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Gunnar Beck

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Gunnar Beck is a German EU and constitutional lawyer, legal philosopher[citation needed] and publicist.

Professional career

Gunnar Beck read politics, philosophy, law and economics in Germany and Great Britain and completed his doctorate in political and legal philosophy under the supervision of Professor Sir Isaiah Berlin in 1996 at Nuffield College, Oxford. He subsequently worked for the international law firm Herbert Smith and as Deputy Legal Adviser (EU law) at the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament. He currently combines academic work with legal practice as a specialist EU lawyer. He is a barrister specialising in EU law at 1 Essex Court (Chambers of The Rt Hon Sir Tony Baldry), Temple, London and has been teaching EU law at SOAS University of London since 2005. He previously taught EU law, political philosophy and international relations at Oxford University and the LSE.

He is a candidate of the German right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland for the European Parliamentary Election of 2019. Previous to the election, it was reported that Beck was listed on the ballot paper as holding a professorship, even though he only holds the rank of reader at SOAS, which would not entitle him to be listed with the rank of professor before his name in Germany.[1][2][3] Subsequently, his party removed the title "Prof. Dr." from Beck's candidate website and now lists him as "DPhil Barrister-at-Law." Beck explained that he had merely translated his British university title and defended his actions as "legally unobjectionable and correct in content." According to the Ministry of Science and Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia, the "simple conversion of a British university position into a German title" as not possible.[4]

Works

Authored books

  • Beck, Gunnar (2013). The Legal Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2008). Fichte and Kant on Freedom, Rights and Law. Lexington Books.

Book chapters

  • Beck, Gunnar (2008). "Autonomy, history and natural law in the practical philosophy of Immanuel Kant". In: Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik Vol. 16 [Annual Review of Law and Ethics]. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2007). 'Legal Certainty, the Common Law Tradition, Resistance to Harmonization and Convergence in the European Community Legal Order.' In: Backer, L. C., (ed.), Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization. Convergence, Divergence, and Resistance.Carolina Academic Press, pp. 241–278.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2007). 'The Normative and Conceptual Contestability of Human Rights.' In: Byrd, B. S. and Hruschka, J. and Joerden, J. C., (eds.), Jahrbuch fuer Recht und Ethik. Annual Review of Law and Ethics. Band 15. Duncker & Humblot, pp. 659–698.
  • Beck, Gunnar and Cata, Larry (2006) 'The Common Law Tradition, the English Courts, and the Application of European Community Law in Harmonzing Law in an Era of Globilzation - Convergence, Divergence and Resistance.' In: Cata, Larry, (ed.), UNSPECIFIED Carolina Academic Press.

Journal articles

  • Beck, Gunnar (2016) 'Natural law and the moral void at the heart of securalised human rights law.' Journal of Comparative Law. (Forthcoming)
  • Beck, Gunnar (2014) 'The Legal Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU - A Reply to Michal Bobek.' European Law Review, 2014 (4). pp. 579–582.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2014) 'The Court of Justice, the Bundesverfassungsgericht and Legal Reasoning during the Euro Crisis: The Rule of Law as a Fair-Weather Phenomenon.' European Public Law, 20 (3). pp. 539–566.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2014) 'The Court of Justice, legal reasoning, and the Pringle Case - Law as the continuation of politics by other means.'European Law Review (2). pp. 234–250.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2013) 'The Legal Reasoning of the Court of Justice and the euro crisis – the flexibility of the Court’s Cumulative Approach and the Pringle Case.' Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 20 (4). pp. 645–658.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2013) 'Review Article - The Limits of Legal Reasoning and the European Court of Justice, by Gerard Conway, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.' Common Market Law Review, 50 (3). pp. 896–898.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2011) 'The Lisbon Judgment of the German Constitutional Court, the Primacy of EU Law and the Problem of Kompetenz-Kompetenz: A Conflict between Right and Right in Which There is No Praetor.' European Law Journal, 17 (4). pp. 470–494.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2008) 'Human Rights Adjudication under the ECHR between Value Pluralism and Essential Contestability.' European Human Rights Law Review (2). pp. 214–244.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2008) 'The Mythology of Human Rights.' Ratio Juris, 21 (3). pp. 312–347.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2008) 'Legitimation Crisis, Reifying Human Rights and the Norm-Creating Power of the Factual.' Pennsylvania State International Law Review, Winter.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2007) 'The Idea of Human Rights Between Value Pluralism and Conceptual Vagueness.' Pennsylvania State International Law Review, 25 (3). pp. 615–627.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2007) 'Common law reasoning as ordinary reasoning in extraordinary language.' Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft (3). pp. 335–358.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2007) 'The ECJ judgment in Cadman, the state of Community anti-discrimination law, and how the legal becomes the political.' European Law Review, 32 (4). pp. 549–562.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2006) 'Immanuel Kant's Theory of Rights.' Ratio Juris, 19 (4). pp. 371–401.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2006) 'The English Courts and the Application of Community Law.' Irish Journal of European Law.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2005) 'The Problem of Kompetenz-Kompetenz: A Conflict Between Right and Right in which There Is No Praetor.'European Law Review, 30 (1). pp. 42–67.
  • Beck, Gunnar (2005) 'The British Parliament and the Convention on the Future of Europe.' European Law Review, 30 (5). pp. 743–757.
  • Beck, Gunnar (1999) 'Autonomy, History and Political Freedom in Kant's Political Philosophy.' History of European Ideas, 25 (5). pp. 217–241.
  • Beck, Gunnar (1996) 'From Kant to Hegel—Johann Gottlieb Fichte's theory of self-consciousness.' History of European Ideas, 22 (4). pp. 275–294.

Monographs

  • Beck, Gunnar and Mole, Nuale and Reneman, Marcelle (2014). The application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights to asylum procedure law, European Council on Refugees and Exiles. Amsterdam: Dutch Council of Refugees.
  • Beck, Gunnar and Horn, H-D. Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen die Mitwirkung der Bundesbank und das Unterlassen der Bundesregierung und des Deutschen Bundestages jeglicher Hinwirkung auf die Aufhebung und Begrenzung der innerstaatlichen Auswirkungen der Beschlüsse des Rates der Europäischen Zentralbank vom 4. September 2014, 2. Oktober 2014, 15. Oktober 2014 und 22. Januar 2015.

Book reviews

  • Beck, Gunnar (2013). "Review of: The Limits of Legal Reasoning and the European Court of Justice by Gerard Conway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press". International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 62 (2). pp. 515–519.

References

  1. ^ "Ranks and Titles". Verfassungsblog (in German). Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  2. ^ "Gunnar Beck: AfD-Europakandidat trägt Professorentitel offenbar zu Unrecht". Spiegel Online. 2019-05-14. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  3. ^ "AfD-Europakandidat - Gunnar Beck verwendet offenbar zu Unrecht Professorentitel". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  4. ^ ONLINE, ZEIT (2019-05-14). "Professorentitel: AfD entfernt akademische Titel von Gunnar Beck auf Website". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
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