Prof. Dr. jur. Hans-Peter Füssel
Prof. Dr. jur. Hans-Peter Füssel
Hans-Peter Füssel supports and accompanies FiBS research and consulting projects in the areas of education governance and education law. He is currently advising FiBS on, among other things, the preparation of an impulse paper on the reorganisation of external and internal school affairs for the Forum on Education Digitalisation.
His research focuses on issues of education law and governance in education, education reporting and German and international education law. He has been a member of a large number of education policy advisory bodies in Germany and abroad and has held teaching posts in Russia, South Africa and China, among other places. His work is characterised by a large number of lectures on questions of governance in the education system and education law in a national and international context, as well as a large number of publications, such as the landmark publication "Schulrecht" / School Law (together with Hermann Avenarius).
Career
After studying law, economics and political science, he initially worked for many years in the school and science administration of Bremen, interrupted by a period at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. After professorships at universities of applied sciences in Hamburg and Bremen, he was then deputy head of the Department of Steering and Financing of Education at the DIPF (now the Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education) from 2007 to 2014 and at the same time professor for steering problems of modern education systems at the Institute of Educational Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He worked for many years in a leading role on the national education report, was editor of the journal "Recht der Jugend und des Bildungswesens" (Law of Youth and Education) for many years and chairman of the German Association for Educational Administration (DGBV); in the international context he was and is a member of the board of the "European Association for Educational Law and Policy" (ELA).