Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth, LL.M. (Yale)
Presiding Justice of the First Senate
President
Born in Heidelberg in 1971
| Year | Experience |
|---|---|
| until 1991 | Attended school in Heidelberg |
| 1991-1996 | Studied law at Heidelberg University |
| 1996 | First State Examination in Law |
| 1998 | Dr. iur., Heidelberg University; Doctoral thesis: 'Anlegerschutz in öffentlichen Unternehmen' ('Investor protection in public sector companies'); Scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), received the Fritz Grunebaum Award |
| 1997-1999 | Legal traineeship in Berlin |
| 1999 | Second State Examination in Law |
| 1999-2000 | Studied law at Yale Law School (New Haven, Connecticut), Master of Laws |
| 2000-2018 | Lawyer and partner (since 2006) in a law firm specialising in corporate law |
| 2009-2018 | Member of the German Bundestag |
| 2016-2018 | Vice-Chairperson of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag |
| since 2018 | Honorary professor at the Faculty of Law of Heidelberg University |
| November 2018 | Appointed Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court and presiding Justice of the First Senate |
| June 2020 | Appointed President of the Federal Constitutional Court |