Stefan Korte

Stefan Korte (*1975 in Walsrode, Germany) is a professor of law at the University of Technology in Chemnitz. He holds a Chair in German Public Law at the faculty of economics since 2015. Korte is married and has got four children.

Korte studied law at the University of Göttingen and was supported with a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. He graduated in 2001 with his first state examination and 2006 with his second state examination in law. Korte received a doctor's degree in 2004 from the University of Hamburg for his thesis on the state's gambling regime. In 2013 he received his venia legendi for his habilitation thesis on public law as a location factor. Parallel to his activities in the field of law, Korte was studying at the Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg in order to receive additionally a degree in business administration. He graduated in 2008.

As an academic, Korte was awarded several prizes for both excellence in teaching (f.e. the Teaching Award by the faculty of law of the Freie Universität Berlin, 2009) and research (f.e. the Interdisciplinary Jean Monnet Award for habilitation by the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, 2015). He holds several memberships and fellowships to national as well as international associations such as the “Vereinigung Deutscher Staatsrechtslehrer“, “the German-Taiwanese Working Group on Administrative Law“ or the “Gesellschaft für das gesamte Regulierungsrecht“.

On the one hand, Korte’s research is focused on European economic law, especially on the European Single Market with its four freedoms as well as the state aid law. On the other, he takes part in the legal discussion on national administrative economic law, where he is a leading expert on the topics of the German gambling law and the Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act.