Professor Susanne Baer elected for the German Federal Constitutional Court

On November 11, 2010 CEU Legal Studies visiting professor Susanne Baer was elected to the German Federal Constitutional Court. As you may know, Susanne Baer is a professor of Public Law and Gender Studies at the Law Faculty at Humboldt University of Berlin and is its Dean of Academic Affairs. She is also director of the Law and Society Institute Berlin, Humboldt University’s centre for interdisciplinary socio-legal studies.

Professor Baer has developed numerous ties with CEU over the years. Since 2000 she has been a visiting professor at CEU Legal Studies, teaching courses on German constitutional law, comparative constitutional methodology and equality law and policy. In cooperation with the CEU Center on Public Policy she is also involved with the FP6 Integrated Project (2006-2011_ Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies (better known as QUING). Her research areas are socio-cultural legal studies, gender studies, law against discrimination and comparative constitutional law.

Among her numerous publications she is the author of the leading casebook Comparative Constitutionalism (2nd ed) West (2010) with Norman Dorsen, Michel Rosenfeld and Andras Sajo.

 

CEU SJD students congratulate Professor Baer and wish her a successful career as a Judge of the German Federal Constitutional Court!