Economic Law, especially Telecommunications Law
• December 2002 Habilitation (professorial thesis) (advisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Koenig; Prof. Dr. Jost Pietzcker)
• June 1999 - September 2003 Scientific consultant at the Center for European Integration Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
• August 1998 PhD (Dr. iur. – J.S.D. equivalent) at the University of Bonn, Germany (advisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Everling; second advisor: Prof. Dr. Jost Pietzcker)
• 1997-1999 Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court District of Dusseldorf, Germany; i.a. Federal Ministry of Economics (Department for Europe); Federation of German Industry (BDI), Cologne/Brussels (Department for European Policy and Law / Competition Policy)
• 1995-1997 PhD, University of Bonn, Germany
• 1994-1995 Postgraduate studies (Master in Legal Theory, LL.M.), KUB, and FUSL, Brussels, Belgium
• 1990-1995 Studies of Law at the Universities of Trier, Germany, and Nancy II, France

SCHOLARSHIPS/GRANTS

• 1995 - 1997 PhD scholarship for studies in the postgraduate programme at the Center for European Economic Law (German: Graduiertenkolleg des Zentrums für Europäisches Wirtschaftsrecht) in Bonn, Germany
• Winter term 1992/93 Erasmus Scholarship at the Université de Nancy II, France
• 1991 - 1995 German Academic Scholarship Foundation (German: Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

• Member of the Monopolies Commission
• Member of the advisory board of the German journal "ER - Energierecht" (Energy Law)
• Founder and speaker of the study circle “Regulation of Network Industries“ (German:  Regulierung der Netzwirtschaften); now “Study Circle Regulation of Infrastructure“ (German: Studienkreis Infrastrukturregulierung)

• Evaluator for the German Research Foundation (German: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), a government-funded organization for science and research in Germany

• Evaluator for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (German: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), Germany’s oldest and largest scholarship organization
• Member of the Scientific Study Group on Regulation at the German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) (German: Wissenschaftlicher Arbeitskreis für Regulierungsfragen der Bundesnetzagentur, WAR) (2012 - 2016)
• Co-editor of the German journal “Infrastructure Law“ (German: InfrastrukturRecht)
• Member of the scientific advisory board for the journal "Network Industries and Law“ (German: Netzwirtschaften und Recht)
• Advisor of various public authorities, associations, and companies