Susanne Baer

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Susanne Baer (2010)

Susanne Baer (* 1964 in Saarbrücken ) is a German legal scholar and a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court since February 2, 2011 .

Life

After finishing school, Baer studied law and political science at the Free University of Berlin from 1983 to 1988 . In 1988 she passed the first state examination and in 1991 the second state examination in law. In 1993 she received her Master of Laws from the University of Michigan Law School . She received her doctorate in 1995 under Spiros Simitis and Erhard Denninger and qualified as a professor in 2000 under Alexander Blankenagel and Bernhard Schlink .

In 1999 she was initially visiting professor at the newly founded Political Science Faculty of the University of Erfurt , then from 2001 to 2002 she was a substitute professor for public law at Bielefeld University . From 2000 to 2010 she taught comparative constitutional law at the Central European University in Budapest . Since 2002 she has been professor for public law and gender studies at the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin . This chair was specially created to anchor gender research in an interdisciplinary manner and to prepare for the establishment of the Gender Competence Center at Humboldt University Berlin. The GenderKompetenzZentrum, of which she was director from 2003 to 2010, was part of the Baer chair as an externally funded project and was funded by the Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth until the funding was discontinued in 2010. From September 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006, she was Vice President for Studies and International Affairs at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and from 2009 to 2011 the Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Law. In 2009 she received a James W. Cook Global Law Professorship at the University of Michigan Law School , where she received an honorary doctorate in 2014. On December 20, 2012, she was awarded the Caroline von Humboldt Professorship, which is endowed with 80,000 euros . In 2014, she was appointed Weng Yueh-Sheng Chair Professor at Taiwan National University . In 2018 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne .

In her works and research, Baer deals, among other things, with the subjects of fundamental rights and comparative constitutional law , gender studies , anti-discrimination law , feminist law and equality law . She classified herself as a feminist in 1999 . She was a board member of the Society for Gender Studies from its foundation in 2010 to 2012.

In 2008 she founded the “Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Research - Law and Society Institute (LSI)” at the Humboldt University in Berlin, which organized a lecture series with the Humanist Union on “60 Years of the Basic Law” in the 2009 summer semester .

Baer was nominated by the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen for a judicial office at the Federal Constitutional Court in November 2010 and was elected on November 11, 2010 by the election committee of the German Bundestag. She is a member of the First Senate there and succeeded Brun-Otto Bryde .

Baer is the first partnered and meanwhile married federal constitutional judge and has long been campaigning for equality between gays and lesbians . She was awarded the Augspurg Heymann Prize 2013 for her appearance and work as an openly lesbian woman .

Susanne Baer is a member of the scientific advisory board of the peer-reviewed journal Gender . She is a member of the editorial board of Streit - feminist legal magazine .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

Textbook

  • Legal Sociology: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Legal Research. 3. Edition. Baden-Baden 2016.

Monographs

  • with Norman Dorsen, Michel Rosenfeld and András Sajó: Comparative Constitutionalism: Cases and Materials. 2nd Edition. St. Paul 2010.
  • “The citizen” in administrative law between the authorities and the activating state. Tuebingen 2006.
  • with Birgit Schweikert : The new protection against violence. Baden-Baden 2002.
  • Dignity or equality? On the appropriate fundamental rights conception of the right against discrimination using the example of sexual harassment at work in the Federal Republic of Germany and the USA. Baden-Baden 1995.

Anthologies

  • Gender Works! Gender mainstreaming: Good examples from specialist work (together with Karin Hildebrandt ), Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • Equal families? Scientific diagnoses and political perspectives , gender competent, contributions from the GenderKompetenzZentrum (together with Julia Lepperhoff ), Bielefeld 2007.
  • Gender Mainstreaming in Personnel Development - Non-Discriminatory Performance Assessment in Public Service Volume 1, Gender Competent, Contributions from the GenderKompetenzZentrum (together with Dietrich Englert ), Bielefeld 2006.

Essays

Lectures

  • Adjudicating Inequalities. Some Observations from the Bench, Bernstein Lecture, Duke University, Durham, September 30, 2013.
  • “Equality and Difference”, Lecture Series 60 Years of the Basic Law - Claim and Reality, Humboldt University Berlin.

Web links

Commons : Susanne Baer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report on the swearing-in on the website of the Office of the Federal President , accessed on August 25, 2015.
  2. ^ Federal Constitutional Court: Biography of Baer
  3. ^ Constitutional judge Susanne Baer is the first Caroline von Humboldt professor
  4. ↑ story (s)
  5. ↑ Gender Competence Center at the Humboldt University in Berlin
  6. ^ Scandal at the Humboldt University - Trouble in the Presidium: Vice resigns
  7. ↑ CV of Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer, ​​LL.M.
  8. ↑ Ceremony 2012 - The central women's representative. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Susanne Baer is the first Caroline von Humboldt professor. An incomparable path is recognized
  10. ^ Humboldt University Berlin: Biography of Baer
  11. ↑ a b University of Lucerne: Press release Dies Academicus. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
  12. ^ Humboldt University Berlin: Works by Baer
  13. ↑ The legal theorist Susanne Baer is looking for legal ways to achieve equality
  14. ^ Specialized Society Gender Studies : Previous Board . Accessed on February 26, 2015.
  15. ^ Law and Society Institute (LSI)
  16. ↑ http://www.humanistische-union.de/veranstaltungen/2009/gg60/ partially documented in a themed edition of the German Law Journal , with articles by Susanne Baer, Dieter Grimm , Juliane Kokott , Matthias Mahlmann , Hubert Rottleuthner and Brigitte Zypries , introduced by Susanne Baer, ​​Christian Boulanger, Alexander Klose and Rosemarie Will : "Special Issue: The Basic Law at 60", 11 German Law Journal (2010), Issue No. 1 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/german-law-journal/issue/F0DD394296D2240D5497FCE61CD5AF52
  17. ↑ Reinhard Müller : Federal Constitutional Court. To please everyone. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 2, 2010.
  18. ^ First openly lesbian constitutional judge - queer.de. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court - BVRin Prof. Dr. Bear. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  20. ↑ augspurg-heymann-preis.de Retrieved on July 4, 2013.
  21. ^ Walter Kolb Memorial Prize - Winner
  22. ^ Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research. British Academy , July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 .
  23. ^ Youtube: "Adjudicating Inequalities. Some Observations from the Bench", Susanne Baer, ​​Bernstein Lecture, Duke University, Durham
  24. ^ Humanist Union: "Equality and Difference", Susanne Baer, ​​Lecture Series 60 Years of the Basic Law - Claim and Reality, Humboldt University in Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Baer, ​​Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and law scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken