Prof. Dr. Astrid Wallrabenstein
Justice of the Second Senate
Born in Münster (Westphalia) in 1969
Married, two children
| Year | Experience |
|---|---|
| 1975-1988 | Attended school in Münster (Germany) and Debrecen (Hungary) |
| 1988-1989 | Au pair in Milan (Italy) |
| 1989-1994 | Studied law in Münster and Freiburg |
| 1994 | First State Examination in Law |
| 1994-1998 | Research assistant at the Chair in Public Law and Political Science, Justus Liebig University (Gießen); Doctoral scholarship awarded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation |
| 1999 | Dr. iur., Justus Liebig University (Gießen), Doctoral thesis: 'Konzeptionen von Staatsangehörigkeit unter dem Grundgesetz' ('Concepts of citizenship under the Basic Law'); Received the university’s dissertation award |
| 1998-2000 | Legal traineeship in Darmstadt |
| 2000 | Second State Examination in Law |
| 2001-2008 | Research assistant at the Chair in Public Law and Political Science, Justus Liebig University (Gießen) |
| 2001-2008 | Registered to practise as a lawyer |
| 2008 | Habilitation, Justus Liebig University (Gießen); Professorial thesis: 'Versicherung im Sozialstaat' ('Insurance in the social state'); Received the university’s Dr. Herbert Stolzenberg Award |
| 2008-2010 | Professor at the University of Bielefeld, Chair in Public Law, Education Law and Social Security Law |
| 2009-2010 | Declined professorships at the University of Hamburg and Trier University |
| since 2010 | Professor of Public Law with a focus on Social Law at Goethe University (Frankfurt) |
| 2011-2020 | Managing Director of the Goethe University’s Institute for European Health Policy and Social Law (“ineges”) |
| 2012-2020 | Member of the Federal Government’s Social Advisory Council |
| 2013-2020 | Judge at the Darmstadt Higher Social Court (Landessozialgericht) |
| 2015-2020 | Development and coordination of the Goethe Uni Law Clinic on Migration and Participation |
| 2016-2017 | Visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia |
| 2018-2020 | Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg |
| since June 2020 | Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court |
