Evelyn Haas, born Evelyn Traeger (born 7 April 1949) is a

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former First Senate Constitutional Court judge and current Honorary

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of Law. She was the first woman to be elected to the Constitutional Court in Germany.

Biography

After receiving her doctorate in 1974, Haas became a judge in

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. She was at the

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for ten months, then seconded to the local government in

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. From 1982 to 1986 she was seconded as a research assistant at the

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and from 1986 to 1990, a judge at the Higher Administrative Court of

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. From 1987 to 1990 she was also Head of Unit in the Lower Saxony State Chancellery. From September 1994 she was in the First Senate of the ''Bundesverfassungsgericht'' (

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). Her twelve-year term ended in 2006 and Wilhelm Schluckebier succeeded her. She was responsible for certain areas of German tax law, development law, construction law, land law, the German expropriation law, land transport and urban development. She was a planning law specialist, except for environment law. She had input on several landmark case law decisions, sometimes dissenting from her colleagues. With her departure, only one woman ( Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt) sat on the German First Senate. This led to a debate about whether women are still at a disadvantage in the German legal system.taz vom 2. Oktober 2006
/ref> Since 2002 she has taught as an Honorary Professor at Eberhard-Karls-Universität,

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