Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff
Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff (born January 31, 1953 in Weitensfeld , Austria ) is a German legal scholar . From 2002 to 2014 she was a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court and in this position she was the successor to Jutta Limbach .
Life
After studying law at the University of Bielefeld , the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Harvard Law School , she received her doctorate in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1980 . From 1979 to 1987 she was a research assistant in Bielefeld, followed by her habilitation in 1987 in the subjects of public law, the constitutional history of the modern era and legal philosophy. From 1988 to 1992 Lübbe-Wolff was the head of the water protection office in Bielefeld, after which she accepted a professorship for public law at the law faculty of Bielefeld University. In 2000 Lübbe-Wolff was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation, the most highly endowed German science prize. From 2000 to 2002 she was Chair of the Council of Experts on the Environment . On March 15, 2002, the Bundestag elected her constitutional judge; From 2002 to 2014 Lübbe-Wolff was a member of the second senate of the Federal Constitutional Court.
Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff is married to the philosopher Michael Wolff and has four children. Her father Hermann Lübbe is a professor emeritus for philosophy and political theory at the University of Zurich. Her sister Weyma Lübbe is professor of philosophy at the University of Regensburg, her sister Anna Lübbe is professor of procedural law and extrajudicial conflict resolution at the University of Fulda .
Awards and honors
- 2000: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2011: Honorary Bencher, The Honorable Society of the Middle Temple
- 2012: Hegel Prize of the City of Stuttgart
- 2014: Great Cross of Merit with star and shoulder ribbon
- 2015: Honorary doctorate, European University Institute
- 2016: Honorary member, Asociación Argentina de Justicia Constitucional
Fonts (selection)
- Monographs
- Legal consequences and real consequences. What role can consequences considerations play in the formation of legal rules and terms? Alber, Freiburg 1980 ( online at Leibniz Publik).
- The basic rights as anti-interference rights. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1988.
- Modernization of environmental law. Enforceability - Deregulation - Efficiency. Economica, Bonn 1996 ( online at Leibniz Publik).
- Law and morality in environmental protection. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999 ( online at Leibniz Publik).
- How does the Federal Constitutional Court work? V&R unipress, Osnabrück 2015.
- The dilemma of the law. On hardship, gentleness and progress in law, Schwabe, Basel 2017.
- Editorships
- Environmental protection through municipal statutes. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1993; 2nd edition 1997.
- with Bernd Hansjürgens : Symbolic environmental policy. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
- with Erik Gawel : Efficient environmental law - criteria and limits . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000.
- Essays
- Globalization and democracy. Considerations using the example of water management. In: Law and Politics . 2004, no. 3, pp. 130-143 ( online at Leibniz Publik).
- Substantiation and subsidiarity of the constitutional complaint. In: European Fundamental Rights Journal. 2004, pp. 669-682.
- Homogeneous people - about postulates of homogeneity and integration. In: Journal for immigration law and immigration policy . 2007, pp. 121–127 ( online at Leibniz Publik).
- The topicality of the Hegelian philosophy of law. In: Birgit Sandkaulen, Volker Gerhardt and Walter Jaeschke (eds.): Shaping the consciousness. Genealogical thinking in the context of Hegel. Meiner, Hamburg 2009, pp. 328–349 ( online at Leibniz Publik).
- Who Has the Last Word? National and Transnational Courts - Conflict and Cooperation. In: Yearbook of European Law. Vol. 30 (2011), pp. 86-99.
- The Principle of Proportionality in the Case Law of the German Federal Constitutional Court. In: Human Rights Law Journal. 2014, pp. 12-17.
- Democracy, separation of powers and international treaty-making. The example of TTIP, in: Current Legal Problems 2016, pp. 1–24
- Diplomatisierung des Rechts, in: Merkur, Volume 71, November 2017, pp. 57–65.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff in the AcademiaNet database of renowned scientists
- Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff at the Federal Constitutional Court ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- Website of your chair at Bielefeld University
- Dieter Grimm: Laudation for Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff on the occasion of the awarding of the Hegel Prize on July 24, 2012 in Stuttgart. Constitution blog
- Press release of the BVerfG No. 6/2018 on the 65th birthday
- Interview with Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff , Blog of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar , September 29, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Constitutional Court: Federal Constitutional Judge Prof. Dr. Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff leaves office . Press release 47/2014 of May 30, 2014. Accessed June 2, 2014.
- ↑ So that the state is not dependent on the morality of its citizens in: FAZ of June 26, 2012, page 31
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Luebbe-Wolff, Gertrude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weitensfeld , Carinthia |