Main Focus
- Regulatory law, in particular the legal framework of the ownership, planning, protection, and accessibility of critical infrastructures, e.g., streets, railroads, power grids, water supply, sewage
- German constitutional law, in particular topics related to
- the principle of democracy
- the internal procedural rules of parliaments (Geschäftsordnungsrecht)
- the relationship of religious communities to the state
- Legal theory, esp. Kelsenian positivism and legal methodology
- Theories of (legal) history
- Protestant ecclesiastical law
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2026: Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department of Public Law
2025–2026: Member of the Legal Service of the Saxon State Parliament in Dresden
2023–2025: Legal clerkship (Rechtsreferendariat) at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court (Hamburg), including placements at the Office of the Representative of the Federal Interest at the Federal Administrative Court, the constitutional law section of the Hamburg Department of Justice, and the Hamburg Port Authority; completed the Second Legal State Examination
2019–2023: Researcher at the University of Göttingen; doctorate supervised by Hans Michael Heinig on the function and value of historical arguments in legal theory and constitutional law (“Geschichte und Argument”, Mohr Siebeck: 2024); research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt, the University of Oxford, and the Hans Kelsen Institute, Vienna
2018–2019: Researcher at a leading international law firm specializing in infrastructure regulation
2013–2019: Studies in law at the University of Göttingen and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (First Legal State Examination), six-month position at the Brussels office of a German NGO
Award
“Paper of the Year 2025” Prize, awarded by the editors of the Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts for the paper “Zeitenwenderecht”