Curriculum Vitae:

• Born 1963 in Cologne
• 1982 General qualification for university entrance at the Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn-Bad Godesberg
• Military service at the Federal Ministry of Defence
• 1988 First state examination in Hamm
• 1991 Promotion Dr. jur., University of Muenster
• 1992 Second state examination in Düsseldorf
• 1998 Habilitation, University of Cologne
• Since 1999 Chair of Public law and Administrative science at the Heinrich – Heine – University Düsseldorf
• Since 2003 Director of the Institute of the law of information
• From 2006 to 2008 Dean of the Faculty of Law

Further activities and positions:

• Member of the “Constitution Commission” of the HHU-Senate
• Member of the faculty council of the law school
• President of the “Freiherr vom Stein Academy for European Municipal Law“
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Düsseldorf University Press GmbH
• Member of the foundation board of the Klaus Stern Foundation
• Co-editor of the European Journal of Gambling Law (ZfWG) 
• Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Law and Administration in Nord Rhine-Westphalia (NWVBl.)
• Legal expert in several parliamentary hearings
• Legal representation at the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice