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Stefan Muckel studied law in Cologne. After the Second State Examination (1991), he worked as a research assistant with Wolfgang Rüfner in Cologne, where he received his doctorate in 1989 and achieved habilitation in 1996 for the subjects of Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Canon Law. After a temporary professorship in Kiel, he entered a professorship for Public Law, in particular Administrative Law and Administrative Theory, at the Ruhr University Bochum. Since 1998 he has been Professor of Public Law and Canon Law (since 2020: Religious Law) at the University of Cologne. Together with Manfred Baldus, he is the editor of the case law collection »Entscheidungen in Kirchensachen seit 1946 – KirchE« (Decisions in Church Matters since 1946).