Walter Georg Leisner

Walter Georg Leisner studied law in Munich and Hamburg and got the first and second State Examination in Munich. He received his doctorate and habilitation degrees on the subject of ‘Securing existence in public law’ from the University of Hamburg and got the venia legendi for constitutional, administrative and tax law. He has been a lawyer in Munich and Berlin since 2001, since 2003 he has been a lecturer at the University of Hamburg, and at Free University of Berlin since 2012. In 2016 he was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the Chamber of Crafts for Munich and Upper Bavaria. He is co-author of Sodan’s commentary on basic law, editor and co-author of various legal commentaries and author of numerous monographs and articles in a variety of journals.