Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - DynamInt

Lena Kaiser

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Research Project:

The constitutional non-regression principle in the European Union [Working title]

 

Vita

 

2016 A-Levels at St.-Ursula-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf. From 2016 to 2022 Law Studies at Westfälischen Wilhelms-University Münster (First Legal State Exam). Major in Public International Law and European Union Law. In October 2021 First State Exam at OLG Hamm.

 

Student Assistant at the Institute for International Business Law (Department IV), at the chair of Prof. Dr. Petra Pohlmann for civil law, business law and civil procedure law. April to September 2022 Research Assistant in the field of Public Law at the law firm Hengeler Mueller in the Berlin office.

 

Since October 2022 Research Fellow and Doctoral Candidate at the DFG-Graduate Program "Dynamic Integration" at Humboldt-University of Berlin, supervised by Prof. Dr. Matthias Ruffert and Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers.

Since March 2024 Member of the German-French Doctoral College on Comparative Public Law.

 

In March 2023 visiting PhD student at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, Poland. From August to December 2023, as well as March to April 2024 and June 2024 research stays at the centre de droit européen (CDE) at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), supervised by Mme Anastasia Iliopoulou-Penot, funded by the German-French Doctoral College. Furthermore, Lena Kaiser will pursue a research stay at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence under the supervision of Gráinne De Búrca.

 

 

Research Interests

 

  • European Law and European Constitutional Law
  • EU values (Art. 2 TEU)
  • Court of Justice of the European Union and its case law
  • Relationship of national constitutional courts and ECJ

 

Publications and presentations

  • Comment/Intervention to the presentation ‘L’inscription d’un droit fondamental dans la Constitution: réflexion juridique sur le droit à l’avortement dans une perspective comparée franco-allemand’ at the 18th German-French annual conference for young academics on comparative law in public law, European and international law; Villa Vigoni, 27.06.-29.06.2024
  • Frischer europäischer Wind aus Polen? Zur Abberufung der Mitglieder des Lex-Tusk-Ausschusses, JuWiss-Blog, 16th December 2023
  • Zur Einleitung des Vertragsverletzungsverfahrens durch die Kommission am 08. Juni 2023 gegen das polnische Gesetz zur Einsetzung eines Sonderausschusses wegen Verstoßes gegen Unionsrecht, presentation at the "Arbeitskreis Unionsrecht", 15th December 2023

  • A New Chapter in the European Rule of Law Saga?, Verfassungsblog, 4th March 2023

 

Research stays

  • From September 2024 research stay at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence
  • August – December 2023, as well as March – April, June 2024 research stays at the centre de droit européen (CDE) at Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas (Paris II)
  • March 2023: Research stay at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, Poland.