Main Focus
- History of legal scholarship, especially history of methodology
- Contemporary legal history
- Doctrinal civil law and its theory
Project
Curriculum Vitae
Susanne K. Paas studied history, German literature, and law at Münster, Cologne and Berlin (Germany). In 2008, she received a Bachelor degree in German literature and history at the University of Münster. She passed her first state legal examination in Cologne and her second state legal examination in Berlin. In the 2020, she was awarded a doctorate for her thesis ‘The flexible system’, which was awarded the Hermann Conring Prize in 2022, the Faculty Prize of the Law Faculty in Cologne 2021 and distinguished as ‘Legal Book of the Year’ in 2021. In 2022-2023, she completed her LL.M. studies at Yale Law School, with the support of an ERP scholarship (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Yale Law School (Chauncey I. Clark Scholarship). She worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Modern Private Law History (Prof Dr Haferkamp) at the University of Cologne, and at the Chair of Civil Law, Contemporary Legal History and History of Economic Law (Prof Dr Thiessen) at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In the 2023, she was a visiting researcher at the law faculty of the University of Toronto (Canada). Since 2021 (with an interruption for the LL.M. studies), she has been working at the Department for ‘Multidisciplinary Legal Theory’ (Prof Dr Auer) at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Theory.
Selected Presentations
- ‘Consequence Orientation - Amateur Sociology from the Bench or the Duty of Science?’ Free University Empirical Legal Studies Center (FUELS), June 2024
- ‘Absence or Abundance of Law in Dictatorship’, Conference Law, Culture and Humanities, University of Toronto, June 2023
- ‘The Flexible System. On the Career of a Legal Figure of Thought’, University of Vienna, University of Graz and Sigmund Freud University, 2022
- Commentary Duncan Kennedy’s ‘Law Distributes I: Ricardo Marx CLS’, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, May 2022
Selected Teaching
- Lecture on European legal history, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder
- Repeating course for exam candidates on family and inheritance law, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin
- Lecture on the philosophy of law, EBS. Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Wiesbaden
- Lecture on contracts and tort law, EBS. Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Wiesbaden
- Seminar on methods for doctoral candidates, University of Vienna, Vienna
Public Outreach and Research Communication
- Scientific consulting for the art project ‘Convicting Concrete’ by Kasia Fudakowski & Philipp Modersohn | Booklet
- Scientific drafting of the international travelling exhibition on the National Socialist past of the Federal Ministry of Justice ‘Die Rosenburg’