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Udo Di Fabio | |
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 Udo Di Fabio (2012) in Frankfurt am Main | |
| Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany | |
| In office 16 December 1999 –19 December 2011 | |
Udo Di Fabio (born 26 March 1954, in Duisburg [1] ) 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.
In 1970 Di Fabio began as a local government official in middle service in Dinslaken. [2] He completed his secondary school diploma and then studied law at the Ruhr University in Bochum as well as social sciences at the University of Duisburg (now University of Duisburg-Essen). [2] After completing the two state examinations in law in 1982 and 1985, Di Fabio was a judge at the Duisburg Social Court. [2] In 1986 he worked as a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (scientific assistant) at the Institute for Public Law at the University of Bonn. [2] In 1987, he achieved there his dissertation Rechtsschutz im parlamentarischen Untersuchungsverfahren, followed by a doctorate in the subject of social sciences in 1990. [2] He completed his habilitation in 1993. Then he was appointed university professor for public law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, followed by a call to the University of Trier. [3] From 1997 to 2003 Di Fabio was a Professor of Public Law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, since 2003 he has been Professor for Public Law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. [3] From 1999 to 2011 he was Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court.[ citation needed ] In 2011, he was holder of the Mercator professorship at the University of Duisburg-Essen. [4] [3]
In April 2020, Di Fabio was appointed by Minister-President Armin Laschet of North Rhine-Westphalia to a 12-member expert group to advise on economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. [5]
Di Fabio is married, has four children and lives in Bonn. [13]
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