Professor Hans-Werner Rengeling, Ph.D.
About the person
Born on February 25, 1938, in Essen. Married to Christa Rengeling (née Röhr) since 1969. 1971: Doctorate from the University of Münster; dissertation: “On the Legal Nature of a Contract Between a State and a Foreign Private Individual or a Non-State Association.” Research assistant at the Chair of Spatial Planning and Public Law at the University of Münster under Prof. Dr. Werner Hoppe. Habilitation in 1975; DFG grant for the habilitation thesis: “Legal Principles in the Administrative Enforcement of European Community Law.”
In 1977, professor at the University of Hamburg (School of Law I); in 1978, professor at the University of Bonn. Since 1981, professor at Osnabrück University; from 1985 to 2003, director of the Institute for European Law at Osnabrück University. Since the 2003/2004 winter semester, member of the European Legal Studies Institute at Osnabrück University.
Since 1985, member of the Executive Board of the Scientific Society for European Law. From 1980, member of the editorial board of the Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt; from 1998 to 2011, editor-in-chief of this journal. Since 1993, editor of the Schriften zum deutschen und europäischen Umweltrecht.
Author or editor of approximately 40 books, author of over 200 articles in journals, commemorative volumes, or anthologies.
