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List of publications (as at 20 February 2025) (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)

Monographs

Minimum distances between amusement arcades (external link, opens in a new window) | Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden | 2022 | with Henning Schaaf
Inclusive Administration. The Temporary Transition from the Private Sector to the Civil Service (external link, opens in a new window) | Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn | 2014
Public Liability Law. Economisation — Europeanisation — Dogmatisation (external link, opens in a new window) | Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen | 2013 | Open Access (CC BY 4.0) on the University of Regensburg’s publication server (external link, opens in a new window) and the publisher’s website (external link, opens in a new window)
Popular Legislation and Constitutional Rights (external link, opens in a new window) | Duncker & Humblot, Berlin | 2005

Archival articles

The Equivalence of Living Conditions as a Constitutional Requirement (with Stefan Jansen) | Der Staat 58 (2019), pp. 243 ff.
University Organisation Law following the Federal Constitutional Court’s MHH Ruling | Wissenschaftsrecht 2016, pp. 197 ff. (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible) (published by Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen)
Self-interest and the public good in elections and referendums | AöR 134 (2009), pp. 1 ff. (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible) (published by Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen)
Official Liability and Popular Legislation | VerwArch 98 (2007), pp. 500 ff. (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible) (published by Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne)

Articles from specialist journals and books

The principle of connexity and local self-government in the constitutional law of North Rhine-Westphalia | der gemeindehaushalt 2016, p. 145 ff. (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
Legislative Procedures at State, Federal and Union Level (with Kristof M. Kamm) | Jura 2014, pp. 283 ff. (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
Liability in the European Union | from: Oliver Dörr (ed.), State Liability in Europe, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 2014, pp. 33 ff. (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
Do e-mails sent to the Federal Constitutional Court and the specialised courts comply with the required form? | NJW 2006, pp. 1390 ff. (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
Popular Legislation: Exercise of State Power or Exercise of Freedom? | DVBl 2006, pp. 1269 ff. (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
Protection of fundamental rights against economic activity by the public sector (with Bodo Pieroth) | DVBl 2002, p. 421 ff. (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)

Interjections

Digital parliamentary debate during the coronavirus pandemic? — In favour | NJW-aktuell 6/2021, p. 17 (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
The concept of ‘special sacrifice’ is a fundamental principle of compensation law | Sports magazine ‘kicker’ No. 8 of 26 March 2020, p. 8 (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
The myth of freedom of broadcasting | FAZ No. 134, 12 June 2014, p. 6
The power of the dead over the living (with Andreas Funke) | FAZ No. 12, 15 January 2009, p. 8
Whistling, hate-filled tirades and violence. Where does the right to demonstrate end? | NOZ No. 8, 10 January 2018, p. 18 (external link, opens in a new window)

Education

Studying law with John Grisham | NJW 2003, pp. 626–629 (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
The LL.M. programme at the University of Virginia School of Law | JURA 2003, pp. 356–358 (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
20 Years of Legal Culture Shock | JuS 2003, p. 309 ff. (available at no extra cost via the University of Regensburg catalogue)
From the Main Lecture Theatre to Legal Attaché | JURA 1998, pp. 558–560 (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
Jurassic Park: No Time to Think. Legal Education from a Student’s Perspective | JURA 1998, pp. 54–56 (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
Better? Worse? — Different. A legal internship in America | JURA 1997, pp. 670–673

Case studies

“The Dangerous Dog” (with Alicia Sütthoff) | JA 2024, pp. 305–312 (available at no extra cost via the University of Regensburg catalogue)

Advanced examination — Public Law: General Administrative Law — The Discharged Soldier (with Lisa Horstmann) | JuS 2024, pp. 341–346 (available at no extra cost via the University of Regensburg catalogue)

End-of-semester exam — Public Law: General Administrative Law — Studying with a scholarship, or without? (with Christine Schneider) | JuS 2013, pp. 627–632 (available at no extra cost via the University of Regensburg catalogue)

Videos

In for a penny, in for a pound: Controversy over the right to demonstrate at the G20 | Political programme ‘Panorama 3’ broadcast on 20 February 2018 (external link, opens in a new window) (soundbites at 04:31 and 06:11)
10th Osnabrück Knowledge Forum: Boos, hate-filled tirades, violence. Where does the right to demonstrate end? | University of Osnabrück YouTube channel (external link, opens in a new window)
8th Osnabrück Knowledge Forum: Berlin as a political biotope. Are lobbyists acting unconstitutionally? | University of Osnabrück’s YouTube channel (external link, opens in a new window)
Leif meets: Prof. Dr Bernd Hartmann | YouTube (external link, opens in a new window) (original audio at 40:26)

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