Michael Stolleis (20 July 1941 – 18 March 2021) was a German jurist and historian.

Michael was the son of Erich Stolleis, who served as Mayor of Ludwigshafen from 1937 to 1942.

He passed his Staatsexamen in 1965 and finished his doctoral thesis at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, titled Staatsraison, Recht und Moral in philosophischen Texten des späten 18.

[2] In 1991, Stolleis received the Leibniz Prize for being an "exceptional academic", awarded by the German Research Foundation.

[3] In 2015, Stolleis became a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.