Michael Germann is Professor of Public Law, Law and Religion, and Ecclesiastical Law, as a member of the Law Faculty of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.

His research areas include religious freedom as guaranteed to both individuals and religious, and philosophic corporations under the German Basic Law. He is a member of the editorial board of the ‘Zeitschrift für evangelisches Kirchenrecht’ and co-editor of the third edition of the 'Handbuch des Staatskirchenrechts der Bundesrepublik Deutschland’. As a long-standing commentator on the German Basic Law articles concerning religious freedom, he keeps track of German case law on religious freedom.

Within CUREDI, he and his team report recent cases and leading case law. He is also a reviewer and member of the CUREDI Editorial Board.