Prof. Dr. iur. Dipl.-Soz. Marion Albers

Studies of Law, Sociology, Political Sciences and Economy at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Bielefeld • State Exam in Law and Diploma in Sociology • Assistant at the Universität of Bielefeld, the Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster und at the Federal Constitutional Court • Doctorate of Law in the Field of Crime Prevention and Provisions for Prosecution at the University  of Bielefeld • Habilitation in the Field of Informational Self-Determination at  Humboldt-University Berlin • 2003-2005 Expert in the Advisory Committee of the  Bundestag "Ethics and Law of Modern Medicine" • 2005-2009 Full Professor of Public Law, Economic Law, Information Law, Health Law and Environmental Law at the University of Augsburg • 2006-2009 Managing Director of the Institute for Biolaw, Health Law and Medicine Law at the University of Augsburg • 2008/2009 Visiting Scholar at Chicago-Kent College of Law • since 10.2009 Full Professor at Hamburg University • 2010-2017 Managing Director of the Institute for Public Law and Political Law, Hamburg University • since 2012  Managing Director of the Cyber Law Clinic at the Faculty of Law at Hamburg University • since 03.2013  Managing Director of the Hamburg Center for Bio-Governance • 04.2014 - 10.2014 Fellow at Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald• 2015 Part-time lecturer at Seoul National University for the course „Comparative Constitutional Law“•2015 Scientific award of the Claussen-Simon-Foundation • 2015-2016 Opus Magnum-Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation•2015/2018 Principal Investigator in the German/Brazilian DAAD/CAPES PROBRAL- Research Project „Internet regulation and und Internet rights“ • 2017/2018 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin • Since 2018 expert in the German Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures (RfII)

Extended Print Version: Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

• Public Law
• Constitutional Law and Human Rights
• Communication and Information Law, especially Data Protection, Internet Law and Freedom of Information
• Biolaw and Health Law
• Law of Police and Intelligence Agencies
• Foundations of Law, especially Theory and Sociologie of Law, interdisciplinary Projects.

This is a selection of publications by Prof. Dr. Marion Albers. You can find an extended list here.

• Surveillance and Data Protection Rights: Data Retention and Access to Telecommunications Data, in: Marion Albers/Ingo Sarlet (Hrsg.), Personality and Data Protection Rights on the Internet, Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York: Springer (Ius Gentium), forthcoming 2019.
• Sicherheitsbehördliche Vernetzung und Datenschutz, in: Margrit Seckelmann (Hrsg.), Digitalisierte Verwaltung – Vernetztes E-Government, Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2. Aufl. 2019, S. 509-534.
  [Security authority networks and data protection, in: Margrit Seckelmann (ed.), Digitized administration – interlinked E-government, Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2nd edition 2019.]
• Geschichte der Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit in Hamburg, in: Karl-Peter Sommermann/Bert Schaffarzik (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Geschichte der Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit in Deutschland und Europa, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 2019, S. 721-784.
  [History of Administrative Courts in Hamburg, in: Karl-Peter Sommermann/Bert Schaffarzik (eds.), Handbook of the history of Administrative Courts in Germany and Europe, 3 volumes, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 2019, 721-784.]
• L’effet horizontal des droits fondamentaux dans le cadre d’une conception à multi-niveaux, in: Thomas Hochmann/Jörn Reinhardt (Hrsg.), L’effet horizontal des droits fondamentaux, Editions Pedone, Paris, 2018, p. 177–216.
• Cases and Legal Regulation of Advance Directives in Germany:, European Journal of Health Law, Vol. 25, Issue 4, 2018, S. 441 – 458
• Biotechnologies and Human Dignity, in: Dieter Grimm/Alexandra Kemmerer/Christoph Möllers (Eds.), Human Dignity in Context, München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C. H. Beck/Hart/Nomos, 2018, S. 509 –  559
  also published in: Revista Direito Público, Vol. 15 (2018), p. 9-49.
• Recht & Netz: Enwicklungslinien und Problemkomplexe, in: Marion Albers/Ioannis Katsivelas (Hrsg.), Recht & Netz, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2018, S. 9 – 35.
  [Law & the Internet: Evolutionary steps and problem areas, in: Marion Albers/Ioannis Katsivelas (eds.), Law & the Internet, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2018, 9-35.]
• Bioethik, Biorecht, Biopolitik: eine Kontextualisierung, Schriften zum Bio-, Gesundheits- und Medizinrecht, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2016
  [Bioethics, Biolaw, Biopolitics: a Contextualization, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2016
• Terrorismusfinanzierungsbekämpfung im Mehrebenensystem, in: Albers/Groth (Hrsg.), Globales Recht und Terrorismusfinanzierungsbekämpfung, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2015, S. 85-131.
  [Countering the Financing of Terrorism in Global Context, in: Albers/Groth (Eds.), Global Law and Countering the Financing of Terrorism, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2015, pp. 85-131] (http://www.nomos-shop.de/24048)
• Enhancement, Human Nature, and Human Rights, in: Albers/Hoffmann/Reinhardt (Eds.), Human Rights and Human Nature, Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York: Springer (Ius Gentium), 2014, S. 235 – 266 (http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-017-8672-0)
• Realizing the Complexity of Data Protection, in: Serge Gutwirth/Paul de Hert/Ronald Leenes (Eds.), Reloading Data Protection, Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York: Springer, 2014, S. 213 – 235.

