Curriculum Vitae
| Academic Degrees | 1980 Magister et Doctor iuris (University of Vienna, Law School) 1991 Habilitation as »Universitaetsdozent« of constitutional and administrative law (University of Wien, Law School) | |
| University Appointments | 1980–1998 University Assistant, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the TU Vienna (Department of Law, School-of Spatial Planning and Architecture) 1994–1995 Joseph A. Schumpeter Fellow (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) 1998–2019 Professor of Land Policy, Land Management, and Municipal Geoinformation at the School-of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University (Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) since 2015 Faculty from Abroad at the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, India since 2019 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Johannesburg | |
| Academic Citizenship | more than 120 peer reviews for academic international journals since 1991 member of Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer 2006–2014 AESOP country representatives from Germany since 2006 member of several real estate assessment boards in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) mentor at AESOP PhD workshops in Vienna (2005), Manchester (2009), Belfast (2013), Stare Lesna (2015), Aveiro (2017) since 2007 member of the editorial board of »Planning Theory & Practice« since 2007 member of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) 2010 Conference Chair of the Fourth Conference of PLPR in Dortmund 2010–2011 Vice President of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) 2011–2020 Essay Editor »Planning Theory« 2012–2016. President of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) since 2015 member of the editorial board of »Journal of the American Planning Association« since 2015 member of the editorial board of »Der öffentliche Sektor / The Public Sector« 2017 and 2021 Vice President of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 2018–2019 co-editor of »Town Planning Review« 2018–2020 President of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) since 2021 co-coordinator of the AESOP Thematic Group »Planning Theories« 2020–2022 online teaching »Comparative Land Policy« and »Land Use Ethics« | |
| Research Interests | planning theories property land reform land ethics legal philosophy | |
| Research Experience (selected) | 2000–2004 principal investigator of »Ruhr 2030: Region of Cities« (funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research and the Ministry of Urban Design and Housing of North Rhine-Westphalia) 2007–2015 »Financial Assistance, Land Policy, and Global Social Rights« (together with Ulrike Davy and Lutz Leisering, both University of Bielefeld) »The Road to Global Social Citizenship« (together with Ulrike Davy and Lutz Leisering, both University of Bielefeld), cooperation group funded by the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld, 2011 2011–2015 Principal investigator of the research project »Socio-ecological Land Policy« (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) | |
| Teaching Experience (selected) | 1982–1997 TU Wien constitutional law and administrative law law of experts data protection law environmental law water management law spatial policy mediation and negotiation 1997–2019 TU Dortmund University land management and land policy real estate evaluation land rent theory mediation and negotiation cartography for planners introduction to spatial planning sustainable property | |
| Research/ Teaching Stays | Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA) Australian National University (Canberra) University of Cambridge (U.K.) Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (Netherlands) Center for Interdisciplinary Research (Bielefeld) University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) India National Law School (Bengaluru, India) University of Johannesburg (South Africa) TU Vienna University (Austria) Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Germany) |