Profile

Professional career

• since 10/2016
  Executive director of the institute for media law and data law as well as digitalisation at the faculty of law of the University of Leipzig
• since 10/2016
  Holder of the chair for constitutional law and administrative law as well as media law and information law at the faculty of law of the University of Leipzig (succession Prof. Dr. Degenhart)
• 10/2014 - 09/2016
  Faculty director of the faculty of law of the University of Rostock
• 02/2013 - 09/2016
  Data protection officer of the University of Rostock
• since 01/2011
  Member of the legal council of the Deutsche Bahn AG
• 04/2010 - 04/2013
  Expert member of the Enquête-Commission „Internet and digital society“ of the German Bundestag
• since 01/2010
  Co-chairman of the council for the registered society “study of structural policy issues” (Parliamentary structure company Berlin)
• since 01/2009
  Lecturer at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
• 01/2009 - 06/2009
  Research Stay in the U.S.A.
• 01/2008 - 12/2010
  Lecturer at the University of Bonn (Master of European Regulation of Network Industries [MERNI])
• 01/2005 - 12/2014
  Lecturer at the Hamburg Media School (HMS)
• 04/2002 - 08/2008
  (Expert) member of the commission of the corporate body digital access of the directors conference of the state media authority
• 01/2000 - 12/2008
  Lecturer of the European Institute of the University of the Saarland (Master of European Law)
• 06/1999 - 09/2016
  Holder of the Gerd-Bucerius-endowed professorship for communication law connected with public law at the University of Rostock
• since 04/1999
  (Co-)Editor of the RTkom/TMR
• 02/1999 - 04/1999
  Receiving and accepting the call to the Gerd-Bucerius-endowed professorship for communication law connected with public law at the law faculty of the University of Rostock
• 11/1998 - 06/1999
  Substitution of the Gerd-Bucerius-endowed professorship for communication law connected with public law at the law faculty of the University of Rostock
• 04/1993 - 11/1999
  Assistant professor at the seminar for public law and political science (Prof. Dr. Peter Selmer)
• 03/1992 - 03/1993
  Assistant professor at the seminar for public administration (Prof. Dr. Carl-Eugen Eberle)
• 01/1991 - 12/1992
  Lecturer at the University of Rostock
• 04/1988 - 02/1992
  Scientific assistant at the seminar for public adminstration (Prof. Dr. Carl-Eugen Eberle) and at the seminar for public law and political science (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schwabe)

Education

• 07/1998
  Completion of the habilitation procedure (Habilitation treatise: „Public companies in the field of tension between the principle of democracy and economy. A study on the constitutional legitimation of the economic activity of the public sector“) and grant of the license to teach for the subjects constitutional law, administrative law and European community law by the department of law, University of Hamburg
• 02/1992
  Second state law examination in Hamburg
• 06/1991
  Conferment of a doctorate at the department of law I of the University of Hamburg with the dissertation „Freedom of broadcasting in the dual broadcasting system of the German Federal Republic“
• 03/1988
  First state law examination in Hamburg
• 01/1985
  Admission to the sponsorship organisation Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
• 09/1984
  Language stay at the Université Catholique de l´ Ouest / Angers (France) with the acquisition of a language certificate
• 10/1983 - 03/1988
  Study of law at the University of Hamburg

Among other, Prof. Dr. Gersdorfs main areas of research include fundamental rights protected freedoms, media law, data protection law, gambling law as well as regulatory law.

• BeckOK Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Broadcasting and Media Law

  Gersdorf, Hubertus

  Duration: 10/2013 – ongoing

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht sowie Medienrecht; Bürgerliches Recht und Informationsrecht, Daten- und Medienrecht
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more projects

• Gersdorf, H.

  Verfassungsprozessrecht und Verfassungsmäßigkeitsprüfung

  Heidelberg: C.F. Müller. 2024.
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• Gersdorf, H.; Brosius-Gersdorf, F.

  Das neue System der Beschaffung von Leistungen zur medizinischen Rehabilitation durch die Rentenversicherung. § 15 SGB VI auf dem Prüfstand des (EU-)Wettbewerbs- und Verfassungsrechts

  Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 2024.
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• Gersdorf, H.

  Beauftragung des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks durch neuen Drei-Stufen-Test

  In: Cole, M. D.; Schiedermair, S.; Wagner, E. E. (Eds.)

  Die Entfaltung von Freiheit im Rahmen des Rechts: Verfassungsrecht, Internationales Recht, Medienrecht – Festschrift für Dieter Dörr zum 70. Geburtstag. Heidelberg: C.F. Müller. 2022. pp. 837–853.
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• Gersdorf, H.; Paal, B. (Eds.)

  Informations- und Medienrecht - EU-GRCharta, EMRK, GG, MStV, BGB, IFG, VIG, GWB, TKG, TMG u.a. (Kommentar)

  München: C.H. Beck. 2021.
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• Gersdorf, H.

  Freedom of speech

  Journal of Constitutional Justice. 2020. 7 (1). pp. 61–86.
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more publications

• Tagung und Workshop

  5. Leipziger Gespräche zum Verkehrsmarktrecht – Regulierung des Güterverkehrs

  Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht sowie Medienrecht

  Event Organiser: Gersdorf, Hubertus; Knauff, Matthias

  02/12/2022
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• Tagung und Workshop

  4. Leipziger Gespräche zum Verkehrsmarktrecht – Aktuelle Fragen des Eisenbahnregulierungsrechts

  Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht sowie Medienrecht

  Event Organiser: Gersdorf, Hubertus; Knauff, Matthias

  19/11/2021
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• Tagung und Workshop

  3. Leipziger Gespräche zum Verkehrsmarktrecht – Wettbewerb und Gemeinwohl im Öffentlichen Personenverkehr

  Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht sowie Medienrecht

  Event Organiser: Gersdorf, Hubertus; Knauff, Matthias

  22/11/2019
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• Tagung und Workshop

  2. Leipziger Gespräche zum Verkehrsmarktrecht – Wettbewerb im Personenfernverkehr

  Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht sowie Medienrecht

  Event Organiser: Gersdorf, Hubertus; Knauff, Matthias

  07/12/2018
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• Tagung und Workshop

  1. Leipziger Gespräche zum Verkehrsmarktrecht – Änderung der Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1370/2007: Neuerungen für den Eisenbahnsektor

  Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht sowie Medienrecht

  Event Organiser: Gersdorf, Hubertus; Knauff, Matthias

  27/10/2017
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Teaching in public law, especially

•  on state organisation law
•  on fundamental rights
•  on public law (tutorial)
•  on public media law

• Constitutional law I – State organization law (lecture)

• Constitutional law II – Fundamental rights (lecture)

• Media law II (public law) (lecture)

• Bar review for public law – Constitutional law I & II (lecture)

• Tutorial for advanced students for public law (lecture)

• Media law (seminar)

• Current problems of constitutional law (seminar)