Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Durner, LL.M.
Managing Director of the Insitute for Water and Waste Management Law (IRWE)
Administrative law, environmental law, planning law, and infrastructure law shape key issues for the future of our society—and are the focus of the academic work of Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Durner, LL.M. In these areas, he combines research, teaching, and practical application of law in a unique way.
His academic interests lie – albeit not exclusively – in environmental, planning, and infrastructure law, as well as general administrative law.
His research focuses on:
- General administrative law
- Environmental law
- Planning law
- Infrastructure law
His research focuses on environmental law, specifically:
- general structures and instruments of environmental law,
- German, European, and international water law, including its links to waste, materials, and economic law,
- planning law and its links to spatial environmental protection,
approval and environmental regulation of infrastructure,
effects of international environmental law on European and national law, - facility-related issues of the energy transition, in particular grid expansion...
Publications
The publications of Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Durners, LL.M. provide an insight into his academic work.
Resume
Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Durner, LL.M., born in Ulm in 1967, studied law and political science at the universities of Würzburg, Berlin (FU), Munich, and the London School of Economics after completing his high school diploma and military service. He earned his doctorate in both subjects under Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz Schneider in Munich (politics) and Prof. Dr. Philip Kunig in Berlin (law).
After completing his legal clerkship in Berlin, he spent a year and a half there in 1996/97 as an assistant to Prof. Dr. Michael Kloepfer in the Independent Expert Commission on the Environmental Code at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety. He spent 1997/98 as a fellow at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, on a scholarship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, where he wrote his doctoral thesis in law.
He then worked for over two years as a lawyer at the Munich office of the commercial law firm GSK.
He subsequently became assistant and senior assistant to the then President of the Federal Constitutional Court, Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. mult. Hans-Jürgen Papier, at the University of Munich, where he obtained his habilitation in 2004. Following a temporary professorship in Berlin and a teaching position at the Munich School of Political Science, he was appointed to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in 2005.
He declined further offers from the universities of Bayreuth, Tübingen, and Trier.
Positions at the University of Bonn
- Since 2005 Chair of Public Law
- Since 2006 Director of the Institute for Water and Waste Management Law
- Since 2018 Head of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Law
- Since 2018 Member of the University Senate
- Since 2024 Vice-Chair of the University Senate
Other offices and memberships
Wolfgang Durner is head of the permanent information and initiative group "Forum Planning Law" at the Academy for Spatial Development in the Leibniz Association, liaison lecturer for the German National Academic Foundation and the Konrad Redeker Foundation, and a member of numerous other expert committees. From 2007 to 2023, he was chairman of the Working Group on Road Law. He is (co-)editor of several journals (series) and works, including the comprehensive commentary on environmental law "Landmann/Rohmer," and editor of the oldest public law journal "Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt."
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Head of the permanent information and initiative group "Forum Planning Law" of the Academy for Spatial Development in the Leibniz Association
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Student advisor of the German National Academic Foundation
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Student advisor of the Konrad Redeker Foundation
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In addition, member of numerous other expert committees.
Contact
Tel.: (0228) 73-9151
E-Mail: lehrstuhl.durner@jura.uni-bonn.de
Office hours: by appointment through the office