Biography

My studies in modern constitutional history focus on how constitutions develop an independent systemic dynamics directly affecting political reality. After completing a BA in Politics and History at JUB, I read for the MPhil in Historical Studies at Cambridge where I researched the constitutional evolution of the German imperial office. I am also a fellow of the International Max Planck Research School of Comparative Legal History. My PhD explores the comparative federal evolutions of Germany, the U.S. and Switzerland in the 19th century. I hope to deduce patterns of federal constitutional design that can help framing sound constitutional orders on the national and supranational level. My ambition is to overcome disciplinary divides between history and law to treat constitutional developments as holistic historical phenomena that offer us lessons for today’s constitutional problems. Hence, I work on founding a research forum for interdisciplinary constitutional historiography.