Prof. Dr. Ann-Katrin Kaufhold
Presiding Justice of the Second Senate
Vice-President
Born in Düsseldorf in 1976
Married
| Year | Experience |
|---|---|
| 1995-2001 | Studied law in Passau, Toulouse and Freiburg, sponsored by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
| 2001 | First State Examination in Law, Freiburg |
| 2001-2003 | Research assistant at the Institute for Political Science and Philosophy of Law, Chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Andreas Voßkuhle, Albert Ludwig University (Freiburg) |
| 2004 | Dr. iur., Albert Ludwig University (Freiburg); Doctoral thesis: ‘Die Lehrfreiheit – ein verlorenes Grundrecht? Zu Eigenständigkeit und Gehalt der Gewährleistung freier Lehre in Art. 5 Abs. 3 GG’ (‘Freedom of teaching – a lost fundamental right? On the substance of freedom of teaching enshrined in Art. 5(3) of the Basic Law and its nature as a separate fundamental right’) |
| 2006 | Second State Examination in Law, Berlin |
| 2006-2009 | Policy officer at the Federal Ministry of Justice |
| 2010-2012 | Postdoc and academic coordinator of the Research Training Group ‘Verfassung jenseits des Staates’ (Constitution beyond the state), Humboldt University (Berlin) |
| 2012-2014 | Research assistant at the Institute for Political Science and Philosophy of Law, Albert Ludwig University (Freiburg) (funded by the German Research Foundation for the project ‘System supervision’) |
| 2015 | Habilitation, Albert Ludwig University (Freiburg); Professorial thesis: ‘Systemaufsicht. Anforderungen an die Ausgestaltung einer Aufsicht zur Abwehr systemischer Risiken entwickelt am Beispiel der Finanzaufsicht’ (System supervision. Requirements for a supervisory framework to avert systemic risks, developed with reference to the example of financial supervision’ Venia Legendi for Public Law and Legal Theory |
| 2015 | Interim professor of Public Law, in particular Constitutional Law, and Legal Philosophy (Chair of Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers), Humboldt University (Berlin) |
| 2015-2017 | Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich) |
| 2016 | Declined professorships for Public Law at the University of Trier and the University of Bayreuth |
| since 2017 | Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich) |
| 2017 | Visiting professor at Osaka University Law School |
| 2023/2024 | Head of the international research group ‘The Institutional Architecture for a 1.5 °C World’ at the Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich) (together with Rüdiger Veil) |
| 2024 | Global Law Professor, KU Leuven |
| since October 2025 | Presiding Justice of the Second Senate and Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court |
