as of 1988 | Studies in philosophy and later in law at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and at the Ruhr University Bochum |
1992-1998 | Research Assistant and Research Fellow at the Chair for Sociology of Law and Philosophy of Law at the Ruhr University Bochum, Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Röhl |
1995 | First State Examination in Law
Appeals Court Düsseldorf |
1996 | M.A. in Philosophy
Ruhr University Bochum |
1997 | Second State Examination in Law State Examination Board at the Cologne Court of Appeals and Ministry of Justice North Rhine-Westphalia |
1998-2001 | Law Clerk to the Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Winfried Hassemer |
as of 2001 | Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institutefor Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, with Prof. Dr. Christoph Engel |
2003 | Doctorateof Law Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Thesis:"Körperschaftsstatus und Religionsfreiheit" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Michael Stolleis |
2004 | Recipient of the Walter Kolb Memorial Award 2003 of the City of Frankfurt am Main for the Best Dissertation in Law |
2005 | Visiting Scholar atthe University of California at Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy |
2010 | Habilitation Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University Bonn Title of the habilitation treatise: "Gerechtigkeit als Proprium des Rechts" |
Since Oct. 2010 | Chair for Public Law, Philosophy of Law and Economy and Law at the Ruhr University Bochum |