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Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth, LL.M. (Yale)

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth, LL.M.

President

Presiding Justice of the First Senate

Born in Heidelberg in 1971

until 1991Attended school in Heidelberg
1991-1996Studied law at Ruprecht Karl University (Heidelberg)
1996First State Examination in Law
1998Dr. iur., Ruprecht Karl University (Heidelberg);
Doctoral thesis: “Anlegerschutz in öffentlichen Unternehmen” (“Investor protection in public sector companies”);
Scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation),
received the Fritz Grunebaum Award
1997-1999Legal traineeship in Berlin
1999Second State Examination in Law
1999-2000Studied law at Yale Law School (New Haven, Connecticut), Master of Laws
2000-2018Lawyer and partner (since 2006) in a law firm specialising in corporate law
2009-2018Member of the German Bundestag
2016-2018Vice-Chairperson of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag
since 2018Honorary professor at the Faculty of Law of Ruprecht Karl University (Heidelberg)
November 2018Appointed Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court and presiding Justice of the First Senate
June 2020Appointed President of the Federal Constitutional Court

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