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

• Constitutional Law, Fundamental Rights
• Information Law, Internet Law, Media Law, Data Protection
• Health and Bio-Law
• Police and Intelligence Law, Countering of Terrorism and Financing of Terrorism
• Theory and Sociology of Law

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) • Since 2022 board member of the Gesellschaft Hamburger Juristen • Since  08.2024 Associate of the Ombuds Committee for the prevention of research misconduct at the University of Hamburg • 09/2025-06/2026 Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy

Extended Print Version: Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

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

• Conceptualising the Protected Interests in Data Protection Law, in Elisa Orrù and Ralf Poscher (eds.), Conceptions of Data Protection and Privacy: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2026, pp. 31-70.

• 日本及びEUにおける個人データに関する基本権保護の更なる発展,in: 情報法制研究 第17号, 2025, S. 46-56 (gemeinsam mit Kazuhiro Takahashi). [Advancement of the fundamental rights protection of personal data in Japan and the European Union, in: Journal of Law and Information System, Vol. 17, 2025, pp. 46-56.]

• Sicherheitsbehördliche Vernetzung und Datenschutz, in: Margrit Seckelmann (Hrsg.), Digitalisierte Verwaltung – Vernetztes E-Government, Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 3. Aufl. 2024, S. 623-651.
  [Networking and Data Protection of Security Departments, in: Margrit Seckelmann (ed.), Digitalized Administration – Interconnected e-Government, Erich Schmidt Verlag, 3rd ed. Berlin, 2024, pp. 623-651.]

• Zensus, Digitalisierung und Pfadänderungen im Datenschutz, in: Dana-Sophia Valentiner/Katharina Goldberg (Hrsg.), Zensus 2022 – Volkszählungen zwischen Recht, Politik und Sozialwissenschaften, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2024, S. 199-227. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748915980 [Census, Digitalization, and Path Modifications in Data Protection, in: Dana-Sophia Valentiner/Katharina Goldberg (eds.), Census 2022 – Population Counts between Law, Politics, and Social Sciences, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2024, pp. 199-227.]

• Effects of Fundamental Rights on Relations between Private Parties and Personality Protection: Breaking New Ground, in: Gilmar Ferreira Mendes/Draiton Gonzaga de Souza/Sandro Andre Bobrzyk (Hrsg.), Dignidade humana e direitos fundamentais:
  Festschrift em homenagem ao Prof. Ingo W. Sarlet, Porto Alegre: Editora Fundação Fênix, 2023, S. 507-530.

• Umgang mit personenbezogenen Informationen und Daten, in: Andreas Voßkuhle/Martin Eifert/Christoph Möllers (Hrsg.), Grundlagen des Verwaltungsrechts, Bd. 2, München: Beck, 3. Aufl. 2022, § 22, S. 1587-1660.
  [Handling of Personal Information and Data, in: Andreas Voßkuhle/Martin Eifert/Christoph Möllers (eds.), Fundamentals of Administrative Law, Vol. 2, Munich: Beck, 3rd ed. 2022, §22, pp. 1587-1660.]

• 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), 2022, S. 69-112.

• Data Retention in Germany, in: Marek Zubik/Jan Podkowik/Robert Rybski (eds.), European Constitutional Courts towards Data Retention Laws, Springer (Law, Governance and Technology Series Book 45), 2021, S. 117-136.

• Biotechnologies and Human Dignity, in: Dieter Grimm/Alexandra Kemmer-er/Christoph Möllers (Eds.), Human Dignity in Context, München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C. H. Beck/Hart/Nomos, 2018, S. 509-559.

• 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.

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