Prof. Dr. Michaela Hailbronner

Michaela Hailbronner is a Professor of German and International Public Law and Comparative Law at the University of Münster. She is Principal Investigator of the MeDiMi project “Systemic Deficiencies in the System of Protecting the Human Rights of Migrants: the Inter-American and the European Court of Human Rights in Comparison”. Michaela completed two German law degrees at the University of Freiburg and the Kammergericht of Berlin before doing an LL.M. (2010) and a J.S.D. (doctorate, 2013) at Yale Law School. She is involved in a number of international collaborations and part of the advisory boards of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) as well as World Comparative Law (WCL/VRÜ) and Co-President of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S).

Michaela is interested in the way in which public law frames inter-institutional relationships in different legal systems as well as connected questions of legal history, culture and theory. Her more recent work has been in the field of comparative constitutional law and human rights, appearing inter alia in the American Journal of Comparative Law and the University of Toronto Law Journal. She is currently completing a book project on arguments from failure in public law and international law where institutions seek to expand their own powers to grapple with issues other institutions have failed to deal with.

Contact: hailbronner@uni-muenster.de