Foroud Shirvani

Prof. Dr. Foroud Shirvani is a distinguished Professor at the Chair of Public Law within the School of Law at the University of Bonn. Their research focuses on property law, state liability law, environmental law, constitutional law (including fundamental rights, party, and parliamentary law), and social law with a constitutional foundation. Additional expertise spans municipal law, police law, and energy law.

• Department of Law, University of Bonn
• Chair of Public Law

Research trends include the socialization of property, compensation for pandemic-related expropriation-like interventions, and procedural limits to property rights under administrative law. Shirvani’s work bridges historical legal developments (e.g., expropriation law from the 19th century to the Weimar Constitution) with contemporary challenges like housing shortages and energy policy.

Key publications include:

• Property without owners? (2024, co-edited with Judith Froese)
• Commentary on State Liability Law (2024, co-authored with Hans-Jürgen Papier)
• Compensation for expropriation-like interventions (2022)
• Commentary on Article 34 of the Basic Law (2020, co-authored with Hans-Jürgen Papier)

Shirvani actively contributes to constitutional and administrative law, with a focus on the intersection of property rights and public policy.