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Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth, LL.M. (Yale)
President
Presiding Justice of the First Senate
Born in Heidelberg in 1971
until 1991 | Attended school in Heidelberg |
1991-1996 | Studied law at Ruprecht Karl University (Heidelberg) |
1996 | First State Examination in Law |
1998 | Dr. 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 |
1997-1999 | Legal traineeship in Berlin |
1999 | Second State Examination in Law |
1999-2000 | Studied law at Yale Law School (New Haven, Connecticut), Master of Laws |
2000-2018 | Lawyer and partner (since 2006) in a law firm specialising in corporate law |
2009-2018 | Member of the German Bundestag |
2016-2018 | Vice-Chairperson of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag |
since 2018 | Honorary professor at the Faculty of Law of Ruprecht Karl University (Heidelberg) |
November 2018 | Appointed Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court and presiding Justice of the First Senate |
June 2020 | Appointed President of the Federal Constitutional Court |