Summary
Oliver Lepsius (born 2 February 1964) is a German professor of jurisprudence at the University of Münster.[1]
His public profile was raised in 2011 by the scandal involving Germany's Defence Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. It was determined that the youthful minister's doctoral dissertation, awarded in 2007, had been over-dependent on plagiarism. The university revoked the doctorate and the minister resigned. In public interviews Oliver Lepsius, the university's professor of jurisprudence expressed his anger very powerfully over the affair.[2]
Life edit
Oliver Nicolai Lepsius was born in Munich. By the time he completed his school leaving exams (Abitur) he was attending school at Weinheim (near Heidelberg). He then undertook his military service. Moving on, he studied Jurisprudence at Bonn, later switching to Munich which is where he passed the appropriate state professional exams ("Staatsexamen") at both levels. It was also at Munich that he received his doctorate in 1993.[1][3] By this time his education had also included a year at the University of Chicago,[4] from where he was awarded a Master of Laws (LL/B.) degree.[1] It was also from Munich that he received his habilitation (higher academic qualification)[1] for work on property rights in public law.[5]
Habilitation cleared the way for an academic career, and in 2001 he took a position as professor for Public Law at Heidelberg University. In 2002 he accepted a teaching chair in Public and Comparative Law at University of Bayreuth in succession to Peter Häberle.[1] It was Häberle who had supervised zu Guttenberg for the latter's 2007 dissertation, but without at that stage spotting the issues that gave rise to the subsequent revocation of the resulting doctorate.[6]
Lepsius' academic work is focused in contemporary German administrative and constitutional law and its historical underpinnings. He is also concerned with the philosophy and comparative study of public law.
Personal edit
Oliver Lepsius is married to Susanne Lepsius (born Susanne Degenring), who is a professor of international jurisprudence at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[7] His father was the sociology professor Mario Rainer Lepsius (1920–2014).[8] His mother, Renate Lepsius (born Renate Meyer:) 1927–2004), was a journalist, historian and politician (SPD).[9]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e "Prof. Dr. Oliver Lepsius, LL.M. (Chicago)". Universität Bayreuth. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ "Bayreuther Professor rechnet mit Guttenberg ab". Oliver Lepsius ist nicht irgendein Professor. Nein, er ist der Nachfolger von Peter Häberle, dem renommierten Staatsrechtler und, nun ja, gedemütigten Doktor-ade-Vater von einem gewissen Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg... Der Spiegel (online). 27 February 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ Oliver Lepsius (18 July 1994). Die gegensatzaufhebende Begriffsbildung: Methodenentwicklungen in der Weimarer Republik und ihr Verhältnis zur Ideologisierung der Rechtswissenschaft unter dem Nationalsozialismus. C.H. Beck Verlag; 1st edition. ISBN 978-3-406-38328-1.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Oliver Lepsius (1997). Verwaltungsrecht unter dem Common Law: amerikanische Entwicklungen bis zum New Deal. Mohr Siebeck. p. 5. ISBN 978-3-16-146763-9.
- ^ Oliver Lepsius (2002). Besitz und Sachherrschaft im öffentlichen Recht. Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG, Tübingen. ISBN 978-3-16-147688-4.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ "Doktorvater wendet sich von Guttenberg ab ... Die Erklärung von Peter Häberle im Wortlaut". Der Spiegel (online). 28 February 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. jur. Susanne Lepsius, M.A. (Chicago), Universitätsprofessorin". Juristische Fakultät der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
- ^ Knut Borchardt. "M. Rainer Lepsius [Nachruf]" (PDF). Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
- ^ "Renate Lepsius". Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., Bonn. Retrieved 20 December 2016.