Horst Dreier

Horst Dreier (born 7 September 1954) is a German jurist and legal philosopher. He currently holds a chair at the University of Würzburg. In 2008 he was the initial candidate to replace Winfried Hassemer at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, but his nomination was opposed by the CDU for his controversial positions regarding torture and stem cell research,[1] and eventually withdrawn in favor of Andreas Voßkuhle.[2]

Horst Dreier
Born (1954-09-07) 7 September 1954
Hannover, Lower Saxony
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Würzburg
University of Hannover
Scientific career
FieldsLegal studies, legal philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Würzburg
Doctoral advisorHasso Hofmann
InfluencesHans Kelsen

A native of Hannover, Lower Saxony, Dreier attended the University of Hannover, where he received his Staatsexamen in 1981. He went on to earn his Doctor of Laws from the University of Würzburg in 1985, under supervision of Hasso Hofmann.

Horst Dreier received several awards for his work; in 2000, the "Award for Excellence in Teaching" from the Bavarian State Minister for Science, Research and the Arts and in 2002 he was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art[3] by the Federal President of the Republic of Austria.

In 2003 Dreier was elected as a member of the Philosophy and History Class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in 2007 he was inducted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Selected publications
English language publications only
  • ——— (1999), "The Essence of Democracy – Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt Juxtaposed", in Diner, Dan; Stolleis, Michael (eds.), Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt. A Juxtaposition, Gerlingen: Bleicher, pp. 71–79, ISBN 3-88350-466-1.
  • ——— (2004), "Does Cloning Violate the Basic Law's Guarantee of Human Dignity?", in Vöneky, Silja; Wolfrum, Rüdiger (eds.), Human Dignity and Human Cloning, Leiden: Brill, pp. 77–85, ISBN 90-04-14233-9.
gollark: Honestly, I would have liked it more if the unlimited range modems were big structures of some sort so routing actually existed.
gollark: Yes, wireless modems can only go some amount of blocks depending on their height and the weather.
gollark: The only real advantage it has is routing, and ender modems obsoleted that (which I'm kind of sad about).
gollark: The differences are *not* very big.
gollark: Rednet is just an abstraction layer for modem.

References
  1. Prantl, Heribert (January 23, 2008), "Die Würde des Menschen wird antastbar: Über Richter Horst Dreier, der bald sehr mächtig werden könnte", Süddeutsche Zeitung, archived from the original on July 17, 2011
  2. "SPD zieht Kandidatur von Dreier zurück", Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 17, 2008.
  3. "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 1514. Retrieved 23 October 2012.


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