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Prof. Dr. Astrid Wallrabenstein

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Astrid Wallrabenstein

Justice of the Second Senate

Born in Münster (Westphalia) in 1969

Married, two children

1975-1988Attended school in Münster (Germany) and Debrecen (Hungary)
1988-1989Au pair in Milan (Italy)
1989-1994Studied law in Münster and Freiburg
1994 First State Examination in Law
1994-1998Research assistant at the Chair in Public Law and Political Science, Justus Liebig University (Gießen);
Doctoral scholarship awarded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
1999Dr. iur., Justus Liebig University (Gießen),
Doctoral thesis: “Konzeptionen von Staatsangehörigkeit unter dem Grundgesetz” (“Concepts of citizenship under the Basic Law”);
Received the university’s dissertation award
1998-2000Legal traineeship in Darmstadt
2000Second State Examination in Law
2001-2008Research assistant at the Chair in Public Law and Political Science, Justus Liebig University (Gießen)
2001-2008Registered to practise as a lawyer
2008Habilitation, Justus Liebig University (Gießen);
Professorial thesis: “Versicherung im Sozialstaat” (“Insurance in the social state”);
Received the university’s Dr. Herbert Stolzenberg Award
2008-2010Professor at the University of Bielefeld, Chair in Public Law, Education Law and Social Security Law
2009-2010Declined professorships at the University of Hamburg and Trier University
since 2010Professor of Public Law with a focus on Social Law at Goethe University (Frankfurt)
2011-2020Managing Director of the Goethe University’s Institute for European Health Policy and Social Law (“ineges”)
2012-2020Member of the Federal Government’s Social Advisory Council
2013-2020Judge at the Darmstadt Higher Social Court (Landessozialgericht)
2015-2020Development and coordination of the Goethe Uni Law Clinic on Migration and Participation
2016-2017Visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia
2018-2020Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg
since June 2020Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court

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