Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anuscheh Farahat

Anuscheh Farahat joined the University of Vienna in March 2024 as a Professor of Public Law in European Context. Previously, she was a Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights Law at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Between 2017 and 2024 she headed an Emmy-Noether research group on the role of constitutional courts in transnational solidarity conflicts in Europe, which was funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Since 2023, she has been a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle with her project “JUST MIGRATION: Labour migration regimes in transnationalised contexts”.

Anuscheh studied law in Frankfurt, Paris and Berkeley. She received her PhD in law from the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her book on migrant citizenship and transnational migration in Germany (Progressive Inklusion: Zugehörigkeit und Teilhabe im Migrationsrecht, Springer Verlag, 2014) received multiple awards, including the Herman-Mosler-Prize 2015 of the German Society of International Law. In 2021 she published a monograph on transnational solidarity conflicts and the role of constitutional courts in comparative perspective with Mohr Siebeck (Transnationale Solidaritätskonflikte: Eine vergleichende Analyse verfassungsgerichtlicher Konfliktbearbeitung in der Eurokrise). Anuscheh Farahat publishes widely on issues of European and national constitutional law, national, European and international migration and citizenship law, human rights law and comparative constitutionalism with a specific focus on solidarity conflicts.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anne Kühler, LL.M.

Anne Kühler studied law and philosophy at the Universities of Bern, Basel (Switzerland) and Münster (Germany). After graduating from the University of Bern, she worked as a research and teaching assistant to the Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Basel and attended Columbia Law School to pursue further studies (LL.M. degree). From 2008 to 2012 she served as a law clerk on the Swiss Federal Administrative Court.

She received her PhD in law from the University of Bern in 2010 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the law faculty of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where she completed her habilitation in 2020.

She was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg as well as a fellow at the Center for Comparative Constitutional Law and Religion at the University of Lucerne and a lecturer at the Universities of Basel, Lucerne, Zurich and St. Gallen. She also was the managing director of the Swiss Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (SVRSP) (2013-2020) and the secretary general of the International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) (2019-2024).

Since February 2023, Anne Kühler is a Professor of Ethics of Law and Philosophy of Law at the University of Vienna. She is member of the journal´s editorial board RphZ – Rechtsphilosophie and is a member oft the IVR Executive Committee since 2024. From October 2024 she is Co-Speaker of the Vienna Centre for Migration & Law.