Susanne Baer

Justice Susanne Baer is the Professor of Public Law and Gender Studies at Humboldt University Berlin and a Lea Bates Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. From 2011 until 2023, she served as Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany. She received honorary doctorates from Michigan (2014), Hasselt (2017) and Lucerne (2018), and is a Corresponding Fellow at the British Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has taught at CEU Budapest, in Austria, Switzerland and Canada. Her activist and academic work focuses on all forms of discrimination, including pornography, sexual harassment and domestic violence; on gender and equality mainstreaming in institutions and policies, on comparative constitutionalism and fundamental rights. She is a co-author of Comparative Constitutionalism, Thomson/West 4^th ed 2023 (with Dorsen, Rosenfeld, Sajó, Mancini); The Rule of—and not by any—Law. On Constitutionalism, Current Legal Problems 71 (2018) 335; The Difference a Justice May Make: Remarks at the Symposium for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Columbia J of Gender & Law 25 (2013), Equality, in: Rosenfeld/ Sajo, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law, OUP 2012, 982; Dignity, Liberty, Equality: A Fundamental Rights Triangle of Constitutionalism, Toronto LJ 4 (2009) 417. There are several lectures online, including Adjudicating Inequalities: Bernstein Lecture 2013-2014; "The Future of the University Community", A Dialogue with Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Susanne Baer, University of Michigan 2017.