Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff is a German academic and senior judge. She sits on the second senate of the Bundesverfassungsgericht, having succeeded Jutta Limbach in this position in April 2002.
Biography
After studying law at the University of Bielefeld, the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg and Harvard Law School, Lübbe-Wolff received her doctorate in law at Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1979 to 1987 she was a research assistant at Bielefeld, focusing on public law, the constitutional history of the modern age, and philosophy of law. From 1988 to 1992 she was director of the Wasserschutzamt in Bielefeld. Having turned down a call to Frankfurt University, she became a professor of Public Law at Bielefeld university in 1992. She was Chairperson of the German Council of Environmental Advisors from 2000-2002, Executive Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, from 1996 to 2002, member of the board of various national academic and professional societies in the years 1994-2002, and Chairperson of the Advisory Board of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin from 2003 to 2009. During her tenure on the Federal Constitutional Court, Lübbe-Wolff was the reporting judge for the court's decisions on citizenship, budget and public finance, detentions, and the country's corrections system. In 2000 Lübbe-Wolff received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. She was awarded the Hegel Prize in 2012 and an honorary doctorate in 2015. She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, honorary bencher of Middle Temple Inn, and honorary member of the Argentinian Society of Constitutional Justice.
Personal life
Lübbe-Wolff is married to the philosopher Michael Wolff and has four children. Her father is the philosopher Hermann Lübbe Hermann Lübbe. The philosopher Weyma Lübbe is her sister.
Selected publications
Monographs
Rechtsfolgen und Realfolgen. Welche Rolle können Folgenerwägungen in der juristischen Regel- und Begriffsbildung spielen? Alber, Freiburg 1980.
Recht und Moral im Umweltschutz. Baden-Baden 1999.
Wie funktioniert das Bundesverfassungsgericht? Göttingen 2015
Das Dilemma des Rechts. Über Härte, Milde und Fortschritt im Recht, Basel 2017.
Editorships
Umweltschutz durch Kommunales Satzungsrecht. Berlin 1993 - 2. Auflage 1997.
Symbolische Umweltpolitik. Frankfurt a.M. 2000.
Effizientes Umweltordnungsrecht – Kriterien und Grenzen. Baden-Baden 2000.
Articles (English only)
Cultures of Deliberation in Constitutional Courts, in: Patricio Maraniello, Justicia Constitucional, La Justicia constitucional en los differentes ámbitos del derecho y sus nuevas tendencias, Vol. 1, Resistencia, Chaco 2016, 37-52.
Democracy, separation of powers and international treaty-making. The example of TTIP, in: Current Legal Problems 2016, 1-24.
Efficient Environmental Legislation: On different philosophies of pollution control in Europe, in: Journal of Environmental Law Vol. 13 No. 1, S. 79-87.
