Jens-Peter Schneider (born 1963) holds a chair in Public Law, European Information and Infrastructure Law at the University of Freiburg; he is also co-director of the Institute of Media and Information Law at the University of Freiburg. Until 2010 he was professor of German

and European Administrative Law at the University of Osnabrueck and functioning as codirector of the European Legal Studies Institute. From 1993 until 2000 he was Reader in Law at the University of Hamburg and Research Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Law as well as at the Centre for Research in Law and Innovation. Besides he received offers for professorships at the universities of Bielefeld (1999), Erfurt (1999) and Speyer (2009).

He studied law (and economics) at the Universities of Marburg and Freiburg (Germany), holds a doctor in law from the University of Freiburg (Germany) (Dr.iur), worked as a junior lawyer in state and federal ministeries as well as in the City attorney´s office of San Francisco and habilitated at the University of Hamburg (Germany).

He has been Visiting Research Fellow at Brasenose College and at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford (2004) as well as Konrad-Adenauer-Guest Professor at the Andrássy-University Budapest (2005). In 2006 he established the annual International Seminar on European and Comparative Law of scholars and students from the universities of Birmingham, Orléans (now Strasbourg), Osnabrueck (now Freiburg), Oxford and Tilburg. He is founding member of the Dornburg Study Group on the Transformation of Administrative Law in Europe and Honorary Fellow of the interdisciplinary Osnabrueck Jean-

Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Studies.

His teaching and publications in books and articles address issues of German and European constitutional, regulatory and administrative law as well as comparative law.

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