Prof. Dr. Angela Schwerdtfeger
joined the Faculty of Law of the Georg August University Göttingen in March
2020 as a full University Professor of Public Law, in particular Administrative
Law. She studied law at the University of Trier and the Université Lumière –
Lyon 2, which she completed withthe
First State Examination. Subsequently, she worked as a research assistant at
the University of Trier, where she received her doctorate in 2009 for her thesis
“Legal Redress in German Administrative Law under the Influence of the Aarhus
Convention” (Mohr Siebeck, 2010). This was followed by the mandatory legal
clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Berlin (Kammergericht), with stations in
the Department of European Union Law of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and
Energy and with the Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European
Union. Having passed the Second State Examination, she worked as a
post-doctoral fellow at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Humboldt
University Berlin with research stays at the University of Michigan Law School
in Ann Arbor. Her research project on “Crisis Legislation” was funded for three
years by the German Research Foundation and successfully defended as her
Habilitation in 2017 at the Humboldt University Berlin (Mohr Siebeck, 2018),
granting her the venia legendi for Public Law, European Law and Public
International Law. On coming to Göttingen, she declined a full Professorship of
Public Law, in particular Public International and European Law, at the
University of Trier. She has been a deputy member of the Constitutional Court of Lower Saxony (Niedersächsischer Staatsgerichtshof) since July 2021.
