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Katarina Barley (* 19. November 1968 in Cologne) is a German lawyer, politician and member of the 18th German Bundestag. Her English last name comes from her British father.
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- Education and early career
- Political career
- Other activities
- Personal life
- References
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Education and early career
Barley studied at the University of Marburg and the University of Paris-Sud. She holds a doctoral degree in law. Supervised by Bodo Pieroth, her thesis was on the constitutional right of citizens of the European Union to vote in municipal elections.
Barley worked as a lawyer in Hamburg before taking a position as assistant to constitutional judge Renate Jaeger in Karlsruhe in 2001. From 2008, she was a judge and later worked as an adviser on bioethics to the Rhineland-Palatinate State Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection before being elected to Parliament in 2013.
Political career
In her parliamentary work, Barley represents the constituency of Trier for Germany's Social Democratic Party.
Barley served as a member of the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigning committee chairpersons based on party representation. She was also a member of the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH), the Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the Federal Social Court (BSG). In 2014, she was appointed to serve on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. On the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection, she served as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on voluntary euthanasia.
In 2014, Barley briefly served as a member of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union. In addition to her committee assignments, she is a member of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Within the SPD parliamentary group, Barley belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement. In 2015, she was proposed by party chairman Sigmar Gabriel to succeed Yasmin Fahimi in the role of general secretary of the SPD, one of the party's most senior positions.
Other activities
Personal life
Barley is married and has two sons.