This is a selection of lectures by Prof. Dr. Marion Albers. You can find an extended list here.

• EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung und der Weg zu einem neuen Wissenschaftsrecht,
  [EU General Data Protection Regulation and the way to a novel regulation of science and research]
  lecture at the workshop of the Volkswagen Foundation on the subject "Mixed Methods in the Humanities?" from 21 to 22 Februar 2019 in Hildesheim
• Data Protection: Fundamental Rights and New Challenges,
  lecture at the XXI. Congresso Internacional de Direito Constitucional at the Instituto Brasiliense de Direito Público (IDP) from 7. to 9. November 2018 in Brasilia, Brazil
• Sozialität in der Grundrechtsdogmatik
  [Sociality in doctrinal approaches to fundamental rights)
  lecture on 3 July 2018 at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany]
• Prenatal and Pre-Implantational Diagnosis in Germany from a Human Rights Perspective
  lecture at the international workshop "Wunschkinder/Vansh" at the South Asia Institute at the University Heidelberg, from 13 to 14 September 2017 in Heidelberg, Germany
• Promoting Sustainable Consumption through Governmental Activities
  lecture at the international workshop "Monitoring consumer behaviour for sustainability" at the University of Hamburg, from 7 to 8 September 2017 in Hamburg, Germany
• Grenzenloses Internet - Überforderter Rechtsstaat?,
  [Limitless Internet – Is the Constitutional State unable to cope?],
  lecture on the 22nd conference of judges and State attorneys in Weimar, 5. – 7. April 2017
• DNA-basierte Vorhersagen zu äußeren Körpermerkmalen und allgemeines Persönlichkeitsrecht - verfassungsrechtliche Implikationen unter Berücksichtigung ethischer und soziologischer Aspekte
  [DNA-based Prognoses of Phenotypic Traits and Personality Rights - Constitutional Implications with a view to Ethical and Social Aspects]
  lecture at the symposion "Prospects and Limits of DNA-Analyses" at the Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, 21st of March, 2017, in Berlin
• Terrorismusfinanzierungsbekämpfung,
  [Countering the financing of terroism],
  lecture at the public law lecture series of the University of Munster on January the 24th, 2017
• Stammzellforschung im Brennpunkt von Biotechnikkontroversen
  [Stem cell research at the heart of biotechnology controversies]
  lecture in the context of the Tag des Wissens Life Science at the University hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf in Hamburg on 10 september 2016