Udo Di Fabio (born 26 March 1954, in

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) is a German

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. He is a former judge of the

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, Germany's highest court, where he served as a member of the Second Senate from December 1999 until December 2011.

Biography

In 1970 Di Fabio began as a local government official in middle service in

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. He completed his secondary school diploma and then studied law at the

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in Bochum as well as social sciences at the University of Duisburg (now University of Duisburg-Essen). After completing the two state examinations in law in 1982 and 1985, Di Fabio was a judge at the

Social Court. In 1986 he worked as a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (scientific assistant) at the Institute for Public Law at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

. In 1987, he achieved there his dissertation , followed by a doctorate in the subject of social sciences in 1990. 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

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. 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. From 1999 to 2011 he was Judge of the

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. In 2011, he was holder of the Mercator professorship at the

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. In April 2020, Di Fabio was appointed by Minister-President

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to a 12-member expert group to advise on economic and social consequences of the

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Other activities

Corporate boards

* Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Germany, Member of the Ethics Committee (2020–2024)

Non-profit organizations

* Friedrich August von Hayek Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees *

German Institute for International and Security Affairs The German Institute for International and Security Affairs (; SWP) is a German think tank in international relations and security studies. A semi-official organization with close links to the federal government, it advises the Bundestag (the ...

(SWP), Member of the Council * Deutsche Telekom Stiftung, Member of the Board of Trustees * Vodafone Germany Foundation, Member of the Advisory Board * Foundation for Family Businesses, Member of Board of Trustees * German Reference Centre (DRZE), Member of the Board of Trustees

Personal life

Di Fabio is married, has four children and lives in Bonn.CV Di Fabio
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

References

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