I am currently a visiting scholar at the IES, UC Berkeley, and a lecturer at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna (Law School).
Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany, where I worked on a DFG-funded project, The Making of the Austrian Constitution 1920 (currently on leave). From 2021 to 2023, I was a postdoc (“Universitätsassistentin postdoc”) at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna.
After studying law at the Université de Bourgogne, Dijon (France), the University of Vienna, Austria, and the Universidad Alcalá de Henares, Spain, I completed my PhD at the University of Vienna in 2013. I was an associate at the law firms CMS (Moscow office) and DLA Piper Weiss-Tessbach and worked in Austria and Russia, before taking the civil law Notary Examination in 2014. From 2014 to 2021 I served as a Notary’s Substitute in Vienna, Austria.
My scholarly field of activity lies at the intersection of legal philosophy, legal theory, and legal history. Major themes in my research include the worldwide reception of Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law as well as the history, theory, and philosophy of international law in the 19th and 20th centuries.
My most recent publications include a book and several articles on the Treaty of Sèvres (1920). Currently I am working on a book project concerning the transfer of European ‚legal thought‘ to North and South America by German-speaking legal scholars between 1933 and 1945.
Areas of Research
- Legal history
- History, theory, and philosophy of international law in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Jurisprudence/Legal Philosophy
Pure Theory of Law/Vienna School of Jurisprudence - Gender Studies: The position of women within the Vienna School of Jurisprudence
- Exile studies
- Network research
Recent Grants and Prizes
Erwin Schrödinger Grant 2024 by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Botstiber Research Grant 2024 by the Botstiber Foundation
Sponsorship Award (Förderpreis) 2023 by the Theodor Körner-Fonds
go.investigatio grant 2023 by the Austrian Academy of Sciences