Prof. Dr. Gabriele Britz

- Born in Jugenheim an der Bergstraße in 1968
- Married, one child

1987-1992

Studied Law in Frankfurt am Main

1992

First State Examination in Law

1992-1994

Junior researcher at the Chair of Public Law, Environmental Law and Administrative Science of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Steinberg, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

1993

Dr. jur, Frankfurt am Main
Doctoral thesis: Die Bedeutung des Europäischen Gemeinschaftsrechts für die örtliche Energieversorgung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung kommunaler Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten (The significance of European Community Law for local energy supply, with special emphasis on the conceptual input at local government level).
Was honoured with the Baker & McKenzie Award 1994 for doctoral and professorial theses in commercial law (university award)

1994

Visiting Scholar, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

1997

Second State Examination in Law

1997-2000

Habilitation scholarship of the Land (state) Hesse

1999

Visiting Scholar, Yale Law School

2000

Habilitation, Frankfurt am Main
Professorial thesis: Kulturelle Rechte und Verfassung (Cultural rights and constitution)

2000-2001

Deputised for holders of chairs at the universities of Jena and Bielefeld

2001

Declined the offer of a professorship of Public Law and European Law at the University of Bremen, coupled with the function of a Member of the Board of Directors at the Centre of European Law and Politics

2001

Declined the offer of a professorship of Public Law at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2001

Was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Price 2001 by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)

since 2001

Professor of Public Law and European Law, Justus Liebig University Gießen

2001-2002

Member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

2003-2009

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung), University of Bielefeld

2004-2006

Dean of Academic Affairs, Faculty of Law, Gießen

2008-2011

Member of the Review Board Jurisprudence, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2009-2010

Dean of the Faculty of Law, Gießen

since Febbruary 2011

Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (First Senate)