'Keep Away Actions' The thesis examines police actions, that are typically executed to keep people away from sensitive areas. Its focus lies on actions in beforehand of football games. The study illustrates the circumstances in which the actions are taken, investigates their legal basis and identifies their fundamental rights dimension. Furthermore, in referring to leading cases, the study analyses significant indications, that commonly induce police administration to execute keep away actions.

Tobias Friedrich Fleißner studied law at the University of Bonn from 2006 to 2012 and subsequently passed his legal clerkship at the appellate court in Münster. In 2014 he began a doctorate with Prof. Dr. Matthias Bäcker LL.M. and worked for him and his successor, Prof. Dr. Ann-Kathrin Kaufhold, as research assistant at the Institute for Constitutional an Administrative Law of the LMU Munich until 2017. From 2015 to 2016 he also worked as research assistant at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Since 2017 he works as public prosecutor in Munich. From 2018 to 2021 he passed a secondment at the Department of the German Minister of State for Culture and the Media.

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