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Prof. Dr. Martin Eifert, LL.M. (Berkeley)

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Martin Eifert, LL.M. (Berkeley)

Justice of the First Senate

born in Frankfurt/Main in 1965

married, two children

1987-1992Studied law in Hamburg and Geneva
1992First State Examination in Law
1992-1993Studied law at the University of California, Berkeley, Master of Laws (LL.M.)
1993-1997Research assistant at the University of Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem
1996Second State Examination in Law
1997-1999 Consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
1998Dr. iur., University of Hamburg; Doctoral thesis: “Grundversorgung mit Telekommunikationsleistungen im Gewährleistungsstaat” (“Basic provision of telecommunications services by the state”)
1999-2003Policy officer at the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research
1999-2005Senior research assistant at CERI – Research Centre for Law and Innovation at the University of Hamburg (head: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem)
2001-2004Habilitation scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2004-2005 Interim professor at the School of Public Law and State Theory at the University of Hamburg
2005Habilitation, University of Hamburg; Professorial thesis: “Electronic Government. Das Recht der elektronischen Verwaltung” (“The law of electronic government”)
Venia legendi for Constitutional and Administrative Law, Administrative Sciences and Comparative Law
2005 Interim professor, Chair in Public Law II at Justus Liebig University (Gießen)
2005-2012 Professor of Public Law at Justus Liebig University (Gießen)
2009Declined a professorship at Albert Ludwig University (Freiburg)
since 2012Chair in Public Law, with a particular focus on administrative law, at Humboldt University (Berlin)
2015-2017Dean of Academic Affairs, Faculty of Law, Humboldt University (Berlin)
2017-2018Dean, Faculty of Law, Humboldt University (Berlin)
2018-2019Vice-Dean of Research, Humboldt University (Berlin)
since February 2023Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court

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