Renate Elly Künast is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens party. She was the Minister of Consumer Protection,Food and Agriculture from 2001 to 2005 and subsequently served as chairwoman of her party's parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
Herta Däubler-Gmelin is a German lawyer,academic and politician of the Social Democratic Party. She served as Federal Minister of Justice from 1998 to 2002,and as a Member of the Bundestag from 1972 to 2009. She currently teaches as an honorary professor of political science at the Free University of Berlin,particularly on international relations and human rights,and was the Hemmerle Professor at RWTH Aachen University in 2011. She is married to the legal scholar Wolfgang Däubler.
Roman Herzog was a German politician,judge and legal scholar,who served as the president of Germany from 1994 to 1999. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),he was the first president to be elected after the reunification of Germany. He previously served as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court,and he was the President of the court 1987–1994. Before his appointment as a judge he was a professor of law. He received the 1997 Charlemagne Prize.
Freedom of religion in Germany is guaranteed by article 4 of the German constitution. This states that "the freedom of religion,conscience and the freedom of confessing one's religious or philosophical beliefs are inviolable. Uninfringed religious practice is guaranteed." In addition,article 3 states that "No one may be prejudiced or favored because of his gender,his descent,his race,his language,his homeland and place of origin,his faith or his religious or political views." Any person or organization can call the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany for free help.
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.
Joseph Halevi Horowitz Weiler is an American academic,currently serving as European Union Jean Monnet Chair at New York University School of Law and Senior Fellow of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,Harvard.
The law of Germany,that being the modern German legal system,is a system of civil law which is founded on the principles laid out by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany,though many of the most important laws,for example most regulations of the civil code were developed prior to the 1949 constitution. It is composed of public law,which regulates the relations between a citizen/person and the state or two bodies of the state,and the private law,(Privatrecht) which regulates the relations between two people or companies. It has been subject to a wide array of influences from Roman law,such as the Justinian Code the Corpus Juris Civilis,and a to a lesser extent the Napoleonic Code.
Udo Di Fabio is a German jurist. He is a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany,Germany's highest court,where he served as a member of the Second Senate from December 1999 until December 2011.
Andreas Voßkuhle is a German legal scholar who served as the president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 2010 until 2020.
Ernst Benda was a German legal scholar,politician,and judge. He was the fourth president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1971 to 1983. He also held the position of Minister of the Interior of Germany from 1968 to 1969.
Juliane Kokott is the German Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and Professor at the University of St. Gallen.
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.
Erna Scheffler,born Friedental and later Haßlacher was a German senior judge.
Johannes Masing is a German jurisprudent,public law and former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
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).
Angelika Helene Anna Nußberger is a German professor of law and scholar of Slavic studies,and was the judge in respect of Germany at the European Court of Human Rights from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2019;from 2017 to 2019 she was the Court’s Vice-President. She had previously been Vice-Rector of the University of Cologne. Currently she is Director of the Institute of Eastern European Law and Comparative Law of the University of Cologne.
Anita Theodora Johanna Sophie Augspurg was a German jurist,actress,writer,activist of the radical feminist movement and a pacifist.
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.
Ulf Kämpfer is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as the Lord Mayor of Kiel since March 2014.
