Prof. Dr. Christine Langenfeld
Justice of the Second Senate
Born in Luxembourg in 1962
Married
| Year | Experience |
|---|---|
| 1980-1986 | Studied law in Trier, Mainz and Dijon |
| 1986 | First 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) |
| 1987-1988 | Doctoral 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') |
| 1988-1991 | Legal traineeship |
| 1991 | Second 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) |
| 1991-1997 | Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg |
| 1997-2000 | Habilitation scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| 2000 | Habilitation, 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 2000 | Professor of Public Law, Georg August University (Göttingen) |
| 2006-2007, 2015-2016 | Managing Director of the Institute of Public Law, Georg August University (Göttingen) |
| 2008-2010 | Dean of the Faculty of Law, Georg August University (Göttingen) |
| 2011-2012 | Associate fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (The Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities & Social Sciences), Georg August University (Göttingen) |
| November 2011 | Declined a professorship at Friedrich Alexander University (Erlangen-Nuremberg) |
| 2012-2016 | Chairperson of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration |
| since March 2012 | Director of the Institute of Public Law’s Department of Constitutional Law, Georg August University (Göttingen) |
| 2014-2019 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, University of Vienna |
| 2015-2016 | Member of the University Council, University of Konstanz |
| since 2020 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) Berlin |
| since 2022 | Member of the Senate of the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| since 2022 | President of the German Section of the International Commission of Jurists |
| since July 2016 | Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court |
