Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Di Fabio

- Born in Walsum, now Duisburg, on 26 March 1954
- Married, four children

1970-80

Municipal adminstration official (medium-grade civil servant) in Dinslaken

1982

First State Examination in Law

1985

Second State Examination in Law

1985-86

Judge at the Diusburg Social Court (Sozialgericht)

1987

Dr. jur. (Bonn)
Doctoral thesis: Rechtsschutz im parlamentarischen Untersuchungsverfahren (Legal protection in parliamentary inquiry proceedings)

1986-90

Research assistant at the Institute of Public Law of the University of Bonn

1990

Dr. sc. pol. (Bonn)
Doctoral thesis: Offener Diskurs und geschlossene Systeme (Open discourse and closed systems)

1990-93

Senior research assistant at the Institute of Public Law of the University of Bonn

1993

Habilitation (Bonn)
Subject of the thesis: Risikoentscheidungen im Rechtsstaat. Zum Wandel der Dogmatik im öffentlichen Recht, insbesondere am Beispiel der Arzneimittelüberwachung (Risk decisions in a state based on the rule of law. On the change of doctrine in public law, exemplified with special reference to pharmacovigilance)

May 1993

Professor (C3 scale of salary) at the University of Münster

November 1993

Professor (C4 scale of salary) at the University of Trier

1997

Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich

2003

Professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn

since December 1999

Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court (Second Senate)