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Prof. Dr. Michaela Hailbronner, LL.M. (Yale)

Current affiliations

  • Professorship of german and international public law and comparative law (Prof. Dr. Hailbronner)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • German Public Law
  • Comparative Public Law
  • Constitutional Theory
  • Human Rights
  • European Law
  • Legal History

Academic Education

10/2016 - 01/2024Habilitation
08/2010 - 09/2013J.S.D. (Yale) (Promotion)
08/2009 - 06/2010LL.M. Studium (Yale)
05/2007 - 05/2009Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen
10/2001 - 01/2007Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen

Work Experience

since 01/2023Universität Münster, Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät: Professur für Öffentliches Recht (W3)
03/2023 - 06/2023Forschungsaufenthalt am Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford University
04/2019 - 12/2022Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen: Professur für Öffentliches Recht und Menschenrechte (Tenure Track W1-W2)
09/2019 - 10/2019University of Madison-Wisconsin, USA: Visiting Professor
10/2016 - 03/2019Institut für Öffentliches Recht, Völker- und Europarecht sowie empirische Rechtsforschung, Prof. Dr. Niels Petersen, Universität Münster: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
05/2014 - 06/2016Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, University of Pretoria, Südafrika: Feodor Lynen-Gastforscherin der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Feb. 2015–Juni 2016), Senior Research Fellow, National Research Foundation Grant (Südafrika) (Mai 2014–Jan. 2015)
01/2016 - 01/2016University of Ottawa, Kanada: Visiting Professor
06/2013 - 02/2014Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Prof. Dr. von Bogdandy), Heidelberg: Referentin

Functions and Memberships

since 2022Vorsitzende, wissenschaftlicher Beirat des Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law in Extreme Conditions (Nachfolge Ulrich K. Preuss)
since 2016Advisory Board, International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON)
since 2016Mitherausgeberin, Zeitschrift Verfassung und Recht in Übersee/World Comparative Law
07/2024 - 07/2027Co-President, International Society of Public Law (ICON-S)
2021 - 2024Deputy Secretary General, International Society of Public Law (ICONS), Wahl August 2020
2018 - 2022Mitglied, Wahl in das Council der International Society of Public Law (ICON-S)
2018 - 2022 Mitglied der Zukunftsfakultät, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2018 - 2022Mitgründerin (gemeinsam mit Christoph Möllers und Tim Wihl) und Co-Chair, ICON-S Deutschland
2021Auswahlkommission und Gutachterin Promotionsstipendium, Studienstiftung
2016 - 2021Book Review Editor, International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON)
2016 - 2021Associate Editor, Verfassungsblog
2019Auswahlkommission und Gutachterin Promotionsstipendium, Studienstiftung
2015 - 2017Chair 2016-2017, Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) American Society for Comparative Law, Scholarship Advisory Group

Publications

Hailbronner, Michaela (2025)
Cambridge University Press.
Type of Publication: Book (monograph)
Hailbronner, Michaela Kujus, Lisa (2025)
In: Global Constitutionalism, 2025
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Hailbronner, Michaela (2024)
In: Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt, 2024(17)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Choudhry, Sujit; Hailbronner, Michaela; Kumm, Mattias (eds.) (2024)
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Type of Publication: Book (edited collection)
Hailbronner, Michaela (2022)
In: Hübner Mendes, Conrado; Gargarella, Roberto; Guidi, Sebastián (eds.), Oxford handbook of constitutional law in Latin America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
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Projects

Duration: 11/09/2025 - 12/09/2025
Funded by: Fritz Thyssen Foundation - Support of Conferences
Type of project: Scientific Event

Prizes

International Journal of Constitutional Law, Inaugural Best Paper Award (Platz 1) for ‘Rethinking the rise of the German Constitutional Court: From Anti-Nazism to Value Formalism’, (2014) 12(3) International Journal of Constitutional Law 626.
Awarded by: Editorial Board International Journal of Constitutional Law
Award given to: Hailbronner, Michaela
Date of awarding: 15/07/2015
Type of distinction: Best publication award
Promotionsstipendium
Awarded by: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Award given to: Hailbronner, Michaela
Announced at: 15/01/2010
Type of distinction: Scholarship
Feodor-Lynen Forschungsstipendium
Awarded by: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
Award given to: Hailbronner, Michaela
Announced at: 15/01/2014
Type of distinction: Scholarship