Michael Gøtze

Current research

Michael Gøtze is a Professor (Ph.D., LL.M., LL.B.) of Administrative Law. He was awarded the Ph.D.-degree in law in 1998 at the Faculty of Law and has since joined the faculty as a researcher and teacher. He is responsible for the faculty's teaching in Administrative Law. In addition to academia, he has worked within the civil service and the court system. He is a member of a number af European research networks and has contributed to the preparatory work within the Legal Affairs Committee under the European Parliament on the development and possible codification of a European Administrative Law Code. His research interests revolve aorund various control mechanisms. 

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Michael Gøtze is a Professor (Ph.D., LL.M., LL.B.) of Administrative Law. He was awarded the Ph.D.-degree in law in 1998 at the Faculty of Law and has since joined the faculty as a researcher and teacher. He is responsible for the faculty's teaching in Administrative Law. In addition to academia, he has worked within the civil service and the court system. He is member of a number of European research networks. His current research and teaching interests include Administrative Law, Public Law, Welfare Law, European Union Law and he is involved in research projects within the following topic:  

• Transparency principle in public administration
• Proactive parliamentary ombudsmen in the EU
• The citizens' right to know their rights
• Administrative silence
• Digital freedom of expression within public administration

Michael Gøtze is a research staff member of the faculty's research center of WELMA and a number of European research networks. Papers by Michael Gøtze can be accessed on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1428991

Selected recent publications 

• Administrative Appeals and ADR in Danish Administrative Law, Gøtze, M, Chapter 5 in Alternative Dispute Resolution in European Administrative Law, edited by Dragos, D, and Neamtu, B, Springer, 2014, 155-180.
• The Danish Implementation of the Services Directive, Gøtze M, in The Implementation of the Services Directive, Transposition, Problems and Strategies, Stelkens U, Weiss W and Mirschberger M (eds), TMC Asser Press, 2012, 159-180. 
• Restrained Integration of European Case Reports in Danish Legal Information Systems and Culture, Gøtze M and Olsen HP, Nordic Journal of International Law, Volume 80, Number 3, 2011, 279-294.   
• Ombudsman. A National Watchdog with Selected Preferences, Gøtze M, Utrecht Law Review, Vol 6, Issue 1, 2010, 33-50.
• Independence of the Danish Judiciary, Gøtze M, Hammerslev O and Koch PB, in Separation of Powers, An International Perspective, Groot-van Leeuwen LE and Rombouts W (eds), Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen, 2010, 163-178.

Selected recent conferences and seminars

• Proactivity - the right to know, June 2016, Administrative Law Discussion Forum, Luxembourg, June 2016.
• information The relations between ombudsman institutions and national Parliaments, September 2013, Montenegro, DG Enlargement, European Commission, Regional School of Public Administration and the Regional Cooperation Council (speaker). 
• The Danish Ombudsman within EU Law and Policy, March 2013, UACES Conference(University Association for Contemporary European Studies), 40 Years since the First Enlargement, University College London,  London, England (speaker).  
• The citizen's right to know, September 2012, Annual EGPA Conference, European Group of Public Administration, Permanent Study Group X, Bergen, Norway (speaker).
• Towards an EU administrative procedure law? March 2012, ReNEUAL and EU Ombudsman conference, European Parliament, Bruxelles, Belgium.
• When European Citizens Complain, November 2011, The European Network of Ombudsman and Accountability Networks, University College London and London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England.
• EU Ombudsman - the Union Citizen's Watchdog, October 2011, Guest Seminar with the EU Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, Copenhagen, Denmark (host).
• EU Administrative Law, State of Play and Future Prospects, April 2011, European Parliament, Committee of Legal Affairs, Seminar at University of León, Spain (speaker). See contribution to workshop briefing notes, pp. 239-249, at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/delegations/en/studiesdownload.html?languageDocument=EN&file=59983
• Human Rights and Ombudsmen, August 2010, European Group of Public Administration, EGPA, The Law School, University of Liverpool, England (speaker).
• Ombudsman, Citizens, Parliament and EU, September 2009, Annual EGPA Conference, European Group of Public Administration, Permanent Study Group X, Valletta, Malta (speaker).

Knowledge of languages

• Digital administration and the rule of law
• Dawn raids and administrative control
• Freedom of expression and whisteblowing
• Civil Servants norms (political/legal) in at state of flux
• Ombudsman control 

Teaching

• Administrative Law, Bachelor degree course
• Public Employment Law, Master degree course

Michael Gøtze welcomes proposals for PhD supervision on topics broadly related to the field of inter alia the right to good administration, control mechanisms within public law, whistleblowing etc.

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Education

2006               Judicial education and traning 
1998               Research education and Ph.D. in law, University of Copenhagen
1993               Cand.jur. (LL.M.), University of Copenhagen
1991               BA.jur. (LL.B.), University of Copenhagen

Employment

2011               Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
2006               Judge, The High Court, Copenhagen
2001               Associate Professor, Faculty of Law
1998               Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law
1995               Ph.D.-Fellow, Faculty of Law
1994               Head of Section, Ministry of the Interior (Department of Immigration)

Visiting Scholarships etc

2007               English for Teaching, University of Maryland, USA
2005               European University Institute, Firenze, Italy
1996-97          Université d'Aix Marseille III, France
1991-92          ERASMUS-student, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 

Selected academic, administrative and professional responsibilities

2014-              Member of Danish legislative committee on whistleblowing
2012-14          Member of assessment commitees (Professorship/readership etc)
2011-              Bibliometric Research Indicator, Legal Science (chair)
2011-              Member of the Study Board, Faculty of Law
2009-              Member of Scholarship Board, Copenhagen University
2005-              Responsible for the teaching in Administrative Law
2003-              Member of Complaint Board reviewing exams, Faculty of Law
2009-11          Member of Ph.D.-school, Faculty of Law
2007-09          Chairman of Internal Elections Committee, Copenhagen University 
2008-09          Responsible for the teaching in Legal English, French and German
2007               Chairman of faculty working group on research and communication
2003-06          Local Representative, The Danish Association of Lawyers and Economists