Prof. Dr. Björn Ahl
Ostasiatisches Seminar – China-Studien
Dürener Str. 56-60
Raum: 3.01
E-mail: bjoern.ahl[at]uni-koeln.de
Telefon: +49 221 470 5421
Kurzbiografie
Chair Professor of Chinese Legal Culture, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Cologne 2012 - 2015
Associate Professor of Chinese Legal Culture, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Cologne 2010 - 2012
Visiting Professor of Chinese Law, Comparative Public Law and International Law, China EU School of Law, Chinese University of Political Science and Law, Beijing/Hamburg University 2006 - 2010
Assistant Professor of Law, City University of Hong Kong 2008
PhD (magna cum laude), Heidelberg University 2002 - 2006
Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Nanjing University 2002 - 2006
Deputy Director, Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies, Nanjing University/ University of Göttingen 1999 - 2002
Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg 1999 - 2001
Legal clerkship (Civil Court, Criminal Court, Public Prosecutor’s Office, Heidelberg; Administrative Appellate Court, Baden-Württemberg; Legal Department, Regional Board Karlsruhe)
Interessengebiete
- Chinese Public Law
- Chinese Practice in Public International Law
- Legal Transfers
- Legal Culture
Akademische Mitgliedschaften
Editor-in-Chief, Chinese Law and Chinese Legal Culture Series (Nomos) 2013 - present
Series Editor, China EU Law Series (Springer) 2012 - present
Advisory Board Member, Chinese and Comparative Law Series (Martinus Nijhoff), Zeitschrift für chinesisches Recht 2010 - present
Associate Editor, China EU Law Journal (Springer) 2008 - present
Co-editor, 中德公法论著 (German and Chinese Public Law Series, Beijing University Press)
Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte
Vergangene Forschungsprojekte
Chinese Fundamental Rights Jurisprudence: Constitutional Development under One-Party Rule
Description:
Chinese scholarly discourse on constitutional development and the theory and practice of fundamental rights has been gradually changing from being dominated by concepts of rule of law and the constraint of governmental power to a discussion that focuses on 'constitutionalism with Chinese characteristics’ and rejects the previous cautious liberal reading of the written constitution as a symptom of ‘Western ideological hegemony’. This highly ideological debate goes hand in hand with an unprecedented official emphasis of rule-of-law rhetoric and far-reaching judicial reforms under the leadership of Xi Jinping. The current constitutional debate and its perception in Western scholarship on China, however, is not sufficiently informed by judicial practice, in particular the multifaceted ways in which Chinese courts implement fundamental rights and basic constitutional principles in their day-to-day practice. This project analyses and systemises the application by Chinese courts of laws and regulations that regulate areas falling within the sphere of protection of fundamental rights of the Chinese constitution. We investigate and categorise decisions in which Chinese courts apply the constitution directly and study current Chinese official and scholarly discourses on constitutionalism and the role of courts in constitutional development. Further, we will link discourses on Chinese constitutionalism with current fundamental rights jurisprudence in order to develop a sound theoretical framework that takes into account both theories of different schools of constitutionalism and court practice and contribute to the literature on courts and constitutional development in authoritarian regimes.
Support:
Thyssen Foundation
Duration:
2017 - 2019
Chinese immigration law and policy: perspectives of lawmakers, administrators and immigrants
Projektbeschreibung:
Als ein Teil des Projekts Einwanderung und Transformation der chinesischen Gesellschaft werden hier die sozialen Dynamiken und die Umsetzung des neuen chinesischen Ausländergesetzes von 2012 aus der Perspektive staatlicher und nicht-staatlicher Akteure untersucht.
Region: AsiaChina
Department: Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology Chinese Studies
Research Area: Citizenship and Migration
Person(s): Björn Ahl, Michaela Pelican
Period: 2014 - 2016
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