Udo Di Fabio (born 26 March 1954, in Duisburg[1]) is a German jurist. He is a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, 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 Dinslaken.[2] He completed his secondary school diploma and then studied law at the Ruhr University in Bochum as well as social sciences at the University of Duisburg (now University of Duisburg-Essen).[2] After completing the two state examinations in law in 1982 and 1985, Di Fabio was a judge at the Duisburg Social Court.[2] In 1986 he worked as a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (scientific assistant) at the Institute for Public Law at the University of Bonn.[2] In 1987, he achieved there his dissertation Rechtsschutz im parlamentarischen Untersuchungsverfahren, followed by a doctorate in the subject of social sciences in 1990.[2] 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 University of Trier.[3] 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.[3] From 1999 to 2011 he was Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court.[citation needed] In 2011, he was holder of the Mercator professorship at the University of Duisburg-Essen.[4][3]
