Prof. Dr. Johannes Masing

- Born in Wiesbaden in 1959
- Married, two children

1979

Studied French at the University of Grenoble/France

1979 - 1986

Studied law and philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and Piano at the State Universities of Music in Freiburg (Music teacher diploma) and Stuttgart (Artistic final exam)

1985

First State Examination in Law

1989

Second State Examination in Law

1992 - 1996

Research assistant to Justice Wolfgang Böckenförde at the Federal Constitutional Court

1996

Dr. jur. (Freiburg)
Doctoral thesis: "Die Mobilisierung des Bürgers für die Durchsetzung des Rechts" (Mobilising the citizen for the enforcement of law)

1997

Habilitation (Freiburg)
Thesis: "Parlamentarische Untersuchungen privater Sachverhalte: Art. 44 GG als staatsgerichtetes Kontrollrecht" (Parliamentary investigations on private facts and circumstances: Article 44 of the Basic Law as a right to control public power)

1997 - 1998

Deputy chair at the universities of Bielefeld and Heidelberg

1998 - 2007

Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Augsburg (Chair for Constitutional and Administrative Law)

2002

Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor/USA

2006

Research sabbatical in Paris
Visiting professor at the universities Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), Lyon III (Jean-Moulin) and Krakow (Jagiellonian University)

since 2007

Full professor at the Faculty of Law of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
(Chair for Public Law)

2008

Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize for Franco-German Research Cooperation

since April 2008

Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (First Senate)