Prof. Dr. Angela Schwerdtfeger
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
with the 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. She declined offers from the
University of Trier for the W3 professorship for Public Law, in particular
Public International Law and European Law (2019) and from the Phillips
University Marburg for the W3 professorship for Public Law, in particular
Administrative Law (2023). She has been a deputy member of the
Constitutional Court of Lower Saxony (Niedersächsischer
Staatsgerichtshof) since July 2021.
Prof. Schwerdtfeger is spokesperson for the Göttingen Graduate School of
Social Sciences (GGG). She is also a member of the Centre for Global Migration
Studies (CeMig) and supervises the university key qualification training of the
Refugee Law Clinic Göttingen e.V.