Univ.-Prof. Dr. Lena Foljanty
Professorship for Globalization and Legal Pluralism at the Faculty of Law
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Curriculum Vitae:
born 1979 in Berlin
1998-2005 Studied law at the University of Greifswald and at the Humboldt University of Berlin, first state examination in law
2005-2007 Research assistant at the University of Greifswald
2007-2009 Fellow at the International Max Planck Research College for Comparative Legal History, Frankfurt am Main
2010 Project assistant at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2011 Doctorate at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2010-2012 Legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main, second state examination in law
2012-2017 Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and freelancer at the Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt am Main
2013-2016 Research stays of several months at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre d'Études des Normes Juridiques Yan Thomas, Paris
since 2017 Research Group Leader of the independent research group "Translations and Transitions: Legal Practice in 19th Century Japan, China, and the Ottoman Empire" at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
2017 Visiting professor at Bocconi University, Milan
2019 Visiting professor at the University of Vienna
2020 Habilitation at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
since October 2020 Professor of Globalization and Legal Pluralism at the Institute for Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna
Research area:
* Legal history of globalization, in particular cultural translation processes
* Legal contemporary history, in particular National Socialism and its aftermath
* History of legal theory, legal methods and legal practice
* Legal gender studies, intersectionality and critical race theory
"With my research, I contribute to the critical reflection of the law - I examine the interactions between social and legal discourses and ask about the power structures that are inscribed in the law." (Lena Foljanty)