Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Anna-Bettina Kaiser, LL.M. (Cambridge)
Academic Career
- 2023/ 2024
Fulbright-Scholar and Emile Noël Global Fellow at New York University - Since January 2024
Member of the Board of the German Association of Public Law Professors - Since March 2021
Chairholder for Public Law and Foundations of Law at the Faculty of Law of Humboldt University Berlin - October 2020 – September 2022
Academic Dean at the Faculty of Law of Humboldt University Berlin - Summer 2019
Appointments at University Konstanz and Vienna University of Economics and Business (both declined) - July 2017
Habilitation at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (habilitation thesis titled „Ausnahmeverfassungsrecht"). Venia Legendi for Public Law, legal theory, constitutional history and administrative studies - May 2014 – February 2021
Professor for Public Law and Foundations of Law at the Faculty of Law of Humboldt University Berlin - December 2013
Appointment (declined) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (Professorship for Constitutional and Administrative Law, tenure track) - April 2010 – April 2014
Assistant Professor for Public Law at the Faculty of Law of Humboldt University Berlin - July 2007
Ph.D. in Law at the University of Freiburg - March 2007 & summer term 2005
Visiting Assistant Professor at China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing) and at Goethe University Frankfurt - October 2003 – March 2010
Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Andreas Voßkuhle at the Institute for Staatswissenschaft & Philosophy of Law at Faculty of Law of the University of Freiburg
Studies & Legal Clerkship
- October 2003
Second State Examination in Law - October 2001 – October 2003
Legal Clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Karlsruhe; clerkships at the Higher Administrative Court of Baden-Wuerttemberg, at the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Department of Prof. Dr. Udo Steiner), and at the European Commission (Merger Control) - June 2001
Master of Laws at University of Cambridge - December 2000
Intermediate Exam in Musicology - July 2000
First State Examination in Law - October 1995 – July 2000
Studies of Law & of Musicology at the University of Freiburg
Academic Honors, Awards & Scholarships
- November 2022
Caroline von Humboldt Professorship - October 2018
Werner von Simson Award 2018, Faculty of Law, University of Freiburg (for habilitation treatise) - summer term 2015
Funded Research Sabbatical, Funding Line “Creating Opportunities” within the Institutional Strategy of Humboldt University Berlin - since June 2012
Member of the Network „Die Verwaltungsrechtswissenschaft in der frühen Bundesrepublik“ of the German Research Foundation (DFG) - December 2011
Grant for the organisation of the Blankensee-Colloquium 2012 (with Prof. Dr. S. Boysen and Dr. F. Meinel) - November 2010
Legal Book of the Year - since January 2010
Margarete von Wrangell Scholarship - 2009 – 2010
Fellow at the SIAS Summer Institute - October 2009
Award for Excellent Teaching of the University of Freiburg - July 2009
Award for Excellent Teaching of the Faculty of Law of the University of Freiburg - February 2008
Carl von Rotteck Award of the Faculty of Law of the University of Freiburg (awarded for the Ph.D.) - November 2007
Maria Gräfin von Linden Award of the Association of Female Scholars of Baden-Wuerttemberg - 2000 – 2001
Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) - 1996 – 2000
Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
Visiting Lectureships
- March/April 2018
University of Florence, Italy - October 2017
Princeton University, USA - March 2007
China University for Political Science and Law, Bejing, China
Memberships in Professional Associations and Discussion Groups
- since 2018
Vereinigung für Verfassungsgeschichte - since 2016
Deutsch-Französischer Gesprächskreis für das Öffentliche Recht - since 2015
Kreis Deutsch-Japanisches Verfassungsgespräch - since 2014
Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer e.V. - since 2014
International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) - since 2011
Guest status in the Studienkreis für Presserecht und Pressefreiheit e.V. - since 2008
German section of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences
Memberships in University Committees (selection)
- since 2017
Board of Humboldt University Berlin Council („Konzil“) - since 2016
„Forum Exzellenzinitiative“ of Humboldt University Berlin - since 2014
Member of Humboldt University Berlin Council („Konzil“) - since 2010
Academic Senate of Humboldt University Berlin (by-election)
Further university commitments
- since 2016
Cooperation project „Constitutions under Stress" (CONSTRESS) with Princeton University (together with Prof. Dr. Silvia von Steinsdorff) - since 2014
Head of the Law & Society-Institute, Humboldt-University Berlin (with Prof. Dr. Philipp Dann);
hosting interdisciplinary lecture series, workshops, and conferences