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Dorothea Keiter

Doctoral Student

Main Focus

  • History of legal scholarship
  • Constitutional history and theory
  • Contemporary legal history

Project

Curriculum Vitae

Since March 2025
PhD Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Department “Multidisciplinary Theory of Law”

2024–2025
Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA, as a Fulbright scholar

2021–2024
PhD Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Department “Multidisciplinary Theory of Law”

2019– 2020
Law clerk at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

February 2019
Second state legal examination

2017–2019
Legal traineeship programme with Berlin Court of Appeals; Legal trainee inter alia at the Federal Chancellery, Hengeler Mueller and at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

2017–2019
Research assistant for Prof Dr Anna-Bettina Kaiser, LLM (Cambridge), Chair of Public Law and General Jurisprudence, Humboldt University Berlin

2016
Research assistant at the Institute for Public Law for Prof Dr Friedrich Schoch (Department of Administrative Law) and for Prof Dr Dr h.c. Johannes Masing (Department of Constitutional Law)

January 2016
First state legal examination

2011–2016
Student research assistant for Prof Dr Dr h.c. Johannes Masing at the Institute of Public Law, Department of Constitutional Law

2010–2016
Law Studies at the University of Freiburg, at Sciences Po Lyon and Université Lyon 2, supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation

2008–2010
Music Studies, majoring in cello, at the University of Music Lübeck

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