Johannes Masing

Johannes Masing ( born January 9, 1959 in Wiesbaden ) is a German legal scholars and judges of the Federal Constitutional Court.

Life

After a semester of language study at the University Stendhal ( Grenoble University 3 ) 1979 Masing studied law and philosophy at the University of Freiburg and piano at the music academies in Freiburg and Stuttgart. Since 1981, Masing received a grant from the Cusanuswerk. His two legal state he passed in 1985 and 1989. Following this, Masing then worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Public Law of the University of Freiburg, and as a freelancer in a law firm. From 1992 to 1996 he worked as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court in constitutional judge Ernst- Wolfgang Böckenförde. After he received his doctorate in the same year at the University of Freiburg on the influence of European law on national administrative law; 1997 and his habilitation with a thesis on parliamentary investigations of private facts. After professorships at the Universities of Bielefeld and Heidelberg, he took 1998 to the professorship at the University of Augsburg, where he held the Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law until the winter semester 2006 /2007. For summer semester 2007 Masing accepted a position at the University of Freiburg.

Activity of the Constitutional Court

At the suggestion of the SPD Masing was elected on 15 February 2008 as a judge in the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court of the Federal Council. He took office on April 2, 2008. He's in the court of the successor of Wolfgang Hoffmann- Riem and is responsible for procedures to freedom of the press, the right to demonstrate and Privacy Policy.

Research priorities

Masing's research interests as scientists are constitutional law, immigration law, constitutional history and economy of administrative law.

Honors

Masing received the 2008 Gay - Lussac- Humboldt Prize.