Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem

Born in 1940, Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem earned his doctorate in 1968 and completed his habilitation in 1974. From 1974 to 2008, he was Professor of Public Law and Administrative Sciences at the University of Hamburg. He served as Hamburg’s senator for justice from 1995 to 1997 and as a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court from 1999 to 2008. From 2008 to 2018, he was Germany’s member of the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission. He was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2009–10 and became an Affiliate Professor of Law and Innovation at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg in 2011.