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Prof. Dr. Christine Langenfeld

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Christine Langenfeld

Justice of the Second Senate

Born in Luxembourg in 1962

Married

1980-1986Studied law in Trier, Mainz and Dijon
1986First State Examination in Law
1986-1987 Research assistant at the Chair in Public Law and European Law of Prof. Dr. Eckart Klein, Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz)
1987-1988Doctoral scholarship awarded by the postgraduate scholarship programme of the Land Rhineland-Palatinate
1989 Dr. iur., Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz);
Doctoral thesis: “Die Gleichbehandlung von Mann und Frau im Europäischen Gemeinschaftsrecht” (“Equal treatment of men and women in European Community law”)
1988-1991Legal traineeship
1991Second State Examination in Law
1991 Senior research assistant at the Chair in Public Law, European Law and International Law of Prof. Dr. Dr. Georg Ress, Saarland University (Saarbrücken)
1991-1997Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
1997-2000Habilitation scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2000Habilitation, Saarland University (Saarbrücken);
Professorial thesis: “Integration und kulturelle Identität zugewanderter Minderheiten - eine Untersuchung am Beispiel des allgemeinen Schulwesens in Deutschland” (“Integration and cultural identity of immigrant minorities – a study focusing on the German school system”), awarded the Augsburg Academic Prize for Intercultural Studies
since 2000Professor of Public Law, Georg August University (Göttingen)
2006-2007, 2015-2016Managing Director of the Institute of Public Law, Georg August University (Göttingen)
2008-2010Dean of the Faculty of Law, Georg August University (Göttingen)
2011-2012Associate fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (The Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities & Social Sciences), Georg August University (Göttingen)
November 2011Declined a professorship at Friedrich Alexander University (Erlangen-Nuremberg)
2012-2016Chairperson of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration
since March 2012Director of the Institute of Public Law’s Department of Constitutional Law, Georg August University (Göttingen)
2014-2019Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, University of Vienna
2015-2016Member of the University Council, University of Konstanz
since 2022Member of the Senate of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
since July 2016 Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court