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Prof. Dr. Doris König

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Doris König

Vice-President

Presiding Justice of the Second Senate

Born in Kiel in 1957

Married

1975-1980Studied law at Christian Albrecht University (Kiel)
1980First State Examination in Law
1982Master of Comparative Law (M.C.L.), University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Florida
1986Second State Examination in Law
1986-1989Research assistant at the Institute for International Law, Christian Albrecht University (Kiel)
1989Dr. iur., Christian Albrecht University (Kiel);
Doctoral thesis: “Durchsetzung internationaler Bestands- und Umweltschutzvorschriften auf hoher See im Interesse der Staatengemeinschaft” (“Enforcement of international conservation and environmental legislation on the high seas in the interest of the international community”)
1989-1992Judge at the Hamburg Regional Court (Landgericht)
1992-1998Senior research assistant at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law, Christian Albrecht University (Kiel)
1998Habilitation, Christian Albrecht University (Kiel);
Professorial thesis: “Die Übertragung von Hoheitsrechten im Rahmen des europäischen Integrationsprozesses - Anwendungsbereich und Schranken des Art. 23 des Grundgesetzes” (“The transfer of sovereign powers in the context of European integration - Scope and limits of Art. 23 of the Basic Law”)
Venia legendi for Public Law, General Theory of State, International and European Law
1999-2000Interim professor in Saarbrücken, Halle-Wittenberg and Kiel
2000Appointed professor at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
2004-2014Member of the Advisory Council on International Law, Federal Foreign Office
2005-2007Vice-Dean, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
2007-2015Member of the board of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2007Declined a professorship at the Institute for the Law of the Sea and for Maritime Law, University of Hamburg
since 2008German Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague
2012-2014Dean, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
since June 2014Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court
June 2020Appointed Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court and presiding Justice of the Second Senate

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