Prof. Dr. Michael Wrase
Research fields
CV
Professional experience
since October 2016 Professor of Public Law with special emphasis on social and education law at the University of Hildesheim (visiting professorship in cooperation with the WZB)
since January 2016 Senior Researcher at the Social Science Center Berlin, President´s Project Group
July – December 2015 Mercator Fellow at the Social Science Center Berlin, President´s Project Group
April – June 2015 Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford (Mercator Fellowship)
October 2014 – March 2015 Visiting Professor at the University of Münster, Faculty of Law, Institute for Law and Politics
since April 2014 Visiting Lecturer at the University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Law
since January 2013 Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, member of the President´s Project Group headed by Prof. Jutta Allmendinger Ph.D.
May – October 2012 Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, Rule of Law Center / SFB 700-Project “Governance in the Areas of Limited Statehood“, Project Director: Prof. Dr. Gunnar Folke Schuppert
February 2011 – May 2012 Research Fellow (full-time, and from September 2011 part-time during parental leave) at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Institute for European Health Policy and Social Law (Ineges), Director: Prof. Dr. Astrid Wallrabenstein
December 2010 – January 2011 Assistant to Counsel Prof. Dr. Astrid Wallrabenstein in drafting the judicial review application brought by the parliamentary groups of the German Social Democratic Party and the Green Party challenging the eleventh and twelfth amendments of the German Atomic Energy Law 2010 (extension of the lifespan of nuclear power plants)
Spring Semester 2009 Visiting Lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Management and Law, Zurich/Winterthur (Switzerland)
2008 – 2010 Mandatory training programme for German lawyers, including interships with the following institutions:
- Federal Constitutional Court, law clerk to Justice Prof. Dr. Brun-Otto Bryde
- Law firm Wegner/Ullrich/Müller-Helle, Berlin (commercial law)
- German Federal Ministry of Justice (research department)
since 2005 Board Member of the German Association for Law and Society
2003 – 2007 Research Fellow at the Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Law, Chair of Public Law and Gender Studies, Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer, LL.M.
Education
2013 PhD in law awarded by the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University Berlin (doctoral thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer, Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court, and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Dieter Grimm)
2013 Admitted to the Bar in Berlin, with authority to practice law in Germany
2010 Second State Examination in Law, Berlin-Brandenburg
2003 First State Examination in Law, Berlin
1995 – 2002 Humboldt University Berlin, studies in law and social sciences Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
1995 – 1997 Student Research Assistant at the Institute for International and European Law
Memberships:
- German Association for Law and Society (board member)
- Berlin Working Group on Socio-legal Studies – Berliner Arbeitskreises Rechtswirklichkeit (BAR) e.V.
- Law & Society Association
- Sociology of law section within the German Sociological Association
The right to education – the State’s duty to ensure equality of opportunity and inclusive participation