Christian Hillgruber

Christian Hillgruber studied law in Cologne. He received his doctorate from the University of Cologne in 1991. He was a research assistant at the BVerfG. In 1997 he habilitated in Cologne. He then became a professor of public law at the University of Heidelberg (1997/98). This was followed by a move to the Chair of Public Law, International Law and Philosophy of Law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (1998 to 2002). Since 2002 he has held a chair in public law at the University of Bonn, and since 2016 he has also been director of the Institute for Ecclesiastical Law there. Hillgruber has been a deputy member of the Constitutional Court of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2006.