Mario Martini received his doctorate from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on a topic of environmental law (2000). He habilitated at the renowned Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. In his habilitation thesis, he addressed legal issues relating to the economic analysis of public law. He then took up a professorship in constitutional and administrative law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München until April 2010 and held a chair at the German University of Administrative Sciences until June 2024, before being appointed to the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. He has turned down various other professorship offers.

Prof. Martini has authored numerous publications, including more than 20 monographs and more than 100 articles in renowned journals as well as many commentaries. In teaching, Prof. Martini has built up a reputation by establishing an innovative textbook concept on administrative law and the first textbook on the law of digitalization, as well as by receiving very good student evaluations. At the University of the Bundeswehr Munich he will be involved in the new “Digital Administration” course.

In addition to his role as professor, Prof. Martini is also Deputy Director of the German Research Institute for Public Administration, where he is leader of the subject area “Digital Transformation in the Constitutional State”. Prof. Martini is in great demand on federal and state advisory bodies – not only in hearings in the Bundestag and state parliaments, but also on numerous committees. For example, he was a member of the Federal Government's Data Ethics Commission.

In research and teaching, he is enthusiastic about all legal issues that the process of digitalization of the state and society entails. He is convinced that a central future task of law is to master and shape the challenges that the transformation of the state and society entails.

With Prof. Martini, UniBw M has gained an internationally renowned legal scholar who deals intensively with legal issues relating to digitalization. He is particularly looking forward to collaborating with researchers from other disciplines, for which he sees numerous points of contact, as legal issues are always of essential importance in digitalization projects.

Welcome, Prof. Martini!

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