UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Univ.-Prof. Dr. iur. Markus Ogorek, LL.M. (Berkeley), Att. at Law (NY)

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Markus Ogorek graduated in law at the University of Bochum and the Paris Lodron University Salzburg. After receiving his doctorate under supervision of Stefan Muckel in 2001, he completed an LL.M. degree at the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) and a visiting scholarship at Duquesne Law School Pittsburgh before taking the New York bar exam. Following his legal clerkship and several years of working as an attorney at the international law firm Linklaters LLP, Markus Ogorek qualified as a professor at the University of Cologne in 2012. Afterwards he became a visiting professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and, at the same time, at Nanjing University.

In 2013, Markus Ogorek accepted a public law chair at EBS University. In summer 2014, he became Dean of the EBS Law School and in 2016 president of EBS University. In spring 2020, Markus Ogorek moved from the EBS presidency (successor: Günther H. Oettinger) back to the University of Cologne. There he took over from Thomas von Danwitz, Judge at the European Court of Justice, as Director of the Institute of Public and Administrative Law. In addition, he is coordinator of the German-French Master's program (University of Cologne and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Markus Ogorek is a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Professors, the German-American Lawyers Association and the Görres Society. Furthermore he is a liaison professor for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and for the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). His research covers on administrative as well as constitutional law – currently, he focuses with the law of public security and the German state constitutional law. In addition, he deals with zivil service, social and canon law as well as administrative science.

His teaching formats have received several awards; most recently among others the Fellowship for Teaching Innovations of the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Science (2021), the Teaching Award of the Faculty of Law at University of Cologne (2023) and the Cologne University Award (2024). Markus Ogorek publishes commentaries on public law and is engaged in advisory work for the media, in the parliamentary sphere, and in selected legal disputes.

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