Expertise
The Freiburg Faculty of Law contributes its expertise to legal practice through numerous channels. Members of the faculty have served as presidents (Ernst Benda, Andreas Voßkuhle) and judges at the Federal Constitutional Court (Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Konrad Hesse and Johannes Masing, as full professors, Siegfried Broß and Günter Spinner as honorary professor) and as judges at the Unified Patent Court for the Member States of the European Union (Maximilian Haedicke as full professor). Other full members of the faculty have held and still hold judgeships at the Constitutional Court of Baden-Württemberg (Silja Vöneky), at the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg (Jan Henrik Klement) and at higher regional courts (Maximilian Haedicke, Gerhard Hohloch, Jan Lieder, Manfred Löwisch, Hanno Merkt and Rolf Stürner). In addition, there are numerous other honorary professors from federal courts and other courts as well as renowned law firms.
In addition, members of the faculty advise politicians in the committees of the Bundestag and the Landtag and prepare expert opinions for federal ministries as third-party funded projects.
Members of the faculty are active in advisory bodies such as the Stock Exchange Expert Commission, the Society for Legal Policy and the Initiative for a State with the Capacity to Act. They are involved in the promotion of studies and research and in the self-administration of academia, for example in the Daimler and Benz Foundation, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German National Academic Foundation, the German Association for Industrial Property and Copyright (GRUR), the Association of German Constitutional Law Professors and the Standing Committee of the German Association of Law Faculties.
Members of the faculty are also involved in non-governmental organisations for democracy and the rule of law in Germany and Europe, for example in the German National Foundation, the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation, the Association Against Forgetting – For Democracy and the Mercator Foundation.
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Alumni
Former students of the Freiburg Faculty of Law have served and continue to serve society. Of particular note are Konrad Adenauer (Federal Chancellor 1949-1963), Serge Brammertz (Chief Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for the Ad Hoc Criminal Tribunals, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), Constantin Fehrenbach (Chancellor of the German Reich 1920-1921), Ann-Kathrin Kaufhold (Vice-President of the Federal Court of Justice), Jutta Limbach (former President of the Federal Constitutional Court), Bettina Limperg (President of the Federal Court of Justice), Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and Justice at the Federal Constitutional Court), Klaus Rennert (President of the Federal Administrative Court) and Jakob Strebel (former President of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court). Many other former Freiburg students were elected to the Federal Constitutional Court: Werner Böhmer, Wilhelm Ellinghaus, Sigrid Emmenegger, Hans Joachim Faller, Julius Federer, Georg Fröhlich, Monika Hermanns, Dieter Hömig, Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, Dietrich Katzenstein, Egon Schunck, Astrid Wallrabenstein, Holger Wöckel, Heinrich Amadeus Wolff and Kurt Zweigert.