Sandra Michelle Röseler

Sandra Michelle Röseler is a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and Goethe University, Frankfurt. Her research focuses on comparative administrative law, legal transfer and reception of German law in China, and global legal history with an emphasis on methodological approaches.

• Visiting scholar at Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies (Nanjing University) and China University of Political Science and Law
• Recipient of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung scholarship (2015–2021) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Prize (2017)

Röseler's research explores the emergence of administrative litigation systems in China, the codification of administrative law, and the interplay between historical and contemporary legal normativity. Her publications analyze the reception of German law in China, the historiography of Chinese legal scholarship, and judicial provisions for administrative agreements.

• Key articles: Knowledge history of Chinese law (2025), European perspectives on Chinese legal history (2024), critiques of modern Chinese legal identity (2023)

Röseler is a member of the Deutsch-Chinesischen Juristenvereinigung e.V., Frankfurt Moot Alumni Association e.V., and the European China Law Studies Association. She has presented lectures on Chinese administrative law at institutions including Göttingen Summer School and Nanjing University.