I am currently a postdoc at the Department of the Foundations of Law at the University of Graz (Austria).
Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for European Studies (IES), UC Berkeley (2024-2025), at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany (2023-2024), and at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna (2021-2023).
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. Also, my research deals with the intellectual history and theory of criminal and international law in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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 of ideas
- History, theory, and philosophy of international lawm, criminal and private law in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Jurisprudence/Legal Philosophy
- Gender Studies
- Exile studies
- Network research