Horst Dreier

Horst Dreier (born September 7, 1954) is a German jurist and legal philosopher. He currently holds a chair at the University of Würzburg. In 2008 he was the initial candidate to replace Winfried Hassemer at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, but his nomination was opposed by the CDU for his controversial positions regarding torture and stem cell research,^[1] and eventually withdrawn in favor of Andreas Voßkuhle.^[2]

A native of Hannover, Lower Saxony, Dreier attended the University of Hannover, where he received his Staatsexamen in 1981. He went on to earn his Doctor of Laws from the University of Würzburg in 1985, under supervision of Hasso Hofmann.

Selected publications

English language publications only

•     (1999), "The Essence of Democracy – Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt Juxtaposed", in Diner, Dan; Stolleis, Michael, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt. A Juxtaposition, Gerlingen: Bleicher, pp. 71–79, ISBN 3883504661 .
•     (2004), "Does Cloning Violate the Basic Law’s Guarantee of Human Dignity?", in Vöneky, Silja; Wolfrum, Rüdiger, Human Dignity and Human Cloning, Leiden: Brill, pp. 77–85, ISBN 9004142339 .

References

External links

• Biography at the University of Würzburg
• Horst Dreier in the German National Library catalogue (German)