Doris König (born 25 June 1957 in

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) is a German

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and public law scholar who serves as the Vice President of the

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(german: Bundesverfassungsgericht).

Career

Between 1975 and 1980, König studied law and at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

. In 1982 she completed a Master of Comparative Law program at the

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. König started her legal career as a judge at the '' Landgericht'' Hamburg (Regional Court of Hamburg). Since 2000, she has been a full professor at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg. From 2012 to 2014 she served as Bucerius Law School's

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. König's research areas include law of the sea, environmental law, international protection of human rights and law of the

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Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

A nominee of the

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, on 21 May 2014 she was elected by the

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to succeed Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff as sitting judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in the Court's second senate. She was inaugurated on 2 June 2014. In February 2020, together with two other judges ( Ulrich Maidowski and Christine Langenfeld), she dissented from the decision by the Court, that the ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court of 19 February 2013 in Germany was null and void. On 22 June 2020 she succeeded

Stephan Harbarth Stephan Harbarth (born 19 December 1971 in Heidelberg) 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 h ...

, who was appointed as the President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, as the Court's vice president and also became the chairwoman of its second senate.

References

External links

Judge König's website
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