Dr. Susanna Roßbach

Main Fields of Research

Family law and law of the person, including constitutional and human rights dimensions; personal status law; comparative law; private international law; legal gender studies; reform of legal education

Vita

Susanna Roßbach studied law at the Philipps-Universität in Marburg and was the beneficiary of a Deutschlandstipendium. Subsequently, she completed her period of legal internship with the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court, including stations at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights in Vienna.

From 2020 to 2023 she was a research assistant at Bucerius Law School under Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Katharina Boele-Woelki; from 2023 to 2024 she worked in a similar capacity at the Europa-Universität Flensburg under Prof. Dr. Anna Katharina Mangold. During this timeframe, she completed her doctoral project, which explores questions of personal status law in relation to the entry of gender in civil registries (“Das personenstandsrechtliche Geschlecht – Zu Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft des Geschlechtseintrags in den Personenstandsregistern”).

Susanna Roßbach has been employed at the Institute as a research fellow since May 2024.