Prof. Dr. Jörg Manfred Mössner

About the person

Born in Cologne in 1941, he studied law and Business Administration and Economics in Munich and Cologne. From 1973 to 1983, he was a professor of international public law at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. From 1983 to 2006, he was a professor of public law and tax law at Osnabrück University, where he founded the Legal Studies Institute of Finance and Taxation in 1987. From 1986 to 2000, he served concurrently as a judge at the Lower Saxony Finance Court. He was a visiting professor at the universities of Athens, Cambridge, Leuven, Milan, Stockholm, Paris I and Paris II, Tilburg, Vienna, Beijing, New York, and Boston College. In 1998, he hosted the annual conference of the European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP) in Osnabrück. From 1999 to 2006, he served as president of this association. In addition, he held leadership roles on numerous other academic advisory boards and committees. For example, from 1994 to 2006, he was a member of the Standing Scientific Advisory Board of the International Fiscal Association (IFA). He has published 15 books and more than 200 scholarly articles on constitutional law topics, issues of international public law, and, above all, tax law issues.