Paul Kirchhof is a German jurist and tax law expert. He is also a professor of law,member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and,a former judge in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht),the highest court in Germany.
Deborah Louise Cook is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit,based in Akron,Ohio. She served as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1995 to 2003.
Peter Aloysius Müller is a German politician belonging to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 1999 to 2011,he has held the position of Premier (Ministerpräsident) of the state of Saarland,serving as President of the Bundesrat in 2008/09. In December 2011,Müller was elected as judge of German Bundesverfassungsgericht.
The Heidelberg University Faculty of Law,located in Heidelberg,Germany,is one of the original four constituent faculties of Heidelberg University. Founded in 1386 by Rupert I,Elector Palatine,it is the oldest law school in Germany.
Andreas Voßkuhle is a German legal scholar who served as the president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 2010 until 2020.
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde was a German legal scholar and a justice on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court. He was a professor at the University of Freiburg and the author of more than 20 books and 80 articles dealing with legal and constitutional theory,as well as political theory,political philosophy and Catholic political thought. Böckenförde was considered a member of the Ritter School.
Evelyn Haas,born Evelyn Traeger is a German former First Senate Constitutional Court judge and current Honorary Professor of Law. She was the first woman to be elected to the Constitutional Court in Germany.
Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt is a German politician and judge who served on the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1999 until 2011.
Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff is a German academic and senior judge. She served as a justice of the second senate of the Bundesverfassungsgericht from 2002 to 2014,having succeeded Jutta Limbach in this position.
Ferdinand Kirchhof is a German judge,jurisprudent and tax law expert.
Rudolf Mellinghoff is a German judge,jurisprudent and tax law expert who served as President of the Federal Fiscal Court from 2011 to 2020. He was also a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court serving in the court's second senate (2001–2011).
Lerke Osterloh is a German judge,jurisprudent and tax law expert. She was sitting Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in the court's second senate from October 1998 until her retirement in November 2010. Her successor is Monika Hermanns. Along with Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff and Michael Gerhardt,she was considered a member of the senate's left-liberal wing.
Renate Jaeger is a German lawyer and a former judge of the European Court of Human Rights. Her term at the Court expired on 30 December 2010.
Susanne Baer,FBA is a German legal scholar and one of the 16 judges of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. Baer has been the William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School since winter 2010 and is also a professor of public law and gender studies with the law faculty at Humboldt University of Berlin and its dean of academic affairs.
The Federal Constitutional Court is the supreme constitutional court for the Federal Republic of Germany,established by the constitution or Basic Law of Germany. Since its inception with the beginning of the post-World War II republic,the court has been located in the city of Karlsruhe,which is also the seat of the Federal Court of Justice.
Stephan Harbarth is the President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht),former German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 2009 until 2018 he served as member of the Bundestag. On 22 November 2018 he was elected to the Federal Constitutional Court by the Bundestag. He succeeded Ferdinand Kirchhof and serves in the court's first senate. On 23 November 2018,one day after his election to the court,he was elected Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court by the Bundesrat. In this capacity,he is chairman of the first senate.
2 BvR 739/17 is a case decided on 13 February 2020 by the German Federal Constitutional Court in which the Court decided that the Act of Approval,i.e. for the ratification,of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court of 19 February 2013 (EPGÜ-ZustG) in Germany was null and void,because it had not been approved by the German federal parliament sitting with the required quorum.
Doris König is a German judge,jurisprudent and public law scholar who serves as the Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
Christine Langenfeld is a German jurist who is currently serving as a judge in the Federal Constitutional Court in the second senate.
