Christine Langenfeld (born 16 August 1962) is a German

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

who is currently serving as a judge in the Federal Constitutional Court in the second senate.

Early life and education

Langenfeld was born in

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to late

Carl-Ludwig Wagner Carl-Ludwig Wagner (9 January 1930 – 27 July 2012) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union. Wagner was born in Düsseldorf, but later lived in Eitelsbach, a part of Trier. After his Abitur 1949 in Trier he studied law at t ...

. From 1980 to 1986, she studied each for a 2-year term,

Jurisprudence Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of legal reasoning a ...

at the

University of Trier The University of Trier (german: Universität Trier), in the German city of Trier, was founded in 1473. Closed in 1798 by order of the then French administration in Trier, the university was re-established in 1970 after a hiatus of some 172 y ...

, University of Burgundy and University of Mainz. In 1986, she finished her first Staatsexam in Mainz. Langenfeld became a Research assistant for

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and

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at the University of Mainz for Dr. Eckart Klein from 1986 to 1987. She finished her second Staatsexam in 1991.

Career

Langenfeld was nominated by the

German Bundesrat The German Bundesrat ( lit. Federal Council; ) is a legislative body that represents the sixteen ''Länder'' (federated states) of Germany at the federal level (German: ''Bundesebene''). The Bundesrat meets at the former Prussian House of Lords ...

as a justice for the second senate of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in 2016 and is currently serving a 12-year term until 2028.

Other activities

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (German: Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Kriminalität, Sicherheit und Recht) is a non-university research institute located in Freiburg, Germany. The institute is part of ...

, Member of the Board of Trustees

Personal life

Langenfeld is married to Harald Langenfeld with whom she has a daughter and resides in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

References

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