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Dr Johannes M Jäger
Lawyer, Europajurist (Univ. Würzburg)
Business Sectors: Construction, Infrastructure
HFK Rechtsanwälte
Stephanstraße 3
60313 Frankfurt
T +49 69 9758 2215 6
F +49 69 9758 2222 5
E jaeger@hfk.de
Profile
- Lawyer focused on planning law, public construction law, and public procurement law
- Author of numerous articles on public construction law, public procurement law, foreign trade law, German and British constitutional law, hunting law (with references to weapons law, environmental law, forest law, and property law), and (state) ecclesiastical law
- Doctorate in British constitutional and political parties law as well as in historic ecclesiastical and international law (doctor of canon and civil law, Dr.iur.utr.)
- Additional qualifications in Common Law (Certificate of Common Law Studies), Comparative and European law (“Europajurist”, University of Würzburg), and French law
- Lecturing activities in public (commercial) law
Key Expertise
- Providing comprehensive advice to the public sector on infrastructure projects, especially concerning rail-bound public transport and long-distance transport
- Providing advice and representation for all project phases, focusing on subsidy and state aid law, public procurement law, planning and construction law, and environmental law (for example, emission control law, water law)
- Advising on political processes in the infrastructure sector (federal, state, and local constitutional law)
- Accompanying procurement procedures on behalf of contracting authorities and clients on infrastructure projects, particularly in the construction and service sectors, the security and defence sector, and IT sector
- Advising the public sector, builders, and project developers on complex construction projects on the procedures dealing with development plans, building permits, and drafting contracts under public law (for example, neighbourhood agreements) and enforcing rights in courts of all different levels
Career
- Lawyer at HFK Rechtsanwälte Heiermann Franke Knipp und Partner mbB, since 2020
- Law clerk at the regional court of Frankfurt, with stations in Washington DC (Law Library of Congress), Wiesbaden (state chancellery of Hesse), Berlin/Frankfurt (Beiten Burkhardt Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH; inter-municipal association “Regionalverband FrankfurtRheinMain”), from 2017 to 2019
- Academic assistant/tutor on constitutional law at the University of Frankfurt, from 2015 to 2016
- Research assistant at FPS Fritze Wicke Seelig Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB and Bird & Bird LLP, from 2014 to 2017
- PhD student at the University of Würzburg and University of Exeter (UK), from 2015 to 2020
- Internship in 2011 at the European Parliament in Brussels, in the office of Dr C Ehler, MEP (ITRE Industry & Energy, AFET Foreign Affairs and Security/Defence
- Student of law at the universities of Bonn, Lausanne (Switzerland), and Würzburg, from 2007 to 2014
- Reserve officer of the German armed forces (current rank: Captain), especially in national and international headquarters, extended security check according to SÜG (security clearance law)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wehrtechnik (DWT) e.V. (Society of defence and security companies)
- Netzwerk der Gesellschaft der Sicherheitstechnischen Wirtschaft (GSW-Netzwerk) e.V. (Society of defence and security companies)
- Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Bonn e. V.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wehrrecht und humanitäres Völkerrecht e. V. (German Society for Military Law and Humanitarian Law)
- Deutsche Atlantische Gesellschaft e. V. (German Atlantic Society)
- Deutsch-Britische Juristenvereinigung e. V. (German-British Lawyers‘ Association)
- Deutsch-Französische Juristenvereinigung e. V. (German-French Lawyers Association)
- Regionaltangente West (RTW) GmbH on planning, state aid/subsidy and public construction law issues for the realisation of the RTW as the largest rail infrastructure project in Hesse (ongoing)
- HA Hessen Agentur GmbH (business development agency of the State of Hesse) on questions of public procurement and state aid law (ongoing)
- BWI GmbH (Federal IT system house) in the procurement of IT solutions for the Bundeswehr for a total of approx. 200 million euros (preparation and implementation of the award procedures according to defence and general public procurement law, VSVgV and VgV)
- Comprehensive advice and representation of a German IT company for procurement management systems in a state aid complaints procedure before the EU Commission (ongoing)
- Invision AG (a Swiss investment company) on the acquisition of the Austrian eduPRO Group – a leading provider of educational measures for around 20,000 course participants per year at 85 locations in Germany and Austria – from Luxempart German Investments S.A. on procurement law issues (in German and English)
Expert activity:
- Expert in the Hessian state parliament on the draft law "Schnelle Schiene Hessen – Gesetz zur Gründung der Hessischen Gesellschaft für Schieneninfrastruktur" (Act for the establishment of a Hessian state-owned company for accelerating rail infrastructure projects), printed document 20/8126, 2022
Lectures:
- „Ohne Gewehr - Probleme und Perspektiven bei Beschaffungen der Bundeswehr“, KdStV Aenania München, 14. Juli 2022 und Rotary Club München-Martinsried, November 22, 2022
- “Election and Eviction of Leaders in British Political Parties”, Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft Rhein-Main, October 20, 2022
- “The Regulation of Political Parties in Germany“, Thammasat University Bangkok, German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance, February 2021;
- “Party Regulations and the Legality of Online Voting for Candidates, Leaders and Policy“, University of Exeter, Department of Politics, March 3, 2016;
Books:
- Die Mitgliederpartei im britischen Parteienrecht, Duncker & Humblot, Schriften zum Internationalen Recht, Bd. 234, 519 S., 2022
- Innozenz IV. – Juristenpapst, Machtpolitiker und Vordenker der völkerrechtlichen Souveränitätslehre, Frank & Timme, Aus Religion und Recht, Bd. 23, 114 S., 2021
Selected Articles:
- Book Review „From Open Secrets to Secret Voting: Democratic Electoral Reforms and Voter Autonomy“ (I. Mares), German Politics 2016, S. 434-435
- French Government Plans to Introduce Proportional Representation, Global Legal Monitor, May 22, 2018
- Family Voting as a Solution to Low Fertility? Experiences from France and Germany, In Custodia Legis, April 19, 2018
- Germany: Federal Administrative Court Allows Cities to Ban Diesel-Fueled Vehicles to Reduce Air Pollution, Global Legal Monitor, March 28, 2018