Prof. Dr. iur. Klaus Michael Alenfelder
Lawyer (1996)
Specialized in Anti-Discrimination Law and workplace harassment cases.
- Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Nordhessen (Fachhochschule Nordhessen)
- Head of Research Department on Labor Law and Antidiscrimination Law
- Senior Legal Counselor of the German Anti Discrimination League (Deutscher Anti-Diskriminierungsverband)
- President Council on Global Antidiscrimination
- Permanent Representative of the European Anti-Discrimination Council in Germany
- President German Society on Antidiscrimination Law (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Antidiskriminierungsrecht)
- Member, German Lawyers-Society (Deutscher Anwaltsverein)
- Committee Member, Consultative Council Labour Law of the Lawyers-Society (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Arbeitsrecht des Deutschen Anwaltsvereins)
- Member of the Association of German Employment Courts (Arbeitsgerichtsverband)
Klaus Michael Alenfelder specializes in anti discrimination law. He represents victims of discrimination, employees, trade unions and works councils across Germany. He is admitted to practice in Germany.
A significant part of his work consists of seminars targeted at lawyers, judges, senior officials, HR Executives with leading national and international blue chip companies both in Germany and on a EU wide level.
In October 2005 he gave a speech at the Legal Seminar of the EU in Brussels on the implementation of Directives 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC: “The implementation in Germany – remedies and sanctions”. In February 2007 he provided a critique in Brussels of the new anti-discrimination legislation in Germany and the problems which exists in the implementation of the law at the AGE General Assembly 2007.
Since 2010 he gives regularly presentations for legal experts with the Academy of European Law. The Academy of European Law is a non-profit public foundation that provides training in European law to legal practitioners. Its patrons include most EU member states and it is supported by the EU. ERA organizes conferences and seminars around Europe. Klaus Michael Alenfelder addressed issues such as "Remedies and Sanctions [2.907 KB]
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Klaus Michael Alenfelder served as a trainee at the German Foreign Office, European department.
He regularly publishes editorials and books on employment and anti discrimination law.
Some press articles about Klaus Michael Alenfelder (Owing to the fact that he practices law in Germany most of the newspaper and tv coverage is in the German language. Please feel free to check out the German section):
22.06.2010 - Udo Voigt loses fight for right to hotel room, BBC
20.01.2010 - Workplace bullying trial begins, Prague
19.12.2008 - The Price of Discrimination, USA Today
19.12.2008 - The Price of Discrimination, Spiegel
18.08.2008 - Battling Bias in Germany: Feared Cost of Anti-Discrimination Law May Not Exist
15.08.2008 - Study: Anti-discrimination law not costly, UPI
15.08.2010 - Feared Cost of Anti-Discrimination Law May Not Exist, Spiegel
07.04.2008 - German Case to Test Boundaries of Discrimination Law, Spiegel
2008 - German Case to Test Boundaries of Discrimination Law
23.04.2007 - Spidla: Start Combating Discrimination Vigorously
28.04.2006 - EAC opens Permanent Representation in Berlin
30.03.2006 - European Anti-Discrimination Council: co-ordination and support for NGOs across the EU |
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"I want that everybody will be judged by their abilities instead by bias.
For me, justice is a just cause founded on the law.
The law is our means to attain justice.
For me, law does not represent a sword of the powerful but a shield for the weak."
Klaus Michael Alenfelder at the 3. German Antidiscrimination Conference, 18.07.2008 |
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