Dr. Susanne Baer

Biography

Susanne Baer is the L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. She joined the faculty in 2010, previously serving as a professor of public law and gender studies at Humboldt University Berlin, where she was also vice president for academic international affairs and dean of academic affairs at the law school. Baer has a distinguished background in legal academia and public service; she was elected as a justice of Germany's Federal Constitutional Court in 2011, holding a 12-year term. Her scholarly interests focus on sociocultural legal studies, feminist legal gender studies, law discrimination, and comparative constitutional law. Throughout her career, Baer has contributed to the legal field both through her teaching and her writing, including co-authoring the casebook 'Comparative Constitutionalism' (3rd ed., West, 2016) and authoring the German textbook on the sociology of law 'Rechtssoziologie' (3rd ed., Nomos, 2016). Baer has also participated in various international academic engagements, leading research and teaching initiatives in multiple countries, including Hungary, Germany, Austria, and Canada. In addition to her research, she directs the Law Society Institute in Berlin and is a prominent figure in the discourse surrounding constitutional law and gender studies.

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