Doris King

Doris König (born June 25, 1957 in Kiel ) is a German legal scholar . She is a judge and vice-president of the Federal Constitutional Court .

biography

After studying law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, she studied postgraduate studies at the School of Law at the University of Miami in 1980 , completing it in 1982 as a Master of Comparative Law (MCL). She then accepted a position as a research assistant at the Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel .

After her doctorate in the field of international maritime law , she was a judge at the Hamburg Regional Court from 1989 to 1992 . She then worked again as a research assistant in Kiel. In 1998 she presented her habilitation on the constitutional problems of the European integration process and received the venia legendi for the subjects of public law, including general political theory, international and European law. Subsequently she was professor at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, the University of Halle and in Kiel. In 2000 she took over the chair for public law, general political theory, international and European law at the Bucerius Law School . In October 2008 she turned down an offer at the University of Hamburg . From October 1, 2012 to June 2, 2014, she was the successor to Karsten Schmidt as President of the Bucerius Law School.

Since 2004, König has also been chairman of the board of the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (IFLOS) at the International Tribunal for the Sea , since 2007 a member of the board of the German National Academic Foundation and since 2008 a German member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague .

On May 21, 2014, at the suggestion of the SPD , she was elected by the election committee of the 18th German Bundestag in its first session to succeed Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff as judge of the Federal Constitutional Court. On June 18, 2020, König was elected Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court by the Bundestag. She was appointed to this office by the Federal President on June 22, 2020 .

During her term of office, König has so far given two dissenting opinions . In a decision from December 2015, she saw in the Treaty Override pursuant to Section 50d (8) sentence 1 EStG, contrary to the remaining members of the 2nd Senate, a violation of the rule of law , which is why she considered it to be unconstitutional and null and void. Together with the judges Ulrich Maidowski and Christine Langenfeld , she contradicted the majority of the Senate in February 2020 in a constitutional complaint against the German consent to the establishment of a European patent court . This is inadmissible.

Her research interests are in international maritime and environmental law , international human rights protection and European integration law .

Publications

• Human Rights - Conventions and Reality. In: Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (ed.): 60 years of the Basic Law. Interdisciplinary perspectives. (= Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society. Volume 4). Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4865-8 .
• with Anne Peters: The prohibition of discrimination. In: Oliver Dörr, Rainer Grote, Thilo Marauhn (eds.): EMRK / GG Konkordanzkommentar. Volume II, Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen, 2013, Chapter 21, ISBN 978-3-16-149397-3 .

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Federal Constitutional Court
• Website of Doris König (Bucerius Law School)
• Homepage of the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (IFLOS)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maritime law expert becomes President of Bucerius Law School. In: image . April 17, 2012, accessed June 7, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Reinhard Müller: Richter in the package. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 11, 2014, accessed June 7, 2016 . 
3. ^ 1st meeting of the electoral committee. (No longer available online.) In: Deutscher Bundestag . May 12, 2014, archived from the original on July 8, 2014 ; accessed on May 21, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ German Bundestag - Doris König elected Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court. German Bundestag , June 18, 2020, accessed on June 22, 2020 . 
5. ^ Change of President at the Federal Constitutional Court. Federal Constitutional Court , June 22, 2020, accessed on June 22, 2020 . 
6. ↑ BVerfG, decision of December 15, 2015, Az. 2 BvL 1/12 .
7. ↑ BVerfG, decision of February 13, 2020, Az. 2 BvR 739/17 .