Katharina Isabel Schmidt named Young Academy Fellow by the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg

October 14, 2022

In recognition of her outstanding achievements as a humanities scholar, senior research fellow Katharina Isabel Schmidt of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law has been selected as one of this year’s cohort of Young Academy Fellows by the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg. The position comes with financial and intellectual backing as Fellows actively participate in the proceedings of the academy.

The Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg supports outstanding early-career scholars and scientists from universities and other research institutions in Northern Germany. It offers them a forum and network through which to engage in interdisciplinary as well as intergenerational conversations with other researchers. It also supports their career development through training programs tailored specifically to next-generation scientists and scholars.

Katharina Isabel Schmidt studied law at Cologne University and at University College London, earning a dual LL.B/Baccalaureus Legum degree before completing graduate programs in law at Oxford University and the Yale Law School. She then studied history at Princeton University, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on the German free law movement. She has been a researcher at the Institute since 2021.