Johannes Masing#
Photo: Lorenz
| Membership Number: | 5888 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.jura.uni-freiburg.de/de/institute/ioeffr5 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - 2022 Fellow, Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Law as Culture", Center for Advanced Study, Bonn
- 2008 - 2020 Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (First Senate), Karlsruhe, Germany
- 2007 to present Professor for public law, Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany
- 1998 - 2007 professor for public law, Augsburg University, Germany
- 1997 - 1998 substitute professor for public law, Bielefeld University, Germany
- 1992 - 1996 clerk at the Federal Constitutional Court (to Justice Böckenförde), Karlsruhe, Germany
- visiting:
- 2002, spring University of Michigan, Law School, Ann Arbor, USA
- 2004, spring Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland
- 2006, spring University Paris 1 (Sorbonne)
Fields of Scholarship
- Human rights protection
- Data protection
- Comparative constitutional law
- European constitutional history
- Constitutional law
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2013 BOK Professorship, University of Pennsylvania Law School ("PennLaw"), Philadelphia, USA
- 2008 Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize
- 2007 Award of the Daimler Financial Services AG for excellent research in collaboration with French universities
