Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer, LL.M.

- born in 1964, in Saarbrücken
- partnered (registered civil partnership)

1983-1988

Studied Law and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin

1988

First State Exam in Law

1991

Second State Exam in Law

1991-1992

Desk Officer for Environmental Law, Ministry of Urban Planning and Environmental Protection, State of Berlin

1993

Master of Laws, University of Michigan Law School

1993-1995

Scholarship, Hans Böckler Foundation

1995

Dr. jur, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main; doctoral thesis: "Würde oder Gleichheit? Zur angemessenen grundrechtlichen Konzeption von Recht gegen Diskriminierung am Beispiel sexueller Belästigung am Arbeitsplatz in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und den USA" (Dignity or equality: The appropriate fundamental-rights concept of anti-discrimination law – a comparison of the approach to sexual harassment in the workplace in the Federal Republic of Germany and the U.S.). Received the Walter Kolb Memorial Award by the City of Frankfurt am Main.

1995-1997

Junior Researcher at the Chair of Public Law, Russian Law and Comparative Law of Prof. Dr. Alexander Blankenagel, Humboldt University Berlin

1997-2000

Research Assistant (Junior Faculty), Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin

2000

Habilitation, Humboldt University Berlin; professorial thesis: "Der Bürger" im Verwaltungsrecht zwischen Obrigkeit und aktivierendem Staat ("The citizen" in administrative law: from the "Obrigkeitsstaat" to the activating state). Venia legendi for public law, administrative sciences, legal theory and comparative law

2000-2010

Recurrent Visiting Faculty, Central European University, Legal Department, Budapest, Hungary

2002

Declined the offer of a professorship at the University of Bielefeld

2002

Was appointed university professor at the Humboldt University Berlin

2003-2010

Director of the GenderCompetenceCenter at the University

2005-2006

Vice-President for Academic and International Affairs, Humboldt University Berlin

2008-2011

Speaker of the Law Faculty´s Study Focus 2 (Legal Politics and Lawmaking)

2009

Was appointed William W. Cook Global Law Professor, University of Michigan Law School, USA

2009-2011

Dean of Academic Affairs, Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin

seit 2009

Director of the Law & Society Institute Berlin (LSI) at the Humboldt University Berlin

2008 - 2011

Member of the University Council, University of Bielefeld

since February 2011

Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (First Senate)